Which previous opening mission/scene would you like Mass Effect: Andromeda's opening to be like?

I am expecting it to be like ME 2s anyways.

Just maker it skippable.

After the character creation screen, a short intro of waking up in our quarters, viewing a violet colored nebula, then walking over to the closet to seamlessly transitions to our wardrobe outfit selection screen. After that, we can now walk outside to see everyone half asleep at the tables, drinking coffee, and mumbling good morning.

"Hold button to drink coffee"
[stamina recharging]

Time to explore the ship.

*Ambient music plays*
[new codex added]
[new objective added]

Thanks to everyone so far who voted and responded

Interesting seeing a lot of people go for ME1's opening, which I still think is pretty hard to beat.

I mean, first impressions usually go a long way into establishing the feel of the game, and giving us a sense of what the game is going to be like, to a certain extent.

You knew you were getting something different, and above average with the mastery of immersion and world-building that was ME1's slow building but cinematic and memorable opening. It was also a neat way to introduce Shepard. I think, at least at the very beginning, we'll get something similar in Andromeda.

ME2's let you know you weren't getting a typical sequel to ME1. It brilliantly introduced both our new threat, and the Illusive Man and the new Cerberus (so to speak). Plus it was brilliantly cinematic, and a great contrast to ME1's.

I still think as well that ME3's opening is one of the best in gaming, personally. Forget how it ended, as a way to introduce ME3 and the stakes and just what we were going with, the whole opening of Leaving Earth was on such a scale, and again so cinematic and emotional. I loved it.

Andromeda's may also be similar to ME2's with the inevitable attack and stranding and fight for survival.

I would like to see something like first ME's opening. Slow, calm... oh yes... and then the shitstorm starts.

What I REALLY want to see - an option to skip the opening scene. Oh my god, how I hate the opening scene of ME2...

Voted something new, but if I had to pick then ME1 with a splash of ME3.

ME2 is a great opening and is one of my favourites, but it only works or has any emotional depth because its a sequel and we know the characters. Expecting a strong emotional reaction to new characters never works and is one of the complaints you hear directed at DA2's dead sibling a lot. That said opening into chaos and a ship failing could work as long as the expected reaction is 'oh shit is going down danger danger' rather than 'oh no random characters I have never met is having epic death scene, I think I'm suppose to care about this'

Still unsure yet whether I would like to hear a completely new score, or theme, play either before, during, or after Andromeda's opening sequence, or the nostalgia of hearing the original Mass Effect theme play, or Vigil's theme, which always gets me right in the feels.

'Exploration of mental illness'??? What? Where? What does that have to do with the kid in the vent?

The kid in the vent was an incredibly corny way of 'highlighting' Shepard's concern for the human loss of the invasion, etc. If you're suggesting that the slo-mo chases in the woods dreams were an 'exploration' of PTSD, I'm sorry to say that that doesn't make much sense. Other games have done such explorations, at various levels of cheesiness, but not ME3. Even the scorned Arkham Knight made use of the theme of Batman's mental health, and it was one of the few things it did OK. Arkham Asylum did it very well.

The kid is the one that Shepard is looking at in the intro flying the small spaceship. The kid ends up dying when the Reapers destroy the ship he is "rescued" in. Shepard feels guilty because he's grounded.

They could have showed different characters, but you know... it's a game. Might as well just show one person, a child, the symbol of the future of humanity.

It's not out of nowhere. Shepard has been fighting for many years now and has been through some serious shit. It would make very little sense for it to not have impacted him like this, especially when the fate of the universe rests on his shoulders. It's a lot to take on.

Your apparent dismissal of this by repeatedly calling it cheesy (which is funny because few games ever approach mental illness like this) goes to show you're not interested in actually understanding it. Yet you complain about it as if you actually know what you're talking about. People with PTSD have vivid dreams similar to Shepard had, and if you want to dismiss it then go right ahead. In fact, even Renegade Shepard became much more aggressive for the same reasons. Desperation and fear of failure under intense pressure.

You can't even compare it to other games. Comparing it to Batman is just silly. That's an established character from comics with issues that appeared before the game starts. This is actually something you and Shepard experience together across three games. 

It doesn't make you right. It doesn't make you wrong either. You can have your opinion. You're hardly alone in it. It's too bad ME3 players just want to play an edgelord with zero personality who is apparently unfazed by the destruction of the universe. 

I wouldn't call it "unfazed". More like Fight for the living and grieve for the dead when there's actually time for it. I fail to see how refusing to become responsible for the fate of whole galaxy suggests edgelord/ having no personality or feelings/ not cracking under the pressure in some other ways.

Wait... I thought the kid wasn't even real?

Like, the marines in the shuttle never even acknowledged him.