I see where your coming from, unfortunately I think the only way they could have done it differently and made Shepard legitimately lose is to have just done the whole fight as a cutscene (because you can't exactly force players to lose in gameplay), which would have left a lot of people feeling cheated in an even worse sense, feeling like they'd been cheated out of gameplay because - to paraphrase Yahtzee - 'the game thought that you'd cramp its style'.Lupus80 said:snip
I do agree with you on the whole Eric Cartman analogy though. He really is a try-hard, especially when, thinking back, I can't actually remember him attacking me at any point. He ran from me at The Citadel; on Thessia he just danced around while I kept him at range with ease, and had to call in Gunships to protect him while he recharged his barriers, and also to win the fight at the end. Finally, at Cronos Station, You get 2 piss easy QTE's, one at the start of the fight and one at the end, while the rest of the time he just runs away and throws goons at you again. So yeah, for a guy who loves to run his mouth so much he's really not very good at his job (admittedly I was playing on Casual though)