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[Vazgen]

I think Garrus is so popular because

1. he's a very capable combatant, the only one whom you feel deserving of badassery in cutscenes Really, I tried giving Ash a sniper rifle - she sucks with it. No idea why, technically it should be the same companion AI, but Garrus hits almost every shot and sometimes performs shots I never even tried to do myself, like this
2. he's with Shepard through all the games, unlike Ash/Kaidan, Liara. Only Tali has the same bonus, although in ME2 she is acquired later than Garrus and actually refuses to join you on Freedom's Progress
3. he provides quite amusing comic relief and eases the tension of battles. For example, having Miranda and Jacob in a team plainly sucks from that perspective.

He and Tali are my two favorite companions in the series

[TurianRebel212]

Not as much as yours. Not sorry, but it must be said

 

[ZipZap2000]

NFI. Maybe people just think Turians look cool?

[KaiserShep]

Like Varric, Garrus is endowed with a lot of chummy dialogue. The game is clearly gearing him toward being Shepard's friend, and for the most part, it works. Even I pretty much welcome it, and Garrus is one of my favorites throughout the series because of it. Sucker I may be, but I am pretty satisfied with the dynamic, though I understand why this is off-putting for some players. This kind of thing does come with the territory though when the game is full of non-reactive characters, so Garrus is your friend, because there's no mechanic that allows you to change his view of Shepard. Only a paltry few have the ability to be more antagonistic based on your decisions, and with that comes a very good chance of death.

[Excella Gionne]

He's popular because both Male and Female Shepard can romance him.... :-)

[KaiserShep]

He's popular because both Male and Female Shepard can romance him.... :-)

 

[Excella Gionne]

SPACE ROMANCE!

[Fixers0]

Meh, Garrus has always been in the mid/low tier for me, In Mass Effect 3 he's practically got nothing to do but being a squad member. 

[Quarian Master Race]

Because he's alien space batman who kills things and doesn't afraid of anything.

I would like him even more if he were quarian though.

[Dubozz]

He can deal with his family problems by himself.

[Geoff Pinkerton]

I think the main reason Garrus is almost universally liked is that he works well as a character regardless how Commander Shepard is played.

 

He compliments both Paragon and Renegade Shepards very well whereas some characters work much better with a particular type. I don't think Kaiden or Liara would be friends let alone lovers with a Renegade Shepard for instance.

 

The Femshep/Garrus romance is probably the best in the trilogy. Hell in my opinion it's one of the greatest love stories ever told.

A platonic relationship works as well while he provides a pretty compelling Bromance for ManShep.

 

In short, Garrus seems to fit as Shepard's wingman regardless of roleplaying.

 

The fact that he's around for 90% of the trilogy makes him a unique squad mate ( Tali is the only other squaddie to be in all three games but in both ME2 and ME3 she joins up later than Garrus).

 

Despite this abundant screen time the character isn't forced on the player though ( this seems to be a common complaint about Liara from some fans). Garrus is almost entirely optional. You don't have to recruit him in ME1 and while he's compulsory in ME2, once recruited you don't have to interact with him at all. In which case he will almost certainly die in the Suicide Mission and you wont see him at all in ME3.

 

It's strange because as far as I'm concerned he's the second most important character in the series yet it's possible to play the entire trilogy and Garrus will only be on screen for about ten minutes. Bizarrely such a major character (and in my own playthrough he is THE major character after Shepard) is utterly irrelevant to the plot.

I think this is quite important as Garrus' presence in the game is entirely on the player's terms. 

 

He's also pretty handy in a fight. In ME2 and ME3 he has just the right combination of powers and weapons to handle any enemy. 

 

I also think he's well written in all three games despite having a different writer each time. Walters, Weekes and Dumbrow all had their own take on Garrus but each built on the previous work. Garrus is different in each game but the change feels like genuine character development rather than inconsistent writing.

 

Last but not least there's Brandon Keener's excellent voice acting. That guy simply nails every single line.             

[Quarian Master Race]

Here ya go.

 

 

 

I unliked this repeatedly just so I could like it again.

[Han Shot First]

He's popular because both Male and Female Shepard can romance him.... :-)

 

Male Shep can bromance him (whether the player wants it or not), but he can't romance him.

[Excella Gionne]

Male Shep can bromance him (whether the player wants it or not), but he can't romance him.

With HAX! Anything is possibru! 

[Mordokai]

I think the main reason Garrus is almost universally liked is that he works well as a character regardless how Commander Shepard is played.

 

He compliments both Paragon and Renegade Shepards very well whereas some characters work much better with a particular type. I don't think Kaiden or Liara would be friends let alone lovers with a Renegade Shepard for instance.

 

Lets not kid ourselves... nobody would be friend with renegade Shepard, at least not the way the game presents her. Well... maybe Ashley

 

To romance Garrus, you have to go all the way paragon on dialogue wheel, if memory serves, at least in second game(never did it in third game). Don't know how it works with Kaidan, but I know you can go fair way renegade with Liara and still romance her. And I actually like it that way. I still see both characters(Liara and Kaidan) as mostly paragon and them being attracted to something darker in Shepard adds that pate to the relationship.

 

It may be just me being sucker for dramatics. But really, claiming Garrus is the only one to go with renegade is simply not true.

[TurianRebel212]

Cause he's Garrus Mother Fvckin' Vakarian!!!

 

[Geoff Pinkerton]

Didn't say Garrus was the only character who worked well with a renegade just that the romance works equally well regardless of Shepard's morality.

 

My views on Kaiden and Liara and relationships are just my own opinion but I think it's probably shared by lots of other players. That doesn't make other intepretations invalid I just think it's a common conception of how appropriate certain romances are to particular Shepards and in part accounts for Garrus' popularity. I just think the character is particularly versatile in this regard which would make him popular with a wider range of players than most other characters.

 

I think you have to go Paragon on the dialogue wheel to further any romance so a full on renegade play through would have Shepard stay single. However I don't think the decision to ask someone out or not is really a moral issue so the mechanics of Paragon/Renegade aren't that relevant to the romances.

 

I wasn't implying that this was the only way to look at the romances but that this interpretation is a popular one and that it explains some of Garrus' popularity.           

[FaWa]

Because he has daddy issues but doesn't make Shepard solve them in ME2?

[Display Name Owner]

 

I think Garrus is so popular because

1. he's a very capable combatant, the only one whom you feel deserving of badassery in cutscenes Really, I tried giving Ash a sniper rifle - she sucks with it. No idea why, technically it should be the same companion AI, but Garrus hits almost every shot and sometimes performs shots I never even tried to do myself, like this
2. he's with Shepard through all the games, unlike Ash/Kaidan, Liara. Only Tali has the same bonus, although in ME2 she is acquired later than Garrus and actually refuses to join you on Freedom's Progress
3. he provides quite amusing comic relief and eases the tension of battles. For example, having Miranda and Jacob in a team plainly sucks from that perspective.

He and Tali are my two favorite companions in the series

 

 

On the comic relief point, I'd also add that he's one of the characters where the humour really suits him. With some of the others it felt kind of OOC, like Wrex, who worked as a grimly sarcastic badass but ended up becoming too jolly, to me anyway. It doesn't apply to everyone, I mean Mordin's funny moments suit him too. But with Garrus it feels more natural than a couple of others imo, despite being a massive change from his ME1 self.

[Vazgen]

[OPM_Lunacy]

[Perpetual Nirvana]

What I don't get is why people call him Space Batman. Archangel is nothing like Batman. Batman uses stealth and intimidation to put the fear of god into people. Archangel just murdered criminals in brutal and creative ways.

 

If anything he's Space Punisher.

[Arcling]

What I don't get is why people call him Space Batman. Archangel is nothing like Batman. Batman uses stealth and intimidation to put the fear of god into people. Archangel just murdered criminals in brutal and creative ways.

 

If anything he's Space Punisher.

Indeed, Batman is against killing and even refuses to use guns in fights. Garrus is like a total opposite, since he didn't hesitate to kill criminals and the guy who betrayed him.