Already feeling nostalgic of Andromeda D:

Only some environments then, animations are no better, quest structure & quality, "open" world design, faces and hell - even the Nomad is hella boring, no reason for it to be there when you have shuttles and no combat mode, even ME1 did this part better, because you know, you were engaged despite the all the jank, 2007. And since you're often using it, it's a biggie. It's like Bioware isn't catching up to today's standards.

I don't understand how the Mako was better. I wasn't more engaged, personally. (The combat mode was boring because the Mako is invincible at range.)

Trouble with the Mako, in retrospect, is that a lot of the time, it really was just padding with some combat thrown in. Like, when we heading to a base to confront Head Mook #7, we didn’t need to land miles away. Perhaps in some instances it made sense though, like heading to Peak 15 on Noveria, where even a shuttle might have issue with the weather, or on Virmire, where anti-aircraft weaponry prevent a closer landing entirely.

Playing ME again from the beginning, as much as I like the Mako itself, the game has a hard time justifying using it at lot of the time. 

At least the Nomad's wheels make decent, mobile cover..... Yeah, that's about the best thing I have to say about the Nomad.

Sadly, it's more than I have to say (positively) about the Mako, but that's a debate for a different board.

I can’t say that I found myself terribly invested in the Mako in the end. Honestly, the shuttle drops straight into the missions in ME2 and ME3 were probably for the best, and easily made the most sense. In retrospect, I would have preferred if Andromeda stuck with that formula instead. 

ME1 had lots of landmarks, but fuck all if most of them were terribly interesting. It was basically ancient ship debris, dead salarians, the occasional satellite with swag in the trunk or matriarch writings, which for some reason I bothered to get all of in my first run. I’d say that the most interesting side content in ME1 had little to do with the actual planetary exploration but rather those interrupts that prompt a new mission over the comm, like when you get the morality-specific mission from Hackett. 

I think shuttle drops ultimately were the best way to get the player to the missions at hand. It allowed for good exposition and dialogue on the way there, and really, it made the most sense. The Nomad is a vastly superior vehicle in terms of driving dynamic, but I think in the end, wheeled vehicles shouldn't be a thing anymore, especially since the average consumer in the Milky Way had flying cars. 

oh dear god are people seriously missing andromeda? So many things wrong with the game. It's like pining for your dog after it's just ripped your face off. Bizarre.

Maybe their faces are tired...

This is the internet.   If anybody at all cared about them, they'd still be there.   

Thanks a lot, I've looked for the page using the website menu with no luck, gonna try with google