Greedfall

I found a game breaking bug in the main quest. An encounter isn’t triggering.

Alright I'll ask. What are the romance scenes like.

Totally agree, its not that Greedfall is bad but the combat is nowhere near in the same league, the character relationships, party banter etc are far better in MEA and DAI, the travel system and the wasting of time going backwards and forwards in Geedfall is absolutely terrible, as is just the general walking mechanic and running animations, crafting is a mile behind both and as for actual relationships well, not even close.

The next zone is always loaded before I'm done going through my inventory, crafting upgrades, talking to companions or checking the vendor, which actually save me the time of doing it elsewhere. So I do think it's an awesome feature.

So deeper in, I've come to a realization.

This game is ten years too late.

If it was out in the mid 2000s, it would be seen as a rival to bioware style games.

As it stands, it's a decent title bit that's about it. Easily spiders best game but I'm not sure it breaks the glass ceiling. Certainly not on par with most of bioware's catalogue. At best, it's the equivalent to bioware's worst titles.

I get the same feel form it as DAO which is about 10 years ago for Bioware but it's not quite to the same standard, so I agree. Again NOT to say it's a bad game, I am warming to it more now that I have had the benefit of actually having a longer session with it rather than playing it lots o small sessions.

The Arks and Movie night are a natural progression of the game as is PeeBee's quest line and the other Companions in that you complete them as you go to every planet so not sure that's the same thing. What I am talking about is quests in the same location that require multiple stages that for the most part are redundant and the information could be far more readily located in a nearby situation or in one place. Yes Auntry Ruth is an absolute diabolical mess of a quest and by far one of the worst examples of any game I have ever played because so much of it is implausible as well.  The "Random" scan quests are also terrible but can be skipped.

I love the idea of the camp setting, I thought it was better done in DAO though with the setting and of course "DOG". My objection is purely I don't want it to pop up every time I travel, I'd like to choose not to go to the camp and wait for the next level to load. Maybe they could insert "lifts" like in ME1 with elevator music!!!!! 

Yeah the animals and bandits are becoming a bit monotonous!!!! 

What about both?

I've been enjoying AA a lot more than AAA for years now personally, but it's clear most gamers are just interested in AAA games and nothing else, to the point of being more forgiving to AAA games for jank and stupid design decisions.

I'm on New Serene now. And there is no debate, the second quests ( even those that aren't tied to the main quest ) are far better than what we got in Mass effect Andromeda, and I'd even say DA:I for most of it, with all its fetch quests tied in an open world. We have true investigations, and I absolutely love that.

Bioware needs to play this small game so they can know again how to design second quests ( not necessarily tied to the main quests ), because it seems they lost this skill lately ( DA:I, Andromeda, Anthem ) for a reason I'm not able to grasp.