>>3819473
>ME3 should have been shepard using his alliance,council and cerberus connections
What connections? ME2 destroys the first two and, when Shepard cockily disconnects TIM post-Suicide Mission, the last one as well.
>how is he written like absolute dogshit in me2
How is he not? He's a Mary Sue where the writers try to dazzle you by showing how cool and stylish he is and not by making him smart, interesting, or being connected to the world we knew in ME1. Then the player's forced to always do what TIM orders, literally locking the Normandy's controls until you do so. TIM holds the intel, TIM picks the team, TIM chooses the missions, TIM decides when you’ll carry them out. When TIM tries to be your friend, you can’t rebuff him by calling out Cerberus on their previous war crimes, a Sole Survivor's backstory or the events of ME1. Instead you can have Shepard come across like a petulant kid and say "You have to earn the right to talk to me like that". Instead of making TIM smart ME2 turned Shepard into a retard. Same thing happens in Horizon with the Virmire Survivor btw.
So, when are him and his faction written well? When Cerberus sprays their secret bases, shuttles, armors and fucking regular clothes with their terrorist logo? When TIM thinks it's a great idea to send his nº1 asset into a Collector trap and not tell him because somehow that would've made him enter this hostile ship armed and wary instead of the way he did it, which was... armed and wary ("hur durr I'm concerned that if Shepard knows he’s walking into a trap he’ll somehow telegraph that he knows, and then the Collectors will know that he knows, which will make Shepard’s raid… less useful somehow? Thank fuck the Collectors knew that I would be listening in on the turian's broadcast and intercept their codes and that I'd specifically dispatch Shepard as soon as I heard the fake report for their ship to be still by the time Shepard got there")?
