IGN: The First 13 Minutes of Mass Effect Andromeda Video

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He's making a correction to his son. He says "pretty good" isn't good enough to imply that his son needs to think more responsibly than to make half-guesses. He's not saying he doesn't think Habitat-7 is good enough, just that Ryder should not think of it as such or they wouldn't have taken the risk to go. This is communicated with the withering look he gives Ryder a second later.

I think I know what it is. Same problem as in DA:I or just increasingly in the latest games. We know that sometimes BioWare has pre-written one branch of dialogue as their main intended path, say, Paragon and Garrus in ME2 but then if you go Renegade the arc isn't as interesting. This has gotten worse, I noticed in DAI.

There's a point in the intro of DA:I where Cassandra is like "You're untrustworthy!" and then if you pick a certain "bad" response she instantly flip-flops to "Okay, I trust you."

I think Destin chose the "non-default" line if there ever was such a thing in the scene with Alec which triggers a rather thoughtlessly written response by the asian woman "There's just so much on the line". It doesn't connect. It feels clumsy and jumbled together.

I actually heard about this from Patrick Weekes in his interview with VGS where he says one thing they increasingly do at BioWare is "write stubs" so to begin a dialogue when they write it they literally write stuff like "A = "Solas says you're right", B = "Don't do that"" just so they can get something on the page and then fill in the placeholders later once the branching path is set up. Unfortunately I think this has also increasingly led to incoherent branching because they're not designed around proper responses but rather around the need to branch.

It's also funny because, while I'm no John Truby bookworm (John Truby is a literary guru who made a popular book), I do think his "Anatomy of Story" is fascinating and one thing he specifically says is "don't just write something to get started" and argues this because from experience he says it leads to bad results because your scenes start to revolve around writing that has no footing or purpose and the further you branch out from it the more it shows that it wasn't good to begin with.