People need to stop praising ME1

In pure game mechanic terms, MEA is without a doubt the superior game. ME1 had sub-par gameplay even at the time of release(which was a year after the first Gears of War). Even ME2 wasn't all that much better, the stripping of a lot of RPG elements only made it more apparent that it didn't hold up to contemporary shooters, such as with the lack of rolling/doging or going from cover to cover(although it did improve over ME1 in a number of ways, just not enough).

I actually didn't mind all the fetch quests in MEA all that much due to how much of a blast the gameplay was. Hopefully, unlike with the transition from ME1 to ME2, any sequel to Andromeda refines the rougher edges of it instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

If you access the logs you find out that the crew felt his case was hopeless and was planning to turn off life support, and she wasn't taking it well. The gist is that they were lovers, and she killed the rest of the crew to stop them. She can show up and fight to the death as soon as you board, even before you approach the guy on life support.

It's explained here.

Apart from the fact Saren didn't actually need the conduit at all, thus rendering the whole game pointless?

my 2 cents:
I really love how questionable inventory management, questionable combat and mechanics make a rpg even more rpg-ish.
Divinity original sin was a CHORE to play.Yotally unplayble for me
WIth that said i LOVE me1 but face it:
it has all the above
questionable inventory management, questionable combat and mechanics.
Me games matured for the better in most aspects.
Have not played Andromeda yet but i bet my ass of that it does many things better than previious mass effects.
It's just that people like
1) questionable inventory management
2) questionable combat
3) questionable mechanics

I will always praise ME1 because I love Mako, background music and story stORY STORY STORY !

And they just went to Ilos for what? Reasons?

Ah Mass Effect 1.... To be honest I think it's a pretty good game but it is my least favorite of the Original Trilogy. I have 5 friends whom are also big fans of the Mass Effect trilogy and they all roughly share the same opinions when it comes to this. In fact, when we replay the trilogy again we sometimes just give each other our ME1 safe files so the ME1 can be skipped whilst still keeping characters like Wrex alive. I finished the game 100% once so we all use that safe (except one guy who wants to keep Mordin alive in ME3 because it's his favorite character and he hates the Krogan so he wants Wrex dead). I think for me this feeling of not really wanting to play the game again has to do with the weak opening. I really don't like the Eden Prime mission and the following sequences in the Citadel. After this point the game gets a lot better but the first few hours are quite difficult to get through. Apart from that one can't really deny that the game has aged rather poorly. I hate modding but I do have some texture mods installed because the vanilla textures are just really bad. Don't really care about graphics at all (Still play vanilla oblivion) but I just don't like the grainy and blurry visuals. Gameplay is also quite outdated. Being a N7 and a Spectre candidate apparently doesn't mean anything because Shepard is still incapable to, even for a short amount of time, steadily hold a Sniper rifle. The Ragdoll Biotics are also extremely annoying. I'm never doing the Biotic Terrorists mission again thanks to the I will destroy you meme followed by being ragdolled around for 2 minutes straight. I can also write an essay about exploring desolate worlds with a nomad jumping all over the place but that has been documented enough.

In the end ME1 still holds a special place in my heart because the story is really strong but it has never been the holy grail for me. That honor definitely goes to Mass Effect 2. Guess it's just a question of different opinions. I like the more linear approach a little bit more and I wouldn't mind if ME:A was set up more like 2 and 3. That being said, people are still free to praise ME1 if they want to of course. To each his own.

Plus, two things that Addictress and I were talking about last night.

There were three antagonists in ME1. The geth, Saren, and Sovereign. It made you feel like you had to fight for your place among the stars along with everybody else.

Secondly, the hero that came from nothing. Shepard, Hawke, and the Warden all came from normal backgrounds, or at least not unnatural backgrounds, and the Inquisitor and Ryder didn't. I&R both got space Jesus installed rather quickly. Rather than Shepard, Hawke, and the Warden all had to fight to win nothing special until that last fight.

*shrug* If you take a look at Shepard, you can say he's a hero all you want to. He's just a guy that got lucky.

Yeah except Saren still doesn't know what the conduit is until the last second as vigil doesn't tell him, and yet somehow sovereign and the Geth are all there waiting at the citadel as if they knew what the conduit was.

He was searching for the beacons to learn what did Protheans do to stop the keepers from using the signal. He knows about the conduit from the beacons.

Except it doesn't matter - you can just use the console anyway. There was no need to investigate the conduit.