Steal from Other Games to Improve Mass Effect!

As I said in the appropriate thread, if they go open world, steal from Bethesda in creating the illusion of this worlds being alive. Also steal from them in making their NPCs move.

This! 

I want BioWare to steal from BioWare and stop trying to put systems and other aspects from other games into their games. Isn't what has happened with Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect: Andromeda enough of a warning that if they are putting what "we say would be good" means it can not work out at all? The open world aspect ruined the flow of the story because there was so many dead spots in the story that it impeded the flow. I don't think even trying to look at how CDPR got The Witcher to work would even work in a BioWare game for the way the story works is different.

So quit asking for BioWare to ruin their games to try and put things you personally think would work and maybe we will have another BioWare that will be at the level of their prior works instead of a game that feels was ruined by trying to accommodate the Internet.

Steal from the Sims and give us a decent CC and hair. Also make everyone speak in Simlish and communicate through exaggerated gestures.

Crafting: Fallout 4 (Bethesda)
Reason: I don't know what it is but I really dislike crafting in Bioware games. It is difficult to get a clear overview and everything is locked away behind too many menu's and clicks. The resources you need are also gathered in tedious ways which makes it annoying to collect enough materials. Fallout 4 had its flaws but in a lot of ways but I thorougly loved crafting and collecting in that game. More control, a better overview and better visual changes when you mod a weapon or armourpiece. It also helped that there were plenty of places where you could store your items. Collecting trash als worked together with other goals in the game. You didn't have to go out of your way to just collect stuff, they were found all over the place during normal missions.

Story: Fallout New Vegas/Witcher 3 (Obsidian, CDPR)
Reason: Fallout: New Vegas really showed how having multiple morally grey options can create a very interesting world and story. The game doesn't have a traditional good vs bad set-up. There isn't a singular bad entity you'll have to fight every game. You decide who's going to be your ally and who's not. Every faction, apart from The Legion I guess, can be seen as morally grey. They have their merits, but they are also saddled with a lot of negative traits. When I play the game it is always difficult to make the choice between House, the NCR and the Wild Card. There are a lot of reasons why I listed The Witcher as well. One reason which I want to point out here is how every action you make has foreseen and unforeseen consequences. I also like the fact that sometimes there simply aren't any good options. Only grey ones, where you win something but also lose something. Really makes you engage with the story.

Combat: ME:A (Bioware)
Reasons: Combat in ME:A is solid so I wouldn't change that. Might bring back the higher amount of powers you could equip in the OT though.

Animations/Graphics: Witcher 3 (CDPR)
Reasons: I'm a big fan of the surroundings in TW3, Skellige and Toussaint in particular. The animations are also spot on because they're mostly handcrafted. Something which I would like to see in ME:A again as well. No more automatically generated faces please. And no more clone army.

Open World: TES/Witcher 3 (Bethesda) (CDPR)
I've seen a lot of critique about Bethesda lately but I still believe that their Open Worlds are very nice. Everything works together (it just works), there is a lot of content and there are a lot of handcrafted places. The formula Bethesda uses is up for a little bit of polishing but the basis is very solid. The same goes for The Witcher 3.

Melee Combat: Sleeping Dogs (United Front Gaming)
I really suggest this game if you haven't played it. The melee combat is an enormous breath of fresh air compared to the endless gunplay in other Open World titles like GTA V.

Space Combat: Star Citizen/Elite Dangerous (Cloud Imperium Games, Frontier Developments)
Reason: Not gonna happen but if it does happen, both games are quite obvious choices for this.

Of course I would like to see Bioware discover and implement things on its own but that isn't the premise of this thread so I'll just play along.

Not really.

I went in a random direction in Skyrim and got:

- Mission to recover an item.
- Kill X amount of enemies
- Harvest a certain amount of mineral or hide
- Find this person
- Go to point A then report your findings to point B

It is there.

What Bioware should do is not listen to the fans and make the game they want to make as most of the problems seem to stem from them trying to make the game to appeal to certain parts of the fanbase or as general a fanbase as they can.

How about stealing from other BioWare games? Like having more variety with its set piece music to give certain sequences its own sort of identity, perhaps even themes for each companion, similarly to ME2.

Again, Bioware will never be able to get away with such a linear, streamlined and gutted experience as ME2 and ME3 again with today's gaming. That very limited on the rails experience is dead and it had nothing to do with MEA's failures. I want Bioware to improve the new systems they have in place.

Like stealing the option to have a 3-way like in Jade Empire?

A portal gun might be to on the nose. Way, way to on the nose.

Personally, I just want BioWare to improve upon the formula they have. Make it even better.

Warp.