JeffZero wrote...
I dig ME1, it's still in my top twenty or so games. But I really like how ME2 fleshed out the universe so much and added a style I wound up preferring. ME3 fleshed it out more in the middle of a galactic war we all knew was coming, and closed off several plot threads quite competently. Several were handled less competently, of course, but it was a noble effort and might be my favorite in the trilogy.
If we got more Miranda, it'd definitely be my favorite... 
As it stands for me:
1) No contest ME2
2) Gonna go with ME1
3) ME3
I admire your optimism towards ME3. But the game is all kinds of ****ed up. And the sad part is, all the pieces were there for the game to have gotten game of the decade or something. I'm more along the lines believing that BW ran out of time, budget, disk space, and energy with the game, and they let lazy writing take over for a lot of it. ME3 as it stands even with the EC, still feels like a rough draft of a game. It had its moments, like Tuchanka (which was in my opinion the single greatest mission in the trilogy) and Rannoch. But a lot of the games themes after these points should have been fleshed out more, and Cerberus really should have gotten a better treatment. Then there was the stupid narrative and technical choices (butchering the codex and journal, autodialogue, far less charm/intimidate options, being railroaded into being an alliance stooge, the general feeling of losing control of Shepard).