User blog comment:The Milkman/The Shepard Fan Club/@comment-4950455-20120720041623

Honestly, I, both agree and disagree. I think ME3 was marred by trying too hard to give Shepard a personality independent of whatever the player has come up with. I'm definitely of the school of though that, as far as RPG protagonists go, prefers "an avatar for myself in this universe" (or more accurately, a character that I can define as I choose; I'd never make a Shepard closely based on myself).