User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-3228423-20130419042401

tbh, the only real complaints I had with the entire ME series are the addition of thermal clips and claiming it's an technological advancement while removing the previous cooldown weapons, removal of free world exploration (even though it got a little tedious since the Mako doesn't have any form of a speed boost), removal of the dark energy plot that made the entirety of Tali's recruitment mission irrelevant, and most importantly, starting ME3 finding out that not only did you find out the Council races made next to no preparations to dealing with the Reapers, the asari illegally possessed a fully intact Prothean beacon in their possession since the beginning of their civilization, not only allowing them to be the most advanced race in the galaxy, they knew about the Reapers longer than even Shepard and they still did nothing to prepare.