ME:3 Does anyone actually like James?

[Replicant Six]

He's charismatic sure but he's probably the weakest, presence wise, companion you could ever have next to the Merc guy from ME:2. It's the third game, the culmination of everything we've been experiencing and you want to take generic soldier guy on a mission with you and not Garrus?

Who thought this random Joe Shmoe would be a good choice.

[The Asciiman]

Absolutely. A bro that always has my back. I take him in fights knowing that he's solid, never lets me down. And BTW, Zaeed is the second strongest soldier in ME2, using him is like having a wrecking ball next to you. I went through the entire game with him in every mission.

♥♥♥♥ Kasumi though. She doesn't fit in on a suicide mission and really felt like removing her from that DLC wouldn't have impacted it in the slightest. She doesn't help much in a fight either.

[SpaceWombat]

imo James is a decent character ( and the only human companion other than Jack that I actually care about in all of ME ), but you can appreciate him a little more from his story in the comics. Essentially he was picked up by Anderson to be Shepard's bodyguard while he was detained for the Batarian relay explosion. It's kinda strange though because in the games he does the whole nickname thing as if him and Shepard haven't known each other that long when according to the comic retcon they've been acquainted for at least a year.

He had an abusive father growing up so he had strong motivation to join the alliance and become an N7. He's not the most immediately likable character, but it's not really all that fair given that he only gets featured in the last game ( and he's not a Prothean ).

[St.Absinthe]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย The Asciiman:

Absolutely. A bro that always has my back. I take him in fights knowing that he's solid, never lets me down. And BTW, Zaeed is the second strongest soldier in ME2, using him is like having a wrecking ball next to you. I went through the entire game with him in every mission.

♥♥♥♥ Kasumi though. She doesn't fit in on a suicide mission and really felt like removing her from that DLC wouldn't have impacted it in the slightest. She doesn't help much in a fight either.

Garrus, Kasumi and Miranda are the only companions with Overload, and she absolutely makes enemies a joke on Insanity with Flashbang and Shadow-Strike.

Though I do agree that she's one of the members of the Suicide Mission that don't actually belong there.

[Raider Deci]

Hes a solid character, far from a generic filler.

[SpaceWombat]

Kasumi's only role is to sneak in the tubes so that Tali ( best waifu ) doesn't have to.

[Hot 4 Myers]

The worst thing with James, for me at least, is the flirting with female Shepard regardless of whether you pick the non-flirty options; so annoying if you're playing female Shepard as a lesbian, or already in a romance or just not a flirty character. In the original game, I had a mod which stopped him from being that way unless you select specific dialogue options, so hopefully that mod will get ported over soon!

Aside from that though, he's okay, better than poor Jacob at least. Though I'd still prefer any of the other squadmates from ME2 any day. (Or Wrex if he wasn't busy being the krogan king lol)

[Djozar]

I always considered James to be as already explained, an exposition mule. Not only as that, but when starting out as a non-soldier class, he provides the soldier skills until Garrus is picked up, or Jarick. Even though Ashley is more than capable of filling James' shoes. Spoilers aside, he becomes a more permanent fixture for the time than Ashley, and at least gives you a decent reason to go to Purgatory and have a few drinks with some fans.

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Cannonade:

The worst thing with James, for me at least, is the flirting with female Shepard regardless of whether you pick the non-flirty options; so annoying if you're playing female Shepard as a lesbian, or already in a romance or just not a flirty character. In the original game, I had a mod which stopped him from being that way unless you select specific dialogue options, so hopefully that mod will get ported over soon!

Aside from that though, he's okay, better than poor Jacob at least. Though I'd still prefer any of the other squadmates from ME2 any day. (Or Wrex if he wasn't busy being the krogan king lol)

Problems of a g woman

[hipernemesis]

I don't hate him, he is nice. But between Garrus, Liara, Tali and Javik he ends up being barely used in ME3.

[Outbound]

I like him. He's a strong squad member both in durability and offense, and he provides some hilarious moments. Try bringing him on Priority: Rannoch and choosing him to take out the AA guns instead of Tali.

[Krowten]

I just started me3 and he's so boring I wish he would die. I'd go renegade if it let me kill him.

[Kakashi Okazaki]

I like James more than Javik, talk about subverting expectations with that ♥♥♥♥. Also Zaeed is by far the most interesting human character. But then I like Kaiden and can respect Jacob (who is boring but still a good guy).

[orthostatic]

I'd send him to die on Virmire if I could.

[Raz]

James is fine. He's not super interesting (most of the human characters in the series really aren't to begin with) but he's pretty darn useful in combat.

When you and James both fire off a fully upgraded carnage shot at the same time, its a beautiful thing. Whatever you're aiming at just turns into ground beef.

[GoreTiger]

Pretty sure he serves as Ashley's love interest if she's alive as well. Her and james get pretty close in the citadel dlc.