History YMMV / MassEffect

** NeutralEvil: A more subdued variety than usually associated with the trope, but Aria definitely has shades of evil. Her only interest is maintaining her power, and she's willing to do so through absolutely any means necessary.

** TrueNeutral: They have to look out for the welfare of billions of galactic citizens; even though their constant mantra of 'if you go into the Terminus systems you deserve what you get' is aggravating, they, from their perspective, are doing all they can to ensure peace.

* '''Aria T'Loak''':

*** Her only actual interest is power, but since she already is the law on Omega keeping order is her means to maintain it.

** ChaoticGood: Garrus is probably by default this, as he has a strong (and unusual among turians, [[AllThereInTheManual based on the Codex]]) [[CowboyCop distaste for authority and regulations]] but ultimately, he wants to do the right thing. Renegade Shepard can push him further over the moral gray line he straddles a bit at times into full-on ChaoticNeutral, while Paragon Shepard can mellow him out and teach him how doing things by the book sometimes can be useful, pushing him towards NeutralGood.

** Garrus in MassEffect2, beyond a shadow of a doubt. [[BeyondTheImpossible He held off a joint task force of three merc groups]] [[OneManArmy single-handedly]] [[{{Determinator}} for more than a DAY]].

* CrazyAwesome:

*** The mission with your sabotage team against the Collectors is preety bad since you'll not only have to contend with your enemies and Harbinger, you'll have to hurry and open to the valves to keep that team alive. On the Insanity difficulty, you'll have to make a few desperate rushes to open a valve while barely surviving enemy fire.

*** Finding all the keepers on the Citadel in the first game.

** They can all be described the same way: Even players who have played multiple times lose track of them all, and it is kind of a pain running around the collect them all.

* ThatOneSidequest: Finding all the keepers on the Citadel in the first game. Even players who have played multiple times lose track of them all, and it is kind of a pain running around the collect them all.
** In the second, there's Aria's side mission to retrieve the crates. It's an incredible amount of effort to go through for the three or four surviving crates.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome:
** Many people cry over the potential StarTrek references from having a Scottish engineer...only for that potential to never be used...
** Two come upon Jacob's loyalty mission. First, given a colonist Shepard's history, nothing comes up about his father keeping women as sex slaves. All the dialogue is the same regardless of which Shepard you have. Also, if you leave Jacob's father behind, you see him get punched by one of the men he cast out...and that's it. [[TheLionKing Even Disney had a bad guy viciously torn apart; it's surprising there wasn't more of an end note with this option]].
** Fans, more so than with Zaeed, are really disappointed over the fact that Kasumi doesn't have a dialogue wheel when you talk to her on the ship. She is still a fleshed out character and her explanations of the objects in her room give her a backstory on her career and her relationship with her partner. Fans wanted her to be romancable as well.
*** Although, in fairness, the FridgeBrilliance explanation is that she's just waiting out of respect for/unresolved grief about Keiji, so, even though she jokes about Jacob and such, actually being romanceable in MassEffect2 would be OOC.

** Shepard. Think about it. Add his/her backstory, actions in-game, and examples on this page together and they all point to Shepard being completely nuts; in a totally good and sane way.

** [[{{Paparazzi}} Khalisah al-Jilani.]] Attempts to twist Shepard's words no matter what (s)he says.

** The game itself has HateDumb in real life, most notably from those that complain that the game has a different game style than the "traditional" RPG. "[[RuinedForever This RPG has guns? Blasphemy!]]"

*** I don't think it's the same body. It seems like Cerberus just cloned and reprogrammed memories, throwing in what ever tiny pieces of the original they found. It seems unlikely that Shepard or his cells survived, you know, incineration in the atmosphere.

* PlayerPreferedPattern: The Reave power is considered by many to be the best bonus talent in the second game, period. There is thereby no point in using any of the others.

* EvenBetterSequel: Metacritic rates ''Mass Effect 2'' (96) higher than [[MassEffect1 its predecessor]] (91). The fans [[{{Understatement}} occasionally]] [[InternetBacklash disagree.]]

* UnpleasableFanbase: And boy I can tell you it's [[{{Understatement}} completely]] [[SeriousBusiness Hardcore]]. People complained about the MAKO in ME1, then they complained that the MAKO was not in ME2. People complained about the inventory system in ME1 and people complain about the streamlined system. People complained about the lack of {{DLC}} in ME1 and people complained about the big amount of DLC in ME2. Worse, [[FanDumb you hear complainers cry that]] [[InsaneTrollLogic ''Mass Effect is ''NOT'' an RPG and ruins the definition of the RPG'']], despite that fans wanted these changes. I think it's official that the Mass Effect [[FanDumb fanbase]] is unpleasable because no matter what Bioware does, people still complain.

* UnpleasableFanbase: And boy I can tell you it's [[{{Understatement}} completely]] [[SeriousBusiness Hardcore]]. People complained about the MAKO in ME, then they complained that the MAKO was not in ME2. People complained about the inventory system in ME and people complain about the streamlined system. Worse, [[FanDumb you hear complainers cry that]] [[InsaneTrollLogic ''Mass Effect is ''NOT'' an RPG and ruins the definition of the RPG'']], despite that fans wanted these changes. I think it's official that the Mass Effect [[FanDumb fanbase]] is unpleasable because no matter what Bioware does, people still complain.

* FanDumb: The official {{BioWare}} forums.

** And in the Overlord {{DLC}}: [[spoiler:Dr. Archer]], for turning [[spoiler:''his own autistic brother'']] into that...''[[TragicMonster thing]]''.

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