Where art thou, oh Great Old Ones?

I agree. Bioware seems to have developed a habit of making its secondary antagonists far more interesting than the big bad - Saren, Loghain, TIM, Arishok, Samson... Solas might be one who bucks the trend in DA4.

They could have made the reapers more interesting if the final confrontation was with Harbinger instead of reducing them to starchild's puppets. I'm sensing that the conflicts within the colonist factions in MEA will be more interesting than our war with the Khet but I'll reserve judgment.

I don't really get the vibe that the Remnants themselves will be our super-enemy. My guess is that it's something else, using their technology for nefarious purposes. A faction within the Kett, perhaps. Obviously we know little about the Kett or the Remnant, so I'm totally guessing here. But I agree that the 'old, unknowable' enemy trope has kind of gotten overdone. Harbinger was intriguing and had potential, but in the end they didn't do much with it beyond having it hurl insults at you. Corypheus too, but he ended up being very one-note. The Architect in Awakening was so much cooler. Solas could well make for a really amazing antagonist, and I hope that they give us some way to, if not join him, come to some (morally grey) compromise.

Hopefully the leader of the Kett or Remnant or whoever it is we ultimately fight at the end has some nuance to them, both in personality and motivation. Because the "I rule the world/galaxy now so die all who oppose me" thing is boring. While DA2 had its (many) flaws, I hope their approach to the overall story is similar in Andromeda. Where we're not there to singlehandedly save the universe. We're just there to play a part in the events that unfold, and the antagonists are more along the lines of Meredith and the Arishok than Blight/Corypheus/Reaper.

I doubt Solas will be the main enemy in DA 4.  

And given the entire story is smaller in tone and scale and the more scope of the story I think we will be getting a much more intimate bad guy. 

Reapers were one of my absolute favorite "ancient evil" villains ever in ME1. Lovecraftian, menacing, intriguing, mysterious. They weren't nuanceless or straightforward then.
It wasn't until later games that BW screwed it up.


Even the archdemon had a pretty decent backstory explaining the straightforward evilness.

I thought this thread was going to request Lovecraftian things in MEA.

In a way the Reapers are/were the Borg. They assimilated civilizations and knowledge, they just go for a nap time after time.