Overhauling the Citadel Hub in ME3

Maybe more ambient conversations or words? Kind of like how the Citadel DLC party had random laughter and chatter in the background followed by some random stuff from a squad member.

That's all I can think of for "immersion". Any other suggestion or complaint I have would revolve around gameplay or store mechanics, which would derail this thread.

Random NPCs that are there for flavor (not the ones whose conversations you overhear to pick up missions) ought to move around more. Also, some of the turian C-Sec officers should be female. There are both male and female human NPCs all over the place, and salarians look the same no matter their sex, but for some reason all the female turians remain hidden away It's noticeable and weird.

Also, some children of various species in the refugee camps would help. DAI has the same problem.

Perhaps Starbucks, too, will have spread to every other street corner on the Citadel.

*looks at cyberpunk 2077's demo video* ... see the people just walking around in the city and doing stuff and not just standing in the same spot? yeah, do that.

I think I would have liked a wider, more expansive map like how ME1 structured the Citadel. Everything kept feeling so small and cramped instead of walking through a vista. Ironically, the elevator loading screens were less annoying for me when it came to immersion.

Strip club! Strip Club! Strip Club! STRIP CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why the fuck not. Who knows, maybe the player could get a few private dances from the girls (or guys, depending on what you prefer 😉).

so chora's den in ME1?

Do we get to fight while drunk?

Bonus challenge: Aim while the camera tilts away!

I always found the location of Huerta Memorial Hospital to be problematic. A single floor, super narrow hospital located in a terribly inconvenient place - it just doesn't make any sense.

Overall, the Presidium of ME3 was just too small. I get that they wanted to make it faster to navigate, but I think they made a mistake. After all, a major theme of the trilogy is exploration. I loved exploring The Citadel and Omega from ME1 and ME2 - it made me feel like I was truly discovering a city. They did this by having plenty of corridors, shops with shop keepers to talk to (not just bland terminals), bars, statues and lookouts. They also varied the height of spaces accordingly; big halls had high ceilings, plenty of dramatic stairs versus the underground levels that were tight, low ceilings and lots of artificial light.

They also broke map consistency. The Embassy map was already established, why reinvent the wheel for ME3? For a game that considers carrying information forward, I found it odd that they wouldn't extend that same principle with location layout. You've already imprinted the layout and orientation of the Presidium and Embassies, why not build off it? It would've made more sense if say, Aria took over Chora's Den and expanded it to look like Purgatory. Or if the shops we influenced in ME2 still said "This is Commander Shepard and this is my favorite shop on the Citadel"