Thank you for Mass Effect 2.
Thank you for removing the Mako.
Thank you for making more than 3 interiors.
Thank you for vastly improving the gunplay.
Thank you for cutting down on unnecessary RPG elements.
Thank you for limiting the loot to a few customizable items as opposed to a clusterfuck of useless stuff.
Thank you for giving me some customization, even out of class powers.
Thank you for mapping melee to a separate key.
Thank you for making cover a key instead of an automatic function.
Thank you for making headshots mean something.
Thank you for letting me romance Tali.
Thank you for letting me romance Garrus.
(And thank you for making Liara a bitch now so that I didn't feel bad about cheating on her with Tali)
Thank you for creating Mordin and Legion, my two favorite new characters.
While we're at it, thank you for the other new characters.
Thank you for giving Joker a bigger role, and creating a comedic foil for him.
Thank you for making a more threatening last boss.
Thank you for killing off Dantius. She was a bitch.
Thank you for bringing back random people like Shiala, who I never expected to see again.
Thank you for letting me solve the Conrad Verner problem more directly this time.
Thank you for giving me more organics to shoot. Shredder ammo used to be kind of useless.
Thank you for the more dramatic, ambiguous choices.
Thank you for making Jack and Thane a lot less one-dimensional than I expected them to be.
Thank you for explaining the mystery of the Reapers, while leaving an appropriate tone of suspense.
Thank you for making me cry when I lost Thane and Legion during the finale.
While we're at that, thanks for the ridiculously awesome finale.
Thank you for letting me headbutt a krogan in the face.
Thank you for letting me give characters hugs. More of that, please.
I know I already said it, but seriously, THANK YOU for letting me romance Tali and Garrus, Tali especially.
Thank you for making Wrex a leader of his people. Badass.
Thank you for giving me greater insight into Geth psychology.
Thank you for making the bridge bunny actually good for something (psychology).
Thank you for the greater diversity in voice actors.
Thank you for Mordin's rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan. "I am the very model of a scientist Salarian..."
Thank you for the Heavy Immolate power.
Thank you for Heavy Cryo Ammo.
Thank you for revamping biotic powers.
Thank you for the Vanguard charge.
Thank you for making the Paragon options even nicer and the Renegade options even meaner.
Thank you for the Illusive Man, a cool and mysterious new sponsor/villain.
Thank you for making Jacob more interesting than Kaidan (I'd say Miranda is only about as interesting as Ash).
Thank you for making every character's loyalty mission a lot more in-depth than in the last game, giving me greater understanding of and camaraderie with the characters.
Thank you for not holding back when it came to horrific subject matter.
Thank you for giving me a sweet-ass Garrus visor to wear.
Thank you for letting me wear pimptastic golden armor.
Thank you for the squadmate-specific powers, all of which are hilariously badass. Miranda Slam FTW!
Thank you for letting me kill a Thresher Maw, ON FOOT.
Thank you for letting me spur a krogan into action by calling him a pussy.
Thank you for finally showing me Quarian society.
Thank you for introducing the Drell to make the hanar worth paying attention to again. I mean, the big stupid jellyfish worth paying attention to again.
Thank you for letting me get Tali off the hook with her people instead of deus-ex-machina'ing it.
Thank you for some plot twists that easily matched the last game.
Thank you for creating a city that I can unironically call "a wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Thank you for giving me a huge tactical-nuke-slug gun, and letting me use it on the last boss.
Thank you for letting me shoot flying collectors right outta the fucking sky.
Thank you for letting me continue after the end of the game.
Thank you for the whole game.

Now go make another!