User blog comment:Traditionalfire/Good things in Mass effect 3/@comment-1900300-20120519153412

Personally i have a lot of personal reasons i consider ME3 to be the weakest game in the series, even without the ending. But even at their worst Bioware is quite a lot above others in the industry.

There was a lot of great moments in the game. Many times the characters say or do something that made me laugh out loud and remember why i loved these guys in past games. It is a testament to the writers that they could recapture that joy and build on it further. Mordin in particular was done very well.

In fact i have to admire the Tucanka section, since the choices felt like they had the most effect. The vast differences between Wrex and Wreav made what was really the same set of circumstances have completely different tones. And the endings were appropiate and clever in how they played out. I like how the end result are all born out of the characters. Of course Wreav would be an idiot while Wrex would find out you tricked him and be emotionally crushed. Of course Mordin would want to deliever the cure but stop if it is obvious things are not going to be as he hoped.

I liked how they handled Thane's death, i liked being able to solve the qurian and geth conflict. I liked the general feeling of slowly building a massive armada, which feels very Shepard and very Mass Effect where you have always brought different people together and been stronger for it.

I liked how they made missions for characters to return and liked the cameos, and didnt even mind the replacements.

Liked the badass leather jacket Shepard has and i even liked new squadmembers like Javik. James Vega wasnt so bad but he was boring to me in the same way Jacob was (i love the conversation him and Shepard have in the hospital "How you doing Jacob?""I'm good . . . I'm good" . . . ."Are you trying to sound cool or are you just that boring?")