Favorite protagonist ship

Loved Ryder's quarters and the Tempest's cockpit, but the rest of the ship was meh.

That's the feeling I always got, otherwise what reason could there be? I also didn't like that a door that was fully present on the opposite half of that deck in ME2 was gone in ME3, forcing you to go through the 'stand for screening' spot.

I mean, sometimes doors take forever to open on the Tempest, but it doesn't feel half as offensive to me.

I do realize. I just hate it. Cerberus-Normandy still had the elevator, but at least on each level you didn't have any other nonsense loading to go through. It's why I prefer the Tempest and it's 'sticky' doors. Because I can at least still move around near the spot while I wait, rather than get frozen in place. It's twitchy and impatient of me, I know, but that's how I feel about it.

That is a really tough question, but I finally picked Cerberus Normandy.

The original Normandy has serious nostalgia, but that damn lift took an age...

The Alliance butchered the SR2, which I get, but they brought back the loading points and could they not have tidied up some of the loose cabling by the end of the game? Kinda feel like Shep would have had too many accident forms to fill out.

The tempest was pretty but a lot of wasted space, massive room for the Pathfinder without an en suite?!, seriously lacking in the weapon/shielding department.

What Cerberus did with the Normandy was fantastic, efficient and powerful, and Joker got leather seats. Happy pilot = happy Shep.

At the very least they could have at least cleaned up the ship after a couple of story missions.  Replace some wall panels, do something about the loose cables etc...  Especially given how many times throughout the game we stop back at the citadel.  Give that guy that wonders around the crew deck that salutes us something to do.

I really miss the music from SR-1.

It's got to be the SR2 which Alliance stole from Cerberus for me! Which, lets face it, is exactly what they did: They STOLE it and modded it!

Yup. Alliance definitely got the better half of the deal when Shepard died and was brought back. Sure, they lost him and the SR1. But then Cerberus spent 4mil at least, just on him. Plus built a ship. And all they had to do was steal both of them back.  It'd be like giving an old banger to a mate, and him bringing back a Bugatti. The Men in charge must have been laughing.

Well, that's what Cerberus gets for letting its ship have an AI with the capacity to actively block their own lockdown protocols and hiring robosexuals. 

Tempest is the best, because you can operate it with a small crew. More of a Millennium Falcon (which is the all time best of course). But I do have better memories of the SR2 Cerberus.

Normandy SR2 full stop, an actual warship that can hold its own.

The Tempest is a joke in half; no weapons? WTF.