why Andromeda was not capable of inspiring..

I don't know... if you want an optimistic hero in an optimistic story, maybe the main theme of said story shouldn't be "unstoppable robo-cthulhus from dark space are going to commit galaxy-wide genocide in the uncounted trillions". Unless a character is completely oblivious, they should sooner or later be shaped by the events they are experiencing. Or at least there should be an option to play them that way.

You can take that up with the "(super)hero deconstruction" genre. It's an ongoing thing in the comic book industry and why the comic book industry has collapsed in the recent years.


I don't know. Shepard to me seemed to have fun, but wasn't cracking jokes when on missions and killing people. Those times where reserved for interactions with other characters and crew. As a former military man, I can tell you we had some good fun during transit, but when on a mission, it was all serious business all the time. It's a shame we didn't get some kind of interaction scenes in the shuttle, instead of the loading screens in ME2 or even elevator rides like in ME1.


Shepard wasn't cynical nor brooding and I don't get where you get that idea from. He was matter of fact, sometimes insultingly so or maybe edgy at times, occasionally in an Arnold-one-liner kind of way, which to me is the fun way of doing edgy. Ryder was cracking juvenile jokes and quipping every other sentence, figuratively, to make him look fun and appealing, which to me had the exact opposite effect.

It's mostly due to the fact that the game is terrible and there's nothing impactful in it, so people forgot about it instead.