User blog comment:USARMP/Ninjas in Mass Effect/@comment-3325589-20120408223908

"swords which can do a lot more damage than bullets"

If you're genuinely incredulous about this, I'm forced to conclude that you don't understand how weapons work in real life. A gun isn't better than a sword because it does more damage. It's better because it has much longer effective range, and damage generally doesn't matter that much. A relatively high caliber rifle (let alone a handgun) won't cause more trauma than a big sword like a zweihander or claymore, but you can't shoot someone with a sword from a hundred meters, and even a low caliber handgun bullet can kill or incapacitate a person easily.

As to the broader question: I thought it made sense in light of the game's greater focus on melee combat, but it didn't strike me as that big a deal either way.