World design = disappointing.

It's ok. I'm not really impressed by BioWare's ability to bring worlds to life. The trilogy and KOTOR was great for having tightly scripted hub areas or updating areas but since ME3, DA:I and now this they're attempting to populate areas with NPCs that practically don't have any real AI design. I'll look forward to the sights, the combat and banter but I don't have high hopes for the actual worth of "open world areas".

I'm not gonna shy away from it: Witcher 3 was the most impressive thing since Half Life 2 here. BioWare don't hold a candle to it but you can always hope they improve it with ME:A. I think it was disappointing to see they didn't bother making an immersive dialogue-camera system in DA:I. I get that it's nice to be able to leave a conversation at any point but I'm sure if you gave the concept to Rockstar, Guerilla games or CDPR or someone else they'd rock the shit outta such a concept but when it's BioWare or at least the DA team they just had a pretty sorry excuse for a main feature and apparently they were totally okay with that. Having an anchor-point for the camera that's not focused on the character and having FOV that makes it too far zoomed out for an entire game whenever there's non-cinematic dialogue was just so bad.

Ughhh what do you expect? It's a frikin desert planet. You wouldn't expect a desert planet to have a over-population of bandits/Kett, no?

Your stellar intellect has failed to notice you are comparing a jungle environment with a desert one (or the frozen one, or the rocky one).

You get how that's disingenuous, yeah? No? I thought so.

Take DAI as example. The environments looked great there. Sure some complained, but objectively speaking the design was great. No reason to lose your cookie before you even see what MEA has to offer... before MEA even launches lol. And certainly no reason to post these tiresome doom and gloom silliness. 

I've already commented on this, but let me do it again. I said these planets.

So far we've been shown one, maybe two outposts that look alive and interesting. One or two empty planets? Totally fine. However, the vast majority of the explorable environments are vast, static and dull, much like DA:I, but 10x worse.

So you have seen all the planets and locations in the game?

Your Concerns have merit.  I just like giving people a hard time about complaining about something they haven't played.  I'm guilty of it too.

I think people need to accept there's going to be a lot openness.  I'm looking at the game like it's Red Dead Redemption in Space who had a baby with Star Trek.  There's going to be outposts, ruins, small bases, large boss areas, space ports, Space stations, the Nexus, and maybe one two two big cities.  The rest is the open frontier to explore.  It's going to feel like the optional planets in ME1 but have a lot more than space monkeys and one little outpost.  







See what I did there

Thanks for the screens! Now that I've seen the whole game I don't need to play it.

I voted ok. We have not really seen enough of the world design to make a fair assessment yet.

the problem with ME 1 was the environments were cookie cutter. Even the bases were cookie cutter. MEA does not seem to have this problem.

> thread complaining about the world design


> thinks this screenshot looks "empty" and bad

There's one on the Nexus, called the Vortex. I think there was a concept of something similar, but in a different location, so we might find it in a hub other then the Nexus as well.