Honestly, should Andromeda been a bit more alien?

To me I think Bioware could have done more to make things less familiar and more alien.

Planets:

Habitat 7 should have been a fully explorable planet like the rest because it had that unfamiliar/weird/alien feel. Yes, I know from narrative reasons why it wasnt but still, Bioware could have taken the look and atmosphere of the planet for one of the other garden worlds like Eos.

Speaking of Eos, that and Voeld were missed opportunities. Thet were just generic ice and desert planets. Bioware should have made these locations more exotic and something that we could not have imagined in the Milky Way.

Races:

Why is it that in a new galaxy, we see more races....from the previous galaxy!? When I first played ME1 and stepped onto the Citadel for the first time after Eden Prime, I really felt like I was stepping into new territory and got that, "I am just a small spec in a much larger galaxy". I mean, asside from the Turians which I already saw on the Normandy (Nilhus), I saw the Salarians, Krogan, Asari, Hanar, Quarians, Volus, Elcor, and Keepers. That is 7 new races, 8 including the Turians. Then the DLC introduced the Batarians....9 races! The alleged new DLC for MEA introduces.....the Quarians....another MW race and a recent MP DLC gave us....a Bartariam....ANOTHER MW race.

Yet we only have 2....I said TWO Andromeda races! 1 bad and 1 good. If you just played the game without any dialog and just watched the visuals, you could have mistaken MEA for being a game that takes place in the Milky Way with 2 new races discovering the galaxy.

This leads me to my next point.....


Civilization/History:

ME1 had the Citadel, a central location where all the advanced races called home and essentially the capital of the MW. Here you learn about how the Asari discovered it, how the Salarians help formed the Counsel and SPECTRES, how the Rachni Wars came, and then the discovery of the Krogans, then the Rebellions, then the Turians and so on. You learn how the Volus are at the center of galactic economics, Turians military, Salarians science, and Asari art/philosophy. You get that Dorthy "Im not in Kansas anymore" moment. Yet in Andromeda there is nothing like that. Bioware never really established any Andromeda civilation/organization/government/conflicts like they did in the MW. In the MW, we saw the rivraly between humans and bartarians, Quarians and Get, Krogan and Turians/Salarians etc. But nothing like that in MEA other than Kett and Angara.

Its like Bioware wantes to have the cake and eat it to. They used the excuse to run away from the ME3 endings by going to an new galaxy to explore more. However, they still want Andromeda to be more grounded in MW lore/races/conflicts rather than truely letting the MW go and just open up new (more than 2) Andromeda races, lore, and conflicts. Its like Bioware wanted to leave the MW but not leave behind the contents of the MW which to me diminishes the "newness" of Andromeda. They wanted to have the cake and eat it to.

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IF there is a MEA2 (Which I hope doesnt follow Ryder), Bioware needs to open up Andromeda and show us more new Andromenda advanced races and alien homeworlds and new Andromeda factions and conflicts. Its as if Bioware wasnt confident enough in Andromeda being a strong selling point so they used all the MW races in order to make it appealing to the ME base. Sort of like how Marvel used RDJ/Iron Man in the marketing/narrative in the new Spidey movie cause they didnt think Tom Holland could sell it himself.

If Andromeda is supposed to be new then it should be new and less familiar. I dont care about the Krogans vs Salarians/Turians anymore, I want to experience Andromeda races and THEIR conflicts. I want to see the Andromenda equivalent of the Citadel and be exposed to Andromeds politics and so on.

Im not sure if we will ever get a MEA2, but if we do, I want Bioware to open up their imaginations and stop playing it safe. There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON why I should see more MW races in Andromeda than I do actual Andromeda races. No reason.