Why the Andromeda gameplay trailer worries me

And BioWare go: 'what, a game that shares mechanics with GOTY winning DAI is a problem?' ;-)

Fifty Shades of Grey sold over a hundred million copies. Not that that has anything to do with anything.

Alright I thinkI need to clarify what I mean by what's wrong with scanning. It seems to me that when you scan in MEA you call up a screen, point at a glowing object and then the game tells you "oh that's an ambush" or such and then you continue with the mission. I would argue that this isn't gameplay, it is at most an interactive cutscene. Gameplay, as I would define it, is where you have a legitimate challenge that you have to overcome. Think of detective vision in batman for example, it shows you enemies and airvents and routes etc. but it doesn't actually disable the baddies for you does it? You have to overcome that challenge. What I disliked in mass effect and dragonage where this long periods where you would run from place to place (think the batarian hacker on the citadel mission) to find a fixed point that you simply pressed A in front of and then moved on, that's just boring busy work/filler and I am worried that the lack of attention to new systems and features (certainly I would think that if they had new interesting systems in store they would advertise it) means that MEA is going to be rather full of DAI's rather tedious filler.

Also, about crafting, I'm arguing that the process of gathering materials is tedious, the act of crafting is fine, i have little problem with the system when it can to the actual making of items, but grinding for the stuff to do so, actually grinding in general i feel as no place in a single player game. in a way, the witcher worked around the system n the sense that crafting material was everywhere and you would gather hoards of materials almost incidentally as you picked up loot, personally, I remember making little actual effort hunting for materials, more often than not I just already had them.

Every time The Witcher 3 is brought up as an example of how to do DA:I "better" I laugh. The Witcher 3 suffered from a lot of the exact same problem's DA:I did. Weak main villian in Eredin who only had 12 lines. Open-world filled with meaningless sidequests (Witcher Contracts) and pointless filler (the ? marks). For game that focused on combat W3's combat was far too clunky. The pacing of the main plot was ruined by the open world and after Kaer Morhen the pacing gets even worse. The only way to get useful weapons were from doing Witcher gear treasure hunts which were incredibly tedious and then collecting the materials to craft them. Literally the exact same mechanic you are complaining about in DA:I and ME:A. 

Yeah but the scanning is just like Witcher 3 sensing

The genius of the BW character creation is that they create characters for everyone and anyone. I'm not sure they create a character by trying to guess if it will appeal to the drooling adolescent lad market.

Just saying 

Yeah but the scanning is just like Witcher 3 sensing

You know what? I'm betting (and by betting I am fully prepared to be proven wrong however you're only hurting yourself by being dishonest)that the same people who are complaining about crafting in this game crafted to their hearts content in The Witcher 3? Am I right? be honest?

If this is indeed the case why is it acceptable in fantasy games but not sci-fi? I dont understand it.

How do you know resources won't be scarce? Have you ever been to Andromeda?

I'm speaking for many, many men.

Because some people just Love to Complain  just for the sake of it. Maybe they are like those beings who live under bridges...