I always got the feeling that all those thing existed, just Shepard/the player just never looked at any of it, to turn "what do Quarians look like" into a meme.
Did they ever explain why some Arks arrived before the others and how they somehow got enough time to build colonies and organize a coup against the leaders of the Andromeda Initiative?
Eh, gonna stop you there. The ME1 codex has as its opening paragraph about the Krogan: "Prior to the invention of gunpowder, 'death by predator' was the number one cause of death among Krogan. Afterwards, it was 'death by gunshot'." They did advance far enough on their own at minimum to understand basic firearms as indicated by that statement, however, when you consider that when the Salarians showed up the Krogan were basically living in the wonderful environment of Fallout: Tuchanka and had advanced only to what, ICBM's as their most advanced weapons prior? Yeah, handing people like that mass effect technologies might as well be like handing cavemen hand grenades.
Not being surprised by it would make sense, but they always implied they people didn't know, or no one talked about it. I think it's more that BioWare hadn't actually thought about it until ME3 forced their hand. So they whiffed.
True, it just seems weird that a race so destructive towards each other with guns would ever sit down and figure out nukes. That said, ME1 seems to imply they're just super aggressive and violent, but their later behavior was motivated by genophage related fatalism and nihilism. I remember Wrex talking about it. Of course, maybe it's the ME2 and later split, where they're portrayed as a race that headbutts as greetings and lives in literal ruins without improving anything. Then came Krogan Girl Power.
True. I guess it's easy to forget, given all the shit they buried the series under in ME2 and ME3. Wrex's musing on the state of the Krogan and being inspired to try and change it was one of the nice things in ME1. Like he'd finally grown up enough to realize the real problem was that the Krogan themselves needed to. But can't build on that because there's no good writers left after Drew K and Chris left. There's a lot of interesting ground work in the series, but no one good enough to build on it.
Yes, we also haven't nuked ourselves into space Fallout multiple times, nor are we as stupidly aggressive. We're talking about a Sci-Fi race that makes Klingons look chill.
My first playthrough of ME1 was using Wrex and Tali as my team, went Paragon but also blew off the Council. The cast-out species band together against Blue Supremacists.
The Normandy 1.0 crash site was an iceball world. Maybe they're trying to re-do what Cerberus did in ME2?
Maybe, I actually thought that they might be trying to recall ME2. Which is a mistake, I think. There was never any real reason to kill and resurrect Shepard, other than hamfistedly making him work for Cerberus. Which they could have done without that, but that would have required someone who passed Creative Writing 101.
Actually, I believe most krogan didn't blood rage before the nukes (and it was indeed considered a serious disability among them for obvious reasons), but after the utter devastation of the nukes... well, the natural environment there selected for that sort of unreasonable brutality. Its a disaster when there's a bunch of krogan around, but when there's just the natural environment and your enemies for the most part... much less of a detriment to survival. It also appears that older, more disciplined krogan can maintain some sort of control during it to at least direct themselves at their enemies if ME3 is any indication, so they've ended up adapting to it somewhat.
that game also had tranny shit. i aint touching anymore biowear games.
