You're right. Ashley's problem isn't so much how unlikable she is but that she doesn't bring anything else to the table besides. Morrigan, in Dragon Age, is unlikable, but I (and I may be a minority here) loved having her around. Sure, she gave me crap all the time for doing the most basic of good deeds, but I found…

Pretty much, yeah. The Quarians make special note of it, but apparently the Alliance Navy… I dunno, just got lazy? It's not the first time. There's a Codex entry in the first game mentions the difference between "aye" and "yes." … Which someone almost immediately proceeds to screw up in the actual dialog. I wanna say…

Well you can do Mass Effect on the PC (I don't have any consoles, sadly) but you have to get it through EA's god damn Origin client. For me it was either… get Origin, or don't play the last Mass Effect game. So I bit the bullet and did it.

Yeah, I agree with pretty much all of that. Save that I can see why Shepard might not have gotten promoted. Assuming she got killed before the paperwork could go through (I mean, saving the Citadel has got to put you in line for at least a promotion, right? Or maybe it's one of those situations where no matter what…

Damn, that was a quicker reply than I was expecting on a year old discussion.

Okay so… a year later I'm gonna reply to this. Sorry about that.