The Mass Effect ending support group

If the trilogy were to be remade, just have Shepard survive with only minor injuries so that the above doesn't happen.

Since you brought up dogtags. Can you explain how Hackett recovered the tags? Then can you explain why he would give them to t'soni and not Shepard's mother, for those who play a spacer?

I can answer the T'Soni one: Because she's the Mary Sue and everyone does everything for her. 

I’d keep the grievous injury part, just skipping over the dying. Requiring rehabilitation in a hospital would be a good story-related reason to have a skill/power reset. 

Well, there’s 2 good reasons not to use Shepard’s mother. There’s no usable character model, since there was no system in place that would have this character look related to a custom Shepard, and of course the bigger one being that most backgrounds have no living relatives. I guess what you really want then is to just have the dog tags shipped to Shepard and just have it appear in their quarters. Realistically, it should have been Miranda or something that has the dog tags and hands it to Shepard, but I guess that’s another opportunity the base game missed. 

ME2 is almost wall to wall mary sues.

I suspect its more an artifact that you are the protagonist in a game. Games are meant to be beaten. But he can fail, and quite often depending on how you play. My first play through of ME1 I failed to convince wrex to stand down he died, I failed to defuse the fights between Miranda and jack, Miranda died. I frequently did not have enough P/R points to get a good ending to that scenario. But for the meat of the game, well its a game you are supposed to win.

Not really, they can fail pretty spectacularly, as the suicide mission shows. 

Except he can. Repeatedly. Don't get enough War Assets. Wam bam, galaxy's dead. Make Miranda hold up a biotic bubble? Someone's dead because you suck at choosing. Don't get enough points with quarians and geth? Gotta kill one. Say the wrong thing to Talitha? Blows her brains out. 

Kai Leng's issue is that he always wins (not that its true). But Kai Leng literally comes out of nowhere and wins. Unless you read the expanded universe, you had no idea who this twerp was. And even then, he just shows up and killsteals, especially when the first time we see him, he loses to a terminally ill drell. 

I wouldn't say NEVER make the wrong choice.  That depends on the player's personal playthrough.

Mine's, for example, decided to give the Illusive Man the Collector Base at the end of ME2 (one because it justifies the games existence in trying to find a way to stop the Reapers , and two because as dangerous as it is, it does make sense from a certain point of view if you have enough trust in them, foolish or not...and Shepard is getting desperate by that point, as I often do Arrival right after the Reaper IFF mission back to back...ME2 was very dramatic that way lol).  Thus, along with destroying a star system, another super desperate maneuver by the war hero, he is partially responsible for what's going on in ME3. 
He indirectly made Cerberus as dangerous as they are with their new tech.  And still tries to talk sense into the Illusive Man all throughout ME3 (imo giving them the base makes ME3 sooooooo much better and more interesting).  In doing things like that, for me it came across as a trilogy of games where people who know of the threat (SHep, Saren, Illusive man) are all desperate and make crazy decisions to find a way to stop and survive the impossible.  Whether its allying with the reapers with the hope to be spared(Saren), indoctrinating your soldiers to Cerberus ideals so they hopefully won't be indoctrinated by the Reapers (Illusive man...hell it makes sense even if its evil lol), or desperately trying to get every military and foot soldier possible to win a war that may be literally impossible to win (Shepard)...its all desperation to fight the impossible, a force that can not be beaten conventionally, if at all.        


I do get your point on Leng though...and I don't know if its Bioware's fault or the fanbase.  Imagine if they would have Leng REALLY kick their butt and have them near death...the outrage    Hell many fans are mad that the Reapers can't be beaten conventionally when THATS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THEM....THEY CAN'T BE BEATEN CONVENTIONALLY  

Reminds me of my friends who are still mad that The Hulk got his *** handed to him by Thanos...while I enjoyed every second of it    He's the strongest one there is....until he wasn't lmao
     

Errr...no. Mordin's weakness is that he is incapable of looking beyond what he did. He is consumed by perceived failures so much he'll side with a genocidal maniac like Wreav to assuage his guilt. 

By that standard Liara fails quite a bit as well. When you find her she fucked up and got herself trapped in a force bubble, in ME2 she done fucked up and got her compatriot captured by the shadow broker, in Me3 she fails to figure out and secure the mars info before evil robot grabs it, and she can die.