IF we get another Mass Effect game....

Not calling them Pathfinder would help. There's that German word "Pfadfinder", which is unisex for boy- or girl scout. Try as I might I constantly kept thinking of that. The tone of the game certainly didn't help in getting rid of the child image in my mind.

I would argue that the exploration is much better in Andromeda, but that's something we could debate all day and I take your point that by the standards of 10 years ago, ME1 would be considered a lot better. But things like character development and dialog, have as many faults in 1 as they do in Andromeda no matter what standards you apply.

I mean, in ME1, Garrus is a cop who hates Saren. That's all the characterisation he gets. Liara? Creepy blue archeologist who's only there to give some sense of connection to the big bad. Ashley? Space racist. Kaiden? That guy most people kill because he's less interesting than a space racist. Tali, as you say, is just an audio log. Wrex, to be fair, is much better, but still vastly improved in the next two games where everyone else actually becomes interesting. Except Kaiden, because he's dead. Even the likes of Joker and Chakwas are incredibly one-dimensional in the first game, and yet thanks to the other two they actually become people, not just buttons you press to advance the plot.

In Andromeda, at least an attempt is made to create characters that have depth, even if it's sometimes a bit hit and miss, and it means that Liam's an idiot but he redeems himself somewhat with his fairly cool loyalty mission.

Point is, Andromeda is a good game. Not great, but good. And it has just as much potential as ME1 did 10 years ago.

Of course, I wouldn't replay either of them given the choice. I'd replay ME2. Which is kind of my point...

It's your delusion that you can create your own character. You can name them, you can select their skillsets, you can adapt their visuals, race and gender - and that's it. Apart from race, MEA provides all of the others.

Please don't bring up the Elder scrolls. It's always the prisoner story, which spews out the Nerevarine, the one and only suddenly running into the emperor before he gets murdered, or the Dragonborn. Yes, create away, but you will always turn up with the character the devs had in mind.

It's not a matter of 'if', it's a matter of 'when'.

I believe there are two clearer possibilities, a proper reboot or a second soft reboot. The former is simple, just do like a comic. The second would take place in Andromeda, but in the future, maybe a 100 years or more so we can have a stablished society and the game distances itself from the failure that was the last Mass Effect and all the negativitive that would arise from a direct sequel

I seriously doubt we are done with Andromeda. Bioware is not known for leaving things undone. A soft reboot is unlikely however.

They've also never released a meme-machine like this game.  The foundation is essentially cancerous and will need to be completely avoided for any future Mass Effect to succeed.

So an entirely new game, or a trilogy remake.  In like 10 years.

The attempt being the loyalty missions? Cause frankly, the characters in this game aren't that much better than in ME1, if they even rise up to their level. ME1 had the excuse of trying something new. MEA doesn't. Not after three ME games and an equal number of DAs.

Yeah, none of this is true

Write back when you've actually played more than the trial and can actually speak from experience

You are wrong. 

An opinion is neither right or wrong. Good try though.

So is Titan Books lying when they say the novels will serve as sequels and answer many questions asked by fans?