Q & A With Joe Juba Game Informer on Reddit

Great info, thanks!

Me too, and to add to that, the areas were generally encountering the same mob of enemies over and over and over and over...again!  Combat was grindy and repetitive and generally just stale as hell outside of dragon encounters and a few other fights.  And I really don't have a problem with them pushing exploration but they need to weave good story telling into and provide me with agency outside of "we're running low on magic space rocks to run the generator..."  Piss off, get off your ass and look for your own "insert resource here" and stop wasting my time!

Well, she got a stupid name and a stupid face to begin with. 

Moreover, the fisrt time we saw her in gameplay she was wearing a barely closed jacked in an alien environment, saying things like "off the charts" and rolling over objects with her legs wide open. 

Last but not least, can't forget this:



So I can't really blame people for disliking her. Moreover, she is an Asari that many people don't find attractive. That's like a fish that can't swim! Personally, I don't feel anything for the character, which seems a very reasonable thing if you ask me. 

No problem  ! Right now I have a feeling I'm not going to like Peebee. That being said I'm keeping an open mind. We really don't know very much about her yet. She is starting to remind me of Sera from DAI, who I was convinced I was going to hate, but she ended up being one of my favorite companions from the game. Hopefully it's the same for Peebee.  I don't think she's ugly though. I think she's very pretty, but everyone has a different opinion of who they think is pretty. I'm just looking forward to learning more about her and Liam. Especially Liam. He sounds like my type of guy.

My first reaction to her is rather unattractive both in terms of the snippets of characterisation we have got as well as looks. Then there's her utterly stupid name. Really wasn't a fan of Sera in DAI either so if she's anything like her i'll likely have little time for her.
Keeping my fingers crossed for better news from rest of squad.

Again, I don't think it's a problem if people don't find her attractive. Calling her ugly, manly or that it's weird she's not attractive because asari are (while it's not true, at all, for all asari) is a bit overboard, in my opinion.

I do hope her real name will be revealed soon and the nickname won't be used often, but I think it's more likely her real name will come up in her dialogues, so she'll be called by most as Peebee.

Yeah there's a lot of hyperbole flying around because we've got very limited info on a very limited number of characters.
I don't think it's a problem that i don't find her attractive, though i'm personally somewhat nervous of a repeat of my companion disappointments of DAI.

This interview does not fill me with confidence for cool big alien cities. *sigh* I forgot this was a MAJOR failure of DAI. We got this big world but we only got to see a tiny area of Val Royeaux. Really, Bioware? Assassins Creed came out ages ago but you can't pull this off in 2014?? I remember how utterly disappointed I was that this was all we got aside from Skyhold which was at least a fairly big place.

After Witcher 3 I'm done making excuses for Bioware/EA and presumed budget reasons. It can be done. I've seen it. I want more of it. Do it, Bioware!

We never got to see much of anything aside from the Citadel in the trilogy either. Much rather than driving over sand dunes for miles and miles I want to walk the streets of an alien culture. I want to see the Andromeda equivalent of Illium. And Omega. I want to see rich cities, poor settlements. All kinds of stuff.

The trilogy at least did a good job providing glances at other cultures which then all came together beautifully as something much bigger in our minds. We only got to see a tiny tiny area of Illium but we still got a sense of this place. We got a VIEW. We could easily picture this city. Val Royeaux in comparison didn't have a view of anything. It felt really closed. More like a theater stage than an actual city.

If an open city like in Witcher 3 is too big a hassle to program, then at the very least I want something like the Citadel. Connected sections that give the illusion of it being a big place. I hope the arks and Nexus do the trick.

If all we're going to see is identical small settlements for ten people, I'm going to be very disappointed. Imagine the cookie cutter colonies in the trilogy were all we ever got. Had sad that would have been.

Shit, now I'm worried again. Always flip-flopping between being super excited and thinking it will suck. >_<

Have to agree on this. Witcher 3 showed if can be done, we can have a huge "open world" map and still have big settlements inside of it.
But as you said this is the ME team we are talking about so changes are that they will make some really good colony areas.

My main problem with Sera was honestly due to her boiling things down too much and her entire view on the Elven pantheon, so hopefully with a dash of Asari wisdom I'll like PeeBee. Also I'm kind of annoyed with how many people are writing her off because she's 'ugly'. Is her name silly? Yes. But it's about damn time the Asari got to be something more then just the Hot Blue Women race!