Smudboy throws another stone: ME:A Failing at the Premise (link inside)

In case you did not knew, this guy was a troll since the times from ME2 in the old BSN. No reason to give him any attention.

I watched the vid.Have been watching Smud for years and I enjoy his content even though I am a huge fan of Bioware ( I know, not very popular opinion to like Smudboy but oh well ).
I think this was one of his less harsh moments.He actually made a lot of sense and asked logical questions.I also do agree the Vault part was unecessary.I don't see why having vaults in Andromeda is a bad thing.
But mostly ,he made sense.

He mentions staying in Milky Way and hiding. Hiding in Milky Way is cool and all, but what next? You go cryostasis for whatever long, wake up and then what? You would need a lot of people to reproduce later. So you would need funds to do something like this. But nobody would fund this because officially nobody in Milky Way thinks Reapers are real. Also it's risky because one information leak and BAM, Reapers would destroy it. So they came up with Andromeda.

I'm curious why this keeps getting brought up as a criticism of ME:A. Where did this idea of a "jump in FTL tech" come from anyway? The ME3 codex states that Reapers can travel 30 LY/day, and that this is roughly twice the speed of Council ships. So even assuming that the technology is slightly behind on the ARKs because of development time, they should at least be approaching those speeds. 

And indeed, Andromeda is 2.5 million LY away, and the trip took 600 years. 2,500,000 / (600 * 365) ~ 11.4 LY/day. People need to give BioWare some credit; they did do their basic math.

I sure wont be commenting in his comments. I couldn't get through the video. It's the tone of voice. He could be informing me I won the lottery with the money in hand and official people with documents and cameras and with that tone I'd still just feel like he was mocking existence. It's grating.

Right now I see a lot of whining pop up here and there. On the forums and YouTube for example. About how stuff won't work or isn't explained and simply 'there' (like certain technology).

People; it's a game. It's fiction. Accept it and hold your horses until the game actually comes out.

I really REALLY don't understand the whole "but why are we even making these arks and going to the Andromeda Galaxy?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" complaints.

Because it's there.

Because it's next.

Because that's what we do as a species. We explore.

Why are we going to Andromeda?

Because in the words of Sam Seaborn: "Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next."

I, for one, don't need there to be some big secretive overarching reason why the arks exist, and why we're going on this mission. We're going because it's what's next.

Karoyshyn's idea for the Reapers and the end of trilogy, from what I recall reading, wasn't that great. So between him and Walters', for me, it was just a 'pick your poison'  choice.

They hinted at the possibility of a secret motivation behind the project outside exploration. We'll see what they came up with (though I'll keep my expectations low).

I loathe this line of thought. I'm sorry but I really do. There will always be some Einsteins or just people that are so passionate about particular subjects that they can't let go of them, and personally I can't look at games as "just games". To me they're part of my life - a big part of it actually, and in a weird way I depend on them the same way a musician or just concert-happy people depend on listening to music. I don't like brushing off subjects like this.

...But I second the last statement. You can only go so far by simply analysing problems hoping something will change or... or maybe you'll get some sort of validation from it - I mean I bet he loves picking apart stuff, but yes, with that brain of his running wild in IQ-190 mode he should just get some kind of project assembled already and if he doesn't have the patience for other unintelligent game-designers he should go solo like Toby Fox and create a game like that. He could come up with the weirdest concept and nitpick his way into making it amazing.

Smudboy. The name alone makes it hard for me to take seriously. I'll wait for the game to come out and play it before I start discussing how good or terrible the game is thank you very much.