Things you wish would've happened in the trilogy

You should realize this by now if you role play at all that people have this tendency to role play roles and acts that they themselves like or enjoy. And while some will inevitably play the opposite of that for trophy or just to see the dialogue. Not met anyone who actually holds any real care for the opposite of what you could consider their default role play for the game.  Take Themmikefest as an example. That is someone who hates Liara a lot. And is someone who has played the trilogy forward to back, side to side, back to front, etc, etc.  Given the infinite possible changes that could be brought up I do not think he would pick as something he would change would be to make Liara even shittier a character. He would rather improve the character to his own views of improvement or out right remove the character.  I highly doubt that he would say you know all these aspects I dislike about her character. Lets do that but more of it.

Because you are given the ability to suggest changes you could see limited only by your imagination and willingness to type them out. And out of all that potential you post about how your Shepard is a total dick and the game doesn't quite fit your dick actions 100%.

That is why I said irrational anger is irrational. It is irrational for Shepard to act that way in the game by any stretch of logic. And out of all the points and issues there are with the game to pick that small almost insignificant point in the grand scheme of the trilogy to be the one thing you talk about as needing to be changed.  Even my rather small bit on this thread about the Geth and in deed all synthetics not being handicapped unless it is plot relevant has rather important part to over all story. Because it seems most issue players have with the ending is the fact the Geth and Synthetics in general seem like they are exactly like other organic life. But they aren't because when you see the few times they are allowed to shine it shows how much more then organic life they are. But all that is over shadowed by the generalized view of them that you see 95% of the time as being equals if not slightly more stupid then regular organic life. Thus threat potential the Catalyst is talking about never seems to manifest.

Hence why my irrational anger is irrational comment. Referring both to Shepard's actions towards Liara being completely irrational and not supported by anything in the game. And out of the near infinite things you would change about the game you pick Liara not being the one you recruit Thane and Samara though as a few seconds and then gone moment because you choose to be a dick to her in ME 1.

Midnightwolf, do you want popcorn? Lets face it gothpunkboy wants to be always right, he is a supposedly paragon of our kind and perfect in all of his knowledge and wisdom. so let him flail to whatever he wants. 

I like chocolate covered cookies and I will bring York mint paddies and Rootbeer and Dr Pepper as well.

Why don't you get it through your head, that I will play MY game how I WANT, and nothing you say is going to make me play differently?!

By all means play your game the way you want.  I never said that you couldn't or that you should change. Just that given the chain of events that take place in not only ME 1 but between ME 1 and 2 and ME 2 that your actions and desire to see things change are illogical. Best case scenario you would get to play one game in the trilogy and have to create a new one to play ME 2 which by default would revert the change you want to allow the game to happen. Worst case you would literally stone wall yourself half way though ME 1 before getting game over screen.

Is someone literally applying only the slightest bit of analysis of your idea and seeing how it would play out against canon events that take place in the game and see that it results in nothing but bad. Really that upsetting for you? Why? I'm genuinely curious why some people can't seem to handle someone telling them their opinion is wrong without getting upset. If you see something I post you don't think is right or sounds stupid feel free to come out swinging at me over it.  Hell I won't even care about your choice of language short of racial/sexual orientation or gender based insults because those are just rude to make grand negative assumptions about an entire group.

Interesting.

Without the prothean scientists altering the signal, the reapers win. Had the reapers not been made stupid in ME3, reapers win.

In ME1 she mentions Ilos. She didn't need to be a squadmate for that. The other thing is how did Saren find out about Ilos? If he didn't need Liara, why would Shepard need her?

Without Cerberus and Feron, she would never have been able to give the body to Cerberus. Cerberus could have easily got the corpse without her being involved. Bioware put her there for........reasons.

Two things I was thinking of after starting ME2 again:

Light, medium and heavy armour in ME2 and ME3. It bothers me a little that all playable classes wear the same bulky armour, while some of your teammates are going around in nothing (looking at you Jack!). I'd have kept the same armour restrictions from ME1, or at least give you the choice.

I also wish we had more freedom over what order we recruit our squad in ME2. I've seen videos where people have modded their game to bring teammates on missions where they normally wouldn't be able to, like bringing Tali to Garrus' recruitment mission and hear some unused dialog between them.

The one obvious thing I would have done differently was allow my BroShep to romance Kaidan in ME1. Probably wouldn't have killed off Shepard in ME2 and had him resurrected by Cerberus. Or, if it did happen, at least have him bring evidence to the Council and allow the Council to agree that it was worth investigating the Collectors. The Council would still have had you working undercover with Cerberus because they're not welcome in the Terminus Systems. That would be why you had to have an all-new squad in ME2. That being the case, I suppose I'd leave out Garrus and Tali in ME2 in order to further the idea that Shepard had gone rogue. But I would have let him, when on the Citadel, pass along a message or two to his old squadmates so they don't think he's a traitor.

I wouldn't have used the Catalyst in any way, shape or form in ME3. OK, I take that back. It would have been something along the lines of a firing mechanism for the Crucible. I guess it probably wouldn't be a galaxy-wide wave, either. I'd imagine it as something powerful enough to destroy Reapers. This would allow the forces gathered to make a difference. Having brought ships and people together as a fighting force to sweep up whatever smaller stuff the Crucible wasn't getting. This would avoid destroying all synthetics and would avoid Synthesis. I suppose it would end up being a modified version of Control with maybe Shepard guiding the Crucible. At the end, the Reapers are dead (mostly, I suppose, since it wouldn't have the far-reaching effects of the waves), the husks stop receiving orders and become inert and we have a weapon to use should any surviving Reapers return. It would also be powerful enough to keep the Leviathans at bay. More importantly, Shepard doesn't have to die. The Paragon/Renegade/Neutral options could be about what Shepard does with the Crucible at the end: turn it over to the Council, to the Alliance or destroy it. Cerberus probably wouldn't be present at all unless as indoctrinated agents, but they wouldn't be any more present than the indoctrinated forces of the asari, turians, salarians and humans.

I'm pretty sure the indoctrination/partial huskification was where those troopers came from.  The mission to Benning originally (when you get it) said that Cerberus was there recruiting but later (when you go there) said they were abducting people against their will.  Then, on Horizon, we see that Cerberus was actually turning people into husks.  I say that it's not that Cerberus hired an unlimited army but that they used partial huskification combined with Henry Lawson learning how to control them to create this army.  They weren't willing subjects (or, if we go by data pads found at times, they didn't understand what was going on) which is why it worked.

Kidnapping and proto indoctrination/husk creation doesn't play into it? TIM doesn't trust EDI enough let her exist without physical blocks on her system.

And obviously TIM also managed to huskify entire shipyards to build a better fleet than the Turians, Asari, and Salarians; thousands and thousands of suits of unique armor and weapons on a massive scale despite the reapers cutting off every supply line and conquering pretty much every cluster in the galaxy.