User blog comment:StagedDom19/Missing the Main Problem/@comment-2256917-20120710190737/@comment-5274392-20120710194907

I felt after reading my blog once again I misworded a few things. The reason I brought up thermal clips was just a reference to Jacob's loyalty mission. As for characters, I like your take on it, however, I believe most, if not all squadmates should be plot intregral at some point. To use another Bioware game as an example, I'll use KOTOR. Every single squadmate that you acquired besides Juhani helped you progess the plot in some way. They were all useful at some point, and they were useful again when you were abducted. However, in ME2, you see very little of this. You only need one tech specialist, and I've said before, the whole point of Mordin was to find a way to fight the Seeker Swarms, but instead you use a biotic on the final mission. Mordin was one of the best written characters I've ever seen, and I'm glad he's in the series, but his purpose was made irrelavent at that point. I never understood the need for a biotic before the final mission, what can they do to fight the collectors that a gun can't? Jack could have been done better if she interacted more with the Cerberus crew that actually turned out to be just smoke and mirrors created by the Illusive Man. I fail to see how Grunt is relevent to ME3's plot, since he's easily replaced with someone else if he dies. With ME3's character relationships, only EDI's was really fulfilling. All others were the same as they were before. Garrus is your sidekick, Tali and Liara are your fangirls, Javik and Virmire guys are sticks in the mud. I don't know, but that's how I see it. I forgive ME3's plot because it was a third game in a trilogy without second game to back it up. Bioware realized this and soon came to the conclusion that it would be impossible to make your choices actually matter because then they'd have to make hundreds of variations of the main plot. And the ending was the ending because the overall theme of ME was lost in ME2. So it wasn't the ending that ruined ME, it was ME2.