Rumours of Mass Effect Trilogy Trilogy Remaster: What would you like to see?

Thanks, now if only our army could get rid of the SA80 and replace it with some thing better.

Also, speaking of Spitfires, I'll leave this here...

Barely, and he/she still nearly strokes out doing it.

But literally up until the last mission, Ryder's exception combat ability is a direct result of SAM, not Ryder's. The ability to interface with RemTech is due to SAM (and even in the end, SAM is still needed to do so safely) Ryder's even only on the Pathfinder team to begin with due to nepotism.  

The ONLY useful trait Ryder brought to the team's table is...SAM.

They've been going downhill for a long time anyway.

Yeah, I like the idea of Shepard a lot better than what is presented. I mean, I can't see him as anything but Sheploo with Mark Meers voice, but I have to do a lot of strategic heavy-lifting (so far as roleplaying and head-canon goes) that it's something a lot different than what I'd see. I have to put in a lot of the bearing of a military man, so I'm ok with the lack of emotion, since that appeals to me anyway. Honestly, I kind of see his portrayal as that of a Spartan, similar to one of the Spartans of Noble Team, Carter S-259 in particular, another Naval Commander. Of course, that's partly to do with the setting, which is a lot more militarized and clear-cut.

Add that to something I'd like to see. I'd like Mass Effect a lot more if we had more of a military setting (I might have mentioned it,) and focused more on humans and our interpretation of our place in the galaxy and forging our path to prominence rather than trying to take on the galactic community angle. As I said, aliens just aren't as interesting to me, at least not the ones from the ME universe.

Andromeda might have been more interesting to me if it was either just for the Council races or, ideally, a solely human endeavor. For the Council races, realpolitik comes into play there, as I just don't see the Council races forking out the cash for other lesser species to come along. I can understand it for the Krogan since they're manual labor (I'd say Vorcha would be better, they're a hell of a lot easier to control and have great tolerance to many factors and after you finish with them, you can just stop breeding them beyond a baseline for labor.) Everyone else... yeah, no. I'm rather glad we didn't see much of the other races beyond what's in MP.

I think it's more realistic for the Council to just say about the Quarians for example a simple 'fuck em' and move on.

That's pretty much what the Council said to quarians. And left them to rot out in space.

Personally I’d like a protagonist entirely free of any organization, be it military or otherwise. A military background is helpful to establish the martial abilities of the character, but BioWare’s take on authority in Mass Effect is always kind of grating in its presentation, made worse in that if you let a portion of it die, it has a pretty poor payoff in the end lol.

The Ryder twins are 22, so even if they received combat training, they probably never had an opportunity to face an actual enemy. I question the idea that there should be any particular demeanor that denotes someone’s had combat experience. Should Ryder look into a window and get the Venetian blind shadows over his face as he recalls his grueling experiences in a Batarian labor camp? 

One thing I'd like to see in a remastered series is some re-writing of the 'Arrival' dlc from ME2, to give the Vimire Survivor a role as a companion. The opportunity would be there to re-kindle a romance with Ashley or Kaidan, just as there was for Liara in the Shadowbroker dlc.

It won't happen, but in a perfect world it is a yawning gap I'd like to see filled.

Yeah, but nothing went on during the ME timeline during which they served that would’ve given them the opportunity. To add to that, Alec’s shenanigans probably didn’t help matters much. In Scott’s case, we know that ended up landing him a lame relay guarding job. They really gave him the absolute worst backstory lol. 

I enlisted at 17 (legal with parental consent for the U.S. Army and provided you finish AIT by your 18th birthday.) It wasn't terrifically uncommon to see a few Infantrymen who were with a Guard Unit only a few months out of High School at 18. Legally, you must be an adult (18) to deploy. Way back when OIF started in 03', there was a big hoopla about a kid who was 17 when they deployed, and had been in-country for nearly 2 months before the Army finally got wise about it. I think his case was what got the DoD really serious about enforcing that rule. It was uncommon, but something of an open secret that back in the day (waaaaaay way before my time in 06', I'm talking mid-90's at the latest) that 16-year olds were being fudged into the system by some rather unscrupulous recruiters looking to make mission rather than actually do their job and persuade folks to join.