Decisions You Regret

My biggest regret would be being so forgiving towards Addison in my first playthrough. I made peace with her on Eos, told her it wasnt her fault that Spender was corrupt, and even sided with her point of view during the first baby mission (though admittedly, I felt she was right that one time). I dunno why I was so forgiving with her, maybe cuz I didnt want to piss anybody off and get a bad ending or smthg lol. Kinda wish I was harder on her but, oh well, thats what the second playthrough is for

Romancing Gil and Reyes, because the low-rent hell that is their romance paths really stung in the cruelest ways imaginable. Not Solas cruel either.

I was willing to try to be nice and understanding to Addison my first playthrough... but after accepting her handshake and trying to make amends ("We are on the same side here"), what does she say? "I wouldn't go that far." Nope, I've made Ryder go out of their way to be b!tchy to her from then on. What an unnecessarily antagonistic and unpleasant person.

Surprisingly, I got all my decisions to my liking in my first playthrough, so no, no regrets. Only the fact that I had to spare Akksul just to be able to pursue the totally unsatisfying Jaal's romance was something I didn't like.
And to be honest, this game did not offer me the thrill of heartbreaking decisions, perhaps only Raeka vs. Drack's scouts, and even here, there's no real consequence apart from Drack being a bit upset.

In fact, there's something I regret: letting Sloane die, and only because Kaetus's reaction. I have a soft spot for heartbroken turians....

Now that I can play the game AFTER 2 months getting it to work and can also use modifications....

Hmn.. Buying this game for full price? I hope this counts as you did not stated what decisions exactly

But seriously I hope MEA will be updated (at least) this whole year, so people would come back to it and change their minds about it, so we could have more ME games in the future!

And as for decisions in the game, I don't regret anything!

It's less the matter of groundbreaking decisions. They were rendered useless in the trilogy anyway. It's more on the lines of lacking agency for the player. Let's be honest, it's all about the illusion of shaping your character. I get less of that illusion than I got in any of the previous games.

The game tries to create a false sense of urgency and dilemma at several points. It's got nothing to do with Raeaka but with how the game handles things. It's only that the we are in troble drama is more obvious with Arkon's shipt than it is in other instances. It was that laughably simple to take cover and pick off the targets at your leisure.

killing the turian in the mission something in the water

but there is no other choice!!!!

no other option!
fuck it

I didn't too much but that may have just meant that things didn't pan out vastly differently than I'd have chosen anyway. More obvious was the linearity than lack of choice, i.e. situations where any character capable of doing the job would've had to do the same thing anyway. In any case where there are choices they often feel contrived and artificial, and I'm pointing my finger a lot wider than just Andromeda here. Too extreme ("criminal must die or go free") or contrived. For the latter as soon as the krogan were mentioned on the Archon's ship, out of the blue, it was pretty obvious that there was going to be a "Who must live and who must die" choice coming up. They may well crop up occasionally but give me subtler things to shape my character.

Choice in games is a tough one, because of the practical limits of offering it. Just as a willing suspension of disbelief is required, especially in a science fiction or fantasy setting, so the same is true about choice and player agency. We know we can't be free, especially if we want a story, but keep it off rails enough and it becomes possible to pretend that we are.

Making a female Ryder when the male is far prettier an has a nicer butt.