Has anyone gone back to play the trilogy after playing ME:A?

Still playing it, still modding it.

I want to get into modding next time I revisit those games and rewrite the catalyst dialogue. I want to try something I've been meaning to do for years.

I have to say, when I think back on ME1, the real villain(s) seems to be more the Council and Udina more than anything. Think about it. The salarians sent an STG team to investigate a facility on Virmire, they jury-rig a reactor core to be a weapon, and their captain decides to use it against the facility, and not only do they totally ignore these facts, they blame Shepard and ground her for it, with Udina's blessing. You would think that he of all people wouldn't want these aliens pushing some agenda to scapegoat the first human Spectre. Sometimes I wonder why I let them live in my main playthrough.

I wonder why one of the salarians can't stay with the bomb, since they're the ones who jury-rigged the thing, instead of A/K.

I'd still choose Kaidan for the bomb.

Its just another choice put in for the feels. Its funny that if the player has all 6 squadmates, why can't Shepard tell the others to get A/K while Shepard gets A/K. No reason for A/K to die.

Because I'm not a fan of Kaidan, but then, I'm less of a fan of Liara so I'd rather she stayed.

It would've been better if Kirrahe and his team were a choice to leave behind, but have it so they had some kind of positive impact on the final mission. So your choice to keep both squad mates also leads to a negative during the battle for the citadel.

Do you ever sleep, drink or eat?   If you have a partner she must be an angel!

I replayed ME2 and ME3 before Andromeda (skipped ME1 because it hasn't aged well, at all, and wasn't that great a game to begin with apart from the music and Virmire). So I'm not going to play more OT for quite some time.

Yes, I am. Halfway through ME3 now. After MEA, I appreciate the OT just that much more.

Haha, I gave up when I tried adding Spectre Terminal messages but then returned when I got a bit of inspiration about something else. Now I can do both

Ash - not even because of her Xenophobia (which isn't un-justified (!) - I mean the council kind of are dirt bags that force the races not on the council to fucking bow to them...is it any wounder I love fanfiction where humanity unites the "dregs" (or what the council would call the dregs anyway!) of galactic society, starting with the Quarians and the Krogan (both have beef with the council and both don't have any problems with mainstream humanity after all - the Quarians just have a problem with Cerberus!) and even the Batarians (after they've overthrown their corrupt leaders and freed all the slaves!) in order to set up their own council!)

No, it's because of common sense:

Soldiers exist like sand does on beaches - biotics however are rare, especially strong ones like Kaidan (there's less than 20 human biotics that we know of that can fight an Asari with biotics alone and have a chance of winning...we have Miranda (optimized clone and carefully selected, she says she isn't the first - she's the first her "father" kept, so she's even above her other clone sisters, except Oriana maybe (note: We don't even know if Oriana Lawson is a biotic and if so: She's not trained!)), we have Jack (Cerberus experiment boosted and she was stronger than most before that!), we have Kaidan (L2 implant - has headaches because of it, but spikes a lot higher than most L3s - except Shep if he/she is a biotic!), we have Cora (trained with Asari because she could keep up without much difficulty!), we have that girl from the books (forgot the name -.-) and we have Shepard (if he or she is a biotic)...might have missed a few, but that's not very many, so preserving such a fine specimen is more important than saving a "common soldier" (sorry, Ash!)

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