Favorite missions in ME

I'm going to stick with ME:A and only name 3 since I haven't finished the game yet. I will also state 3 from the earlier Trilogy on a separate list:

OT: 1a) Suicide Mission from ME2 - Really shines as a culmination of that particular game. Has some corny and misplaced lines and some drawbacks and doesn't really set up the next game very well... but overall at solid 9.5 or 9.6/10

1b) Priority Tuchanka from ME3 - Terrifically tense moment with Mordin that plays out well no matter what choices the player has made to get to that point and whatever the player does in that moment. Well animated and well voiced. Also a solid 9.5 or 9.6/10

2) Project Overlord Great music and terrific ending to the DLC. It also has a very different look from the rest of the Trilogy, Hammerhead, IMO, is well implemented and adds a different challenge to the DLC. Major drawback is that it really doesn't have a whole lot to do with the major story and the role of TIM and Cerberus in the whole affair to too downplayed. 9 out of 10.

ME:A so far - Overall the game is more difficult to "score" because of it's open-world format. Story threads are interrupted as other side quests pop up... but here we go:

1) Prologue - "Is that our golden world?" line pretty much sums it up. The shuttle ride down to the planet and fall to the planet surface are all great sequences... as is the sequence after meeting up with dad; particularly when Scott or Sarah have actually done all the exploring they can on the planet. The final battle is just a complete fun rush at a tutorial level that beats any of the intro battles in the Trilogy all to hell. It was a great idea having Alec taking away much of the heat of the fire... made the ease of everything just seem more natural than just having a couple of enemies spawn at the tutorial levels. Scores a 9 out of 10.

2)Saving the Moshae - I did this after having taken Jaal on several missions on both Havarl and Voeld; and really felt the impact of his realizing that he had been killing his own people throughout. I thought all t various datapads, audio logs, syringes in the various side rooms built up the "mystery" very well... and I thought the decision between saving the facility long enough to get the hostages out (combined with the secondary decision to either save or shoot the Cardinal) or playing it "safe' and destroying it immediately was a very intense one. Also a 9/10.

3)This is the combined effect of several smaller tasks and side quests on Eos - Ghost of a Promise, What He Would Have Wanted, Naming the Dead, Secret Project, and Doesn't Add Up... telling in little bits and pieces the effort the people deployed to Sites 1 and 2 put into trying to survive and make those 2 colonies succeed... and paying an ultimate price for it. It takes time and even a bit of luck hitting these items in the "right" order to really draw all the connections... but overall it is a compelling story of "regular person" type heroism or "everyday" heroism, if you prefer. I've also found that these thematic threads run through the tasks on the other planets. 8.5/10

There are a lot more of the quests that I really do like. However, since I'm only a little over halfway in the game, I'm saving room on the list for the ones I expect are yet to come.