They just had so many opportunities to make something deep and meaningful. This could have been GOLD: talk about the slave/GOD theme already evoked in ME1. Those collectors were protheans at some point, they're now slaves. The Collector General is used like a stuffed puppet by Harbinger. They help another species to go live among the GODs, a huge privilege is granted (it seems) to humanity but humanity chooses to live among the slaves (well, Shepard it seems at least). If only we could have had more information on the collectors, maybe we could have found a way to release them to their free will (which is illusion I know I know bla bla I'm harbinger...) creating some sort of uprise perhaps or even taken the Reaper's offer on joining them... were the Reapers to be afraid of what such an uprising with creatures being able to handle their technology could possibly mean.
All this could have been (should have been) reflected on Shepard's character: will he/she handle the situation like Saren? If you persuaded Saren at the end to join the slaves of his own how does this effect (:D) Shepard's behaviour and decisions? He/She is a wall... other people never leave a lasting impression on Shepard, therefore it makes it hard for me to care about any of this. The reaper invasion just looks like a big Summerevent that will eventually go away and have the characters go back to their usual business/lifes afterwards... maybe I'm overanalysing stuff.

Yes, in ME1 I really liked how they detailed Saren's motives. It made his actions much more understandable. Actually, at some point I was almost sorry for him. And at other times, I wondered if Saren's action were not a better way to "save" the galaxy (or at least, to ease the inevitable invasion/occupation of the galaxy). Sure, Shep' is trying to prevent the invasion. But if he fails, the galaxy is doomed. Saren does not try to prevent anything, he's trying to make the invasion less painful, or at least that's what he thinks. It's understandable.

Well, it has less to do with being painful or not but more to do with getting swept away from the face of time and space or getting the opportunity to have the genepool live on forever. As a GOD. (as long as that is the true story behind the Reaper's motives)

A funny sidenote: collector general and Shepard are alike in that they're manipulated into fulfilling their master's wishes (Harbinger, TIM) (also if you count Shepard's general stiffness and mortar brick attitude as a feature of the game). The only time where Shepard gets the choice to take a stand against TIM is the endgame decision of keeping or blowing up the base. I wonder if the Collector's general incompetence is to some extent due to the General's sneaky interventions or sheer will...
If you end up destroying the base it points to Shep and Gen taking an active stand against their overseer... that's how I see it. Die free or live as a slave, huh?
Otherwise a Saren/Sovereign situationarises (continues) with Cerberus(TIM) and Shepard, ok you might have a technological edge over the Reapers but all the sweet talks about morality/dying free go to the hounds. It's even worse for renegades getting used like gullible henchmen.

Sovereign states in the very first game that "each is an independent nation" or something like that. Basically, each Reaper is it's own "society", and can live out it's entire existence without ever having to interact with another Reaper, or any other "intelligent" being for that matter. It's like, Galactus and Unicron and Cthulu aren't part of some "Coalition of World Rapers", since they're powerful enough on their own to function separately from the rest of creation.

Well potential AAA titles. EA has a habit of screwing up their major franchises, or perhaps i have just been burned by them too many times to count in regards to the C&C series.

You'll probably see an MMO version of every major AAA title they have now. Maybe even Theme Hospital: The MMO Sim.

That sounds slightly better than one would think.

You're in charge of changing the bedpans.

Mass Effect is in fact. quite a good universe to set a MMO. You can choose to be an asari, a turian, salarian, batarian, human, quarian, etc. You can become a spectre if u are good, a CSEC guard, a merc, a smuggler, etc. The moderators of each server are the council (LOL)

Ah yes, "Spambots"... we have dismissed this claim.

But...what if you chose the Renegade option at the ending of Mass Effect 1?

Find out in Mass Effect 2.

According to PC Gamer, Mass Effect 3 needs an Elcor teammate on board of the Normandy. And here's why :

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/14/why-mass-effect-3-needs-an-elcor-team-mate/

Yes. Yes. Oh God, Yes.

That's so, so wrong. I will only allow that in if we finally get that Hanar Spectre we have longed for. Thane said they can be lethal in combat.

not only that. Zaeed was almost choked to death by one! If they can take on zaeed, they can be HUGELY POWERFUL!