Since its post negative media day in Andromeda.

Oh you did that one did you? My sole survivor Shep as soon as she had control of the Normandy returned straight back to the citadel, rejoined as a SPECTRE, imprisoned the Cerberus terrorists then used Council resources to investigate the colony disappearances and start the hunt for TIM.
It was amazing the lack of forced narrative in ME2.

Well, I really loved the quest with the turian ark.
The story was great, atmosphere was fantastic and I like avitus rix so much that I would kick Vetra off the Normandy in order to get him as a squadmate.

The best part of the mainstory was the archon ship/salarian ark for me. It had meaningfull choices and you did feel bad for characters who died.

Um.  Well.  See, here's the thing.  I've played 1 Ryder all the way through.  I'm about halfway through a 2nd.  Both are F!Ryders.  And they feel quite different to each other.

The first one, I played as mostly emotional, with a good dash of logical, slightly less casual or professional.

This one, I'm mostly logical, with more professional than emotional and almost no casual responses.  And this one is definitely a more by-the-book, serious Ryder.

So, I disagree that Ryder's character is any less my own than Shepard was.  Hell, Shepard joined Cerberus completely against MY will. From the very beginning of ME2, I lost any and all connection to Shepard as "mine."

Wish I could have done that... to me the dialogue options are... way too off (not speaking about disabled emoticons). Way too often the few words on the wheel do not correspond with the line that is delivered at the end. And way too often the lines delivered do not fit the situation (like logical, often way too smartass then logical). So, while I would prefer to go logical/professional most of the time, I pick emotional/casual pretty much (way too often ^^). I never had such issues in previous BW games, I always got what I bargained for. Also, no matter what I say, the NPC reaction is the same... sure the responses vary a bit, but that is all. I wish I would have to talk to the NPCs in a proper way or they willbe pissed (like the few Angara that want to live on the Nexus).

I wondered if someone would answer that question. Thanks! To be clear, are we talking about his oft unusual word-choice, or just his accent? I assume both.

I honestly just get annoyed by his actions, which causes me to nitpick his canned replies. (Oft repeated replies are the bread and butter of big RPGs.) If he were not impulsive and reckless, I'd likely enjoy his character. I was really looking forward to Liam, before release. I liked his accent, his ethnicity, the idea that he was a former cop... Now, it just feels like I have a 7yo occupying a roster spot.

That's a conversation for elsewhere, though. This is the thread of positive things!

There's a number of issues I have with the Hammerhead, but vulnerability is not really one of them. The Hammerhead's maneuverability and tracking projectile weapon essentially makes you invisible. This combination makes it more cheese-worthy than the Mako exploit, where hiding the nose of the tank behind cover basically prevents you from taking any damage (seriously, enemies only target the front end of the Mako). 

One big gripe of mine is that if flies.....but it doesn't. At least with the Mako or Nomad, we have a full on ground transport, but with the Hammerhead, you have to platform your way around maps when we have ubiquitous flying machines that can make their way to various points with ease. It's sad that this military machine is inferior to a civilian vehicle like the sky car when it comes to traversing an area. 

It feels so detached from the game. Being DLC, I guess this is to be expected, but it just doesn't seem to really gel well at all with the rest of the game, and I think it has a lot to do with the maps themselves. This is partly a symptom of ME2 in general, but the maps we have for the Hammerhead feel like old school platforming, which makes it feel like I'm playing something else entirely. LotSB's brief sequence with us flying the sky car on Illium was more meaningful than the entire time I've spent with the Hammerhead. 

You mean invincible right? I never was especially on the higher difficulty levels. I'm curious to see how I feel about the nomad.

I'd trade a thousand Kallo's for one Raeka.

And a hundred Jaals for one Raelis.