User blog comment:The Milkman/No Love For Leviathan?/@comment-2127131-20120915222415/@comment-1958269-20120915233931

I people hate him because he's bland. That's honestly the point of his character, though. He's the new guy on the ship, and he's also filling the slot of the "normal guy" on the ship, which has been held in the past by Kaidan and Jacob (surprise, a lot of people dislike them too). Honestly, I don't really dislike any of the Mass Effect squad members, and I think it helps that I've actually played other BioWare series extensively, and believe me, their other series have some characters with plenty of reasons to hate. People hated Carth Onasi and his forced whining in KOTOR. People hated Anders for the reasons I listed below, which is a huge game-changing moment in DAII. People hated Sebastian, because all of his motivations were things that the player couldn't really help him resolve despite the game taking place over seven years. People hated Tallis because of her extreme Mary-Sueness, awful dialogue and the inability to stop her from accomplishing her goals, despite the options you're presented with. You know, now that I think about it, most fans seem to hate everybody in Dragon Age II except for Varric (I only hate the people I've mentioned).

Trust me, James Vega is absolutely nothing to raise a fuss about compared to those characters. Hell, if Mass Effect didn't turn us all into character snobs, we'd probably never mind about him.