Hating James Vega?

[Souplex]

I didn't mind him.
In terms of Male Human squaddies in the Space Wizards games, he's better than Jacob, and much better than Kaiden.

 

[Fenra]

Since I first met him in ME3... well meh, kinda had the same feeling towards him as I did all the new characters in ME3, nothing, didnt love nor hate, he simply stayed on the Normandy as I spent the game with people I'd spent 3 games getting to know and love

 

[bigfatcarp93]

I loved Vega. I will never understand all the hate on him, he's a really nice guy. He's got all the "grounded, ordinary guy" shtick that made Jacob stick out, but WITHOUT being boring as balls.

 

[SageRuffin]

Vega? Eh, he's all right. A lot better than Jacob, that's for fuck's sure.

If nothing else, he actually isn't much of the meathead "Welcum to Erf!!" soldier that his design implies. He actually kinda has a heart.

 

[Risingblade]

Out of all the alliance squad mates he's easily the most likable.

 

[Ikasury]

ya know i never understood this either, why the hate on Vega, i thought he was hilarious... he was effectively an 'insert-real-dude' into the whole damn set of games... seriously, where is there in the first two just a normal, non-whiney, bench-pressing, DUDE!! (that isn't Ashley if you remove her second X chromosome) speaking of Ashley, drunk day after scene, i knew i kept that woman alive for some reason beyond being the lesser-evil of the two original human grunts...

F!Shep: Vega, why are here... cooking... breakfast?
Vega: Oh hey Lola, i was up last night hanging with LT and... ugh... i woke up first, yea, that's why, thought it'd be great to cook as... 'thanks'
*F!Shep is suspicious* uh-huh... *walks over to the observation room, hears groaning* what th- *looks down and finds passed-drunk-Ashley waking up from hang over*
PD!Ashley: oh fuck... last night... vega... booze... *gets a stupid look on her face* hehehehe... *realizes what that could mean* OH SHIT!! if Shepard finds out...
F!Shep: yes, tell me... if i find out what? *evil grin of trolling awesome*

and that's effectively why i love James Vega, he can out-drink Ashley Williams and is such a nice guy to make breakfast the next morning =w= there's nothing 'suspicious' about that at all...

there was lots of snickering and joking later on aboard the Normandy~

Personally, i thought he was this cute puppy... like a big-dumb-werewolf-puppy that could rip your arms off yet be so freakin' adorable when you pet it... hehehe... so yea, Shep needed a fanboy after the first two games, someone that wasn't 'at Shepard's level' in the social pecking order now that they've become akin to god... and he's just so cute doing it too... the fist-fight scene is even funnier with F!Shep, cause its not 'male-bonding' its 'your superior just kicked your ass and she's a woman and f*cking grinning about it' XD

 

[Ikasury]

I thought he was alright.

Obviously I didn't like him as much as the characters I'd spent three whole, long games coming to know and love. He spent my entire first playthrough stuck on the Normandy, presumably doing weights and making coffee.

I brought him along a fair bit on my second run through though. I actually found a lot of his dialogue to be pretty amusing.

Random example:

Dammit, I *just* did that mission but didn't have him to kick the tower to death with

i did... another reason to keep around the 'noob' of Shep's crew, his comments were hilarious most of the time XD

 

[Chicago Ted]

But there was a difference in that my Commander was gay. Because of that he had no trouble talking about his feelings and emotions.

Wait, what?

What does having an attraction to one's own sex have to do with emotional openness?

Yes, homosexuals all share their feelings. That's what they do.

WTF. Not sure if serious.

This guy! This guy gets it!

As for my opinion of Vega, I used him when I had to for the first few missions, then promptly ignored him. They gave very little introduction to the character at the start of the game, and his attitude towards Shepard is far too lax. I'm Commander Headbutts-Krogan Shepard, and you're a grunt! Where the fuck is my respect?!

Also, how hasn't this been posted yet?

 

[Dagda Mor]

I didn't really like his interactions with Shepard, but he plays off of the other squadmates great and is pretty useful in a fight.

 

[Zeema]

i didn't like him cause he was a Meathead. i just didn't like him, i wanted to krogan headbutt him out the airlocks.

 

[lunavixen]

I didn't like him, I never used him in battle after I got more squadmates, I think it was the 'lola' thing and i've never been keen on Freddie Prinze Jr

I hated him because he kept calling Shepard "loco"/"lola".

In one of the first conversation you have with him you can tell him to stop calling Shepard that. He won't do it again for the entire game.

Which is actually kind of surprising, since that means they recorded alternate versions of all the lines where he says that.

EDIT: Aaaaaand ninja'd.

but i was a paragon, so i just didn't talk to him unless i had to

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Yes, homosexuals all share their feelings. That's what they do.

WTF. Not sure if serious.

A lot of people just hate Vega based on his appearance. Damn shame too because he's easily the best human squadmate in the entire series. He's an interesting guy who has a lot of funny moments too

"Easily the best human squadmate in the Mass Effect series" is kind of like saying "a better date than Jeffrey Dalhmer" or "More fun than a rectal exam with a claymore."

All he really has to be is not utterly contemptable and he's already outdone half the human cast. In fact, this is one of the few stories where I agree with the alien sense of smug superiority and dismissal of humanity. If not for Anderson, I'd consider the entire race a wash.

Well Miranda was kinda cool...

Still I think he's a good character, he just has the bad fortune to be in a game that features the likes of Wrex and Garrus

 

[Kingjackl]

i didn't like him cause he was a Meathead. i just didn't like him, i wanted to krogan headbutt him out the airlocks.

That's a bit of an oxymoron...

OT: I like James, thought he was a cool and funny dude. He was a lot like Garrus but with less of the tiresome nostalgia and ass-kissing.

 

[LetalisK]

I didn't mind him. I liked some of his comments and used him until I got Ashley back in my current play-through.

 

[Syzygy23]

James who???

OH.

You mean Chunk-bro McMeatyslabs.

He was annoying and unnecessary. Nobody gives a shit about any characters introduced past ME2 because they have no time to develop. Garrus has been by Shepherds side fightin' the nastiest goobly gobblies in the universe since ME1. Vega just drops in during the final act, crushes a beer can against his head and starts flappin' his air-tube about "YO SHEP BRO LOCO MAN I GOT YO BACK BRO". Fuck you Vega, you don't get to walk in at the last minute after having done next to no work and claim credit for saving the galaxy.

 

[KR4U55]

He's okay, the only thing that really bugged me was his mispronunciation of most the spanish words he said. Most notably Esteban, (spanish for Steven) which he pronounced with a strong a at the end. In spanish the 2nd "e" is the strong sylabe.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

I like Vega. He was alright and some of the stuff from the party scenes in the DLC can be pretty hilarious. I never really put him in my group for missions though. But that was because Liara and Garrus had way more dialogue and were better for party balance and over all power.

he didn't have a lot of depth as a person

For the record, Udina wasn't such a bad character. He was a very skilled politician

Are you kidding? I really can't tell. You seem like you actually believe that but you couldn't possibly. Udina was absolutely godawful at his job, and is one of the worst written characters of the entire series.

The absolute first thing he does in the series is show up with absolutely no evidence beyond a single eyewitness who has a criminal background and then demand that the council arrest and try Saren. Which is firstly a dumb as shit move, a good politician doesn't get into an obviously lost battle like "I have one disreputable witness, I demand that you make giant concessions to me now!" So the council tells him 'yeah... no,' because that's obviously what they are going to tell him because again he didn't have any actual evidence to back up what he was saying. The correct move at this point would be, "thank for for agreeing to hear me(even though I shouldn't have requested a meeting.) I ask to be allowed to conduct an investigation into the matter with your blessing." But that's not what he says instead he starts ranting about how the council is blind and they hate humans. Because insulting people and calling them racist/speciest is the easiest way to gain their favors and want to help you at all? He's the worst politician I have ever seen in any work of fiction.

He's not even a good behind the scenes wheel oiler. He literally does absolutely nothing for you. You have to go get the evidence yourself. If he rules the council in the second game, he's too much of a puss to reinstate you. And in the 3rd game he sends a soldier who never rose above the rank of Commander to negotiate the most important backroom deals necessary to save Earth. Instead of you know, himself; the apparently "skilled politician." And he doesn't even have any power on the citadel, the only move he makes is to help Cerberus trying to coup the council like it's somehow going to help at all? He can go ok I've deposed your leaders now I order you all to follow me? Yeah something tells me they would just ignore his empty commands.

He is not diplomatic.
He is not even a good behind the scenes LBJ type politician.
All he does is yell at people and then pout when he doesn't get his way.

 

[KR4U55]

He's okay, the only thing that really bugged me was his mispronunciation of most the spanish words he said. Most notably Esteban, (spanish for Steven) which he pronounced with a strong a at the end. In spanish the 2nd "e" is the strong sylabe.

Its possible he was using a different dialect than "standard." Hell look at english, go from a non accent (West US) to southern, to eastern, to british and they can all say the same word and they sound totally different.

In spanish most words have 3 or 4 sylabes, opposed to english where most words have one or two. That leads to a complicated classification system to determine where the strong sylabe is, then you add a tilde (´) to mark it, but there are some rules to skip that. In this case the word would be written "Estebán", as he pronounces it, when it's "Esteban".

There *may* be some variations of pronuntiation, but you can't change the strong sylabe in a word, because you'd have to change the tilde.

PD: I'm sorry for the off-topic, but in the other side *knowledge is power*.