New Archengeia (Lorerunner) video about MEA hits me right in the feels...

I don't know who that guy is, but I made it through maybe a minute and a half, and all he said was that he thinks. That was distressingly overwrought.

I've had similar feelings as Archengeia since finishing my blast run. I think the only way I go back to the SP is if they enhance/patch out the CC at some point.

If they fix the eyeball models and iris textures, maybe the diffuse mappings, and focus solely on animating the eye/eyebrow region across the entire game and release that in 6 months, the game will be much more enjoyable to go through as a story.

I agree, in terms of Ryder's character it's severely limiting how little we shape him and how little RPG there's left in the game. Starting fresh I'll have to go through the same progression again but I can try to focus more on shotguns and tech maybe and craft all the butt-ugly Kett Armors that I never bothered with the first time.

I still think the game might be worth at least one replay though because Sara and Scott differ a lot from each other in notable moments, but at the same time I'm afraid that the illusion of individuality between them is broken if I play as my sister only to find she has many of the same lines and vice versa.

Romance is also kind of a bummer, and as for the decent side-quests the choices you make don't really affect them too much -- they're just interesting little side-stories that add to the world-building of the arks. That said, there's some replay-factor in which planets you go to first and whether you colonize some early or late. I had to replay the first 20 hours of the game after my pc crashed and whenever I ended up not retreading my footsteps (because I want my first experience to be mine) I actually found some interesting ways the dialogue or plot branches. You can find optional signs of PeeBee's whereabouts early during the Eos arc and Drack's introduction changes pretty much if you have Vetra with you.

In general, I think the decreased emphasis on squad customization adds up when you see how much certain beats change depending on who you bring with you. The fact that you can not bring Jaal to the crit-path on Voeld and thinking about how he reacts is kinda interesting.

he starts explaining something and suddenly starts about something different and again, he doesn't say anything concrete