Wildlife concerns: Generic wildlife / constant hostility

It's possible that this just means enemy wildlife. I hope that most other life forms will be benign background decoration, like that flying thing that we see a couple of times in some old videos. 

If the poster is a Witcher Fanboy then only the Maker knows what you are, some sort of... Bio Squad? The hypocrisy is strong with this one.

LOL, great names. LMAO.

Isn't there also suppose to be super optional bosses on planets?

BTW, its not like even if they do have Fiends on every landscape that it is at all a game breaker.

This is true. Its just that whole strive for perfection, settle for excellence that has me thinking about this whole topic.

The Words of House Ryder.

Indeed. Even fan favorite Witcher 3: Wild Hunt regularly reuses animation rigs and palette swaps of enemies. I should know, I just finished the game plus DLC a few weeks ago.

Personally, I don't mind.

I don't mind some repetition and swaps, at least if there's clear story reason (and ideally story INVOLVEMENT) about it!

But I do mind if there isn't variety for a type. Cerberus in ME3 wouldn't have bothered me so much if there were also other indoctrinated or evil enemy forces occasionally, especially good if they had some alternate attack styles (I appreciated this aspect of Citadel DLC, with CAT6). Reaper forces in ME3 wouldn't have bothered me so much if there was even more variety added over time than what we got, but I was kinda OK with what we got. Merc forces in ME2 were great - if I'm gonna fight mercs over half the time of the game, you damn well better have them in different gangs with different mechanics involved!

Beasts, however, haven't been Mass Effect's strong suit. They're either 'everywhere' (varren, thresher maws), or rare and special unique things. AKA not a focus of the design. But I might like if they become a bigger deal! It'd be cool if one long major mission map involved a unique species you fight throughout, and if other sidemission locations had not just one but a few types of beast enemies!

I'm... not expecting this for MEA. But I'll be a little disappointed if we just get these Fiend/whatever things in a couple forms and that's it. Give me my alien (and not just cybernetic, btw) beasts if I'm going to an unknown world that supports life!

I always chuckle when I see "Fiend" in games... When I was playing Heroes 3 with my friends, we would joke about the names and translations for everything, and "Fiend" was an obvious "Friend". "Oh look a group of Pit Friends"
This one just stuck with me over the years... so now it makes it a bit hard for me to take anything named "fiend" too seriously... Big bad hideous monster coming (me: *ooooo*), it's called a "Fiend" (me: *chuckle*)

When you say "no one" it already discredits your argument from the beginning and shows your post being rather emotional than a well thought opinion.


A large portion did not become Witcher fanboys until witcher 3 because it was the first to come to both PlayStation consoles and microsoft platforms.  That large portion uses Witcher 3 as precedent for excellent open world RPG adventure games because it set a benchmark in quality in both story telling (Main and side quest) and atmosphere/world design.  It was also the first game in a while that many people felt the devs placed a ton of love and care into their games going the extra mile.  

I would say that many of the witcher fanboys and fangirls are cautiously optimistic about Mass Effect: Andromeda because they see that same potential with this game series.  The pessimism comes from what seems to be EA's influence restricting Bioware from adding too many in depth mechanics that fans would love to see. Will there be some who are overly critical after ME releases? Absolutely

Summary:  Many Witcher fanboys/girls became fans because there was a certain level of quality and they see that same potential of quality with the direction that ME:A is going.  

Side note: Just because Bioware's previous games were successful doesn't mean keeping that same formula will continue to make them successful.  Adapt or die

It's unfortunate.  aarynflynn said it took too long and slightly annoying.  I wish they could keep it in there and we had the option in the menus to switch the animation on and off.  Or have it to where it zooms in on Ryder getting in.  As it zooms out, the other squad mates are already in the Nomad via the other door.  same for getting out.  I never minded the animations for FFXV with the car so I would rather have the immersion than shortcuts in ME:A.