User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/More Content/@comment-4953843-20130528143913

most of the DLC storylines were excluded because of what you pointed out. they're essentially sidequests that's entirely up to the player to complete. and we basically did no writeups for the non-DLC sidequests because the stories behind them can more or less be learned from the relevant articles.
 * storylines


 * if DLC sidequests get posted, better do it all or nothing: include all the games' sidequests as well. good luck with that, storyline pages are already long as it is and still you'll be typing for a loooong time. (strangely though, i do agree that summaries for all the DLCs at the very least should be done because as it currently stands people have to sift through multiple pages to see what happens in any particular DLC)

before anyone asks (again), LOTSB and arrival happened in that liara always becomes shadow broker and the bahak relay always gets destroyed regardless of shep's involvement, which is why they're mentioned in the Storylines. though they're probably in need of further clarification as they blithely assume shep out and out did those missions whereas in ME3 bioware took care to make tweaks to dialogue and story if the player didn't have those DLCs.

EDI's personality section is kind of the odd one out in how character bios were formatted. if anything, personality sections should be summaries of characterization that's not in the intro (because of spoiler reasons), not repeats of the dossier sections with emphasis on characterization (around one or two paragraphs each may suffice).
 * personalities


 * however, because of player choice character personalities may change from time to time (ex. EDI herself devoting her energies to curiosity rather than relationships if pressured so, james gradually loses faith in shep depending on when you first talked to him, javik suicidal if you let him touch his shard (or slightly more optimistic if otherwise), steve suicidal if you never bothered with him, jack screaming "fuck off!" if you dumped her as opposed to mellowing out a bit, ash/kaidan angrier and harder to befriend/convince if you played it that way, etc). properly accounting for the changes would result in exactly what i said to avoid.


 * so before anything else, make sure you've accounted for all factual information about any character before going with personality sections. it's easier to summarize if you had all the facts. i was basically the one-man army for filling out the ME3 dossier pages of squad members and some other characters and i'm sure they're still incomplete in places even though i did try to be thorough.

as for shepard, it's entirely up to how you make your shep's personality. if a writeup can be made that can successfully account for all kinds of shepards, then maybe it can go in. seeing is believing, we'd like to see a draft of it first. slanting shep's personality in whichever way won't be allowed.