How 'alien' is Mass Effect Andromeda going to be?

Yes, I agree. Things in DA got a little dumbed down too to some things they already established, but they pushed forward in other aspects and expanded their lore to new levels.




However, yes, it was a little frustrating to just proceed to Rift A and destroy all demons, then proceed to Rift B. And it's true that it was frustrating the lack of mention to Awakening DLC and the future of the darkspawn, yes.

Considering you are fighting THE most powerful darkspawn ever found (which you've already defeated in a previous game) and the fact that he controls demons instead of, you know, darkspawn, was a little weird, and not touched in the plot. I feel Dragon Age is expanding their lore incredibly but, it's true, not touching so much their previous creatures or settings.

Mass Effect however, it seemed to be to have shrank. They created so many awesome races and a especially interesting setting, but failed to explore them more positively. We got stuck with humanity. Imagine to expand the lore of turians and their military culture, what being part of a society that demands and expects everyone in their roles to be. What problems could that cause, a new cult? A separatist movement? Another war?

Or the salarians with their vast spy and intelligence network; They were experimenting with the yahg, for Christ's sake! What more could we eventually discover?

The asari got their lore expanded a little with the whole Ardat Yakshi and "the Prothean Experiment" (I still laugh at that), I admit. 

That would've been a lot cooler than "Humanity first and foremost", solving all problems and being all problems since the second game.
But I may be being a little harsh with it, since this was a "Humanity's ascension" story. Still, I got frustrated with the way the aliens were treated in the trilogy. They just seemed (since ME2) to be there to show how humanity was glorious. They became secondary.

Fighting Saren was, and still is, to me, one of the best things in Mass Effect. Not the Illusive Bitch, which suddenly appeared in the series and became the central point of all plots (even from the past).