More clunky less sleek

Syd Mead was more than Citadel. Basically its the shaping, but tables, skycars, Mako, whole aesthetic.. I wouldnt mind Foss style mixed with Mead style at all!

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The 70's was a dark and brown time. Everything was brown. All pants, all cars. Even the sky.

I didn't arrive until the following decade, but I have seen ye olde photographs depicting this very brown, very plaid time.

No, 70's SciFi is very dated.

So keep it Syd Mead I love his stuff too.

Yeah I agree. Biggest problem when you create something big in s game is you hardly see all of it. In KOTOR you could tell that several areas were designed to be bigger but they were limited due to the technical limitations of the Xbox. In ME the Citadel was a big station that obviously had a lot of areas not created. You could likely spend a whole game’s budget on rendering the whole thing. The Nexus was similar but they handled it well imo. I do like the sleek design.

True it would be large. It would even have a hangar Bay for the tempest! I was viewing it as more of a portable hub, a deep space vessel for extended journeys. I would hope all areas would be fully accessable and fleshed out, as the soonest a new ME game would arrive will be next gen. They could do it but I suppose they could skimp on a few areas. It could be armed as well,if they don't modify the tempest.

The Nexus was alright but I can't imagine being six clusters away and having to turn back to go talk to Tann or Addison because there is a problem they can't solve...

I really liked Andromeda, my next playthrough will be my seventh, but another game set there will be the third reboot in the series. I usually think about what they could do next. Also, I like Syd Mead and wouldn't get rid if that style, I'm just...adding to it.

I think its that "hippie in the garden thats in space"

I just don't see the benefit of going to that extreme unless they are bringing all the leaders along, but at the same time it felt like the majority of the Tempest and even the Hyperion barely felt explored.  If they are sending us out to the frontier to explore I would expect maybe a ship a little bigger then the Tempest, but only in the way that the Normandy compared to the Normand SR2.

The majority of what we do on the Nexus aside from being the hub for the leadership is already on the Tempest, so going to the extreme of making another ship to dock on just for the sake of being there doesn't seem to solve the problems that were encountered in Andromeda where they were trying to do so much in a standard development window.

We'd have to take Nexus leadership with us!? Noooooooo forget I said anything. At first I offered beige and Black Sabbath, now I see horror. I can see them modifying the tempest for further exploration.

At the time it was cool. I love the design of the Nostromo from Alien but in ME? Nope.