Another good opinion of MEA, its failings and successes.

Don't act coy.  Your reputation precedes you.  I've seen you post enough snarky, passive aggressive comments to have an idea where you're coming from when you say "I think that this review is fairly rational".  You can act innocent if you like but you're not fooling anyone who's familiar with your comment history.

I gotta admit, when it was revealed that in Andromeda there was another ancient race of aliens who left behind their tech, I was a bit let down. Opportunity wasted.

I thought it was a fair video, listed pros and cons. He even goes so far in the video to admit it's just how he felt while playing (i.e. just his opinion and not an objective truth) and acknowledges that his perception may be colored by nostalgia glasses. For the most part, I see where he was coming from.

I've defended the open world concept in MEA before, but I agree it could have been utilized better. I liked the concept of exploration in the fetch quests, but some more characterization and interaction would have gone a long way to make them feel less tedious. Even something like replacing the zoom in camera and always using cutscenes (which I'm guessing was a resource issue) would have made the scattered NPCs and side quests more engaging and less depersonalized on an aesthetic level. I do believe they made a (small or large, however you may see it) step in the right direction from DAI, however, since most of the side content was actually plot-relevant.

And yes, even while first playing (100% spoiler free) and before jumping online, I did notice the parallels in plot from the MET. Something new and unexpected could have been cool, or could have ended in disaster (ME3 ending), so as he said they "played it safe".

I still enjoyed the game, though. I had fun, and that's the reason why I play video games.

You didn't disagree with what I actually said. Saying that I can still do something isn't a disagreement with an argument that the procedure is annoyingly inefficient.

You can say that the procedure actually is efficient, or say that you're not personally annoyed by the inefficiency. I'm guessing it's the latter"

I did disagree with what you said:



I disagree.