Struggling to get through Andromeda after LE Mass Effect trilogy (LE-MET)

See I already consider my Ryder to pretty much be a mega bad ass.  Probably not on the Shepard level yet but the only thing Ryder is lacking is seasoning and experience and well he got a lot of that in Andromeda so it would be a shame to not see what kind of character that could lead to in a sequal.  As that was pretty much the whole point of Andromeda Ryder learning to grow into his new responsibilities and what he was able to do in that game is quite frankly inspiring....and bad ass.

Apparently. I don't know what the mystery is its up there in black and white.

Collectors as an aggregrate get my vote.

The funny monke guy has a character beyond "muahahah im evul badmans im gonna assimilate u"? Could've fooled me.

They're the same sort of one dimensional villain but the Reapers had superior audiovisual designs with loads of screen presence. It's why they became iconic despite being one dimensional.

Archon's writer knows this, as he tries way too hard to ape Sovereign (e.g. introduced with "I won't explain what you can't understand" vs "rudimentary creatures of flesh and blood, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding) yet lacks any of the presence to justify it because he's just some scrawny humanoid dude not a gigantic alien starship looking thing. He just ends up looking like an edgelord spouting off one liners with that, seeing as he just explained to us his motivation is to find the guy who activated the vault so he can maybe figure out how to do it too. Little late to try going back to being all mysterious.

Constantly getting hit with idiot balls so the protagonist can win and getting clowned on in general makes him pretty similar to Cory or Malak actually.

It doesn't help that instead of any intimidation factor, he looks like a cute monke that needs you to feed him some orange slices.

ah yes Archie. What a joke. Had I been the Archon, I would have fired on the salarian ship while the duck was stuck in the stasis field or whatever it was called. Then I would have left some troops behind on the Nexus while I take the Hyperion for a joy ride forcing the Ryder duck to choose to save. Then again, I would likely have exalted the little one after stabbing them with my giant needle. I found him more intimidating when first seen where he doesn't say anything.

Read what I posted. I said I would fire on the salarian ship while Ryder was trapped in the stasis field.

He would have come to the conclusion that he wasn't get anymore from them then he already had.

There is no proof I said he was the Nexus. Again, read what I posted.

Ah yes the defenses discussion, again. If the Nexus had any defenses, whatever they might be, why isn't there any sign of a battle surrounding the Nexus? Did plot show up giving all the characters the script to the game to not fight back except the handful seen when controlling Ryder sister/brother?

This has to do with what?

Obviously you didn't read my post. You don't remember the duck being trapped in that field on Archie's ship? You don't remember when Archie stuck that needle in the duck?

I'm having a hard time reading my post saying Archie was on the Nexus. If you can, post a link where I said Archie was on the Nexus?

Wrong. I've never suggested having offensive weapons, The same for the ships traveling to Andromeda. I've always gone with defensive. I have suggested why not use something similar to what we have today. Something what the Navy uses. Look it up if you want more information.

Yes Ryder was on Archon's ship when stuck with the needle. I never said he/she wasn't.

I never said Archon was on the Nexus

Same, I have no idea how they're going to go about that in the next games. And some people have said DA4 got a rocky start and the original idea got scrapped once and they started over.