Do you still believe we'll get a Sequel to Andromeda? Or a Reboot like Tomb Raider/Mirror's Edge?

Urgency? That's always fake in RPG because the game has to adapt to very different paces coming from players, and anyway rush don't match well to RPG. I feel you are rude with the MEA writing, but it's not easy argue about that.

Just one point, for me nothing in full ME trilogy matches the family line smash power (Benefactor, Murder, Mother).

Well, as I also said, I do think Shep is more complex/interesting in ME1 than Ryder -- that's my comparison. What follows is not a comparison, but my hopes as they move forward to the future here (by talking about where they eventually took ME2 and ME3), saying that if this character is ever going to be one I can be excited to play, then they need to follow a similar approach, because at this point I find her a little boring, though I did come to like her more toward the end. Lots of the casual lines were good.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that I love the black and white approach to personailty. Black and white approach wasn't my favorite, either, and I've since used Gibbed to allow all dialogue options to be open. But I do want more of a range. I agree with those who say that Ryder has very little range in her behavior, emotional responses, agreements/disagreements -- just shades of the same. Sometimes you want to be bad, rude, dismissive... even just sad, upset... maybe you want to tell someone other than the Kett to fuck off. I didn't feel the game really gave me those options as much as I would like, so yeah I guess "lacking of contrast" is pretty much why I didn't feel I could properly develop Ryder into the kind of character I prefer to play. So I'd honestly rather have Para/Ren than this, even if I agree that Para, Neut, Ren was an imperfect system. But ideally we meet somewhere in the middle of both systems.

That said, Paragon Shep options were not always nice. She yelled at people a lot, told people off. I think Paragon translated mostly as "role model," or something like that-- as an idealist who wants to be a good person, believes people are inherently good and saving innocent lives is the primary goal -- not as "nice or neutral to almost everyone she meets." 

But yeah, a lot of it is just about personal preference for certain types of characters and storytelling. 

Ok, then tell me how you would write this? First no villains in any sci fi heck most movies and tv used sound logic, he'll most real criminals don't. In a setting like this it has to allow for good gameplay and plot direction. The whole point of the conduit, Feros and Noviera was for thus. First Sovereign could not bypass the Prothean's sabotage and needed the back door. Second the point of Feros and Noveria was to search for said door. IMO ME1's main saving grace is the plot.

How do you know? You've only done the ten hour trial at release.

You should preface every single one of your posts with that. Or put it in your signature.

Right; the general problem with ME1 is that it only makes sense as long as the player never thinks about what the enemies are thinking or planning. It works -- in the sense that ME1 doesn't tend to get called on its b.s. as often as the other games do-- because by the time the player gets enough information to think about this stuff, there's other stuff to think about. By the time you know what the Conduit is, Saren's already got it and why he needed it isn't relevant to Shepard's situation anymore. Same thing for Tali's voice recording; by the time you an figure out that the time sequence is impossible, the recording is about to become irrelevant because Saren's about to be exposed and the recording will have fulfilled its function.

(I was assuming that Sovereign was already being forced to go to plan B -- getting an operative into the Citadel Tower without being able to use Saren, Benezia et al. because they're all compromised. Of course, the high-percentage move there is still to Indoctrinate more people rather than a brute-force assault.)

Honestly if you played ten hours of the trilogy I can't think of a single major choice that Shepard made within the first ten hours. Whether or not to kill Fist/ that one racist dude apart of the Tenth Street reds leap to mind. But I know there are choices of at least that callibre within the first ten hours too...

Though I suppose part of the problem is games as open as ME 1 and MEA gives you some leeway in the order you do certain quests.

I agree the sequence of events is a bit off in places but it's far from bad storytelling.

Funny isn't it - I said the exact same about the Witcher 3 but apparently that's different for some reason in your eyes.

If that was the case for a majority of players, to the point where anger and ridicule divided up TW3 fan base to the tune of a 4/10 user score and mediocre critical scores, then your point would gain validity - as is, you're just an outlier - so yes, that's different.

A bare bones and basic plot and interesting sci-fi mash up universe is all ME1 really had.

What?  False.  The best written villains are the ones who make sense.  The most popular movies in the world have the best written villains.  

To fix the plot of ME 1?  It would be fairly simple.  You just give Sovereign a reason to fear the citadel.  OR you change the sequence of events during the battle.

My issue is that, when Saren enters the conduit, Sovereign just swoops into the citadel like it's easy.  He didn't need saren to do that.  He could have had Geth on board and just send them to activate the relay.  In fact, Saren is his weakness.  For some reason, defeating Saren makes Sovereign vulnerable.

So, let's say the Protheans did more than modify the signal.  Let's say they added something like an automated defense to deal with Sovereign.  A virus or an EMP.  You don't find out about this until Vigil tells you.  AND NOW, we have a reason for Sovereign to be cautious the entire game.  He knows he can't just overtake the Citadel defenses on his own.  
It's just off the top of my head, but it's the only real way to deal with the concept of reapers being all powerful yet make ME 1 make any kind of sense.  

The literary device I'm referring to is a Chekhov's Gun.  Basically something that works once specifically to kill Sovereign.

OH...and this DOESN'T fix the ME: 3 star child plot hole.  Meaning:  the...uh...intelligence that controls the reapers is housed in the citadel...or IS the citadel...which kind of destroys the Protheans security measures...I mean, why didn't the star child just open the relay his/herself?

In other words, you're like the Turian councelor:  "Ah yes, 'plot holes', we've already dismissed that claim".