If its a new protagonist every game...

I dunno, the Crucible actually working seems a lot more probable to me than a random ethereal entity showing up out of nowhere in the last 5 minutes of the game to give me a choice of completely contrived options to lose from.  The Crucible is a device built upon the work of multiple galactic civilizations, we were just the first ones to actually finish it in time.

But hey, if you prefer the original ending that's all good.  Not saying you are wrong just explaining why MEHEM is better.

Fair enough. The Crucible just came across as space magic to me and the fact that Liara conveniently found the plans on Mars. It was a little too simple and the likelihood of it working out just never sit well with me. I definitely agree that pre-EC and Leviathan that starchild was horribly implemented. After those additions, especially with the context from Leviathan, most of my issues with starchild's inclusion were largely addressed.

He was going to die in my ending, along with the Reapers, regardless of what he had to say.

I always found it hilarious how I imagined that Revan was polite and pleasent. Even as Darth Revan, she was affably evil while her post-mindwipe counterpart was, well, a bitch with a heart of gold. She frequently complained, was often rude, tended to be ungrateful and didn't want to get involved with the bigger events. When the Endar Spire was under attacked during the prologue, she was like: "Screw whoever Bastilla is! I'm going to the escape pods!" To be fair, I consider that to be a bit of a fair response since he basically telling her to go fight a bunch of boarding soldiers and sith while the ship was crashing. Damn it, Trask, I'm an explorer, not a soldier!

I think her and Bastilla had nothing but verbal spats from the get-go. She also didn't like the Jedi and the Sith. I always liked to imagine that part of her distrust in regards to the Jedi was her body remembering what her mind couldn't about the mindwipe or mind suppression. Her and Jolee got along, though. I always got a Vitriolic Best Buds feel about their relationship because of some of the dialogue and their respective reactions.

The Exile was a whole lot nicer but that didn't make her any less interesting. Just a different kind of interesting. I always liked how the handled roleplaying as someone with post-traumatic stress. I also always liked the first conversation between the Exile and Atris including the bit where the Exile can basically express that she still believes that participating in the Mandalorian War was the right thing to do (despite all her grief and guilt because of it).

Man, it would be nice to see a remastered version of both those games.

Probably be a decade from OT, but what I would see them doing is finishing up a trilogy of Andromeda, have an Andromeda initiative stacked with new technology heading back to the milky way, and then finding the milky way with synthesis and needing a new trilogy to fight and take synthesis out.

Really? a waste of time? than the development of the characters is secondary? cuz a lot of them with ME2 become almost as iconic as Shepard.
Here we can t even feel they are part of the team.

Drew and Mac were co-lead writers. Drew had already written most of the story before he left for SWTOR. Mac just took over and tied things up after Drew's departure. If you look at Tali's loyalty mission in ME2, it talks exclusively about the dark energy theory, which was Drew's idea for the Reapers.

Fair enough. I don't know if that's the only DLC that you skipped in ME3, but I highly recommend playing all of it if you ever get around to playing ME3 again.

I had the Citadel DLC thought it was great.  Think that was the only one though.  I bought ME3 on sale and didn't want to spend a ton on DLC.

I may play it again someday who knows.  I usually stop after ME1 though, everything after that is just too painful to play through thinking what might have been.  I still can't load up ME2 to this day.

As to finding the plans on mars to me that made sense. They clearly hadn't fully explored the Mars ruins. As for the "space magic" I always knew some type of MCGuffin would be needed. Didn't really bother me.

I need to check those old ME Save games sites.  See if I can find a good one that kills everyone except Tali and Garrus off.  Then just go straight from ME1 to ME3.

Shouldn't be too hard to do.  Only do their loyalty missions, only upgrade the parts of the ship needed to keep them alive, keep them with you on the last mission, and send all the wrong people to do the other jobs.  That should get at least most of the rest killed off.

That was because Bioware decided to take Shepard out of the Alliance in ME2, stick him or her in Cerberus, and issue an entirely new cast of squadmates. 

That wasn't necessary and they could very well have had a trilogy of games with Shepard in the Alliance and with the ME1 cast at his or her side for the long haul, with the addition of a new squadmate or two per chapter. 

I'd argue they should have went that route. As fun as ME2 was, it really threw a wrench in the works. It would have been a great game as a standalone, but it is kind of problematic as the middle chapter of a trilogy. 

If Bioware were to keep Ryder as the protagonist for more than one game they shouldn't make the mistake of rebooting the companion cast, like they did with ME2. 

I like my Ryder more than most of my Inquisitors, and than all of my Hawkes tbh, or at least I prefer her "world state". I find her story better written and more interesting than most of my Inquisitors and all of my Hawkes, I guess would be the most accurate way to put it. Having said that, I'm not sure I could really make a different Ryder that I like on the same level.

So on the one hand, I think I'd like continuing her story, on the other hand, I'm open to a new PC too, but only if we can pick species. Go like "arls/nexus sends small scouting fleets out of Heleus to check out other clusters separately, assigns the scouts a pathfinder or pathfinder-y person, Ryder&co stay in Heleus", boom, new setting, new protag, good excuse for species customization.