Game is too unstructured

You know you don't need to do all that, right?

To some people it might. Throwing all that side stuff at the player before we had a chance to form emotional connection to the world is bad story telling. In mid-late game however, once people become invested in the setting and its character, it doesn't feel tedious.

Personally, I felt the game became less tedious after kadara, all the side stuff early in that felt like a chore felt more natural once I m actually motivate in a role playing kinda way.

I think it's all a matter of perspective, once the game has progressed halfway through, it became more sensible to have side shit to do.

Partly I agree with you, but over all?

No, give us the option to run around the whole cluster after we've reached the fucking Nexus (I mean that's what other ME-Games did: We could eplore the whole galaxy (well, with the exception of story systems like the one where the Collectors were hiding in (Omega 4 Relay) and the Mu-Relay in ME1 (leading to the conduit!)) after we have finished the opening act (in ME1 after you are done on the Citadel and have recruited Wrex, Garrus and Tali (at least if you did it right...I know you can not recruit them, but doing so is kind of stupid IMHO) you are free to go - almost - anywhere! Same for ME2 after you are done surviving Wilson's attempt on your life and once you've collected your ship and Joker (damned, I still want to space him - he did the same to Shep after all and he doesn't even appologize for it, ever!) you can go anywhere you want!)

What this game does badly IMHO is that it gives you a lot of busy work (the vaults even start feeling stale and boring after you've reset several of them - especially since you can't find anything truly interesting in there (like say a one of a kind piece of technology in every vault that you can recover and use)...same for the "exploration" - there's really nothing interesting to find...even less during the system scanning (why they didn't give us the option to explore wrecked ships we find as an EVA (space-walk!) mission is beyond me )...exploring is a waste of time, as are most side missions (sure some of them are better than what we got in ME1, but most aren't on the level of "The Witcher 3" (yes, that comparison is valid, both games are RPGs!))...sure not as bad as DA:I (shards...enough said IMHO!), but still not great!

Then there's the fact that they often withhold options and that interrupts are far and in between (I wanted to slap/interrupt Addison for example...manipulative and ungrateful bitch that she is and I wanted to lock up Sloan Kelly - sadly you can only let her get killed...(and replace her with another criminal! Sorry, but shouldn't we strive to stop crime and punish those exiles for endangering everybody?))

greetings LAX

Less is more.

I would too have like to seen them cut back on a lot of the pointless stuff, and instead perhaps focus on telling better, well planned stories.

Not entirely true, there were many clusters that you could not even see and many systems in clusters that did not appear until you reached a certain point in a quest line.

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ME3 was the worse, at the start of the game you could only go to about 25% of the systems available to you by the end of the game and ME2 had many as well.