Things working against a possible Ryder series sequel as of right now

I hear you.  I can't play multiplayer games either because of my slow as molasses internet connection... and where I live, it's something that is not likely to improve anytime soon.  Still, the company has to first survive before there can be any realistic chance of another Mass Effect game (and even then it's doubtful unless EA has a change of heart about putting the franchise on official hiatus.  Anthem doing well, will at least mean they'll be allowed to finish DA4... then, if that shows that there is still a good market for SP RPG's... maybe EA will reconsider and do something about reviving ME - either by doing a sequel to ME:A or doing a remake of the MET.  Of those two, I personally believe a sequel to ME:A has more potential than a remake of MET.  I've been playing Shepard's story for several years now, and I sincerely doubt I'd spend another 100+ bucks (x 3) to play it all again with updated graphics and a new ending to ME3 (particularly since I'm one who actaully liked the original ME3 endings to start with).  I don't think I'm the only ME fans out there who would think that way.  At least with ME:A, we'd be getting a new game and continuing with a new story that could easily grow into a story every bit as special as the Trilogy one.

Of course, the other thing working against me is my age... I simply may not live long enough to see any of it... so, in the meantime, I continue to enjoy what I've got.  It's all I can really do.

I don’t really want the Initiative’s history. I want Andromedan alien history. The aliens that came with the humans don’t count. In ME, all that major stuff that went on happened when humanity was preindustrial. I’d prefer to discover more than just do a time skip to gloss over major events of our own faction so we have something to fill a follow-up game with. 

Which is the problem right there. You shouldn’t compare the two characters at all.

Maybe doesn’t mean it’s a fair comparison. It’s like comparing Kirk with Picard. Shouldn’t even try.

Exactly, since Picard is obviously better.

:ducks:

I would think there are some good stories surrounding the initial period of colonization and the conflict with the batarians. I don't think it's ever been specified that Mindoir, the Skyllian Blitz, and Torfan were the only engagements of that conflict, so there could be a fairly high-stakes plot surrounding the fate of a colony, and the player-character could be an N7 whose missions involve working with the other Council species.

How could it be high stakes if it's not even important enough to get mentioned in the MET?

I disagree. It has plenty of backstory and potential not yet explored. I enjoyed the OT but Andromeda was so different and exactly what we needed.

It's hard to have a conversation/debate when one person is giving detailed examples and others are just saying, that's wrong, or it's there if you look.  What are some examples.

Like in the OT.  Early in the history races were turning on any relay they came across.  This led to the rachni invasion, which led to the Krogan being uplifted to fight the Rahcni, which lead to the Krogan rebellion, which ultimately led to the genophage.  All of this history which exists outside of the main story of the OT, and spawned diverging over arching themes.  Just from this one piece of history.

Genophage - What side of this does your Shepard fall on.  Do you think it's needed, ethical, needed but too extreme, etc.  Saren is seeking a cure for his own gains on Virmire, you're trying to stop him but your squad mate confronts you and says this is his peoples' future you're talking about.  Because this theme shapes not just your thinking but it your squad mate as well.  Then you have to make the choice to kill him or not.  Then in ME2 with a new crew this theme is still there and shapes your relationship with Mordin.  Whether you keep Maelon's data or not.  Then you have the choice to ultimately cure it ME3.

If you want an example that deals just with ME1.  Go back to that same bit of history I started out with.  A rule was created not to turn on relays without knowing where they went.  Humans violated this rule, which caused a war with the Turians.  Now humans and Turians are allies, but they still don't truly trust each other.  Your squad mate Ashley doesn't trust aliens, would rather humans handle things on their own.  Once again this shapes your Shepard as well as your squad mate and your relationship with them.  Later her distrust of aliens had made so that she has never really trusted her alien squad mates and is willing to kill one of them on Virmire.

This one part of the backstory also spawned the Rachni storyline, which once again shaped your Shepard, and your crew.  Your decision on Noveria, all the way to ME3.

This is just one piece of history that created multiple over arching themes that had affect on your Sheperd, your squad mates, and your relationships with them throughout the series.  I could do another list breaking down everything that spawned from the Quarians creating the Geth, the Morning War, views on AIs, etc.  

Now Andromeda.  The Kett and Angarans. 

Kett came to Angarans as friends.  Tricked them, caused them to split into different factions, isolated them from each other, and then took advantage of the division.  Angarans began to recover and set up a resistance to the Kett invasion of Helius. 

OK, what ongoing/overarching themes came out of this other than the Kett are the bad guys, and Angarans are your allies and the good guys?  What ongoing/overarching themes came out of anything?  What themes were players discussing after the game.  Players had heated discussions over whose fault the Morning War was, if the Genophage was right or not, Humans first, or a let's all just get along approach, killing the Rachni or not, and others.  

What were these things in Andromeda.

Now say the Kett were forced the exalt people because their race was ravaged by a disease with no cure.  They started out doing it as a way to continue the continuity of their species, and in much smaller numbers.  But at some point a leader came who decided to use it as a way to build an empire.  All Kett didn't thing this was right so resistance groups formed among the Kett, and you meet one.  Know you have history that shaping the current game outside the main story of colonization.  Does your Ryder trust this group?  Does your Ryder want to help them find a cure, have them go back to taking the people no one will miss, or think nature decided it was just their time, evolve or die.

Do you bring one aboard as a squad mate?   Now you have tension on the ship, differing opinions.  We need the intel about how Kett operate, or we can't trust any Kett.  Obviously Jaal would have a vested interest in this.

If you think there was backstory overarching themes that shaped things outside of the main story in Andromeda, list some examples of what they were and how they did it.

All you're asking are questions.  What themes came out of already existing story like the Genophage, or the Morning War.  Things that get intertwined into the current game, that your character has to make decisions on, or address?  Things that your squad mates have feelings on because it's part of their history.  What things shaped your relationships with your squad mates? 

I laid out one piece of history from prior to the start of ME1 and showed how in multiple ways it filtered through the storyline of the games and affected decisions your Shepard made, as well as decisions and beliefs your crew had from the beginning.  Even conflicts it caused between you and your crew or between members of your crew.

You can't do this with anything in Andromeda, and it's not because people missed something, didn't see it, or didn't want to see it.

The tension about the Genophage is in ME1.  Saren is looking for a cure so that he can use the Krogan as an army.  You're trying to stop Saren, but Wrex is like wait a minute, this is my people we're talking about, if you're going to destroy this potential cure you're going to have to give me good explanation, or kill me before I kill you.  Then Ashely, who is a nationalist, xenophobe due to what happened between humans and other races in the past, doesn't trust aliens, even her crew and is willing to shoot Wrex.  This is all in game one.  Just like Wrex pleading with you on Noveria to think about all the Krogan lives that were lost putting the Rachni down the first time.  All this in the first game, not the trilogy as a whole.  Decisions Shepard has to make, beliefs, leading to actions by your squadmates, even if those actions are against you as the protagonist.

You're just throwing out basic themes for Andromeda and then using your own headcanonn, or opinion about where you think they may be going, or where you think they could or should go.  That's fine.  If you think they were trying to tell the story over multiple games from the start, as opposed to ME1 where it was almost written as if they didn't know they would get a second game, that's fine too.

But don't tell me it was there, and I didn't see it because I didn't want to, or wanted the OT again.  I was excited for Andromeda, signed up as soon as I got the Initiative email.  Watched all the videos multiple times, pre-ordered the game and took off work to play it.  It just was not as fleshed out or deep as the world you walked into at the start of ME1. 

The backlash Andromeda received does not help Ryder chances of getting a sequel the same thing happened to Hawke who I believe was planned to be the inquisitor originally but after DA2 backlash that plan was changed same thing with Connor Ubisoft said if he was well received he would get a sequel but didn't.

Now keep in mind even games that are well received don't always bring back the same character people loved black flag and Edward but ubisoft didn't bring him back.

I think bioware will move on from Ryder they said themselves there was no trilogy planned and the backlash has probably put him on the shelf. I personally don't believe bioware had a trilogy/sequel in mind and are going to take the DA approach with protagonist from now on a new one with each game.

Bioware will probably return to the milky way to make the fans happy and do first contact or the prothean empire cycle.

Personally I hope they move on from Ryder he was to much of a pushover instead give players a new main character with different race options to choose from I for one would love to play a turian.