Self-explanatory title. Ranges from writing to game mechanics to whatever you fancy talking about.
In my case, it's the Citadel Council from Mass Effect 1 and 2. Everyone seems frustrated by these guys, and in-game everyone is of the opinion that they're cowards who do nothing while the world's set to collapse around them and just rip you off incessantly. But given the circumstances of each meeting, I...can't help but understand them. That their supposed fear is an example of "Show, Don't Tell" rather than some extreme political insight. Not only that, but I end up agreeing with them nearly all the time.
Maybe it's because I'm more aware than most that these guys happen to be councillors, and as a result don't get the same liberty as you do, Mr. I-punch-reporters-in-the-face. These guys have the unfortunate job of having to please everyone, so all of their decisions need to be just as/way more thought out than Shepard's.
In my case, it's the Citadel Council from Mass Effect 1 and 2. Everyone seems frustrated by these guys, and in-game everyone is of the opinion that they're cowards who do nothing while the world's set to collapse around them and just rip you off incessantly. But given the circumstances of each meeting, I...can't help but understand them. That their supposed fear is an example of "Show, Don't Tell" rather than some extreme political insight. Not only that, but I end up agreeing with them nearly all the time.
Maybe it's because I'm more aware than most that these guys happen to be councillors, and as a result don't get the same liberty as you do, Mr. I-punch-reporters-in-the-face. These guys have the unfortunate job of having to please everyone, so all of their decisions need to be just as/way more thought out than Shepard's.
For instance, Anderson and the others stir up a huge whiff about the council not convicting Saren, even though all they did was barge in there without any evidence whatsoever. Saren's a proven veteran to the council who has most certainly stuck his own ass out for galactic civilisation than the humans have.
The next point of tension, trying to get their permission to go to Ilos, is another decision that makes sense to me. Send an entire fleet out into the Terminus Systems and trigger an entire war with unreasonable, corrupt factions and as a result kill millions of people? They're the councillors, it's their job to look out for everyone: starting wars to get things done quickly isn't the way to do that. The right thing to do would have been, as you can suggest, to send you out there, and it's in their opposition here that their only really flawed judgement appears IMO - they don't have blind faith in you, which is something you have to work on as a Paragon, and a wise opinion on their part if you're Renegade.
Ignoring your warnings of the Reapers this far into ME2 is a mistake, of course, but not one I can readily blame them for. We've no proof they're coming (how are they coming, again?) after all; what do we want them to do, waste billions of credits into forming an armada for a nonexistant threat? I'm surprised we don't have proof either, and that it's somehow not a priority to get any so we can work on saving the galaxy as one big force, but they need to get their priorities straight - like looking out for the rest of the galaxy, which they know exists.
Justice is blind, as they say, but for them to act otherwise themselves would be wrong. To be honest, I can't think of many other people I'd want trying to govern the galaxy - even/especially that turian councillor for being such a hardass. Heck, they're even nice enough to give you back your spectre status; which is pretty big, given this is only two years after one of their most trusted spectres rebelled against them, and there's word you're working with a human supremacist group.
The next point of tension, trying to get their permission to go to Ilos, is another decision that makes sense to me. Send an entire fleet out into the Terminus Systems and trigger an entire war with unreasonable, corrupt factions and as a result kill millions of people? They're the councillors, it's their job to look out for everyone: starting wars to get things done quickly isn't the way to do that. The right thing to do would have been, as you can suggest, to send you out there, and it's in their opposition here that their only really flawed judgement appears IMO - they don't have blind faith in you, which is something you have to work on as a Paragon, and a wise opinion on their part if you're Renegade.
Ignoring your warnings of the Reapers this far into ME2 is a mistake, of course, but not one I can readily blame them for. We've no proof they're coming (how are they coming, again?) after all; what do we want them to do, waste billions of credits into forming an armada for a nonexistant threat? I'm surprised we don't have proof either, and that it's somehow not a priority to get any so we can work on saving the galaxy as one big force, but they need to get their priorities straight - like looking out for the rest of the galaxy, which they know exists.
Justice is blind, as they say, but for them to act otherwise themselves would be wrong. To be honest, I can't think of many other people I'd want trying to govern the galaxy - even/especially that turian councillor for being such a hardass. Heck, they're even nice enough to give you back your spectre status; which is pretty big, given this is only two years after one of their most trusted spectres rebelled against them, and there's word you're working with a human supremacist group.
