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I have to disagree with this, the character writing is what carries the series past ME1. ME2 is a pretty straight forward heist setup with sci-fi window dressing, not a bad story just very simplistic, and ME3 is a total trashfire of a story. The one saving grace from a writing perspective is most (not all, at least half of the human party members are godawful boring) of the squad members are interesting and likable in their own ways.Most of Mass Effect's companions are bland. Jack, Samara and maybe Mordin are the only ones who jump out to me as having some sort of personality that isn't either extremely overdone elsewhere or just bland. For a series with so much dialogue and character moments, we barely know anything about our squad mates.
With that being said keep in mind I'm speaking relative to video game writing, which I don't hold to a very high regard and significantly lower my standards for.