Saying goodbye to the milky way

How is that in any way supposed to be edgy? I don't know if you are trying to troll here but really just don't bother.

I do not see how we are- in the fiction of the game- given any reason to care or be invested in earth, given we only go there briefly at the start of me3 and for the final mission.
We spend more time on omega than we do earth. There is no emtional connection with the place.

Still, you know this and are just trying to get a rise and I fell for it. Have a gold star and run along to play.

How was their comment edgy? What a weird statement to choose to take issue with.

Well, in the fiction of the game, Earth is home to 97+% of the human race.

I've never understood why Mass Effect is supposed to have needed to establish an emotional connection with Earth. Other SF properties have taken it for granted too, such as Star Trek and Wing Commander.

I'd like the opening sequence show the process of the Arks and the Nexus leaving port for the Andromeda Galaxy. Different scenes of random characters preparing to leave from Ryder's Point of View/last memories of the Milky Way. The Ryder that you select, be it Sara or Scott is narrating the whole thing and it ends with you waking up from stasis (as seen in the trailer) saying, "We made it".  Afterwords the game starts with you moving around the Hyperion piecing together what has happened before running into your father who fills you in on the current status. (make it feel mysterious capturing our curiosities and keeping us on edge)  This helps us step into the shoes of our new character right from the start allowing us to see the world through their eyes instead of being in a more informed 3rd person narrative.  It also ties into the themes of discovery, mystery, exploration, and nostalgia right from the start.  Where some players may feel the excitement and curiosity of being someplace new with no knowledge, other players will get the sense of being home sick and fear what has happened since they've been asleep.  

Regardless of how it actually plays out, I want it to start with you waking up without any knowledge of the current story/status of anyone/anything else. Put the gamer in the place of feeling like he/she just wakes up from a long sleep. The first time looking out upon the Andromeda Galaxy should be in game from a third person Ryder point of view before cutting to a cut scene showing the exterior of the Hyperion Ark.

The narrating of the memories in the Milky Way just before departure would parallel nicely with each companion on your team as you are supposed to learn their purpose for why they left the Milky Way. Those portions of memory/flashback cut scenes should be narrated by that specific companion.  This form of story telling will allow for further Nostalgia for fans of the series as we'll see parts of the Milky from each character's point of view.  Liam's memory cut scene would be especially cool since he is from London.  We would get to see London before the reaper attack which again would be a nice nod to the original trilogy.

Mass Effect Andromeda Commercials:

"Ryder, eat a Snickers, you're acting like a Kett again"  You're not you, when you're hungry.

All we need is hope... on  a wing and a prayer.

I'd love to hear Jennifer Hale or Mark Meer (we may have the chance to choose based on who we played with in the trilogy) doing some kind of speech on the very first game cutscene. Jennifer Hale did it already, but I think it would be cool. And I would watch it like this:

Is it really so out of the question that the AI would have a QEC for real time communication with the MW during this expedition? Surely they will?