You Can Keep Playing After Finishing The Main Story (Confirmed)

Yaaaassss!

This is the second coming of ME2 I've been waiting for.

DA:I was almost there but they made all conversations unavailable and locked out all inner-circle (companion) quests upon completing.

ME2 felt like an ongoing adventure just waiting for each DLC to come out and I would check out all the unexplored systems on the Galaxy map in short bursts of play after I beat it. When DLC dropped it truly felt like a weekly episode (or just 2-3 of them) landed and the story just continued. It's the best game experience I've ever had basically. Really looking forward to this game now. I can feel it.

It's especially that; the point of no return that locks out stuff. I don't like the empty feeling of completing a game with lots of freedom and quests that then erases the remaining quests. I really like the feeling of moving towards ME2's endgame and knowing that it doesn't actually end there, necessarily. Legion still has 3 more conversations I need to hear, I still have to help Liara do her thing and I risked not doing Thane's loyalty mission -- stuff like that.

I enjoyed killing dragons after the game was done in DA:I but I was really disheartened by how after one post-game conversation with any companion they go into "Hi Inquisitor" state where you can no longer have conversations.

We don't know if we can even have conversations regularly or if it's ME3-esque with "Not right now" in Andromeda at least we can do Loyalty quests and stuff in case we skipped some, after the game is over.

Very happy with this! And with it confirmed that no squadmates die, we don't have to try and please everyone before the final part of the story, so nothing bad happens!

Good! I like to do some things after the main game, in ME2 anyways.

Good to know, now I won't feel I need to do everything before endgame.

Welcome news, but it doesn't exclude certain missions/story arcs related to the main story from becoming locked. Hopefully Bio has put some thought into their journal system this time around on where to go for what and clearly identifying any time sensitive missions.

A dev's tweet heavily implied the journal is going to be very big!

Quantity>Quality.
I'm generally sick of BioWare's obsession with increasing the size with every game leading to the same amount of quality but spread thinner out over the game (as evidenced by companion conversations in ME2 vs ME3 for example)
ME2's quest log was perfect in size, and I prefer to keep it to that amount by skipping redundant quests.

Yeah I paled a bit when I read that tweet. If all the side quests are meaningful and a lot of time put into them, I doubt that whole journal will be just those and the main story and its b-stories. I expect many fetch quests too.

Exactly why I paled. Here's hoping they really did learn from that!

Good I want to keep building my own Illum

Awesome!!!!