User blog comment:Mexican215/So who was satisfied with the last battle against the Reapers?/@comment-4967682-20130213023320/@comment-1786741-20130213154959

Yes, we all know this is a game and not real life so it adheres to a different set of rules. However, this is a game whose plot depends on a number of in-universe rules that it must follow and has a good amount of realism involved (the sci-fi elements aside). You act like the Harbinger encounter just HAD to happen that way or Shepard would die, like there was no other option. They could have easily written another way for Shepard to reach the beam, or hell, even written out the beam altogether and had Shepard some other more plausible way to reach the citadel/crucible. Instead, they had Harbinger A’FIRIN HIS LAZER willy nilly then casually stroll off to his other Reaper buds like nothing happen. I know Harbinger isn’t perfect or anything but the amount of disbelief for him to ignore Shepard surviving AND the freaking Normandy right in his face is pretty staggering. To have the Reapers defeated because Harbinger had a derp moment is kind of stupid. You also make it sound it was downright impossible or that it would take Bioware too much time/effort to have some of your more important war assets make an appearance. I doubt everyone expected to see every single war asset they gathered come to play but when they’re virtually non-existent, that’s pretty insulting. And it wouldn’t have been that difficult to do. Maybe have a group of Krogan soldiers charging a group of husks, a shot of the Biotic students providing support for other Alliance personnel, some asari justicars or commandos raining down hell with their biotics, a few rachni attacking their reaper-fied brethren, possibly a few more shots of the Geth and Salarian ships in fleet combat, things that the ME2 suicide mission did which would have created an almost INFINITE amount of fan good will. Sure, we got a short moment with our squadmates, a shot of Wrex/Wreav, and a few audio segments from a few former squadmates but that was pretty minimal compared but they could have easily done.