Everything Wrong With Mass Effect: Andromeda

Did you saw the part with the Rachni when he said "Zoidberg!"?

And moved onto the video, finally, and I am having more fun sinning the sins then watching the actual video.

Edit: God some of these sins are breaking my brain.

When Tali presents the recording, when exactly could she have obtained this? Obviously it happens after Eden Prime, but where was this geth she found, and how did she know who was even in the recording to even bother determining who to tell about it, and how did she get to the Citadel before the Normandy? The Council knew since they could recognize his voice (which in itself is shaky in terms of actual evidence), but doubtful a wandering pilgrim from an insular society would. 

As for Saren, where to start? 

Why does he need the Conduit? Noveria proves that Saren can use his connections to smuggle large numbers of geth into the port. Paying someone to do the same on the Citadel should be no major feat for a Spectre. But putting aside whether or not he can even do that, being a Spectre gives him special access to parts of the station most people wouldn't, and having Benezia at his side, along with a complement of asari commandos gives him a serious edge. Also, since the Council had their heads up their asses about him, he pretty much had free reign, until he and C'thulhu jumped the gun and assaulted Eden Prime for a mere warning beacon. 

But in the end, the Conduit leads to the same exact place we went to via elevator. Maybe it was simply a matter of the dev team not bothering to use new assets to create an entirely new space on the Citadel, but the fact that the Conduit basically leads to the same spot in the Presidium made everything Saren/Sovereign did a waste of time. On the other hand, it was a setup for the perfect trap: lead Shepard & Co on a wild goose chase, they find the Prothean bunker, and then destroy the Conduit when they get through, leaving them no time to get back to the station before Sovereign closes it up. But instead, they leave the door wide open with a few armed guards, even though there was no good reason to leave that pathway open. Of course, this trap relies heavily on the Council simply not believing anything Shepard says. If they truly believed a geth attack was imminent, they could have closed up the station, and fortified the area with their fleet, leaving Sovereign no choice but to either wait it out or assault them head on with no direct access.

Of course, none of that matters either, because ME2/3 establish that Sovereign(I guess the catalyst?) was an idiot, because the reapers were going to be there in about 2 1/2 years anyway.

I've said this a couple occasions before, but I think while DA's plots aren't perfect either, generally handle their stories' internal logic better overall than Mass Effect ever did.

So what did you record my voice with? How do we know for certain that my voice isn't being impersonated, immediately recognizable as me, or that the audio itself wasn't altered? And lastly, who are you that you're recording me in the first place? Audio recordings aren't guaranteed to be admissible, depending on how it was obtained. Tali is an unknown, as is the equipment the data came from. Even if the Council did come to a decision against Saren, it would not be as immediate; it just is because the plot has to go forward. After all, this ain't Law & Order: Citadel. He's an elite operative of the Citadel government. They wouldn't just immediately revoke his status because the humans are just really insistent. They'd have to consider the possibility that they pulled this audio out of their asses because they're dying to nail Saren to the wall (especially Anderson, who would clearly have an agenda), and then deliberate over the evidence at hand to come to a final decision. 

Something to consider is cutscene knowledge. We as the players get to see everything, but Shepard only ever sees Nihilus' corpse and one scared dock worker saying his name. We never actually see Shepard and Saren interact until the Council meeting. 

Wow dude. Determinism 'till the end, huh? *sucks air through teeth* Yipe, dude.

You forgot to mention about the main thrust of my argument which was that Tali had a fifteen hour head start.

Oh yah, silly me. That's because you *have* no argument. You just wanna play obstructionist.

So what did you record my voice with? How do we know for certain that my voice isn't being impersonated, immediately recognizable as me, or that the audio itself wasn't altered? And lastly, who are you that you're recording me in the first place? 

You forgot to mention about the main thrust of my argument which was that Tali had a fifteen hour head start.

That's a fairly bizarre use of language. "One step closer" isn't a typical figure of speech when someone doesn't actually know if he's heading in the right direction, or if the destination exists. He's talking like he knows that he can undo what the Conduit did if he can just get to the Conduit, but your whole theory is based on him not knowing that.

It's not an inconceivable reading of the scene, but it's tortured. Which is OK if you're just trying to fanwank this into acceptable shape, but it's not believable as actual writer intent.

Where'd you get that fifteen-hour figure from, anyway?