User blog comment:StagedDom19/Missing the Main Problem/@comment-5271559-20120711062139/@comment-5274392-20120711182252

I'd like to start off by saying that the theme of Mass Effect is syntheics vs organics. Defeating the reapers is the outlit for that theme to be usable; it is the goal. You mentioned Jacob in your list of characters so I thought I'd better mention him. Now you fail to see my arguement over the genophage. I'm saying the difference between the paragon and the renegade paths have no difference, and I'll say it again: if you change your alignment, then it's your own fault you fail. Grunt living changes nothing about the outcome of the mission except for 50 more points in EMS. The story keeps going as if he was never alive. Same goes with Jack, Samara, Jacob, Thane, etc. The Lazarus project is the cell of Cerberus that Shepard deals with, and it's the only relative one in ME2. If Jack had been a prototype of the Lazarus Project then her story would have been much better. Back to Grunt, well, he can say whatever he wants about himself, that doesn't make it true, same goes for Okeer. If he was the future, the plot of the Krogan would revolve around him, such as getting his DNA into all Krogan. He is unrelevant to the curing of the Genophage, he doesn't even talk about it afterward. Also, just because somethings popular and loved doesn't make it good. I adore the Mass Effect trilogy, but as seperate games, not as a trilogy, where it is a failure. Terribly small impacting choices that were promised to have huge impacts is a failure in itself.