ME:A Ending Thread (EXTREME SPOILERS)

Exactly - where, when, how, why - after 80 hours in the game, after finishing 98% i know... nothing. Great writing, seriously. 3Ending is way to open, when should give as some directions, like ME1 ending did. How long is main story after cutting all the side quests and terraforming stuff ? 10 hours long ? And 3 or 4 writers been doing this ?! ME1 story was done by 1 guy, and usually it took me 22-23 hours to finish.
Yes, i read all the datapads. And i was wandering how it is possible that he's own people didn't take him down. He obey the orders of his superiors... nevermind. And Saren ? He wasn't indoctrinated from the very beginning. Indoctrination takes time, there was a point when it was clearly his decision to "ally" with the Sovereign - he believed that Reapers are too strong and we have no chance against them.
I rememeber Angara very well, but that revelation about being made by some ancient race didn't really work for me. Way too close to Asari being directed and guided by Protheans.
PeeBee is Liara 2.0 ? No. Not even close. Liara was so much more interesting than PeeBee. Almost every character in Andromeda is so uninteresting ! I choose Cora for my LI - mistake of my life. 70% of my playthrough only pathfinder and asari, asari and pathfinder. She got some better lines at the end, but this is it. I find Reyes much more interesting than anyone from my crew. The only good, memorable moment i got was from Drack, after i sacrified those Krogan scouts to save Salarian pathinder. He was really angry at me, i tried three times, his lines been different but he was still angry. That was well done.

Yeah, MEA didn't work for me.
Too many similarities to the trilogy, too many weak plots, lack of real cliffhangers, not even a single (!) touching, memorable moment which is a heart of ME series and those mostly uninteresting companions. MEA is like a completely different game, made by completely different people, who never played trilogy and never feel that vibe.

About judging: i was defending MEA since day one. There are places, when people hates me for defending MEA. But after finishing main story, i cannot defend it anymore. I was waiting 5 years for this. 5 years to get the story, i would have written better myself in two months. Sorry but from BioWare and especially from Mass Effect brand i'am expecting much more.
To be honest with you, i have seen much better storylines in a recent SW:TOR DLC's, which is also made by BioWare.

Seriously ? Ellen ? I saw her 3 times, 3-4 minutes in total in Alec memories and i should really care about her ?
Same like "tough" choice who should i save - some unknown Krogan scouts i never see in my life or some Salarian Pathfinder which i meet for he first time 10 minutes earlier. How this kind of story build-up could how any emotional impact ??
You know what will be a really well build drama in Andromeda ? If at some point i will have to make a choice between saving my sister or my already chosen LI. That will have VERY HEAVY impact. Kaidan or Ash choice was quite heavy, cause i knew them quite well, we spend a lot of time together and we survived more than one hell.

Andromeda lacks all of this. No hard choices, no hard consequences. Just do one quest and go for another.
DAI in my opinion in much worse overall, but got much better main story; Corypheus got a nice background from DA2 DLC, i got fantastic teammates like Iron Bull, Dorian or Solas; and DAI got a lot of good moments - starting with "The Dawn Will Come" scene... simply amazing. In Andromeda there is not even one such scene that is so impressive.

Lighter ? That's absolutely fine. Not every story has to be about saving all life we know. I really like DA2 because of that - much smaller story, focused on Hawke's family. And that story have emotional impact too - Hawke's mother - we knew her from the very beginning of the game. She was with Hawke for 2 chapters, we speak a lot, i learn a lot from her about our family etc, so when she was killed - it was really sad, cause i learn to care about her. In Andromeda the whole set-up for those so called "important moments" is just poorly written. The only person i really care - was my sister. Not my LI, not my teammates, Kesh, Addison or the whole Angarian race - just Sara.
You must admit, that all those "care about" things been done much better in previous BioWare games. In EVERY BioWare title before Andromeda.
And i really miss those magic moments like "The Dawn Will Come" from DA:I. I remember when i saw it for a first time... that was something.
Such a shame i didn't get anything like that in here.

Dude, what? Someone is remembering too much of ME2 then 1. Liara is boring as dirt in ME1 when you don't romance her. These character have more development then the ones in ME1. Wrex is the only stand out in ME1. Now story, Me1 is better thought out so it win there but MEA's main story is better then ME2's story.

This is why I consider MEA to be the equivalent of ME1.  I wasn't nearly as invested in the characters though I was sad I didn't see most of them in ME2.  Thus, I was happy to see them return in ME3.  

I know I don't have the strong feelings for the cast of MEA but would like to see them return regardless.  I believe that some DLC and additional games will give me a larger picture and to have more attachment to them as I see the relationships grow closer.

How Archon could ever become a "better developed antagonist", if he have all together no more than 10 minutes screen time ?
Similar situation like with Saren, but in his case we got a lot of his background from Anderson and other people during the game, so we knew a lot about him before we meet in person. About Archon we know almost next to none, some guy obsessed with Remnant tech, that's it.
Bad writing, as usual.

I kind of would like to know that too. I agree with what she did - chosing the entire ark of sleepers over 1 person, even if that person is a pathfinder. But lying to people of how she died... was wrong so I'd like her to pay the consequences, but on the other hand, if we keep it, she comes to help us and pretty much saves Dunn's ass. Next in line for becoming a pathfinder isn't nearly as strong as she is so I'd like to know if she's the key or not too.

Ok. ME1 was great..but it was not that great. it's basically a man verses machine plot/ hunt down the villian plot. It's not that original in concept. What made ME1 story great was not the concept but the development of the story and it's twist. ME1 brings you to points you don't expect that surprises and floors you. The thing is MEA does the same thing. The only ME game that does not is ME2.
MEA does have alot of surprising events, more so to the end of the game. It has twist and it does surprise. Nothing that straight up floors your though. You don't have the sovereign meeting  equivalent , or nothing at the level of the Thorin....But that's not really the story this game is going for. It's about colonization and exploration. It would not have anything to that level of an established universe with roots like ME does. It's a game about making those roots. What's would be amazing about it's story is the choices you make, how you make them, and what you uncover as you explore. What's here few are missed in story. 

The only issue with the story are what the Kett are, which are organic borg 2.0 But the rest of the story gets better. Why? I leave alot of want of interge. At first with the remnent they seem face less but once you find out about what they are and that they created a race and how much the story hinted at this is astounding and new to ME ingenral. That fact that what you found before are just gardening tool and a bigger story is in hand with these beings. They arn't the protheans 2.0 like many felt at the start of the game.

And the choice, like on Ka

And let's not bring up character here. You clearly have rose colored glasses. ME1's crew was no were near as interesting as you believed it to be. I know, i played the game over 9 times. Garrus and Tali are only interesting but don't have much development. Liara is only interesting if romance, if not she is a very boring fan girl of Shep, Ashley  was highly dislikes and Kiaden was boring. Only one character was the stand out and that was Wrex, fallowed by Joker. Me2 and 3 cast are spectacular.. but only because they are more colorful and they had development for  2 -3 games.
We can atleast say MEA cast is better then ME1. With clear proof.

The mea crew develops much deep then the ME! crew hands down,