Opinions on the characters (Especially squadmates and Ryder) of ME:A, based on their own merits. Gre

I agree with that. 
As for Liam's future, I would like to see him maybe no longer a part of the Pathfinder team but instead heading the Andromeda Branch of HUSTL like he promised his friends before he left, having a role similar to what we saw Bradley doing in a few cases like with Liam's personal quest. 

Liam's panic about the Andromeda Initiative going wrong and him leaving what seemed like a job and family he loved for nothing and doing absolutely everything to make it work dammit to the point of screwing up is something I totally got. I would panic like that. He gives his everything to the Initiative - sometimes a little too much, which you can rightly call him out on and he himself realizes. He's the one to start the post-LM discussion with you about how he screwed up and what he's learned, if I'm not mistaken. Should he be allowed to stay on your ship if you don't want him? Eh, no, but then neither should PeeBee after her own LM.

I don't think the AI is military. I never quite understood how that worked. There's Pathfinder teams that seem to be made up mostly of ex-Alliance/Alien-Species-Equivalent and everybody answers to the Pathfinder, but they're not like completely military? I know they have military, that's what Kandros and the Strike teams are for, plus you can wake military out of cryo. But Pathfinder teams seem to be in a league of their own, like Spectres.

I thought the characters had potential but were ultimately pretty meh.

Regardless of their background, they all seemed to fixate on one thing: Vetra had her sister, Cora had the asari, Peebee had "RemTech" and so on.

I mean, why couldn't Cora talk more about her time growing up on a freighter? Developing her biotics? Time in the Alliance? Working for Alec? her interest in flowers and gardening? But it's always "Asari this, asari that, my old huntress squad" Even Vetra, with her wildly varied past, always came down to "And that's how I raised my sister"

They were passable.

I actually think they're copying more from DAI.

But at any rate, you may have a point with ME1 being a shorter game.  Andromeda lacked overall dialogue as well as subject matter in proportion to the length of the game.

Agreed on the rarity of renegade choices.

I picked meh. They were kind of just there. I honestly found the crew more interesting than the squad.

I liked the characters in ME1 much more. They were more involved in the story and the lore. Ashley came running out last person defending Eden Prime, Garrus was investigating Saren, Tali had the information that proved Saren had gone rogue, Liara's mother was working with Saren. In Andromeda the characters literally just came out of nowhere in the case of Peebee and Drack, and Vetra was kind of just on the ship.

The characters were windows to learning about their races and the races history, the morning war, the rachni war, the genophage, etc. Wrex had strong opinions when it came to what to do with the rachni queen because of what the Krogan went through stopping them the first time. He had strong opinions on what to do with the base on Virmire all the way up to being willing to fight Shepard. Ashley never really trusted the crew to the point where she was willing to kill one of them. As mentioned earlier, Liara's mother was working with Saren. They were just far more involved in the events of the story.

The Squad in ME:A had their own things going on, but they were never rally intertwined into the main story, so they were less interesting to me.

After knowing a Turian named GARRUS kicking mobsters' asses aka archangel. It is hard to feel being impressed again. Almost any other characters have more weight and back story than the new ones. New characters from MEA are alright, all of them are likable. The issue here is the lack of context of the story to create situations and stories that stick to them. So you got them all feeling sort of blend but not bad

The squadmates:

Cora: Nice, but went a little overboard with the Asari huntress thing. 7/10

Jaal: Love him. Probably the best writing of all squadmates. Really like how he is a perfect example of an Angra, yet sort of an outsider. He's like a teddy bear version of Garrus. 10/10. would bang if gay.

Peebee: Quite like her. I find that having her along in missions where she is not the main focus is really rewarding (best heartfelt reaction when saving the Moshae). The Normandy being a military ship, we never really a TRUE rogue. 10/10, bang her frequently, 0G and otherwise.

Vetra: Really like her, but she feels a little bit as Nyren-Light. I can relate to the younger siblçing thing a lot, though, so she gains points. 8/10, would not bang because she is huge and I feel my reach is inadequate.

Drack: Cyborg Krogan Badassery FTW, 10/10.

Liam: Annoying, nosy, sort of incompetent. Always stand in my way when I"m trying to pew-pew-pew things. 0/10.

Non squadmates of note:

Lexi: Workaholic, cold and partial top get shitfaced, she is just like me! HOWEVER, having Natalie Dormer as a non romanceable character is cruel by BW. 9/10, would not bang because she doesn't want me.

Suvi: Love her, just fucking love her. 10/10, turned into a woman in order to be able to bang her.

Kallo: Nice fella, but makes me feel bad about my choices too often. 7/10.

Addison: 0/10, wouldn't bang, want to impale her with reegar carbine and roast her slowly from the inside.

Kesh: Love her as well, but whenever I happen to not save the Krogan scouts I cringe at the writing of the KROGAN LIVES MATTER speech. That missed the point by a galaxy. 8/10, best npc as long as you make the right choices.

Gil: Nice fella, needs better facial hair, way to pushy with macgeriving* shit mid-flight. 7/10.

Reyes: 0/10, manipulative bastard from hell!

Morda: 5/10, reminds me too much of Wreav.

Sloane Kelly. Tries too hard to be a bitch. Kind of fails. Has a cool throne room, though. 4/10



*English REALLY needs a literal translation toi the word "gambiarra"

Never read, watched or played Berserk, but thanks for the heads up.

They had enough backstory, but the writers didn't really put them in situations that "break" them down, show the whole BW bonding thing.
Kind od like Garrus in ME1 vs. one in ME 2.

Ryder - Bad attempt at Nathan Drake.
Cora - Ashley, without the banter to make up for her shortcomings.
Liam - I'm thinking back to all of the Fallouts, Skyrim, Witcher and all of the rpgs i've recently played and I can't think of a worse follower. By Skyrim I of course refer to Serana. 7 year old game and by Bethesda of all studios, better developed character than Andromeda's roster.
Drack - Probably the closest I can get to liking atleast one of the followers, still poor character standing next to Wrex or Grunt.
Sam - Every time he spoke I desperately wanted EDI back even if it meant tolerating her and jokers ''relationship''

You don't want to hear the rest, it's just negative.