Things you wish would've happened in the trilogy

Another thing I really wanted in the game was some really, really alien worlds. Like sure, having multiple moons or suns in the sky helps, but i'm talking give us some of the things NASA and other space agencies have observed on different worlds.

What if we visited a planet that was freezing by night and incineratingly-hot by day? Kinda like that Chronicles of Riddick movie from back in the day. Closest we got to that was Haestrom. Like, literally have Shepard and crew watching the dawn come up and half the planet lighting on fire while it slowly approaches their location.

Or what about a planet with mega-fast winds naturally and Shepard and crew are magnetically attaching themselves to something to move around?

Heck, there was an article I read where one planet observed had GLASS RAINING FROM THE SKY. That'd be like the razor-wind sections of Gears of War II but dang that'd be something bizarre for Shepard and company to deal with.

There is a theme in the game that is really not explored throughout. Maybe by coincidence or by design:
Shepard fails to convince people of the threat, and the lack of evidence or concrete proof is always holding him/her back. But this proof exists but is subverted by various factions in the game. Cerberus scoops up the important parts of Sovreign and collectors and keeps it secret to retain an advantage. Turians create Thanix cannons from Sovreign but hide the origins of the tech so they do not lose their advantage. Batarians hide all knowledge of a dead reaper in the Leviathan DLC to retain an advantage. Then the Asari with their undamaged, fully functioning Prothean beacon with reaper data, also hidden for the same reason. It always struck me as odd that this repeated pattern of self interest from all races is not summed up and shoved into the council's face at some point in the game. There was plenty of content there for a confrontation that would have gone beyond a 'told you so' moment.

The final assault on Earth in ME3 did a really good job of showing how dire the situation is and how slim it was that anyone would get out alive. But there are no save points and being forced to rely on insufficient autosaves for such a brutal sequence of fights was very frustrating.I would add to this that all three games made major plot decisions come after intense and difficult fights with no opportunity to save between the end of a fight and the dialogue. Its a recurring issue that made me enable all manner of cheats just so I could get the fight over with quickly over and over while I tried out different dialogue options.

All games came with DLCs or deluxe options that people paid for, but never get to see until maybe an hour into the game. Like in ME2 I cant change to DLC weapons until after freedom's progress. In ME3 I cannot put on my hoodie or use my DLC weapon stash untl after meeting with the council. Also very log bouts of conversation and crap before I can get to the main menu to load a new game or do something else. Many times I just alt+tabbed out and killed it just so I can load an earlier game. It should never be like that.

I also really wish Shep had not died at the start of ME2 and not be forced to work with Cerberus. But that is a pretty big what if for this thread.

In ME2, on Horizon, we see the Virmire survivor being incapacitated by a Seeker during the initial cutscene. During my first playthrough, I assumed that the Collectors had done something to them; it took me until midway through ME3 to realize that they were not, in fact, Reaper double-agents. I can't help thinking that there was a missed opportunity there.

Maybe that's why the VS was so pissy to Shepard on Horizon!

There kind of is if you're willing to be an asshole in ME3.  You come across Gavin and, if you took David away in ME2, you have give a dialogue option with him that directly leads to his death.  I'm pro that option, particularly knowing what happens to David if you leave him with Gavin.  For the record, I'm willing to be that asshole.

Indeed; a story arc in which they are rescued from the Reapers' thrall somehow would have been necessary, presumably instead of the post-Mars hospitalization. All things considered, it's perhaps just as well that the writers didn't go in that direction.

I would say the T'soni asari would be the best candidate to be indoctrinated if Bioware were to have gone that route.

An example would be the broker dlc.  When the broker throws its desk, Shepard protects the asari and not the ME2 character who could be a LI. The LI would see that and wonder if Shepard really cares about him/her.

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a part of me would love to see this happen at one of the Reapers camps

Well I like that picture due to its atomsphere but I always imagine that Reapers did something similar to that in their processing camps on Earth and various worlds they conquered.  Well Just for nightmare fuel, seeing a grizzle transformation from a normal person to a Reaper Husk or a part of a Reaper Structure would be witness by Shepard and his squad.

True.  Would have made for a great N7 mission.

EDIT: Or even a DLC.  Would have been a hell of an infiltration mission.

After completing Sur'Kesh I would have made it a hub. If the genophage is cured, the hub is no longer available
The same with Tuchanka. Make it a hub. If Wreav is in charge it remains a hub for the rest of the game. If Wrex is in charge, the hub becomes unavailable after he is killed on the Citadel if the genophage has been sabotaged

Make Thessia a hub. When Shepard deals with the quarians, it no longer is a hub

Above posts mention  processing facilities. I would include a mission to infiltrste one, as posted above. After seeing how it functions, Shepard will have that much more of a reason to choose destroy. The downside to having a mission like that on Earth is that the fleets don't have time on their side. Maybe have the mission take place on Paleven or Thessia.

Shepard calls Bailey to open the arms of the Citadel.  No need to go to London. Shepard isn't shot by Harbinger. No evac scene. I only mentioned this because I'm surprised it was never mentioned in the game if anyone tried to get a hold of anyone on the Citadel to open the arms