A Trail of Hope for me what it felt like arriving at Skyhold. I turned the corner.

The game kind of lost me on Aya as well.  The whole thing with the language, and then you find out that Angarans have been living side by side with exiles which seems to explain how they know your language.  However, it then raises the question of why the Angarans were looking at you like they've never seen a human before.  "How does it stay upright with legs like that" or whatever the one said.  It was if they had never seen a human before, the entire thing made no sense whatsoever.  Either they had seen humans before or they hadn't, can't be both.

Then the whole we're the galactic good guys line wasn't even the corniest line of the scene for me.  It making first contact with a race who had just forced you to land under threat of force, and having your Ryder on the way out say Hey guys, if this doesn't go well and I die some horrible, gruesome death, please no one record it and upload it.   I literally almost turned off the game.  

This is why I never connected with Ryder, because no matter how many times you tried to pick professional responses, or something in an attempt to make your Ryder go the hell up, either auto dialogue or some terrible paraphrase showed you that your Ryder was always going to be a clown that never took anything seriously.

1. They weren't looking at you like they never seen you before, they were mostly looking at you like a possible alien invader. With how the kett treated them it's not a surprise. Also, just because some argarian's met humans do not mean all argarians have seen humans. At that point most have not. they are only on one of their planets. Remember, Wrex was the first krogan Shepard has seen and Tali was the first quarian Shepard seen.

2.You could of picked a different line. Any issue with that line is a matter of preference. If you want to do it's seriously pick the right options.
That line about deleting the vids if he die is on the left side which is always the casual one with the jokes. If you don't like them pick ones on the right.

Go play that part again, they say what is it, how does it stay upright with legs like that.  That leads one to believe they're seeing you for the first time.  Which isn't the case before Angarans are working with exiles on Kadera.

Kett exhultation facility did it for me. Which was basically because it was my first renegade interrupt and I was so pissed and it felt so good.

But that took a while to get to and then was a hard to find again. I kept drifting in and out of immersion in the game. Maybe the protagonist was just too young? I don't know...I played Life is Strange and was an emo/shy teenegae girl (the absolute opposite of what I am in real life), but I felt invested in her.

So...maybe I will truly feel like my Ryder is mine in the next game.

Also...sword scene in DAI...yup, that was my moment too!

Through the entire game. Left casual and jokes, right logical and serious.  Near every  single conversation. Pricking left on this and being surprised it's not serious is like pick the bottom choice and being surprised it's not the paragon option back in me1-3.

You also wrote this first. 1. They weren't looking at you like they never seen you before, they were mostly looking at you like a possible alien invader. With how the kett treated them it's not a surprise.

Like I said before, it can't be both.  Either they weren't looking at you like they had never seen humans before or they were looking at you like they had never seen humans before because those particular Angarans hadn't seen humans before.

For me Dreman999, there would have to be strict protocols for first contact for every species to insure as little harm or provocation as possible. Dropping us into the middle of a city that is extremely vulnerable is reckless. I know the narrative needs to be pushed, but it felt campy.

Then... okay. You're right. 

Damn it, Gil...Why did I side with you?

I had to overcome that too. I did. Add the game-breaking saves, the T-poses, everyone on botox and I raged quit. When I came back after patch 1.05, I still blew through the main mission to the end avoiding all the content that my OCD demands that I uncover. I found myself liking the game. Then I retried it from the start as a male Ryder determined now to get every codex, easter-egg, open every door-type thing, etc. and I'm discovering the shine that was just overlooked. I'm also now a veteran of the dialogue wheel and I avoid those cringey-lines. It's asking a lot from a fan to do this because our first trial shouldn't have the been the shit show it was. But, I'm jacked into Bioware again. The dripline is moving in the right direction.

Creating my own custom Sara, I immediately felt that she was my character. I followed her up with another Sara in my NG+. Despite being another Sara Ryder, she felt completely different. Her appearance was drastically different, as were some key personal choices. I'm now playing a Brewis-Ryder Scott, and he feels very different. Some of it is the differences in writing for the siblings; part of it is the Cora relationship; and some of it is my musing on what he might've been like before arriving in Andromeda. (He and Cora seemed to have a preexisting connection, and that got me to musing.)

The RP choices aren't incredibly deep with this game. We really do only get to choose between tone, rather than substance, more often than not. Since the substance is generally in line with the "paragons" that I play, it doesn't ruin the game for me. More variety would be appropriate and appreciated, though. I think that a lot of the individuality and ownership of these characters comes more from my imagination than from the game. It's not necessarily bad, in my case, but not everyone has the same imagination. And what of the renegades? They were left out of this game.

It is the case for most angara spending their vesaal on Aya. Some resistance, some traders, and others privy to this type of information would recognize humans. Most, though, would've never seen a human before Tempest came streaking out of the skies of their hidden sanctuary world.