Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-10380701-20150427232833/@comment-173.58.100.7-20150428032744

73.Anon.52 wrote: ^I thought Shepard was rather underwhelming tbh... so few enemies, got completely revived essentially just "cause", had a commission to do just about anything because it was understood that such agents were best, and yet was repeatedly ignored by those who gave him that power. Enemy agents of even the human variety kept showing up just as powerful... just a really amazing recruiter tbh Shepard got revived because one, they were the only person in the galaxy who could stop the Reapers (because no one else in the galaxy bar Cerberus/Shepard's Team/A few people who were actually smart about things paid any attention whatsoever), two, without that revival, there's no point in making ME2/3, and three, Shepard is a symbol, saying "Commander Shepard defeated Sovereign" is a lot more impressive than saying "the Alliance and Citadel fleets attacked this gigantic mecha-monster named Sovereign, got their butts kicked by this thing called Sovereign and this schmuck named Commander Shepard had to kill the thing and save them. Seriously, one man/woman defeated what an entire fleet couldn't. Sad."

And the Council are idiots. They either go into heavy denial or refuse to see you entirely because they don't even want to face the idea that something out there wants to kill them. And the kicker is that the Citadel DLC reveals they knew the Reapers were coming, they just didn't want to tell anyone.

Also, enemy forces in games need to be equal to or greater than the player in power beyond the starting area, because the entire point is to have the game become more difficult as it progresses, since you're leveling up, presumably getting better at the game along the way, you're also getting higher quality armor and weapons, and in the interest of making sure that the high quality weapon you got isn't a one hit kill all the time, you need to have foes of equal strength so you can face them in a fight that is reasonably difficult.

- Surana