Mark Meer explains the "STEEEVE" mystery from ME3 (in 2013)

Nice.

For the longest time (possibly even all my playthroughs save the most recent one) I always had Ashley with me in that mission. So I didn't even blink at "STEEEEVE", because the.... noise...thing Ashley makes completely eclipsed it in terms of WTF.

Yes I did wonder about that. And find myself saying "Shepard, what are you yelling like that for?" And now I know. Thanks OP.

It didn't bother me either but it did make me stop and be baffled for a good 3 seconds or so as to what i just witnessed. It's over in a heartbeat but it sure is a sudden, strange tonal shift and then back to the plot again.

It sounds like the "STEEEVE!" line should've been followed up by something else than "I'm all right!", "You sure?" and it felt like there should've been a cutscene and not a brief scripted distraction from the gameplay.

As programmers say though - "I would have done it differently" is not a bug.  In reality, people's reactions when witnessing tragic events vary greatly and people sometimes do swing wildly in their degree of concern when witnessing an event they believe to have been tragic followed by a quick realization that the person survived.  Someone in Bioware made the call and selected the lines that made it into the game.  In that person's view, the lines the scene used were the most plausible from those that were recorded.  Some fans disagreed with that judgment and others, like me, weren't bothered by it.

Same goes for the flirty line that Femshep uses in ME2.  I think it was likely that Jennifer Hale made a few different recordings of that line using different inflections and someone at Bioware made the choice as to which one made it into the game... and they selected a tone that happens to irritate some of us worse than others.  That line also has never been "fixed" and will likely never get fixed.

It made no sense having that scene at all

Its just another unnecessary death, if he isn't talked to in the game, to add to the other unnecessary deaths in the game
The what-the-crap evac scene. What a joke. Here's one way it could have been done. Another is just have both squadmates killed regardless of ems.

Agree - the premise that everyone Shepard doesn't talk to (other than Zaeed) dies is another thing I would have done differently.

Another possible way I might have handled the squad is just to have whatever standard medic evac crews in place presume to have pick them up with any of the other battle survivors on the field after the battle is over.  Meaning, they probably would have wound up in some hospital on earth.  If all of Shepard's squad mates (old and current) were to be involved in the battle somehow, then they should have all been left on earth and the Normandy departed the system without them as well.  The final memorial scene could have taken place at a "wall" listing all the casualties that occurred on earth during the final battle... taking place after the Normandy manages to return to the system using FTL (simply meaning the planet on which they crashed would have to be not too far away and the people seen leaving the ship on the planet would be Joker, Samantha, Chakwas/Michel, Hawthorne, etc. in all cases).

Most of the deaths that is seen in the game was crap. It was done for the feels. Look at Thane. Had that idiot shot at Leng when he had the chance, he may still be alive.  The same with Kirrahe.

With Steve. No reason for him to distract airborne hostiles since a shuttle can't maneuver like a fighter. Giving the heads up to Shepard was enough . Shepard gets to cover if the uglies start firing from above.

They can feel all they want. The deaths were lame.

On man, if Bioware actually did that, they would have probably gotten just as much flack for it as the Starchild, if not more.

The easiest fix for the evacuation scene would have been for the Normandy's actual pickup to take place after Shepard makes it to the beam. Maybe all three get knocked down, one of the two wounded squadmates says, "We'll be OK Shepard, just go," there's an extra look if one of them is the LI, and we hear Joker communicating with them while Shepard continues running for the beam.

Also, what's with the two helmeted soldiers providing covering fire in that scene? As far as I can tell, there are no Reaper ground forces in the area until Shepard gets close to the beam, and if they're firing assault rifles at Harbinger, well...do I even need to point out how stupid that is?

Afaik Mshep does have Fshep's alternate 'Cortez' line for the crash but only if you didn't interact much with Cortez.