IF we get another Mass Effect game....

I want them to tie up the loose ends in a dlc and then make a sequel. It would suck if they don't develop the characters and the story more. It has potential I think.

I feel like Ryder and friends have too much potential to just be cut off like that.

I like Ryder a lot, and continuing the series as one character was part of what endeared me to the OT. I vote to keep them in.

The so called "dust" has been way overblown. It is in no way indicative of them just shoving Ryder aside.

Doesn't change the fact that MEA is Bioware's lowest scoring game ever made.

As for Hawke, I seem to recall just as many people if not more crying about Hawke or DA2.

I would like Andromeda to carry on of course.

But I think the majority would most likely want a return to the Milky Way even if Bioware had to make a "canon" ending for ME3.

I think it is more then just how many games a protagonist was in.  To me Dragon Age had their story to develop Thedas more then The Warden and Hawke developed more then then Warden, but again it felt like Thedas developed more in Dragon Age 2.  The Mass Effect Trilogy revolved around Shepard's development and Andromeda feels the same where Ryder and crew developed more then the Heleus cluster.

So removing Ryder would be starting at the exact same place as they did with Andromeda where you have very little established and redeveloping the game's story from the ground up, so it is just as easy they are going to have the exact same problems as Andromeda's story since they are creating a entirely new foundation again.  

I really don't see a large backlash against Ryder themselves, I know there are people that don't like them.  I also remember there were people that didn't like Shepard after Mass Effect 1 either.  So I am not sure what it would bring to the game by removing them aside from personal preference for some players.

This is why not having at least one DLC doesn't make sense. They clearly left openings for a DLC story and if history is any indicator, the development of any dlc at least begins while the base game is gearing up for deployment. I would have expected the question to be "will we get more than one dlc" instead of "are getting any at all..."

Consider it on its own, as if the other two games never existed. The combat is crap, the exploration is tediously boring and repetitive, the characters aren't well developed and the dialogue is at least as bad as Andromeda.

The best things it has are the setting and the character of Shepard, which both rely on later games to become truly great.

I liked Ryder a lot. Much more than I cared about Shepard from me1 alone, but definitely less than I cared about Hawke, my fave bioware protagonist ever. Don't really understand how anyone could care about the warden? No voice, level of origins stories / amount of personality options meant you were essentially playing something entirely your own imagination. I get that a lot of people enjoy that but it's more like a DND character than a video game character and thus you can't really ask bioware to bring them back exactly as you envisioned

I think a hard reboot of mea would suffer similar problems. I like the idea of a sequel with Ryder still the protagonist, keeping some squadmates and having others in the game but not as squadmates a la me2/3. I don't care about the kett or angara at all but the jardan have the potential to be very interesting and that's what I'm hoping they shift the focus to, along with discovering other heleus species so it's not just the angara and kett. Setting it a few years later would help

ME:A is the first ME game in which I haven't been able to finish the SP campaign. I keep trying, but after 20 minutes or so I'm so bored and annoyed it's off to something else. I've asked myself time and time "What's wrong this this game?". Combat is good, the main story line is good and the main missions, what I've played of them, have been good. What's bad is Ryder and most of the companions and side missions. They're boring, uninteresting, don't suspend my disbelief and don't compel me to continue playing to see what's going to happen next. That's where ME and ME2 were so good, I just had to see what's next. Even replaying and knowing what's next I had to keep playing.

So, back on topic. Keep Andromeda and the current gameplay style. Ryder needs some age and experience, he needs to "toughen up" and stop relying on others to make decision for him. Being a leader is about tough decisions that others may not like, but it's about being charismatic and convincing enough that they'll follow you anyway. For example, the mission in ME3 with the Primarch's son. He's a weak leader and, after a bad decision, his team refused to follow him. When Shepard, a natural leader arrives, they fall in line. Ryder's Father had that, he does not. He/she sounds like a teenager with all the angst that goes with it. If I was Cora I'd have that job if I have to leave Ryder's steaming corpse on the first planet we landed on. Of course, she's as weak and whiny as Ryder, so that's not an option. 

Or let us create our own character like in other RPGs.  And give me an "Execution protocol", so I can rid myself of the whiners early on.

Or just replace Ryder with a character who is a leader. And make the companions and their stories, like the OG characters, more compelling and deep. Vetra and Peebee are just absurd. Oh, and FFS, ask me at the beginning of the game what my sexual preference is so I'm not being bombarded with creepy behavior from my team. I don't care what team you swing a bat for, but I don't want it in my face while I'm playing. And make some of the romance options compelling, cause right now I'd prefer to be "in my bunk" than share it with any of those losers.

Now in my next post I'll tell you what I really think.

The problem is your saying that now as in what the game is like now.  You have to take it in context of what it was like back then.  Even so to this day I would rather pop in ME1 and play it again over MEA and I did enjoy MEA for what it was