The Little Things 2.0

I tried Lift/Throwing a tyre all the way from Hanshan to XIV with Kaidan and Liara but I had no anti-hazard armour. And it disappeared when I turned my back.

Goofing around Eden Prime today, I discovered that I could walk along the rail back to the remaining train cars (I had to use ghost briefly at first to get to the rail). When I got back, that area of the map only partially loaded: everything but the ground where you walk. That missing layer revealed a couple of guns, a pistol and an assault rifle, pointing very near to where Jenkins is:

I picked another Shepard to repeat this test. This time the ground did spawn, but I was able to ghost behind the large rocks and get a closer look. Looks like an Avenger assault rifle and a Spectre Master pistol. No idea what they are doing there.

Not sure if this is technically a little thing, but one of the things i love in the first Mass Effect, is the epic scale felt in missions such as Noveria and Virmire.

Neither of them were on the off the wall level of 'epicness' per say compared to the very high stakes of Tuchanka in ME3, I think in Noveria and Virmire the production values and writing for those two missions were just so good, and a personal highlight for me in ME1.

Everything from the locations visuals and self-contained lore, the corporate intrigue of Noveria, to the parallel of the tropical paradise like setting of Virmire against the experiments Saren does in his base and the implications his work, and what transpires on Virmire, has on the rest of the series.

Tension and atmosphere were so effortlessly conveyed and evoked through music and writing on those two particular levels as well.

Just an example for me when every area of development just hits all the right notes and it comes together and produces two excellent levels in the series, for me anyways, I'm sure there are those who don't rate them as highly as I do

There are literally soo many little things from the party I love.

But Tali, Traynor and Garrus going through the elements whilst boogieing was my personal fave.

Finally got the Harbinger line.. “Human; viable possibility, if emotional drives are subjugated.”

I always wondered who it was. It's Jacob.

Were you able to get the guns?  Would have been cool to have to Spectre weapons before you even become a Spectre.

Unfortunately those guns are just sitting there, there's no way to interact with them.

If all ME2 squadmates are in ME3, only 3, Miranda, Mordin and Legion, not counting Tali and Garrus, can't be avoided while the rest can be. Grunt, Kasumi, Jacob, Jack, Zaeed, Samara are part of side missions that can be avoided while Thane can be ignored.

He doesn't. Shepard has to talk with him in the hospital for him to show up during the coup.

The reason why I know this is because my first playthrough of ME3, I walked right by Thane without realizing he was standing near the window. The councilor was killed and Thanes' name was on the memorial wall after completing Cronos. I was surprised to see his name since I never saw him in my playthrough. I corrected that by talking with him during my 2nd playthrough

One that took me years to discover: When EDI becomes unshackled, she'll start speaking during planet scans in a more casual manner. Instead of "Probe launched", "Probe Away". And if you hit a dud/empty spot, she'll be like "Shepard.... seriously?"

I know those phrases happen if you try to scan the planet Uranus (which is depleted) in the Sol System... followed by another special line if you persist.  I don't know if you can get them if you try to scan other depleted planets or if you completely fail to get any resources with a probe.  I don't think I've ever heard it other than when doing a scan of the planet Uranus.

You mean Wrex. Grunt is in ME2