User blog comment:TheUnknown285/Things You Do and Don’t Want from ME4/@comment-7622429-20140616234830/@comment-4923296-20140617092349

I didn't want a more personal story with Shepard per-se, I just wanted our pre-service history and psych profile have had more impact on later games, or at least give much more alterations in dialogue. It seemed to only affect the first game and nothing more.

I was really disappointed how after playing as a Sole Survivor Shepard in ME1, that my Shep was just as willing to work with Cerberus in ME2 as much as a Shep whose background had nothing to do with Cerberus. My Shepard coulda been more resilient I feel. The explanation that Shep can just "forget" about what Cerberus did to his squad in Akuze is insufficient because the forgetting who Cerberus are in the start of the game is only optional, you can instead choose to say "I think I ran into them a few times while investigating Saren". But yeah, very disappointed that all I got was an email from Toombs and the Asari spectre in LoTSB saying how Cerberus was responsible for your unit's death.