Things you wish would've happened in the trilogy

Well In ME2, Merc factions(remember all of those sidequests that you fought the blue suns, blood pack and the eclipse), tied them all together to the Collectors similar how the Collectors used the Vorcha in Omega. Well having some Collectors fighting with the Merc factions and able to save more victims during each of the sidequests.


And Within Mass Effect 3, depending on your choices in the first two games, you can influence factions including Council, Cerberus, Alliance and Terminus(i am including Quarians, Krogan, Geth and other factions in here as well) to help you defeat the Reapers. Within the ME3, I will have more of a greater role for sleeper agents, insidious forms of indoctrination and Henry Lawson as a greater scope charming villain.

Keeping in with his egoistic nature of Henry Lawson, I will keep Sanctuary as it is. also having a more developed backstory between T.I.M. and Henry Lawson and why T.I.M. choose Miranda over Henry. Also Paragon and Renagade choices will effect if Henry Lives or dies. T.I.M. will ask you to kill Henry but you will have the options to arrest him. Arresting him will bite you in the ass due to sleeper agents will free him and killing many innocent people(both humans and aliens) and thus making humans look bad. Appearance wises, I will keep Kai Leng as is but improve his character and explaining why he is a racist and rails against the Asari the most. Basicly Taking the Air out of the Asari than Mass Effect already does. I will have Liara getting Indoctrinated by the Reapers and actively disinformation and overall bad intel. Main Reason that Reapers are insidious asshole and I know Liara is a popular character. One of the endings will have Shepard and every named characters getting indoctrinated and walking into a Reaper Harvester plants to be turned into Reaper Goo. Yes it will have all of its gory glory in front view for the players. To Add to the Nightmare fuel, Instead of screams of pain, there will be tears of joy. also More variety of Reaper Husks. Also Having them convert the dead and the living into more Reaper Husks. Also Forest of Dragon Teeth with bodies, plenty of bodies.

Having Henry Lawson working with the Reapers with his sanity unaffected and an avatar of the Harbringer as a greater role for the Reapers. He will function as a big bad for Mass Effect 3. and Henry Lawson as his dragon a willing one. because of Henry Lawson's actions and the actions of the sleeper agents, Reapers are looked as Heroes of Mass Effect 3 in universe. One of motivation for Henry Lawson is legacy and another is Godhood. Being in control of a Reaper has that feeling of God-like-ness. Being an Narcissistic asshole is a simple reason to be an villain.

I wish that there would have been some additional acknowledgement (condolences) from the squad and crew if you left your LI on Virmire in ME1.  Kirrahe just mentioning that the VS's sacrifice would not be forgotten just doesn't cut if if it's your LI who dies.

Yeah, whatever happened with that super weapon? Wasn't there something about tracing it back to the system of origin or something? Was that the same weapon that blasted a huge ravine in one of the planets? (Again, apologies. It's been a while and I'm running of memory.) I remember in ME1 there is a planet you scan that has a huge scar from some weapon, then in ME3 (i believe) you scan it again and it gives you some extra details.

Oh yeah, and when I heard Clint Mansell was scoring 3 I expected something like this for the final mission's gameplay than the whimsy fanfare Sam Hulick made.

Oh yeah, someone being in Life Support room in ME3.

Rupert Gardner taking a shit in the Men's room between making meals so the crew can make ass jokes again.

Stuff.

-Having teammates remember whether your Shepard got along with someone. If you've expressed xenophobic views around alien teammates, I don't want them thinking you're their best pal. I like it more when one has to pay more attention to what one says to a character.

-Having more choices as to who gets to join the team. It was disappointing to not get to pick between ME1 and ME2 teammates (No, I do think an excuse could have been created to have them either on the team or not).

-Having more choice in romance endings. The Thane and Jacob romance just...no.

-Having to make more difficult decisions like if you're taking Primarch Victus off Palaven's moon, you can leave Garrus behind to stem back losses of turian troops until you return with Krogan reinforcements or you can take Garrus with you, but take serious casualties that will greatly affect galactic readiness.

-Better justification for Cerberus' actions and presence. Humanity's skyrocketing advancement onto the Council just made Cerberus' stance look more paranoid than justified. If humanity started out as a conquered race beholden to the Turians, a lot of it would have made more sense. Also having more human deaths occur because of aliens instead of Cerberus' gimmick of lab accident disasters would have made it less comical.

-Toning down the amount of praise towards Shepard. It kept breaking immersion when someone went a little overboard on how great Shepard was. I kept expecting a teammate to make a snide remark to keep Shepard's ego from getting too big.

-More chances to mess around with biotics and tech outside of combat. Yes, I did waste a lot of time biotically stacking boxes on Feros. Yes, I did try to play whiffleball with a Geth Colossus and see how far three people could throw it at the same time.

Red = You believe most in Hackett and Anderson.
Blue = You believe most in TIM.
Green = You believe most in the Reapers (who are a blend of organic and synthetic, as are their creations).

That's my take on the choices.  Yes, I know I have clear biases here.

I actually don't disagree with that assessment.

But my point was that ending should have involved the entire squad collectively getting the crucible to dock and fire; it performs it's implied function of stopping/destroying the Reapers; and the state of the galaxy at the end would hinge on the choices you made throughout the entire series.

(And to certain parties out there: like I mentioned above, I'm not trying to start on the whole "ending was bad because of *stuff*" argument. I'm only remarking on what I think should have been different.)

- when fighting the uglies, Harbinger assumes control in ME3
- space hamster gets his own dlc
- crucible dlc
- instead of running to the beam, Shepard places the orbs on the ground. Leviathan is seen doing its thing. Harbinger's eyes flicker for a moment before falling over

Avoiding the obvious...

ME1- nothing major springs to mind. It's not perfect by any means but there's no one outstanding problem I'd like fixed. Except the bases on the side missions. Bit of variety would have been appreciated.

ME2- Allow me to explain what has happened for the last two years to the VS on Horizon. Shepard goes out of his/her way to make the situation worse with any dialogue option. Just makes no sense.

ME3- I would have loved to have faced indoctrinated enemies instead of fuglies ALL of the time in the Reaper missions. Imagine fighting off alliance troops in the London mission (maybe a human wave of unarmed civilians), or Asari on Thessia. The game banged on about indoctrination then hardly bothered to show it.
They also could have made Cerberus a bit more realistic by re-skinning Cerberus troops on some missions as mercenaries. I never had a problem with Cerberus being rich so hiring mercs for some missions makes a lot more in-game sense than creating your own army.
And change Edi into a more realistically proportioned woman rather than the pathetic fan service sex bot we actually got. Just embarrassing to see her on screen.
And Ashley, give her back her bun and attitude from ME1. More 'lets appeal to the basement dwellers' crap.

Hmm...so does the space hamster run through the ducts to remove EDI's shackles instead of Joker?

EDIT: Yes, missed opportunity with the orbs.  Would have made the Leviathan DLC vastly more important to the outcome of the game.  Hell, should have brought those orbs to the Crucible and set them right in front of the Catalyst.