How do you feel about the premise not happening due to the Reaper invasion?

You, linkenski and Arcian must get really tired... hauling around all those wet blankets.   I STILL WANT to go there.

How long since you played?

Because it was very obvious the Reapers weren't able to do this. They usually relied on taking control of the Citadel to shut the Mass Relay network to everyone else, which they couldn't do in this cycle thanks to the Prothean scientists from Ilos.
They were having a really hard time conquering the Turian home system thanks to them having to divide their forces to attack everyone one at the same time.

Agreed. What makes Skyrim great is that you go out and make up your own stories. (I think it was Mark Meer how had an elf that only chopped wood). I had a Nord who worked as a blacksmith for a while. She would go out and mine ore, smelt it and forge weapons, armor, and jewellery to sell. This had nothing to do w/ any of the quests and made crafting a part of a "slice of life" story. Gathering materials for crafting isn't really much of a story in DA:I. So, that's my biggest concern, that ME:A will be filled w/ MMO style fetch quests w/ little to no depth. But, there are people who like that style of play, so ... whatever.

At the same time people want that response from BioWare to completely scrap everything to give them what they want in the game.  Things like the new approach to inventory or making weapons use clips people still want BioWare to drop those systems and give them the systems they want without any compromise otherwise BioWare is dead and just a shill of EA because they aren't getting exactly what they want.

There are multiple reasons why Dragon Age: Inquisition did go more like Skyrim and it is partly how much the community said it should another part is they were chasing the success of open world games.  They did make mistakes, but at the same time the community isn't as forgiving of BioWare as they are of Bethesda for all the negative comments people say about the open-world problems of Dragon Age: Inquisition are the exact same problems I encounter in a Bethesda game so I am not sure why people were surprised to see the problems of the genre in the game.

It would be great if the species that arrive in Andromeda reject those of the Milky Way and try to cut ties and do their own thing, which would also allow them to largely forget the issues with the original trilogy and expand on their own with their own issues. Although I would imagine at some point those from the Milky Way would come back for what is theirs.

WAR BETWEEN GALAXIES AND RACE WARS INCOMING!!!11!1!111!!

I kinda liked where they was going with the reaper storyline. They was playing with them being somewhat creators of everything, and they kept them very mysterious, until the ending of 3. It would have been nice to have resolved the story of the reapers in a way that made them still somewhat relevant, in that they are still part of the universe, but they are no longer gathering races and recycling events so to speak.

It would have been interesting to have an entry where the reapers themselves where being threatened by another powerful entity, but from another universe. The use of the mass effects (or some other powerful mechanism) caused a rip in space/time and caused some other worldly creatures to threaten the Reapers (and our universe) that have remained peaceful and dormant since 3.

I like how this game will be self contained tho, (it needs a cool-down after the epic story-line of the Reapers) but i wouldn't mind seeing an ending scene where the screen fades and shows the reapers being completely slaughtered by these near omni-potent beings or creatures (leading us into the next game)....but eh....ultimately the reapers story and that particular generation's story has been told so i'm good with this new beginning. I haven't played DAI, so i don't have an opinion on how the gameplay is either beneficial or detrimental overall in relation to this game.

Well I found it disappoiting to be quite honest. It's just doesn't make any sense to go out and explore an ENTIRE different galaxy when the one you're currently in is BARELY explored as it is. Fleeing the Reaper threats would be the only reason that could justify this risky initiative, exploring for the sake of exploring doesn't really make sense if you haven't even fully explored your galaxy. I still hope fleeing the Reapers is the real motive and the average Joe is not told about because this is a Council secret.

Unlike some posters here I do give a fuck about story and the plausibility of the motives behind this initiative. If the foundations of the story are shaky then the entire thing will collapse down due to its nonsensical premises.

A great many of us care. We've had 4 years, though, to contemplate the benefits of swallowing a small amount of BS for the greater good of the IP. I believe that's what we are doing in this case.

If we were going to involve the Reapers, they should've just picked an ending and kept us in the Milky Way. (This would've been my preference.) If we are going to run to a new galaxy, lets make a clean break and build a new narrative.

Ultimately, we don't know what the true impetus for the Ai will prove to be. "Reapers" is one possibility. We won't know until we play the game. It's too early to call "BS" on the plot when we don't know the plot.

Yay, another context that calls for a Witcher 3 comparison!

Well, Witcher 3 did the same even. As a Witcher 2 fan I remember being worried when I saw those viking "Foos-roh-dah" skellige guys in the early trailers and I was also discouraged by how all the marketing was "hey guys, this game is bigger than Skyrim!" because to me that's not what I loved about Witcher 2 (size, I mean) and in general developers need to stop with this arms race of making the biggest games. Unless you think Michael Bay movies are great I don't get the appeal, considering bigger spaces mean need for bigger scope of attention to detail and that usually results in less attention to detail as a whole.

Still, I think one hope we may have for Andromeda here is exactly this, that Skyrim was the motivation for DA:I and Witcher 3 which both were well underway to come out in 2014 and 2015 respectively after starting development in 2012 after Skyrim hit the market big time.

Andromeda has had about 2 years roughly to re-adjust course. Although, every new game coming out even this year seems to be boasting about open-worldness. Sometimes I wish the AAA market was less monotonous about the latest trend, sigh. If anything, it's going to be Skyrim but in space and with guns and alien sex. What's not to like here?

Yeah, and to be honest it's an extremely good template. Skyrim's sucess and all was understandable because at the time it was pretty beautiful and vast and all that, but Bethesda's RPGs are IMO a bloated mess whereas GTA is just, oh man, it's just soooo good on so many different levels both in action, open world, exploration and to some extent characters.

The Witcher 3 devs also said they were highly inspired by Red Dead Redemption and it shows, really. I hope ME:A's devs in Montreal are really aiming for some GTA-like design rather than another Skyrim wannabe, because GTA is a much more dynamic game.

I like Skyrim. Currently playing the special edition.