Choices: Better or worse than MET?

I actually thought the original trilogy was particularly bad at this. You kill the last Rachni queen and there is another one. You make Anderson the councilor instead on Udina, then he gives it up to Udina. Every major decision in ME1 and ME2 was simply whitewashed in ME3 making them completely cosmetic. Sure ME3 offered world changing decisions but we all know that forced them into Androemda. I'm afraid the only solution is to either give up major meaningful decisions, abandon the import, or stop making ME games altogether. I would personally abandon the player import, imo nothing but trouble.

This is not a fault of the system's design. The choice felt meaningful in ME1. It's ME3 and Mac Walters's fault for not addressing its consequences with ME3's narrative framework properly.

I prefere Choices have no or symbolic consequences, simply because we now bioware is unable to manage correctly such situation. It is better they avoid that, than once more disapoint players and/or turn them angry.

I prefer the new system. The MET system locked me down to either going full paragon or full renegade when there were some choices I disagreed with. Also don't say you can play how you want, in order to get Tali and Legion to agree in ME2. You had to be almost full paragon or renegade.

This new one seems more realistic and answers in a lot of ways I would answer.

The entire problem is that it's not better or worse. It's just different. Let me break that down for you.

In some ways it's better. It's better not to have things gated off so that community members can't see certain things, certain choices. Say a Paragade really wants to see Mordin live at the end, can't because he doesn't have the points. Same with a Renegon. Say he really wants to kill Mordin. Can't because he doesn't have the points. I'm not interested if all my facts are correct, but still you see my point.

It's worse in a couple'a different ways. They say that they got rid of the binary system, no more paragon and renegade. Yet, with most options I've seen in game, there are only two options. That is, by definition, a binary system. Agreed, no more gating. But adding another line of dialogue to Ryder and saying that you got rid of the binary system (Rather than, say, "I should go") doesn't really work well either. It also doesn't feel like there are any meaningful choices in Andromeda. Nothing to really pull you in to the story and make you stop and think about what you're doing.

All in all, I would say to the writers of this game, to stop drowning us with quests and emails (or terminals, or those things on the outposts, or just anything) that we have to do. Concentrate on the story.

GDI. It's like your writers have become good at writing nothingness. I mean, I had to reread an email from a doctor (on EOS) that said, "Should be falling off roofs again soon" three times because I didn't get that he was joking. And then, when I finally did get that he was joking, I just grimaced. Doctors today don't have that kind'a time to write those kind'a cutesy notes.

That's fine for DAI. Do all the writing you want on that one, because there's no way to prove or disprove that. But ME?

Fuck.

Anachronisms work both way. Not only this story happens in the alien-filled future - it happens 600 years from when original ME happened. And the doctor ain't necessarily human OR they live longer than us.

Going full paragon or renegade in the original trilogy is more like playing the system than the game. I never did it and ended up somewhere between the two with meaningful choices and some harsh consequences as in Tali or Legion.
In my first play I was extreme neutral with the two and the outcome was emotionally devastating for me. I immediately stopped playing and took a break, for the rest of the game I thought about what just happened.

The most wow moment in the trilogy for me.

Another is Mordin and his extreme decisions. Qunari in general, Wrex being a good friend, Leliana being a good friend, Ashley not joining in ME2 and reunite in ME3, the Reapers. Garrus is OKish, but also forgettable, maybe that shooting in part one. Meeting Jack.

I also like these "Are you the Herold of Andraste?", "Do you believe in the Maker?", "Mages or Templar?" questions in DAI, these have big influence on the rest of the game it seems (I am still in my first playthrough in this one).

Saving everyone and everything is plain boring

I agree with this.  What they tried to do with the original trilogy, to some success, was hugely difficult.  And ended up boxing them up in a corner with the ending.

Note that the italed is not actually true; it's pretty easy to get several non-loyal squadmates through the SM.

But the post is about feelings rather than facts, right?

I'm playing the same game as KaiserShep personally.

And nobody think I'm great so far, or seems to think my chance to succeed are good. Hell, Cora and Kallo wanted to evac me the first time I encountered a Fiend, lol.

I think MEA has it somewhere awkward in the middle but still more appealing than the Spectre stuff.