Aaryn Flynn talks to Gameinformer about Andromeda and "New-IP" for 31 minutes

www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2016/11/28/biowares-new-horizon-inside-andromedas-challenges-star-wars-future-and-the-new-ip.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

More evidence that it's gonna be Mass Effect Inquisition (just furthering my own viewpoint here lol) but it sounds interesting too.

Also, hardball questions are asked: "What's up with all the talent that's left over the course of development" is answered (or dodged). Flynn reveals the intial vision of Andromeda was locked down before Casey's departure (go figure), and he likens the game's development cycle to that of the original Mass Effect, saying they looked back on their old design documents to see what they wanted to do with ME1 but didn't achieve and think of Andromeda as trying to get those.

He's asked if the vision for the game is more Mac's than Casey's but dodges saying the Montreal teammates were fans of ME1 before becoming devs and they really push for their ideal of what Mass Effect should be.

He also talks about characters vaguely. The usual stuff, that "good stories come from great characters" driving home the BioWare belief that as long as characters are "Likeable and relatable" the plot will automatically be great. /s

Also, I learned Andrew Wilson is the CEO to BioWare which I wasn't aware of, but it explains a lot of their failures (in my eyes) of recent years that, that guy has to give the go-ahead to anything BioWare wants to pitch before anything can get done. Explains why their recent games have been so circlejerk of the "Big, open world RPG!!!!111" because obviously EA wants to compete with the trend set by Skyrim because they're just business people who only care about numbers.

Also he makes it sound like the game has a lot of planets to land on and "so many quests". Great.