Legion and Mordin are amazingly written

Joker’s dialogue had a wit that I found lacking everywhere else in the game. His exchanges with Edi and the things he says about your crew members had me guffawing for minutes.

To the commenters above: You do realize that you can continue to play the game after you destroy the base, right? To continue your dialogue with legion, all you need to do is engage in the N7 side missions. To be fair, legion is pretty much the only thing that’ll keep you going at that point.

Zel wrote:

It’s no surprise he barely has anything to say to most loyalty mission, but you should try bringing him aboard the Migrant Fleet while doing Tali’s, a few events happen and he has some lines.

Holly fucking shit! You took Legion to the Migrant Fleet? That’s bad ass! Did they actually let him participate in the trial? I would think they wouldn’t even allow an active Geth platform to come aboard.

Jakob wrote:

The genophage was deployed a couple of centuries before ME 2 and salarians only live to age 40. Mordin was the head of the team which modified the genophage in order to ensure that the krogan wouldn’t return to their former birthrate. He mentions that they were starting to adapt.

Yes, that bothered me too. I kept doing mental math for the first half of the game trying to figure out how the hell could he have been responsible for the Genophage being a short lived Salarian. Then I just gave up, and forgot about it.

Jakob wrote:

The shit happens, Shadow Broker does something to Liaras pal and she now wants revenge. It was just a truly stupid development. Why was it needed?.

My thoughts exactly. It seemed unnecessary and out of character for her. Let’s keep in mind that Liara was a shy, introverted, antisocial archeologist when we met her. She said herself that she is not good with people. How did she go from shy and awkward to super-spy is beyond me.

This is merely a minor nitpick: The genophage was deployed a couple of centuries before ME 2 and salarians only live to age 40. Mordin was the head of the team which modified the genophage in order to ensure that the krogan wouldn’t return to their former birthrate. He mentions that they were starting to adapt.

Anyway, Mordin and Legion were great. Mordin was quirky and his dialogue very enjoyable. But the one thing I really enjoyed was his history. How he out of “love” and compassion was forced to modify the genophage, in order to prevent the krogan genocide.

Legion was also great. He wasn’t the typical robot or A.I. You know, those who act and behave as humans, only slightly different. Bioware made the geth something quite different from all other sentient life. If you can remember it, Legion and Sovreign talked very similar, except for the whole “I shall crush you all” tone of Sovereign.

Zel wrote:

I think Liara explains how she became an information broker after doing her little spying sidequest, but I forgot the details. Overall, I was quite disappointed at the little impact your choices in the first game have : basically a couple lines of dialogue, an email or a lengthened cutscene. Even saving/sacrificing the council doesn’t have any repercussion.

The story is that she went to find Shepard after the attack, made a friend, was contacted by Cerberus with information about Shepards location and went to retrieve the remains. In the meantime, the Shadow Broker had been hired by the Collectors for the same purpose, since they also wanted the remains of Shepard.

The shit happens, Shadow Broker does something to Liaras pal and she now wants revenge. It was just a truly stupid development. Why was it needed?.

Anyway, the personal stories of the ME 2 squad members and sidequest was the saving grace and made the game great.

Mordin and Legion were my favorite characters too. In fact, my second time around I postponed most missions until I finally recruited Legion, which happens almost at the end of the game. It’s no surprise he barely has anything to say to most loyalty mission, but you should try bringing him aboard the Migrant Fleet while doing Tali’s, a few events happen and he has some lines.

I think Liara explains how she became an information broker after doing her little spying sidequest, but I forgot the details. Overall, I was quite disappointed at the little impact your choices in the first game have : basically a couple lines of dialogue, an email or a lengthened cutscene. Even saving/sacrificing the council doesn’t have any repercussion.