Open world kills replay...

Maybe it did for the OP?

I think open world is still too much seen as a requirement, and still not as an strument. It all depends on how is done. In Horizon, Oblivion, Skyrim the Fallout games, open world is funfor me: the journey to go to point A to point B is an adventure, and a easily skipped one to not became boring, be it with a mount ot teleporting to an already discovered place.
Casual encounters, dinamic weather, day/night circle, and random stuff to find around make the world feel intersting enought to having me want to explore.

But I think the big problem is how the secondary mission-fetch quests are done.

In DAI I think the lack of cinematics and sometimes variety in the side missions killed the interest in the mayority of the world. Many missions were cute or interesting, but felt insignificant because the lack of cinematic dialogues/scene make them feel inconsequential. Some time ago I played a secondary mission in DAI in a haunted mansion in the Emerald Graves: it was interesting, and had a good story, but the lack of cinematics made it feel like a simple chore with just some light tricks on the road. Frankly, I can't remember if I had aver done it before.

In Horizon there are secondary missions that are much less interesting than that one, but feel more important and had me more entartained, and had me remember those much better. I will easily remember, replayng Horizon, if I had already done a certain mission or not.

Is frankly after ME2 that I find this problem in BioWare: a lot of fetch quest and little care in the presentation of the side missions. If there is one thing that BioWare can learn from Horizon (beside making Italian dubbing like in the old trilogy ) is about making less fetch-side quests, but putting care in them.

If this have already been done in MEA, ignore me I still haven't playe the game...

^^Agreed - the challenge with an open world is making it interesting enough to travel through and explore, but easy enough to skip through if you find the travel and exploration tedious.

In Mass Effect: Andromeda's case, it doesn't help that a significant portion of the side content is under-developed and repetitive. And, in my opinion, that's the single greatest issue with this game.

I'd really like to see the Mass Effect series stray away from some of these mundane elements. People don't like filler content that feels without purpose.

It kills it because of how many disconnected chores are in the games to extend replay value. If these could connect to the story in some way - or represent more than thinly veiled fetch quests, the game would be a lot better.

Yeah, I feel like I could have been almost done with my second replay, but I'm about to go to Voeld again and... I just don't feel like it.

I think I'll just do the priority and loyalty missions this time and that's it. I did pretty much everything in my first playthrough, 100% viability, minus a few handfuls of fetch quests that I partially completed and a few that were bugged out. I'm good with just doing priority missions this time, loyalty missions (at least the ones that involve finding arks) and MAYBE activating the vaults. Maybe. I kind of don't feel like doing some of those vaults again.

Lies!!!! I have twelve Inquisitors (all completed) and 5 Ryders so far

What killed replay for me was the removal of the paragon/renegade system. I mean, I wouldn't mind replaying all that open world stuff if I though I could approach my interactions with NPC's differently or aim for different outcomes in the quests based on the personality of the character I chose to create. Knowing that my responses, outside of a few key plot points or big heart romance points, have no real impact on how the game plays, was a big part of what killed replay for me.

Yes. Most of the sidequests made more sense while being a pathfinder, better than almost all the sidequest from DAI which had the Inquisitor collecting random itens all over the map.

They need to improve on it, not going back to the "corridor exploration".

The obsessive need to complete every task is what kills replay. This isn't unique to RPGs.

Bethesda seemed to have found a balance with characters and story in their open world. Bioware took inspiration from Skyrim in DAI, and the result wasn't the same. It's easy to lose interest in the Hinterlands because the pacing was all off and the scattered NPCs weren't as engaging. It was easier to feel detached from the open world, for lack of a better explanation. While the fetch/side quests in Fallout and The Elder Scrolls (mostly) involved characters, story, and an actual plot. Open worlds can work, but I think the issue is balancing the content.

I got five pts of DA I in and plan on getting at least four of MEA. And at 500 and 300 hours respectively that does not compare to the eight hundred hours i put into me2 that is pretty much more then any other game out there.

A poorly done open world can certainly kill replay value (looking right at MEA here). A well done open world though does just the opposite, making sure there are always new areas and secrets to find in multiple playthroughs.

Honestly, much as I love open world games, I'm kinda on the fence about BW doing big open areas like MEA. They haven't really shown they can really do it right. Yet. And I do think their inability to do it right has hurt the story telling. I wouldn't really give BW any grief if they went back to a more linear design to accommodate their storytelling better though I would rather see them find a way to make the open world serve the storytelling in a better way.

If BW thinks they can improve and do it better next time I'm all for it. If they don't, well I personally won't blame them for scaling things back.