Star Citizen demo... a 'taste' of Andromeda?

I'm doing a major speculation, but I think SC aims for a way bigger scale. Obviously ME:A will be heavy story driven and sure as hell you wont have that much liberty, as in traveling to any planet and land anywhere you want.
However I wont deny that the idea of ME:A came to mind when I saw the SC presentation. Their progress is looking good btw, still heaps of work to be done, but they're getting there.

Star Citizen does look like an amazing experience. I come away impressed everytime I take a look at anything to do with it. (I have not yet watched the above posted video, to be clear.) That said, it's an insanely ambitious undertaking. I hope it achieves all its goals, but it's not something ME could ever hope to emulate and remain accessible its present fanbase. The XBox and PlayStation consoles could never run anything close to Star Citizen. It's simply too much in every way.

Honestly, many ME "fans" may not receive such a game all that well, anyway. As Cyonan said, Star Citizen is aiming to simulate life in space. While few here would complain about that depth of RP experience in a ME game, I suspect many in the broader ME audience are just looking to shoot some aliens with some context. I could be wrong. I'm basing that conjecture upon years of internet discussions regarding the IP.

I do hope MEA achieves that feeling of space exploration. It's one of the things they've been on about for years, and they have the tech and know-how to do it, so I expect we will be pleased. I just think comparing SC and MEA is comparing apples and oranges. Other than being RPGs set in space, there isn't a lot of common ground, really. Expecting such is just setting things up for the inevitable troll debates and disappointment.

Star Citizen also has a SP component, Squadron 42. I could see that being closer to MEA than the MMO part of the game. Though from what little I've seen of Squadron 42 it seems to focus more on the military sci-fi angle than the exploration angle MEA seems to be going for.

Frankly I trout it.

By the time Star Citizens is released it will be a nonfiction game.

I dunno, I think the space-to-planet transition could be similar, based on this from the various leaks:



Though I think it's been confirmed that we won't be flying the ship manually in any real sense, so it'll be more like watching a cutscene.

These similarities, if they do exist, will be largely superficial, though. Andromeda's a singleplayer story-driven RPG, while Star Citizen's a space-sim MMO. Both involve roleplaying, naturally, but MMOs kind of can't offer the same storytelling depth as singleplayer RPGs, unless they try for an awkward half-step like The Old Republic--which, in truth, has always felt somewhat hamstrung as a story-driven RPG by its MMO trappings, at least to me.

You'll still be able to roleplay in Star Citizen, of course, but it'll mostly just be in your head--well, unless you find a good roleplaying server or something. And even then, it still won't be an authored story in the same way. (Which, hey, is precisely why a lot of people like MMOs so much--because they offer such a different experience from singleplayer RPGs. It's just not really my sort of thing.)

Squadron 42 sounds like it might be a little Mass Effect-ish, but I've gotten the impression it's gonna be a relatively roleplay-light experience. At least, if you define 'roleplaying' as making character decisions, dialogue choices and so on.


I dunno, I think it's maybe a little harsh to lump people who aren't particularly fussed about the minutiae of fictional space travel in with people who 'are just looking to shoot some aliens with some context'. Now, I actually do give a shit about the minutiae of fictional space travel, but that's because I'm a sci-fi nerd who could probably walk the corridors of the Enterprise-D blindfolded with how many hours I've spent poring over the schematics for no good reason. This demonstrably doesn't really do anything to affect the depth of my 'RP experience', though, as I can be just as invested in, say my Warden from Dragon Age as I am in Shepard, in spite of the fact that I don't give nearly as many shits about how one properly swings a sword or casts a spell as I do about the way a Thanix Cannon works. 

Is the Mako boring because of the previous version, or because it's a wheeled vehicle?

Eventually maybe. Sounds like it's currently delayed indefinitely. Gee, what a shocker.

As for the OPs question, I'm going to say the answer is no. I don't recall where or when, but I seem to recall BioWare saying that we wouldn't be controlling the ship in any flight-sim kind of capacity. That pretty much precludes space/planet transitions for anything but cutscenes. If they include that, it will just be to cover up load screens.

See, this is why I saved you guys in ME3.

Perhaps.

Although man Star Citizen looks bland.