IF we get another Mass Effect game....

The quote specially states "many questions fans have been asking"...it doesn't say every or all the questions. Much like Nexus Uprising answered questions regarding the Nexus and exiles.

Like them or hate them the backlash did a lot of harm.

Yep, especially the endings before the "extended cut".

I don't know, however the gameplay is loosely tied via story; which the gameplay was amazing. I would hate to loose that if we had to get a new protagonist. In which, they would have to have a different Pathfinder or hundred or so years in the future everyone has SAM's that'll make it work if it's a new protagonist. So, that everyone can be a biotic, soldier, tech or a combination of the three. I would like a sequel, because they do have a really good base for a sequel. It make take a while, because of Anthem and DA4. I think it's more likely anyway will get Anthem 2 well before MEA2. 

Shepard's character ranged from absolutely brilliant to incomprehensibly idiotic. But Shepard was the player's character throughout the OT. Ryder is a rent-a-char the player leases to ryde around the Andromethemed park with a personal tour guide (SAM). The game starts and ends the same way: Ryder is a tool. A one-size-fits-all tool for all players.

The voice work completed for this tool is the stuff thousands of people will want to hear. I expect the voice actors will have a successful career in airport PSAs. They deliver their lines with the sharpness of a teaspoon. The strength and inflection on their voice work is as pleasant as an ear twist. The voice work fails to convey the sense of excitement, wonder, fear, anticipation, and all other normal human emotions. Their atrocious, faint work is made worse by the uninspired dialogue.

The dialogue for the tool meets the highest quality standards for high school. It's a magnum opus of one-liners, an exquisite volume of cheesy literature. It's only bested by the tool's sidekicks.

Sidekicks usually reinforce the main character and the Androbots do it very well. The sidekicks temper Ryder's blandness. Quite an amazing feat for bland sidekicks, too! The sidekicks are more consequential and important to the story than the main tool itself. They highlight just how useless this tool is because they take more initiative and are better defined in their high defitinion 1-dimension.

The people who find Ryder appealing are the same kind of people who always order chicken tendies no matter which restaurant they frequent. A valid choice, of course, but it's risk averse and bland in taste. That's pretty much Ryder. A tool engineered for people who think Ikea is DIY crafting.

Also, the fact that all the books are prequels. It's not really advancing the story at all, except add lore. We know that Cora is going to be successful in her mission, so what's the point of reading it, exactly? Assuming that Annihilation still means "The Lost Ark" book, it's going to support the dlc for it; which is why I think it got delayed. Or at least it's been implied that its been delayed. It's a hell of a lot easier to do a book then it is to make a dlc/game.

We need to get back on subject which is about the "what if" scenario that there is a MEA2. We can discuss the possibilities of DLC or Shepard vs Ryder categories in other threads.

Because we need to leave the MW behind. It's done, the way forward is Andromeda.

Is the Milky Way done? I like to see it being rebuilt. Go see the other 99% that hasn't been explored.

 Allow me to rebutt:  

1. Ryder is a better character because his RP options are better.  I can control his personality with far greater precision then I ever could Shepard.  

2. He is a flawed character.  He is not perfect.  He has to work for things.  

3. Ryder is a character who grows over the course of the narrative.  His flaws are things he has to work to overcome, and because of this game's roleplaying options we get to define the how and the why he does it.  

4. Ryder is a very human character. He is not a caricature or superhero.  He makes mistakes, gets knocked down, and then gets back up, which makes him far more sympathetic.  

As far as the voice acting is concerned I could see this argument with Fryda Wolf.  Granted I found her quite awesome but some of her lines did come off as being a bit 'meh.  But Tom Taylorson?  First of all for the first time in a BW game the male voice protagonist > the female voice.  And second of all he is nearly up to Jennifer Hale's very high standards.  His dialogue is crisp, cool, and professional when he needs to be...and biting sarcasm if the player wnats.  

And the chicken nuggets metaphor...I think the mere fact we are having this argument blows that position all too hell.  Ryder and Shepard are very different people.  They could have given us the 'safe' and 'bland' Shepard and everyone would have been happy (me included) but instead, they went another route. 

The merge studios, no DLC route. Everything else is wrong. Anyways, the OP wants to get this thread back on track. Let's talk about the next ME starring a brand new protagonist.