User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Bioware HAS Written Themselves into a Corner/@comment-1503545-20121112224821/@comment-1786741-20121114192330

You can say the same about a guy who jumps into ME3 without playing the previous games. To them, the Reapers would come off as the silent intimidating all powerful antagonists that have a "mysterious" reason for being giant evil a**holes. If that's not a cliche, I don't know what is. And if you watch the terminals in Halo 4 you get a somewhat abridged version of the Didact's backstory at least.