But as Seb said wiping the slate clean so to speak does have the advantage of complete freedom from a creative standpoint.

Yeah and that was fucking stupid. The ME3 ending is already fucking stupid, so you'd have fucking stupid squared.

What I find appealing about the Andromeda option is it's the best of both worlds. It moves away from the horrible but in way that still preserves continuity. It's starting over without needing to pretend the previous games never happened. It's a very elegant solution. I wouldn't have though it possible, really.

My need for more sci-fi rpgs has me mildly interested but we'll say I'm cautious at best. I mean like it's been stated, we don't know much about it so it's hard to drum up enthusiasm after everything but if they can get close to how I felt with ME1, I'd be happy.

I wouldn't give up hope on Mr. Walters just yet.....he may just end up surprising us.

I agree with Breakdown, ME:A could turn out to be quite decent. We won't know until it's released.

Mac Walters is still on the project, but he's not the leader writer anymore.

Current information suggests that it's Chris Schlerf, who was the lead writer for Halo 4.

A mediocre story but with enough genuine choises and consequences and NWN style variety and origins (more classes and skills, ability to choose Salarian, Turian etc.) for Andromeda is good enough for me.
And it better not be dealing with Reapers again.

I'm cautiously optimistic for ME:A. The core of the game is being done by people that didn't really work on the production of the main trilogy so I expect some fresh things in gameplay and story wise. They fucked up so badly in the ending of ME3 that taking the story to Andromeda is the only way for BioWare to don't piss the shit off their fanbase even more.

No kidding, I think I might even take Mac's nonsensical bs over his.

Edit: Although apparently he might not be working on the game anymore, going by his removal from this page.