Ryder is definitely less stupid than Shepard

There is a bigger thing behind this and one where I think ME:A will come out ahead if there are sequels made.
Mass Effect alone had 4 major decisons:
- save zzzz or the racist
- Rachni
- kill Wrex or not
- Council

That's 4 potentially big - for your future squad or the ongoing story - decisons that have to be incorporated into the next game or made inconsequential so they don't actually matter as a decision. This obviously leads to a permutation nightmare without even factoring in any of the decisons in the sequel.
Obviously bioware pretty much retconned 2 of them, but we're also forced to downgrade the two companions as a result.

Now I'm only around 50% through ME:A but it lookd like that they may have learnt their lesson this time, even if it does limit the decison impact.

Hopefully they can explore more in future games.

Well okay then.  I can tell you one thing; Your not going to make many friend if you go around throwing dirt at our Shep.  Shep has infiltrated to many hearts for people to let it slide.  

But Ieldra... I can't murder for the sake of murder, so this automatically is a bad RPG.

/sarcasm off

Well, if you killed him, he was dead

In ME1 it was possible to be left with only 2 companions after Virmire with others being dead or never recruited. Andromeda may be the first Bioware game I've played where you don't have any choice on who you travel with. You have to recruit all of them, they can't leave\die and you can't be in conflict with any of them. 

Agree with the first bit, but in my game jaal won't talk to me at all. Don't know how long it goes on for but it's been a few missions so far.

I think it ends when you bring the Moshae back to Aya. I didn't notice any change in dialogue or anything, if you progress the main quest right away you probably won't even notice that he had any change in attitude towards you. 

True, the clowns have a monopoly.

Emotions and feelings Kaiser...that is the diference.

I know the efforts andromeda writers did to fulfill the Ryders personality.
But when i say blank i mean the empathy with us players.
And i think i can say for a fact...they have failed.

Not sure Ryder would ever get to where Shep ended up. Not sure if it's intelligence or not - but I would bet on Shep anyday.

Shepard and the MET was written around a "hero archetype", that was the major tenet and carrier of the game.

The Ryders and MEA feels not written around a specific archetype but definitely with feminization agenda in mind. The Ryder twins are blank canvasses and the rest of the cast mostly irritating rescue dreamers locked up in emotions absent of much sense and of course the odd mandatory psychopath to balance the two out.

The first trilogy wanted to be nothing more than a good game written around an interesting but much-used archetype. MEA is propaganda first and game second = big difference.

I just checked- when I try talking to him camera enters cinematic mode, he turns around and cinematic mode ends. He doesn't say anything, so I guess it's a bug though he might still be angry.

His last cut-scene worked normally though.

PS. (I'm past Kadara)