Why 'human' is the perfect theme song for Andromeda.

I thought it was Bioware apologizing for the game.

j/k

that link seems quite broken. 

Yes, yes we get the joke. I mean seriously I post a thread about how it works for the game, and the first two posts in said thread essentially make the same joke. Though I have never seen that particular video.

I can be flippant too.

I actually forgot to mention Ghost Riders in the Sky as evidence for why 'human' is about Ryder.  Hell pretty much the whole marketing campaign in a lot of ways was very Ryder centric.  I think BioWare wanted to let its fans know that, this game does not have Shepard...this game does not have Shepard...hey it does not have Shepard...in an attempt to say that this was going to be a very different character to Shepard. 

BioWare is great at filling in their canvas with appropriate music. They have a knack of finding the right musical talent. Whether it was pre-EA with Michael Hoenig, Jeremy Soule, Mark Morgan, Richard Band, Jack Wall or post-EA with John Paesano.  They also include pieces from individuals like Lindsey Sterling and Rag-N-Bone. BioWare knows music is essential to its canvas and it's so easy to take it for granted.

I did! No offense intended. 

I agree. I liked the song even before it was used in the trailer, but when I hear it I laugh because all I can think about is the memes the song was used in haha.

Another song that would fit more is this since it was written for the game

Start of MEA - Ryder* is above the usual soldier, but not even qualifying for N7 (ok we think that sucks, but N7 is meant to be particularly elite), and he may have never qualified for it and he was just under father's wing for other reasons

End of MEA - Ryder would qualify for N7 and perhaps beyond. He may or may not have even 'won' the 'First Contact War' of a new galaxy instead of just appealing to higher powers (FCW: Asari/Council). And he activates the beginning of something more (Remnant).

*Going male for my character's sake


I stick by my perception that MEA isn't meant to surpass MET, just hopefully be a stepping in by a newer team to surpass at least most of ME1, with intent to keep up with gameplay and technical standards (result: mixed).

Its a MEA2 and maybe MEA3 that would be the 'going beyond Shepard' more outright, perhaps in a newer way, and with an audience hopefully more receptive to that.

I get what they were trying to do, I just think a couple things..:
1)Its not my favorite approach. I think they could have went much more interesting, strange, impressive, than this 'not-Shepard but pre-Shepard but not Shepard!!!1' - though now that they're at it, I'd prefer they follow up for at least one more big game (albeit maybe with a return to ties with MET... personally)
2)The product, like most of the writing, was spotty, more than ever for a SP Bioware RPG (even DA2 issues, ME3 ending, ME2 buttonawesome sense). That's disappointing. I play MEA and throughout it, I feel it all could have happened much more slickly. I see the skeleton happened, lots of the muscle and some fat, but its not 'fleshed out' like I'd see previous BW games at least make sure would happen to substantial extent before releasing, and THEN maybe do most of the rest with DLC. This includes Ryder's character. I don't love him, he's one of my least fav, but I see a structure there of where maybe I could love him the most, and I know that I enjoy playing him more than Shepard (this isn't the same as qualifying the character writing more generally).

"I'm only human" may or may not have been meant for just Ryder, but it came to be known to apply to the whole endeavor. And also leaves a bad taste to the fans who were more interested in finally moving *beyond* a human focused story. But with Mac Walters, fat chance, I guess. He seems to take 'sci fi reflects back on humanity' MUCH more literally than others.

Finally.
Thank you.
For the positive spin.

In my opinion SAM and not Ryder is the real hero of MEA. So for me the song not really fits

SAM was a glorified tricorder.