The Next Mass Effect...

Heh good call.

Ah well at least there's nothing wrong with the story in the previous Mass Effects at all, right?

Remasters are overrated imho. I don't see any reason to spend $50 dollars on a game with slightly updated textures. I'd prefer remakes which take the core game and make improvements to it. (Like improving ME1's gameplay)
I'm sounding like a broken clock by saying this, but seriously, all you're doing is giving the game slightly better textures and charging people another $50-60 dollars.

As has been said many times, a good game can rise above undeserved criticism. But a ME reboot would have to be very good indeed.

They already ignored continuity in ME:A, if they do it AND restart from scratch it would be the ultimate failure and admiting "Sorry, we're shitty writers" 

I wouldn't mind if they left it in Andromeda, just push it way, way into the future. Then you can give that galaxy a history, some new locations, new races, etc.

One of the things that made Mass Effect interesting was what was already their. Humans and Turians not getting along because of the contact war. Krogan having been uplifted to fight the rachni, then the Salarians coming up with the genophage to limit the Krogan population. But the rachni were only an issue because someone activated a relay that they shouldn't have. Which tied all the way back into why Turians attacked humans, because they opening relays without knowing where they went. There was so much existing history like the Geth & Quarian conflict.

So when these things came up in the game your squadmates had feelings about them because they affected them personally, like Wrex saying you should kill the rachni queen, or Ashley saying she didn't trust aliens.

This is the kind of stuff Andromeda didn't have. But you can put it in if you push everything into the future and give the galaxy some history.

Yeah, let's have a story in which the fate of all life in the Andromeda galaxy rests on our pathfinder, but make sure we immediately have him/her stammer like a 12 year old asking a date to the dance-- in front of his/her entire crew no less! that's sarcasm.

How's being a badass on the battlefield and awkward trying to get into a relationship mutually exclusive?

Ryder could be all those things and more. By Shepard 2.0 I was referring to them becoming just another hardened soldier who had two options for most of the trilogy: King/Queen of the Boy/Girl Scouts or a complete psychopath with everything else being decided for you personality-wise. 

Let me break down where I'm coming from like this, from the perspective of a tempest crew member in the early stages of the game.

I'm on the Tempest's maiden voyage with Ryder and the whole gang. The stakes are now higher than we've ever imagined. The golden worlds didn't pan out, two arks are missing. Thousands (hundreds, ten thousand, no one bothered to count at bioware) were already exiled after a nearly successful mutiny aboard the Nexus. The Krogan's gave everyone the finger and left.  Oh and all the other arks are missing. I'm working at my job, trying to hold up my end as we try to make sense of Eos, when Ryder goes up to Suvi...




In front of the entire crew, our leader, who is a complete unknown quantity since her father and original pathfinder died and hasn't done shit yet goes up to Suvi and starts blatantly flirting with her in front of everyone in a very childish manner. Considering what is at stake, after seeing this window into the emotional timbre of our leader and pathfinder, I'm going awol and hiding the moment I'm back on the Nexus.

Most adults, regardless of temperament would have kept the public discussion to normal get-to-know-you stuff and any flirting, even if it was of the dorky variety, would have been saved later in the game for a more private moment. You could have had the precious dufus dialogue you want and it would have been more believable and would have carried more weight as a dramatic moment if they had gotten to know one another a little and Ryder showed she was a leader who respected how serious their mission was. If Ryder was in the military before, as the game clearly states she was, she would know better. 

the trouble is though, the writers couldn't find the difference between a competent person summoning the will to lead this endeavor and an incompetent leader who shows he or she isn't fit for command way too early.

Come on...

Given the high-stakes of what you're out to accomplish I guess it's to hard to ask your crew to take the job seriously...

And per the bold you admit that your personality has no bearing huh? That's a real rpg there (per your definition)...

Real life huh? People must not have any respect for you to say that. I hope I'm wrong.