30 - 60 minutes to drive across planets?

Size and content are two different things. Exploring new words are nice but taking in the scenery only takes you so far.

Somehow I highly doubt the areas will be that big. Especially if driving. Maybe on foot?

As long as my Ryder can listen to some Ozzy, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, etc, while driving, I won't mind

That's what I'm talking about!

Well, there's your 100 hours of gameplay right there, since I'm pretty sure they said way back when there would be more than 100 planets to explore.

Really? They said it would be more than 100 planets?

Do you have a source? Was it an interview?

Hopefully if we are gunna be chugging it across planets in the Nomad for up to 60 minutes, there is plenty of good and meaningful squad banter and dialogue.

One of the things Final Fantasy 15 was missing big time for me, the superficiality of the 'journey', rather than any actual worthwhile or meaningful look into the friendships and journeys amongst the four. I was so disappointed by that aspect of the game.

I'm looking for it.  Unfortunately, where I read it, I'm sure, was on the old BSN and I don't know the source the poster used for that info... a tweet maybe??  I've found one article from back a ways that says the game is to have a "myriad of planets" (but no actual number is given).

www.movienewsguide.com/mass-effect-andromeda-details-new-setting-alien-races-romance/248250

This. If the worlds to explore are going to be this big then they must be 'alive' in the sense of good story throughout or highly detailed in interesting ways, alas not fetch quests and collect 50 of this, 25 of that side-activities.

Here's to hope. Of course this is speculation really.

I don't buy it.

This, a lot. It's my only hope for enjoying a little at least all that driving around :/

I think there must have been some misinterpretation on the part of the interviewer. Notice that in neither of the articles posted that the part about "50-60 minutes" is in quotations. They just say that Mike Gamble "revealed" or "stated". I'm sure both articles get their info from the same source anyway. They had said recently that some planets were so large as to require the use of the Nomad, however others were so small that using the Nomad would be useless, so I can't imagine that every planet will take 50-60 minutes to traverse in the Nomad.