new info from Aaryn Flynn interview - PlayStation Blogcast 237

That's fine.  And you might be right.  But it's much better to err on the side of caution, which is the "bad" or "negative" side.  I'm just thinking it is going from a grind in terms of quests in the MMO sense, to a grind in terms of resources in the MMO sense. 

I always get this way whenever a game is coming out, because I want the game to be perfect.  I've always done this since Diablo 2.  Diablo 2 was the real teacher for me not to go into anything with wide eyed enthusiasm. 

Man can't be serious... Must be trolling, right?..RIGHT?!..

Aaryn wants to probe Uranus.

Seriously, this is most likely related to the scanning that we saw on that gameplay video. Both with the omni tool and those mining probes.

ME never had a system for squadmates' approval though. I don't know how it'll work in Andromeda, but I didn't get the feeling it'll be like Rannoch.

More creative? You are joking right?

This is not fucking Star Wars. But, let's take Star Wars Battlefront, since it is similar to Mass Effect.... reskin it, and change the names of a few powers, change their VFX, and voila, Mass Effect Andromeda.

When they begin Omni-Choking things, I will set fire to Biower HQ.

Compared with me3mp within this own franchise yes it is more creative - because otherwise it was all biotic explosion spam or raw damage/debuff for weapons.

There should be a balance between damage, control and support gameplay - and biotics did not have nearly enough control or support options in me3 or me2 for that matter. In ME1 control was broken by being overpowered and they went the other direction of neutering it in the sequels.

So I don't get your comment.

Only Star Wars game I played was SWTOR and KOTOR. Never heard of The Force Unleashed.

No idea what you mean by "I see through it".  See through what? To what?

I think you're missing the point. The creativity isn't about Bioware's creativity for inventing the power it is in the player's ability to be creative in how they use it.

Plenty of people like scanning. I'm personally meh on the feature, so I hope made it more entertaining.

plenty of people liked planet scanning?



WHERE????

Most of this sounds sounds good but... Scanning... well if we have to get out of the Mako going through a disembark animation 20 times on each planet to scan for elfrock I will scream. Bioware has never implemented resource acquisition in any way that does not feel like a chore. I am sceptical of this.

The base building is another aspect I am sceptical of. I like Civilisation. If there is a good deep and balanced system to this with a solid interface, it could fit into the concept really well. If there is a hacked on system with little play testing, thought, or depth, it is pointless to add imo. I also find exactly what he said here a little odd. It sounds like you have to pick whether a planet is either a military planet or a science planet... which is nonsense. There should be plenty of room on a planet to put an absolutely massive military outpost and an absolutely massive set of science labs. The choice should come down to costs involving time, physical resources, and a limited labour force against whatever benefit each upgrade offers. And the choice of expanding to other planets or expanding a planet you have already built on should come down to greater resource collection and reach (gotta claim that planet before the dastardly asari do) vs less efficiency and stretched defenses.
 
This post does sound negative. I like a lot of what I have heard about the game and I am excited for it, I just feel like Bioware does some things really well and some things really badly. I'm not convinced trying to blend one of their stories and a strategy game is going to work particularly well. The former happens over the spaces of days and weeks while a strategy game involving construction and colonisation would normally occur over years and decades and centuries. They are going to have to do this extremely well not to break immersion.

I was wondering how it might work. Sounds much more interesting with the way you put it. Gives more variety with only three abilities as well.

That is one of the reason I hate how devs changed to more vague terms for the sake of marketing. Casual does not refer to skill and narrative does not mean dialog options. Casual could be confused as being less grindy with narrative meaning all dialog options removed. A description ends up being required due to vagueness of the terms. A hardcore fan does not all of a sudden become casual for selecting the casual difficulty nor does casual difficulty automatically the only relevant difficulty for a casual gamer.