If you could remove a plot element/character from MEA what would it be, and what would you replace i

Watch the intro explains... and if it doesn't then I will expound.

Anything that vibrates is at its core a sound.
If you believe string theory then the whole universe is based from sound.

Somebody really should do a count of how many distinct humans appear in the game, including the Outcast soldiers and the background characters in the hubs. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes close to the purported total human population on the ark and the Nexus. Even if it's only about half, you still have a potential problem if you consider that not everyone is even unfrozen.

I agree on removing the Outcasts as well as the Roekaar. I mean, really, within 15 minutes of landing on the Ankara homeworld, we're attacked by isolationist rebels? Both seem driven by little more than a need on the developers' part to MAKE MOAR SHOOTING.

Well, it's only a waste of time if you stop.

Not sure how to vote but I wanted to roll into Andromeda as a jack booted conqueror, but no, can't do that, there are things that need fetching.

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

The Jardaan species you mean or at least sister races.

Way underdeveloped.

Yep we only seen two factions within their military hierarchy nothing of the rest nor their social hierarchy.

Better than Jacob IMO -he can stay while Jacob gets the boot.
At least Liam doesn't have daddy issues.

A mess of a face glitch -personal graphical issue for me alone the rest can like her -I will not have my screen turning pure white.
Lucky a modification fixed the issue for me.
Still True.
Asari Hero Worshiper.
Let her fix the stupid NOMAD -if it blows a tire -about all she good for -the first one knocked out in combat usually in my case.
So much for so called biotics.

WILL. NOT. USE. PB.
Unless can find the right mod to remove that Shrek (good reference -Bioware must have been watching it... or Home Alone 3 ) bandit mask.

Yes.
MEA should have started with intro levels in the Milky Way to let us get to know some we would eventually have with us.
Though they would be ignoring you for the Father Ryder.
Still would be a better starting point.

Make the game plot flag register and.....
Stop...Calling...Me...KID!
For the 987654321 TIME!

Eh.
Yep.
Need more depth.
No real back story either.
Need more depth... Again.
MEA Garrus wanna-be tripped over his own cape.

With Version 1.10?
I still don't see the face issue.
I never have -from the beginning -so I will take your word it that it is still there in version 1.10.
And not like it was in version 1.04 -that had other people complaining like Chicken Little about the sky falling.

Still... She had not a lot of substance to her in the first place... wish the route to kill Addison existed.

Wrong.
That describes and relates to the Higgs Boson.

I refer to the vibrations associated with the strings of string theory:


Though maybe there is a connection...
At least I have not gone as deep into string theory as I could.
Considering there is now speculation that the strings and light itself may be connected...
So Universe based on light and sound and we get the 3D world from that... hmm maybe J.R.R. Tolkien is right...
Thanks for shattering my system of belief now I have to redefine myself.

Here's the problem.

Take the entire plot of MEA, make it into a DLC for either ME1 or ME2 and set it in the Milky Way. What changes? Nothing, except you still have the reapers to blame for everything. IE, "Kett are nothing but Reapers."

Same tired excuse for a story. Except now we're in a different galaxy, which makes all the difference in the world. *rolls eyes*

1.  Shutting down SAM would be a good thing.   

2.  If EDI can bypass the Turing test, so can SAM.

3.  The Council is extremely hesitant to go to war.

Don't smoke.
Scared yet?

Voted: The Angara. Boring race that brought nothing to the series. Basically weird headed, funny coloured, backward legged humans. Your classic Star Trek/ Doctor Who, "bloke in a suit". I don't have a problem with Jaal per say, but i wouldn't miss him if he wasn't there. They could all be better with better writing or a bit more care and depth of character. Aksuul, Evfra and the bloody Moshae. Why does everybody treat her like she's the best thing ever? You save the Resistance, she winges, you don't pick her as ambassador, she winges.... but she's the Angara's favourite teacher-auntie!

Second: Liam. I wanted to like him, I wanted Peter Grant in Space... I wanted a cool, British, urban, mixed race/black guy of the variety you never get in Sci-fi.... I got Liam. I wanted to romance him, but then he took his shirt off and my Ryder ran off with Reyes. The guy is an overgrown child and an idiot at that. Even when playing Sara Ryder as an overgrown child herself, i reasoned she was only letting him hang out with the crew out of pity or for a laugh.

Depth is what's needed. What's driving the Kett? Who's driving the Kett? Do they also have a legitimate reason to hate the Reminent and the Angara (as opposed to "This race is boring, they're hardly worth exalting. But on the other hand they're the only ones here...Ohh look! Aliens from another galaxy! They look more interesting...")? Nobody ever reacts to anything, Cora seems slightly more cut up about Alec's death than Ryder, but she gets over that quickly. She's upset about the asari ark, and being nice to her as Scott Ryder made her think he was romancing her (in retrospect i should have ditched Vetra for her... Vetra's ok but not exactly thrilling.)
Ryder junior dies briefly
"Oh, are you ok? You were dead weren't you?"
"Yep, but i'm better now."
"Great, how about you go back to Havarl and find some RemTech for me? we'll never speak about this again."

"Erm, Sara? I heard you were getting pretty close to that shifty Reyes guy in Kadara."
"Um, we're sort of dating...sort of."
"That's great, but be careful ok? He's clearly not that trustworthy. We'll never speak of this again, let's go kill some Kett!"

The conversations you overhear in the back of the Nomad have more depth, (Vetra, Cora, i think you care more about Drack than you do me. :sob:)

Oh and I'd replace the Nomad with the Mako.

I enjoyed the game really, the overarching plot and premise is interesting, I actually quite like the gameplay because i'm too lazy to use more than three skills and I enjoy Multiplayer. I'd probably leave the resource gathering and crafting in Dragon Age inquisition though. The whole thing about being unable to create lovable characters in just one game is hogswash though, I loved Wrex by the middle of Mass Effect....and Drgaon Age seems to manage.