Fears for ME5. Obviously there may be spoilers!

We already had to much Liara in MEA. It really annoys the hell out of me. I get that, if it's set in the future, she's the only one who could be a link between ME3 and the time frame of MEA. I just don't want her shoved down my throat. And she's the consistent one shoved down my throat.

I respect your choice. I even respect people who choose endings that I hate. So long as the respect goes both ways on a personal level.

Couldn't have said it better myself. 👍

Uuuuh, Broodmothers were not retconned out of DA lore, they are still mentioned in DAI. Darkspawn simply have a lesser role in DA2 and DAI. I've never heard of Sandal being accused of being ableist caricature, this seriously sounds more like strawman. And even then, Sandal is referenced in both DAI and Trespasser DLC. As for relationships being replaced by an approval system, BioWare simply just wanted to create a new system to make it less gamey( hence approval score was hidden). This had nothing to do with some obscure people complaining about it being allegedly toxic( which isn't at all???).

Honestly, I won't address anything about issues with Ryder character, it is pretty damn clear you stubbornly want to only play as the edgelord protagonist.

This was discussed in DA Twitter Thread. Apparently some Bioware devs said that the Broodmothers wouldn't be back because they're too problematic and same with Sandal. 

"Honestly, I won't address anything about issues with Ryder character, it is pretty damn clear you stubbornly want to only play as the edgelord protagonist"

I like to replay these games and try out completely different characters for every playthrough. That's impossible to do in MEA since there's no player agency and the dialogue options are reduced to just two different ways of saying the same thing (compare that to DAO, DA2, MET and vanilla SWTOR... it's like night and day). 

I don't really like to play the role of the bland vanilla hero so you're not completely wrong. I prefer morally gray anti-heroes and lawful evil type of characters. 

I don't have too much of a problem with the we're all in this together motto. It does take a team to complete a mission. The problem I have with it, is one of the squadmates was not a team player who should never have been a squadmate.

Ryder was also undiscipline and incompetent. For someone who was in the military for 2-3 years, and had a father who was a former N7, they come across as a joke who can't be taken seriously. I don't care for the character. I could walk up to Ryder, smack them around like a ragdoll, then watch them fall to the ground, curl up in the fetal position and then start sucking their thumb. I liked Shepard because I can relate to a few things whereas the only thing I can relate to Ryder is being human.

While I did like the few times Shepard can get in the face of their squadmates, I wanted more especially in ME3. The only time Ryder can be firm, if one wants to use that word, to a squadmate was to Kosta right after his mission. I would have shot the clown dead instead of wasting my breath.

With the playthrough in my signature I don't call evil. I call it getting the job done. Ryder being evil/aggressive? I don't see that happening if MEA is anything to go by. I will say Ryder has couple of bright moments. He/she can kill the kett in the bubble when rescuing the moseha and when shooting the peepee's girlfriend. Then again, I would have done those things even if was playing as a paragon.

There have been posts from people saying Ryder can mature in the next game. For me to believe the little one has done any maturing/growning a pair, I would like to see at the beginning of the game, a new squadmate ask Ryder why the peepee character and the traitor character are no longer on the roster. Ryder realized letting squadmates do stupid things can lead to bad things, and they did, had to be removed so that something worse doesn't happen. That would be a start.

As I've said before. I believe killing off Alec hurt little Ryder. Having dad around could have helped grown the character throughout the game.

My Shepard's are always humanity first. However, they have to play politics to help humanity advance. And they do it well.

MEA was a different beast because it didn't have the backing of its race. It was a relatively small contingent that was meant to seed its own worlds. That plan went to shit and required all the resources available just to survive. And it's worth noting that the Tempest took off without proper authorization so they didn't just kiss the Nexus's ass. But they still needed its resources in the form of a safe haven and a way to expand humanity's base. A powerful humanity would end up having a major place on whatever Council rose up. It will always have a bit of tech no one else has and it will always be able to impact the very environment of many worlds. Seems like some major leverage, even if unintended.

Humanity is the major player. Not a single other race could have survived without SAM, a human creation. That moron running the Nexus was always going to lose power though he's actually more helpful than the Council in the MW.

I don't think we're on the same page. I do prefer a rougher protagonist than Ryder. I was hoping Ryder could grow into the role in MEA2, and I think we saw growth in the character along the way. But that's neither here nor there because we don't, and probably never will, know what changes might have been made. I expect a new protagonist in the next ME game that will probably run closer to Shepard than Ryder. Pretty easy to do when the galaxy is a mess post-Reaper War.

If we are a new protagonist, I’d prefer we don’t work with Ryder or they show up at all. Have them be busy in another part of the galaxy helping on that front. That way it avoids the inevitable bastardization they’d get like Revan and Hawke.

While I agree about the sam voice thing, but would the refugees, I mean Initiative, have gone to Andromeda without the golden world thing? Wasn't that information provided by a quarian who infiltrated the geth telescope?

What's interesting is it appears Alec was the only one in the galaxy to have the brain power to do this. Of course the Benefactor stepped in to help finish the job. With the intelligence the salarians have, I wouldn't have been surprised if they came up with that long ago.

I can't imagine how. How do you implement the Reapers being there/not being there, or AI (bots, not MEA) being alive/organics being greenish tinted? Unless the Reapers went somewhere else, and I'd have a hard time buying into that one. Or if the obvious effects (green tint) went away and the nature of AI just isn't discussed. But then why bother having RGB at all?