I count only 38 solar systems

Yeah, it's a trial. I know, right?

It does matter, you won't have access to all the available content because it's fucking locked. How hard can it be to understand that? My four year old cousin can and you don't.

My god, where's the effort nowdays.

im just giving numbers and thought if anyone counted the systems, not saying any negativity about this game.

Didn't they say it'll be around 10 planets to land on and explore? with a few other locations we can land on (like the nexus for example). That judging by EOS is a lot of exploration. There was so much complaining that DAI was empty space, yet here people are complaining that there is not enough to explore....

I for one am glad they ditched procedural generated planets (ME1) early in development for MEA. I want the planets to have content even if that means less of them.

Again i disagree here, i loved reading the lore of the different planets/black hole during the trial. I loved not having to tediously scan every planet from top to bottom to find minerals to. now its a quick 1 tap scan to gather the planets information except for those with mineral deposits/volcanoes and what not. Here it is also an improvement i set myself the task of visually finding the anomaly manually by eye rather than using the scanner made it more interesting and its good to see they actually put visuals of them on planets that can be spotted with the naked eye.

"complains about realism and bad writing"

"complains about every available planet not having something conveniently useful"

Ah the consistency is astounding.

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Welcome to space, where a lot of shit is empty a lot of the time.

You again...

Yes, if we have a planet where a random crater suddenly is a point of interest, but 20 others where no such a thing pops up, it's called inconsistency... I mean, if that's the standard, one might argue that every planet will have SOME feature worth noting, no?

pdusen : Reading the whole thread can be hard, I know...

it does matter you want to know why because gasp wait for it, it is a freaking trial means that majority of the content is locked or is that too damn difficult for you to understand and once the trial is over and the full game comes out then majority of the content will be unlocked

There are reasons for that

1) Detection of something remarkable that makes this crater different
2) Landmark for something else in the immediate vicinity
3) This crater is prettier than other craters so come look at it

It's not inconsistency when there are different contexts.

The animation may get old but is it worse than previous games method of:

1) Slowly flying to a new cluster across the galaxy map
2) Scout all planets in starter system spending a few minutes on each gathering resources 1 or 2 planets per cluster(not system) would give you something to land on.
3) Fly to next system in the cluster
4) Repeat scouting and mineral spamming.
5) You now have to fly back to original starting system to buy probes/refuel
6) Fly to and scout another system.
7) Back to starter system refuel
8) Repeat until all system scouted
9) Back to starter system refuel

10) Fly to another cluster and repeat from step 2.

Don't even get me started on ME3 and adding the constant in/out of a system to get to an anomaly to avoid reapers into this.

Rose tinted glasses is the impression i get when previewers complain that exploring the systems takes to long in MEA. At least now its faster (even with those animations) and more immersive and visually appealing.

Ok ok, I give up... you want to delude yourself into believing that only because a story gate is lifted from a 40GB big game, there miraculously will be SO much more content, then go for it... it's not my job to teach you realism. *shrugs*

Also - as an aside - with the apparent inability to follow context of a one page thread displayed by some people here, I am not surprised the same people think MEA's writing is fine.