Has anyone else just stopped playing?

Doing multiplayer at the moment, which entertains me greatly. I need to finish up some task sidequests on my first playthrough, and after some patches I'll probably do an NG+ playthough with a custom ryder this time around.

I already tried once and managed a decent looking male ryder, but my female sibling came out looking rather wonky...

I just read thru the posts in this thread, and some folks mentioned something that I just could not put my finger on before. 

I thought it was just an issue with there being too many fetch quests. But I know in both DAI and TW3, I did so much mindless fetching and it was still OK somehow (not great, but...palatable). With, of course, the exception of filing requisitions in DAI...just a place to dump on the crap you got that you don't need! Ugg!

Anywayy, I thought maybe I was just getting older and less patient, but do you know how many ridiculously long and convoluted sci-fi and fantasy crap stories I read? That can't be it.

But it hit me...I think it is a payoff issue. I have crafting, which I dig, and so much of the filler content is "here...have a container full of loot". And I either sell it all (for money I don't need) or turn it into materials (of which planet scanning and mining and randomly hittting rocks here and there have given me alot of). I don't even pay attention to what I get. So it just feels like going through the motions.

Its kinda the same with the skills. So many, and yet I only use 3 at a time (well...6....I usually switch profiles once during longer battles).

I don't think the fetch quests themselves are the problem...its just the payoff. Even the vaults. I want to explore every nook and cranny, but what is the point when all I get is more loot? If there were secrets to uncover more often...about the kett and the remenant and the planets and the anagra's past, I would be more involved in those fetch quests. If I could see the science labs grow when I bring them materials and schematics. If more people were filling in the Nexus when I wake them from cryo. If my crew had more special projects that my finds would benefit from. If it just felt...meaningful.

Its frustrating, because I thin the addition of a little more payoff could have made those quests much more interesting. It is sprinkled here and there, but it is a balance issue.

But like I posted way back...I am STILL enjoying my second PT. I like the characters more this time round (they are growing on me). I am having fun switching abilities up and adapting to different playstyles on the fly. And I dig riding around in my jacked-up Nomad!

I'm taking a break while NG+ gets fixed, but the longer I wait the more I think that maybe one playthrough is enough for me. Currently reading the book and I'm enjoying it more than the game.

I've actually started a new playthrough in Inquisition. Despite all it's faults, it's a better Andromeda. Maybe if some dlc drops that is just too amazing to skip i'll come back to it. It's not even because of bugs, or the story or dialogue being lackluster. The characters in Andromeda are just blah. I don't find myself really caring about any of them except Jaal and Drack. Andromeda is the first game in which I don't even care to romance any of the companions lol.

That is so melodramatic.

I just got tired of it and i hate that fact, I have played ME 1 2 and 3 dozens of times, and i couldn't even get through 1 playthrough of this. It has given me time to play BL1 with my bf but still, sad

On the Tempest, Jaal was complementing Peebee and Cora made a disgusted noise so Jaal complemented Cora.    I like that the crew will talk not only when we are on the Nomad, but also when we are on the Tempest. 

After my time of not playing, and getting some serious time in ME1, I've come back. Finished nearly everything in Kadara (outside of the city) and just died in its vault. Also, I kept trying to boost the speed of the Mako, which was frustrating because it just zoomed in instead. Clearly, some part of me wanted to be riding the Nomad even when in the Mako.

Nah but I've stopped caring about all these useless threads whining about the game. Seriously some like it some don't how many different topics are needed to say the same damn thing?

I have...
Or at least , I am playing less often.
I am at 72-73 hours, before the Journey to Meridian.Have all 4 planets on 100% viability ,haven't done all loyalty missions and haven't visited the planet HC something something. I feel kinda tired but I will finish it.
When not on my PS4 and in Andromeda, I play Persona 4 and Severed on my PSVita and The Witcher 3 on One.