Another good opinion of MEA, its failings and successes.

The video in the OP did. Quite a decent one in fact.
As a fan of BioWare, you should see the value of visual production more so than others. Video reviews take what would otherwise be static, possibly bland, and often intimidating walls of text and presents them in a way that is far more accessible and engaging than they normally would be.

The format is more difficult to respond to (not by that much, though, let's be honest), but it's up to you whether or not you think it's worth your time to respond to it. Doesn't make the OP lazy in either case. Besides, we'e had written sources posted here before, and it's not like the discourse dramatically improves.

Yep, but walls of text can be read anywhere at any time, while watching a video is always a hard sell for me, personally. I need earphones, and it eats in the cell-data-stuff thing like crazy, it is hard to fast forward, quote and the images are distracting & it's precious time that can be spent gaming (text can be read on a bus or at work, lol). Gimme text any day with pictures over the u-tube!

I actually waited for someone quoting that. So the open worlds we're having is what exactly? A figment of our minds?

Pretty much.

Or its someone groping for a reason for not liking something. But people tend to try and equate things they don't like with other things they don't like.

So if you say 'i don't like mea because its world is lifeless.' I'll see your point, hell i even kind of agree with it. But if you say 'i hate mea because of its massive open worlds' then we'll have issues because that's borderline delusional.

Or if you say 'i dislike meas side content because its boring' I'll think you're nuts...but i will see the point. But if you say 'i don't like MEA quests because they are ninety percent fetch quests.' means you only focused on the tasks before playing the end mission. Or you have such a broad definition of the term it's lost all usefulness. And especially with the vast improvement over DA Is quests we'll have fighting words since i don't want them to regress to something that was'more popular' or borrow from something like Bethesda God forbid.

Do I have to gobble up every corporate bullshit statement to actually like something? Do I have to be on my knees praying to the gods of game creation to actually like a game?

I never said, I didn't like the game. I like it, but that doesn't keep me from pointing out what I don't like and to draw comparisons with other games where I liked how they handled it in a better way. And by the way, the guy in OP's video isn't a hater either, which should be clear when really listening to him making his arguments. He's just not the all rose painted elephants and fairies floating from the company's hindcheeks guy some people obviously expect everyone to be to meet their own standards of liking.

whether you personally like or dislike the game is irrelevant. If you make.illogical arguments on the parts you dislike, you're going to face opposition.

its based on both.

Let.me tell you a story. Its about this company called cdpr. Now cdpr released a game and called it an RPG. But when i played it i found it to be one of the weakest RPGs I've ever played. A truly great game don't get me wrong. But a bad RPG. So bad in fact that had i been cdpr i would not b have called it an RPG.

Now MEA has the luxury of having gp match corporate speak. The worlds some are large yes, but the majority of them are corridor crawls like ME 2. And for the record even if MEA was just.one large.open map...you know what i consider open world...and they said 'it's not open world' I'd be forced to bow to their definition just.like with cdpr.

Exploring a planet modelled after the world of Breath of the Wild would be amazing - been playing that lately and it blows MEA away. Nothing is gated - you truly can go anywhere whenever you want.

I would've liked them to find their one golden world and then have had it have all the different environments they've currently scattered across planets.

Not a true open world game to me, but it's pretty close, and does carry a lot of elements with it like a bunch of back tracking and over 50 "collect this or talk to this group of 6+ people (that serve no purpose besides maybe a better explanation on things)" kind of quests like most open world games would use. In order for andromeda to be a full on open world, it needs to have the lack of loading screens or instances, instead you have to travel planet to planet, station to station, while they're huge, they're not all connected like a skyrim or GTA V would be. Another thing (and this is probably the #1 thing)stopping andromeda from being open world is the restrictions it has on it, you don't have access to everything right from the getgo. Instead, you have to progress through certain missions to unlock other worlds where as skyrim or GTA, you can go anywhere after the tutorials, there is no "beat this to unlock this city/town/place".

bioware will most likely say the opposite simply cause it takes away that attention. Bungie says destiny isn't an mmo as well and the purpose is to try and not have your audience think it so, else you have people arguing over what the game is and isn't. However andromeda has a much better case being argued as an open world than destiny an mmo. A lot of people also tend to use personal definitions when defining a genre, that alone can also contribute to arguments over what a game is.

That's a good point... they'd have to use some sort of settlement system probably where everything you do adds to the overall completion of the settlement, and then at different points of completion they could drive the story forewords.

Deep down most people want some de-wimpified oldschool hardasses* back in charge of most things, but most people are also too afraid to say that out loud or even admit it to themselves because they think they have to bow to political correctness and all the new age bullshit that comes with it. 

(* male AND female hardasses. ) 

I didn't fail my comprehension, I simply disagree