Andromeda is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because everything can't be revealed in one game perhaps?

IMO they did.

What it needed was a vigil moment; not in so much expository detail but maybe a just a small glimpse of something.. other.

I haven't finished MEA yet, just got to Voeld after Havarl, so I'm going to tip-toe around this side conversation carefully. My first impression was, why did they have to use an ancient advanced civilization at all? It begs comparison to the Protheans of the MW, which is so been there, done that. Seemed like a lost opportunity.

I suspect that environmental disaster is a theme Bioware is trying to convey, and the Remnant are the MacGuffin, but that seems kind of lazy to me. I would have much, much preferred another alien race with a current and active civilization, but one so advanced from MW and A tech that they seem mythological in comparison. They would also be reclusive and inscrutable, their spoken language, of which there are 4 tiered dialects, the written glyphs of the machinery being the lowest and the only one SAM could translate, completely incomprehensible. As a player, you can see them moving around, doing stuff, flying over head, but you can't touch them with your weapons and they completely ignore you. Only their robot servants, the equivalent of Roomba vacuum cleaners to us, interact with us. Then all of the environmental disaster turns out to be a casualty of some kind of esoteric difference of opinion -- not open warfare, because that would crush the Initiative and angara like bugs -- but some kind of political or religious disagreement. One that impacts public works with government shutdowns and the like, which is why the vaults on some worlds stopped working.

Wow, that was more than I intended to write, but does prove how easy it is to write something other than a rehash of the Protheans. Maybe a tiny bit of a rehash of the Leviathans, but still better, I think.

There more or less have to be at least one ancient advanced civilization. At least when you think of how many cycles there have been in the Milkyway. Anyway I have been fond of the trope since I read The world of Ptavvs.

Youtube wasn't as big as then as it is today.

Also unlikely it will stick, and if it does unlikely it will hurt BioWare. Assassin's Creed Unity, Watch_Dogz, Batman Arkham Knight, all of those recovered and they got far worse reception and mockery.

Please, you're overestimating the power of social media and memory of people on it.