Bioware's hardon for deserts

You don't expect barely viable colonizable planets to be a waterworld or lush grassland lanscape, do you?

Yeah, I expect them to look like Texas desert. Nothing says "this planet needs some terraforming" better than this

While i agree on how desapointing is so many deserta, we must remember that mass effect 1 was a lot worse
The planets had nothing to do except to have fun with the mako and do small quests

Mass effect 2 and 3 were amazing but no exploration.

I Mean, the main point of these planets is as people sair, only to use the nomad.just look at gabar. It would be hard to a console if all planets were like it

Yes I mentioned in my review. There's a general lack of creativity in the artistic department that permeates all the game. Not only the planet design was lacking, but also not much effort was put in character design either.

I was expecting alot more planets to explore full stop. I still don't understand the point of the planet exploration deal in MEA.

Third play set and i am not looking foward to traveling to every planet again to 100% the system.

I understand that we can't land on every single one. But could of been something better than the scan and maybe something is there for exp or material.

Suvi " We've got a crater"......

Mapping planets and scanning for resource high points. Could of yielded large amounts of resources for a settlement of your choosing.

Giving them bonuses or passives that can be useful for you. But then again this goes into what i was expecting outposts to be. Silly i thought we would actually see settlements grow over time...😕