People need to stop praising ME1

shut up.

The Dark Tower ending was pretty terribad. Though I did eventually recover and read some more King. 

Seems an insult to compare ME1 to something the Sultan of Brunei probably dunked in his aquarium as a decorative piece.

Better story
Better themes
Better hero
Better characters


MEA took everything ME1 did well and made it low quality like halo. Good game for MP, fun game, but I wrote more compelling essays in middle school than Andromeda as a story. And they completely abandoned what ME themes had in store from the original team.

The way you posted it made it seem like you were comparing it MEA, and not ME1. With that said, ME1 still wins because Sci Fi stills beats real world weapons.

not all 3 arguments fit into me1 description necesserily but 
having to navigate vertically through tons of ammo powerups variations just to sell the obsolete ones while comparing the numbers in the sheets OR having to insert polonium rounds IV searching for them.. this is enough. i dont hate it as i am prone to inventory managing but it really was hell sometimes

True, I'm not defending ME1's inventory management, but stating that MEA's is "questionable" as well- much like everything else regarding UI.

Well considering how all the talk about Andromeda prior to release was about exploration, discovery, and path-finding I would have expected to at least see something 'alien' crop up in our travels. Instead we discover nothing, as the Khett and Angarans were known prior to our arrival, and the Remnant plus the various wildlife are just mindless monsters to kill for XP and loot. 

And the emphasis on banging does indeed have an impact on those things. Consider the amount of resources devoted to romance subplots, and various sex scenes, consider how the first thing considered when designing a new allied alien species is how fuckable they are, rather than trying to explore more science fiction concepts. Imagine what BioWare could do with the world building and various non-human alien species if they would just ditch half the freaking romance points; an aspect of the games that has only increased as the series has moved forwards, taking up more and more of the available resources. 

Not as in-depth as a companion species, but certainly more unique than just having another blue human with rubber prosthetics on their forehead, or just portraying them en-mass as mindless loot/xp bags. You say that I can't call out the lack of any depth given for things like the Remnant or various wildlife we encounter because we don't know what the future of the series may hold, but the whole crux of this thread was comparing ME 1 to ME A. And I'm not discounting the amount of new aliens to old species, just how lackluster the new are compared to what we had in our first experience with the franchise. Sure, aliens like the Rachni and Thorian were a minor, minor part of the overall narrative, but BioWare still managed to include them alongside the 5 other human-like aliens.

In the first game I knew that there was more to species like the Rachni, Thorian, and even the Geth because the vanilla game actually took time and pointed out those aspects. The base game of Andromeda has not done any of those things, in fact, you could just replace the entirety of all the protagonist allied species with humans and nothing about the story changes. Regardless of how well one feels the characterization of the Rachni Queen or the Thorian might have been, it was obvious that the writers were trying to portray something decidedly non-human and actually took time to point those elements out. With Andromeda it's practically just humans or mindless monsters. No nuance, no exploration of things that deviate (if only slightly) from human norms. Etc. 

You call that graphic? It's no more graphic than an R rated movie.