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

Never, Ryder was to fixed to ever feel like 'mine' and not strongly written enough for me to not care.

The Aya scene is terrible no matter how you look at it. It's sold as first contact, but it really isn't, yet the game never tells the player right there "the exiles already met the angara". Then Ryder leaves to breathe viruses all over Jaal's face, and he isn't even handcuffed while going around the city. The fact is this scene looks nothing like a first contact with aliens, and more like an encounter between marco polo and the chinese - civilizations that were aware of each other but had little contact before.

I expected a mass effect game to focus on sci-fi issues, and having a first contact be dumbed down like that was extremely disappointing.

And the game doesn't pick up after that, we still get glaring plot holes like why the Archon's fleet doesn't just bombard the nexus, instead of stealing the Hyperion and boasting like a little kid. Ar we supposed to be scared of this guy who has been in this cluster 80 years, holds the remnant city, has a whole army of minions digging relics, and still can't activate a little remnant device? Nah, better the aliens from a galaxy 2.5 millions light years away come and activate it for him.

SAM is housed on their respective Arks, not the Nexus. Ryder's SAM being on Hyperion which is why The Archon stole the Hyperion. 

But yes given his goal of stealing SAM, wasting resources on bombarding the Nexus would be stupid. 

I know, but considering the Hyperion was attached to the Nexus, bombarding the Nexus would have the same bad result: dead SAM.

As soon as I got the facial hair just right in the CC!

With Shep I had to go back and replay. I was a Therum I think and felt that there was greatness here but something was amiss. Started over with Franco (in my sig) and BAM!

As for those that choose all left side dialogue choices and jump on the forums all surprised they don't get the serious and stern lines...

did you not pay attention? Why go through the pain of fighting to exalt the cluster one person at a time when you can do it all at once with a life making, world change terraformer?
Crushing the nexus would be point less. The initiative was never a threat. Even with them go he would still lose because of the remnant fleet ryder brought and the fact that the rest people of the cluster helped outside the nexus as well.

It would be pointless.
Also, clearly don't know anything about sam. Sam is just connected to ryder, his crew and his sister. Sam does nothing for the nexus.

I guess it never really happened, but I started to like Ryder much more after Kadara because of some things that happened there.
I admit that pretty much always with a new BW game the first run is some kind of crashtest, but with Ryder I had set I wanted to play him as Professional/Logical very early on because it matched his looks. However, many dialogues and the comedic aspects killed this character for me at some points and I felt really disconnected. It's such a shame, because I feel like Ryder could have had the potential to be so much more than what was allowed. I am aware characters in DA and ME are never truly ours (though I didn't have a problem with any of these so far), but something with Ryder didn't click. Partially, it's the tone choices, but as I read more and more posts on here I came to the conclusion that this is not entirely Ryder's fault, it's the general tone of the game. Too lighthearted for the setting. A new galaxy and first contact should be threatening, and considering the situation they're in it should be terrifying, not covered in jokes. Jokes are fine in casual responses for those who want them, but the audiodialogue at some points was terrible to me and broke immersion more than once.

That being said, I ended up being fine with Ryder with loads of headcanon and I want him to return in the next game. I didn't love him in MEA, but given a chance to grow and mature, I can see it happening at some point. Bioware just really needs to learn how to use autodialogue right or get rid of it completely. I never had huge problems with Shepards autodialogue for example, but the criticism on it is very valid and I thought that Bioware might have learned a thing or two from it. I can only hope they do in the next game.

This never really happened for me in ME:A. I will say that Sara Ryder is the best character in the game, however.

Sorry but Shepard does that too and that delete the vids comment Ryder does is a selected dialogue choice. It only comes up if you pick it.

This feeling is subjective. So know one is wrong about feeling about what they feel about the rp. 

No, this thread is proof of that. There a lot of people that connected, but it seems just as many didn't. It's okay, though. I was just curious how many felt that connection. If the connection isn't there, then it's hard to justify wanting to play it further and buying the DLC. I'm looking forward to the DLC, but I won't buy them as they come. I'd rather just get the whole game and the DLC all at once, but then you miss out on the mulitplayer window.