Ryder too soft

lol, classic, not reading the comment before you post, nice job fanboy.

It's intelligent responses like that FORCE me to rethink my opinion. You and Smilesja. It's hard to bridge that gap for one to see just the overall view as opposed to the inner-working and construction of the story itself. You guys make me jump that gap and I still don't agree with you, but at least I better understand you.

Which is all I care about at the end of the day, can't speak for smiles, but I view arguments the ideal argument as the need to express one's viewpoint.  I'm not looking for conversion.  I am not trying to convince anyone I am right I am just trying to say 'ok but this is my position, understand it.' Granted I do not always live this ideal, but I do try.  

Edit: Which is often, like to Kappo up there, I go 'help me understand your position I did not see how the auto dialogue was that intrusive in Andromeda, so help me see what I might have missed, help me understand.'

But your character does not act like a pussy during convos.  Of course I suppose your definition of 'pussy' and my own are entirely different.  After all we seem to be operating under a very different set of moral guidelines when it comes to dealing with these games.  But Ryder can be assertive and professional in a lot of the dialog options, or not and get shut down by Tann, but that is the moral equivalent of a punk kid coming up and telling a successful millionare how tough and cool they are.  But by the end of the game Tann treats Ryder very differently because Ryder has proved themselves.  And this is not even touching all the borderline bad ass/ renegade/ and downright ruthless things Ryder can do in the narrative choices.  So again, my comment does apply.  My Bro has proven themselves time and again as a competent soldier within and without combat. 

Edit: And another thing I just realized.  I suppose maybe you played 'your' Ryder like a pussy because you wanted to play a 'weak beta male', but I'm not playing mine like that. 

Perhaps not but there is plenty of renegade/ assertive dialog/ actions sprinkled throughout the game.  Granted I suppose the argument could always be made 'we want more', but to say they don't exisist? Just seems like wilfull ignorance or a really twisted sense of morality.  Something that excuses Shepard in their actions and applauds Shepard for being 'so bad ass' while criticizing Ryder who can do a lot of very similar things to the Spectre.  (san punching reporters of course).  

The only reason this is even an issue in the first place is that BioWare did a rather terrible job implement the Renegade/ Paragon 'morality' meter in the OT.  2 of the three games the dialog system was barely servicable, one of them I would say is down there amongst the worse dialog systems I've ever played in an RPG right down there with the 'dialog system' in TW 3.  And sure, I think the Renegade/ Paragon system is feasible...it worked relatively well in ME 2...but if BioWare can't make it work or make it work very poorly or don't clearly define the system (which they didn't in ME 1 and 3) then I am pretty glad they ditched it in favor of the new system.  Which is one of my favorite dialog systems in an RPG. 

Ryder is a pussy.  You have four renegade options in the entire game, let Drack drop a Merc, kill Peebee's Lover, kill the Kett Nazi, and shoot the Angara Nazi.  Woopty-doo.  Who shits on you?  Tann, Morda, Sloane, Addison, Angara Nazi, Archon, your own Team, and about 20 random_NPC_01's you run into.

And the idea that Ryder is "assertive" is just laughable.  

Ryder is supposed to be immune from such things. 

Must really suck looking  at everything as some kind of SJW message.  "My god the protagonist isn't a monotone robot and lack a sense of humor.  DAMN YOU TWITTER AND ANTIA!"

To be fair, he couldn't have anticipated an ace in the hole like SAM having so much access to Ryder's physiology. No one else in the galaxy would have possessed the ability to escape. 

the archon left because of an explosion and the lack of Communications. Sure maybe he could have v left a guard i suppose But the Pathfinder was very trapped. Oh and btw Ryder escaping actually proved to his advantage.

Being a dick can lead to the Asari pathfinder being replaced so if Ryder went around punching and murdering those he disagree with could get him in big trouble. Could Ryder be more ruthless? Sure it's possible but not to the level of Shepard.

To be fair Saren and Sovereign could have killed Shepard within the first hour or two of ME 1 but didn't because plot.