Star Citizen demo... a 'taste' of Andromeda?

Star Citizen is like a better Elite: Dangerous, although with release date: Next year™, FPS and SP campaign.

Those games simply cannot be compared with Mass Effect IMHO. Also, we already had this discussion, I dunno why people keep bringing it up.

I'll do ya one better.

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Okay, two better.

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I can't imagine anybody who has either of those jobs wanting to come home and do their job in a video game. Next I'm waiting for cowboy simulator.

Well there ya go. Farming simulator should be an open world game where you can canoodle the neighboring farm's daughter(s) and pillage livestock and possibly even salt the earth so nothing will grow there again. It'd make for a fun Facebook Game: Farm Wars.

I was thinking more about the transition from space to atmo to ground without loading screens and a bigger more open feel planet side... the two games (some would argue SC isnt a game...yet) are very different it was more the open feels and transitions

fair points

God I hope not, just watching that made me feel nauseous. I'm fine with loading screens when it keeps my dinner down. 

I'm pretty sure you're right there. They can load the planetary ground level while we watch the squad boarding their shuttle or while the Tempest descends through the atmosphere and lands, and when it's done right, we won't notice any delay during this transition.

MEA doesn't need space to be "there" anyway. We're likely not flying a fighter through an asteroid belt or leave the ship to EVA around some derelict, so all we really need are the Tempest and whatever planet map we get to visit. It's up to BioWare to master the Frostbite engine enough to make it all go smoothly.

I never cared for sci-fi until Mass Effect was pushed on me by a friend in college who said I'll like it anyway because it's an RPG despite the shooter mechanics. I probably never thanked him enough for this revelation.

I'm not much interested in realistic sci-fi games and I still hate shooter gameplay but damn that demo looks impressive. Only thing missing is cool fauna. Why is there no life on the planets?? (Sorry, zero informed about SC.)

Gotta admit, I'd love aspects of this for a Bioware game. ME1 tried to give a realistic feel by making you actually board the Normandy. You weren't greeted by annoying loading screens like ME2+3 that took you out of it. They tried to mask loading with the elevators and stuff. I liked that. On the other hand I don't mind streamlining per se. That ME1 inventory was an abomination. Realism is often NOT fun to me. So I don't want to spend 30min landing on a planet in a STORY-DRIVEN game.

I'm still not convinced (semi) open world is the right move for Bioware. CDPR showed that it's possible to combine open world and narrative in an appealing way. However, I'd rather Bioware focused on a TIGHT emotionally rewarding narrative and only added SOME exploration with GOOD optional side stories. I actually think DA2 had the best story (and good combat for once) after ME1.

I'll play Skyrim if I want to explore and waste countless hours collecting useless shit to put in my home or clear one identical cave after another. And maybe I'll play Star Citizen to do that in space. When I want banter and touching friendships, I play a Bioware game. Exploration is a nice bonus but DAI showed that it actually can take away more than it adds.

Andromeda will be nothing like this demo but that's not a bad thing to me.

Cool, thanks! I don't suppose they'll open this game to modding like Bethesda does? Skeptical about how interesting planets will be and how much there is to do, see No Man's Sky. But I'm intrigued now and will keep checking in on the progress.