fluffywalrus wrote...
Aye. I mean, everyone had potential, but it fell far from the mark. I tried getting Garrus to see that being this super renegade bro wasn't a cool idea, and by the end of ME1 he agreed, and then....welp, he forgot I guess. Or didn't care. Both kind of bugged me and kept me from really enjoying his character. I kind of respected him for sticking to his guns, but...meh. He makes for an intersting turian, just not that amazing of a character in general, I guess. I liked him enough. Just not as much as I wanted to.
Miranda had potential, but the writing for her and the direction they took her in was really...tame. I expected more, and because I didn't get that, it was hard to emphasize with Miranda. The LotSB dossier helped a bit, but even then, it was kind of roughly handled.
Jacob...I just disliked him for mostly in-game reasons. I couldn't be nice to him without flirting, and I didn't want him to think of my Shep as "the Priiiizze" so I kind of avoided him. That, and he's awfully judgmental sometimes. As a character, it's hard for me to get to know him, playing Femshep, without going renegade with him and peeving him off. He's kind of like Garrus, except more annoying because of how he's set up in the game. He's just meh.
I'll admit, the ending of ME3 crushed me beyond belief, and I was heartbroken for over a month. On one hand, I wanted my Shep to be with Liara after the defeat of the Reapers, as I'm also a fair bit of a romantic, but...I didn't expect my Shep to live. ME3 was her death march, her final weeks, trying to accomplish as much good as she could before taking her leave. Trying to love as fiercely as she could with the time she was given.
So I kind of just wanted an ending that showed my character's love and devotion to that wonderful asari shadow broker, maybe some visually-rendered hopes for the future, like Quarians on Rannoch with the Geth, Krogan rebuilding on Tuchanka, Thessia being restored to its former glory, the Elcor getting a spot on the council like they so very much deserve, etc....when it didn't happen, I wrote one.
And that led to me writing my origin fic
Jumping on the bandwagon late, but here goes.
I don't particularly hate any character (or at least as much as some people on the forum do), but some characters had to take several playthroughs for them to grow on me *cough cough* Miranda *cough cough*. Part of the reason I don't like Jacob is because his powers were never that useful to me. I mean pull and barrier? There are other squadmates whose powers are more strategtically useful in combat, so Jacob spent most of ME2 in my game working on his abs in the armoury.
Part of the reason why I feel that Jacob falls flat as a characters is that he's far too normal compared to the rest of your squadmates. You hang out with criminals (Kasumi, Jack), a paladin (Samara), genetically modified "perfections" of their race (Miranda, Grunt), a former STG operative (Mordin), Archangel, a mercenary (Zaeed), etc.
If I met him in real life, Jacob would probably be a cool guy to chill with; we could grab some drinks, sit on a beach somewhere and talk about stuff in general. In a video game with much more colourful and interesting pasts, he just seems uninteresting by comparison. Also, I seriously dislike his power combinations.
That being sad, i was surprised to find myself happy to see him again in ME3. By the point, you lose so many friends and team mates that it's nice to see that some are still alive.
The ending... I don't mind dying epically, even though I would like to survive and live out the rest of my life with my LI. I just mind dying in a way that doesn't make any sense. I would have been fine if they just stopped it at Anderson and Shepard spending their last moments together on the Citadel.
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