IF we get another Mass Effect game....

Ryder wishes she/he had the range that Shepard had.

You mean be a jerk and get away with it?

Any direct sequel will have to overcome the baggage of ME:A so it may be best to either ignore it or try a different premise while assuming Ryder et al are continuing their adventures. What that premise might be I have no idea. Simply waiting a few years until they're 'better established' doesn't cut it. There are only 100,000 colonists. It will be centuries before they can get away from crappy little settlements. Though to be honest I'm not sure why they're bothering with settlements. They've got the Nexus which, at almost the size of the Citadel, should be able to house 6 or 7 million people so they can live there exclusively for a few hundred years and take their time exploring and finding the perfect colonisable world's. Would make for a dull game though.

like the first conversation you have after meeting him and you are talking about your next step. I believe the casual option has Ryder insult him and then he deftly counters with the above line.

I think most of the complaints are from a technical point-of-view, not so much about the story/content.

Sure, painful if you can't accept that you are not a god-like badass who everyone had to worship as the second coming.

That's one of Ryder's strengths, she actually evolves over the game.

No it shouldn't ignore it and there is no baggage to overcome imo. As to the outposts it's a matter of resources. The Nexus does not have enough to house everyone.

This is how i feel...even though i felt Andromeda was lacking in story and character depth, a sequel could show how Ryder has grown since then...maybe fast-forward the setting a FEW years (3 - 5 maybe). I think Bioware hurt themselves a bit by trying to bury the Milky Way canon ending by stating "hey we're travelling 600 years into the future" a bit of a cop-out to protect themselves against what happened in ME3.

Ryder was written basically as a pushover in Andromeda and i understand that to a certain degree since he/she is young and inexperienced, but for the next game i feel Ryder should come into their own and lead with a bit more confidence and is measured. But for me this all comes down to writing and hopefully the writing for the next game will be up to the task and hopefully we'll have a more darker story so we can feel some type of urgency or desperation that i felt Andromeda lacked.

I honestly felt that with Ryder exploring the unknowns of Andromeda that he/she should have felt a sense of urgency and un-easiness to the entire scenario, but the characters never really portrayed any sense of urgency or a sense of importance as to what they was doing in Andromeda and again that points to the writing....and hopefully in the next game they can address the current scenario in the Milky Way and place a period on it, or if it's still unknown, that could possibly set the stage for a future game in which we travel back to investigate what happened...

Uh, how about instead of Bioware forcing me to play a character with a vague set personality like with Ryder, I'm instead able have more freedom in how I want my character to act and behave. Shepard at least let you play two different charaxters personality wise with Paragon and Renegade.

Your pic link is broken, Griffith.

Still better than what we got with Ryder in my opinion.

Fair enough. Ryder's Joss Whedon dialogue was annoying at times. I've gone on at length about her godawful first flirt dialogue with Suvi. I just don't see any point in ditching Ryder entirely. I'd love to see a more grownup ryder five years down the road still blazing trails in a story that lives up to the premise.