Things you wish would've happened in the trilogy

Anderson in the Normandy !!

A good old space battle and Shepard being alive at the end.

Would have loved to see more of the Rachni, and have the plot not shunt them to the side for a brief cameo in ME 3. I wanted to see a Reaper destroyer getting swarming with thousands of Rachni Warriors, all effectively immune to indoctrination, and all possessing natural weapons that can completely bypass their kinetic barriers. Speaking of the Rachni's practical immunity to indoctrination, they and the Thorian with it's apparent ability to 'cure' Reaper mind control should have been made a larger part of the narrative. Sure, the Reapers might still be too powerful to conventionally fight, but if their greatest weapon in the form of indoctrination was made a virtual non-issue they would be a whole lot less dangerous.


Another thing I would have like to do is be able to call Wrex out on his stupidity in ME 3, what with the halting of a galactic war so we could play doctor, and his continued antagonizing of the very species that were working to help him and his people. And all of this after he promised immediate and total support in ME 2 when the Reapers showed up in force. If nothing else, I wanted to be able to headbutt the moron after he blindly charged into a middle of a Salarian military base and almost got himself and Shepard killed. It was also really annoying that I couldn't tell the self-righteous prick to shut up and stop droning on about how evil everyone was to the poor, defenseless Krogan while he is literally threatening violence on anyone that disagrees with him. The repeated jabs at the Turian Primarch, after he loses his son trying to help the Krogan, were completely uncalled for (IMO), but Wrex apparently gets a free pass for such assholish behavior because: Genophage.

It would have been really interesting if the game actually had a choice during the Tuchunka arc not too dissimilar than the Rannoch arc, in that instead of having to choose between the Wrex or the cartoonishly racist Salarian Dalatress, we would have the option of either going with the Rachni or the Kroagn as our ground forces; with the option to recruit both. At the very least it would have been nice to take the wind out of Wrex's sails by having the Rachni Queen completely committed to joining the fight, no questions asked and no restitutions demanded. It would have been really satisfying to go up to Wrex and point out how the species he considers to be nothing but mindless monsters and deserving of no second chances is actually more inclined to work with the rest of the galaxy to stop the Reapers than he is with his people. That out of the two of them, the Rachni Queen is actually the one who seems to keep her promises of support.

I have suggested this before but I woul've enjoyed the possibility that Liara can have a kid with Shepard, romance or not. Liara, doing it for the sake of the memory, for the galaxy, because she knew Shep would probably not survive.

And the kiddo would turn out as sarcastic badass herself, reflecting how we played as a renegade or paragon. And she would been on the run to Andromeda with older Liara but noup, Andromeda was on its way to lame.

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I would have liked to have seen more reaper interaction in ME 3 including both confrontations and dialog. I think we should have gotten more than brief dialog from a dying destroyer

Considering Harbinger is the first reaper created by the Leviathan AI. I just assume the Leviathan AI is the Harbinger. All the conversation at the end was it trying to convince you to help it to achieve true Synthesis. 

I still never figure out why people would take the kid's words seriously and casually dismiss the entire fact that it trying to persuade a nearly dead Shepard.

There should be at least one scene in each game where you can hug a Krogan. They are so lovable.

You can headbutt one in ME2.  I figure that's the krogan equivalent of a hug.

Except for basically having to play an Asari in that instance, I like that idea. :/

Edit to further build: Maybe we could have actually saved the CloneShep and *they* could have gone off with the Initiative?

I'd like the ability to choose extra bonus powers, even if they come with a heavy cost (e.g. each additional bonus power requires sacrificing two other powers, and perhaps some talent points).

(In other words: I want to put both Dark Channel and Flare on an infiltrator to make an ersatz Huntress).

2012 called it wants it's dead horse back.

I would have preferred to see the Reapers' motivations changed, and their numbers scaled back, though not to the point of removing their threat to the galaxy at large.

Personally, I found the ideas and concepts behind the Suul'ka of the Sword of the Stars universe to be much more in line with how the Reapers were originally portrayed in ME 1 & 2.

Soverign's general disdain of organic life and Harbinger's unmitigated sadism with captives doesn't really jive well when meeting the Catalyst and it's mandate to preserve life; especially when considering that it's just supposed to be a cold, logical machine. Okay, melting organics down into slurpees to preserve them might be something a machine intelligence would decide to do, but taunting those same organics, causing them as much pain and suffering as possible in pursuit of that goal seems wildly inefficient, and totally contrary to the whole "When fire burns, is it at war?" defense.

If the Reapers turned out to be more akin to the Suul'ka then it would have been far more narratively consistent with their pervious actions.