Andromeda Greater RPG Feel

Yeahhh, ME2 was a glorified rail shooter. Which I only realized after ME3 came out.
Duck, shoot, duck, shoot... over and over. You could kill everything from one position. And your powers were basically useless because they ALL went into a long ass cooldown simultaneously. So the game forced you to shoot 90% of them time. It was fun at the time, but ME2 had definitely the least RPG elements. ME3 was a MASSIVE improvement in pretty much all respects in terms of gameplay. So much so that biotics became ridiculously overpowered but gosh, I loved it. Never even had to shoot my gun. Just go BOOOOOM!

I believe MEA will have the most RPG elements, which doesn't mean it will be the most fun. But you'll do a lot of resource gathering, base-building and crafting like in DAI. Which is cool IF done better this time.

I'm not certain why anyone would prefer the mechanics of M1 and M2, In comparison to M3 given it's vast improvements In both gun and power sound design, and the talent tree being vastly more engaging than the previous two.

M3 being "far too shooter" In comparison to M2 Is nonsense, as they are virtually identical a part from the new mobility options, if not examined closely.

ME2 had way more choices when it came to weapons and skill than ME1. 

Definitely looking forward to MEA advancement on the 'mechanics' side of RPG, and the shooter side of things. I'm hoping for more RPG in the conversations as that was drained away from the series as it progressed. I think in large part due to there quick turn around period of 2 years. That and not having any of the games actually planned out prior to deciding on it being a 'series'. Then again they made DA2 in a year flat and that had far more 'RPG' building on the conversation side sooo... whatever.

On the whole 'Base Building' I think people might be taking that a bit... wrong. I highly doubt we actually 'build bases'. I think the whole base outposts thing is basically camps from DAI. We'll Nomad(Mako) around, find a suitable location to setup a base (camp) and fall in the engineers. The game will fade to black, do a quick load and poof - base with all the crap we need to do 'stuffs' with out having to leave the planet.

I'd also imagine the bases have a landing point for the Tempest. I know a lot of people cringe at the idea of military landing there ship on the planet but, fuck it it's not the military. And I'm looking forward to picking a planet, flying in, walking from the bridge to the Cargo bay, getting into the Nomad and driving out onto the planet seamlessly.

Makes me wonder if we have to get 'to' the ship to leave the planet, and if so the bases might be quick leave points. Depends how seamless they want that being I think. Personally I hope so, or if you can call the ship to a nearby suitable landing location like a vertibird in FO4 I'd be down for that.

Yep, stripping away the weapon skills especially was a great move. I loved that I could effectively use my whole arsenal in ME2+3 (3 had a weight penalty, but I never let that stop me)

The gameplay elements of ME3 were fine, but the role-playing was ass.  Arguably the worst of the three

I wasn't playing my Shepard.  I was playing Mac's

OMG THANK YOU!

I wanted to say that as I was reading the comments!

What does RPGness has to do with the combat or skill system?! That's like saying Diablo is an RPG because you can choose between 3 classes with different skills (I hear people say that, I kid you not!).

As a P&P RPG player, it always bugged me that people confuse game elements like that

The only thing RPGy about Mass Effect is the renegade-paragon choices and conversation options... That's about it.

In the Dragon Age franchise, only DA2 had some resemblence to RPG conversation choices which made conversations fun, but had no real effect on the game. In ME you barely get the RPG choices, but the effect on the game is much greater.

In that regard, it is almost impossible to make an actual RPG with a computer game.

And anyone who calls MMOs "MMO RPG" should be executed Maybe the new president can be convinced to do that

Krogans don't die. We chug Ryncol and move to Androma

Tying classes and weapon use to the skill tree actually proves my point.

Where you say convoluted I say it had depth.

This.

I don't think ME1 was overkill; I just think it was kind of poorly designed and was encumbered by its ridiculous inventory system. And personally, I hate weapons restrictions for classes and was glad to see ME3 be rid of that crap. If I want to be a shotgun infiltrator or a sniper vanguard, I should be able to do it. I'm playing an elite space marine for Shiagur's sake. In any case, the thing I'm concerned about the most is the actual range of options we have for our character beyond combat. If I have a wide variety of choices to establish the type of person I want my PC to be, I'll happily deal with clumsy gunplay and a cumbersome inventory system.