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

Like I said, I didn't insult anyone except the gif guy, and the post was deleted faster than a mass relay.

Well, it's their right, but I didn't call anybody a loser, or cursed. I was the one actually being insulted. 

But telling me I shouldn't post I don't like ME:A as if all topics always remained "faithful" to the initial post is actually hilarious (not saying you did it, but others did) 

As a consumable I find myself only using them when I need them, but as a mod I abused the hell out of them in the OT. In late game with upgraded weapons I was mowing mooks down in the OT.

If you have a problem with how the board is moderated could you pm the mods instead of discussing it in a forum thread? Many thanks.

It's a bit stronger than ME2 for me, considering what happens to that cast in ME3... 

I remember lighting an entire squad of collectors on fire with my mattock during the suicide mission. 

Yeah, but I also take into consideration that the cast had the burden of explaining the universe... which is not so much one that has to be carried by Andromeda's Milky Way cast. 

Yeah, she was a rather pleasant surprise in ME2. 

I kinda agree with the OP, my 2 cents:
I'm kind of half-way through the game so far (I just 100%ed Havarl & Voeld) and I must say I really enjoy it, although I was worried when I started playing because of the whole controversy raging on. Fortunately enough I managed to avoid the shitstorm because I didn't want to get spoilered. I also avoided most of the actual bad stuff in the game because I didn't get to play the game until after patch 1.05 arrived and then I had to forcefully take another break until after patch 1.09 arrived. (laptop kept dying... maybe it was trying to tell me something/save me from the horrors?)

The jet pack is such a massive addition to the gameplay, I feel like the game is much faster paced and fluid now, although I also kind of feel like the dodge is very overpowered due to it being unlimited, especially against solo, slow, bullet-sponge enemies like the fiends/eirochs.

I'm also thinking the side quests have improved significantly compared to, say, DA:I. While there's still a few boring fetch quests there, they're balanced quite nicely with 'bigger' quests like Architect battles, activating the Vaults and taking down the major Kett bases on each planet.

The strike teams are also quite nice, but then that's more because I like to headcanon and imagine how those teams would interact. My first team eventually kept continuously failing their missions, resulting in a negative trait while my second team succeeded almost everything. I blamed it on my first team being fully human (they couldn't agree) and the second team being lead by a human/turian mix.

But there's still some issues I DON'T like so I wouldn't say it's 'awesome'. My personal opinion is stuck between 'good' and 'great'.

I remember fans asking why would Bioware sideline these squadmates from ME2 in ME3, suggesting that they'll all be there on the Normandy come ME3.  My guess is that they they didn't have enough ideas for the trilogy to cover ME2.

Once I got 100% on all the planets, I had to go back to habitat 7. It just resulted in the planet being named after Ryder.
I would've preferred going back onto the planet and explore it.

James wasn't bad, but I would have preferred an ME2 squadmate instead.