It appears I want to see another ME game in Andromeda after all. Here's why. (Spoilers)

BW may want to consider toning down some of the sandbox-y nature simply because things and appetites change. It's been alot of openworld-y games that's the hot thing right now.

But what about in a few years time, if they make a sequel? There will always be and always have been open world games, but it's become extra hot lately, I wonder how long that's going to last?

Good Lord, I hope it does not take another 5 friggin years for a possible sequel.

Ieldra, I enjoyed the ending, too. It was alot of fun! Despite the corndog "Muahaha" villain of Archon. I think I will start asking BW for a worthy "Adversary" instead of Villain because as soon as you say "Villain", Muahaha just tramples all over the concept.

Well, I'm not one of those that thinks 5 years necessarily equates with a game being scrapped, or less than 3 years means rushed garbage.

Another 5 years is just too guddam long.

I think a good balance is hard to find, and it depends on the quality and the connectedness of the open-world content. If I think about what really bugged me about MEA's open-world aspect, it wasn't the collection quests, of which there were fewer than in DAI, or the isolated and mostly utterly irrelevant side quests, but planet-scanning and planet-hopping, with the video sequences that became old and tedious fast since you couldn't skip them. Planet exploration and doing quests on planets was mostly quite enjoyable, but I'd groan whenever I had to travel between systems, and even more so when new un-scanned systems appeared on the map. For a game so much about exploration, they made star system exploration surprisingly non-fun.   


I found it surprising it took that long, but part of it was probably because the new team was unfamiliar with many things. There were about 2 years between ME2 and ME3, and the aspects of ME3 that made it divisive mostly weren't of  a kind that could be changed with more delevopment time. DA2 to DAI: 3.5 years and that including a switch to a new engine. If they decide(d) to make another game, it shouldn't take as long this time.   

Yeah, I'd prefer a different kind of antagonist, too. Of Bioware's antagonists since 2007, I probably liked DA2's Arishok best. It was always clear you could come to blows with him, but within the constraints of his ideology, he was reasonable and you could actually have somewhat interesting debates with him. A much more interesting antagonist than megalomaniacs like Corypheus or the Archon. Oh, and Loghain in DAO was good as well. You could actually understand his viewpoint at times.

Ieldra Yes, the Arishok and Loghain were great adversaries. I loved talking to the Arishok. I thought we were building a rapport.

The planet hopping was a tedious affair. It's a shame, too, because it was so glorious at first. The first person view, it was glorious. It still is, but overdone. I would like to see that as we enter a system, and land on a planet, but not planet to planet within one system. It was too much.

I saw one review that put forth the idea that it was an effort o kind of throttle the player to keep them from too quickly scanning and gathering from all the systems. Could be, or BW just loved it so much themselves, and did not realize how much players would be using it. Sometimes, I think, they underestimate how...thorough we can be.

Do you by any chance have a link for this? I'd like to watch that!