Dragon Age:Inquisition VS Mass Effect:Andromeda - which one did open-world better?

Neither, I dislike open world in a story driven rpg. If I want open world I can play Skyrim.

I voted DA:I - I prefer the DA series to the ME series and have enjoyed the heck out of DA:I (played it about 14 times...... Having said that I am enjoying exploring this new galaxy. Just a bit too much to do in ME:A and that makes me anxious as a completionist.

I prefer DA:I's since I found the scenery a lot more visually interesting, most things were within walking distance of each other, and rifts and side missions meant I wasn't just walking through for the sake of walking.

Its not perfect though, all the collectables can go fuck themselves.

MEA by miles.

To me most of DAI's world felt empty, unconnected to the main plot and filled with busywork errands. Just crossing the map was a slog. It was one of the few RPGs I've played where I didn't want to do everything on my first time through.

In MEA the planets feel only as empty as they're supposed to (if that makes sense) and each was relevant to the plot and goals of the game. The Nomad makes simply traversing the terrain fun and most, though not all, of the side content felt connected to the story and worth my time to complete. Unlike DAI with whole zones I tried to avoid.

Well, MEA was more fast paced so it was easier to explore and the side quests were really good. My problem with Andromeda is that some planets are more polished than others so it's not visually consistent. DAI was very consistent visually and even prettier for me so I wanted to explore a little bit more in DAI because it was prettier, but yeah they were too large and the side quests were tedious.

One thing that led me down was the graphics in general. I thought it was going to be prettier than Inquisition and it's not. The retail version is not what they advertised but it's still a fun game for me.

I prefer the inquisition since it can keep me entertained for 3 years and Andromeda has already lost its appeal to me after 3 weeks.

Inquisition beats Andromeda in narrative, has a better plot being how it's not doing what other DA games have done and Andromeda suffers so much from being a copy/paste of ME1 rather than being new.

The characters in the inquisition are far better as well.

I also feel the inquisition has better combat. You're not restricted to just 3 abilities and you can still use your squad in tactical view.

Multiplayer is much more stable than Andromeda

The CC was much better, animations included which just adds to character personalization.

Has an actual inventory system that actually works as it should, Andromeda has no reasons to have one if you can't change gear on the fly. The crafting is also more organized but ultimately stil serves the same purpose as Andromedas.

Has much better interactive environments. While andromeda looks prettier (and that doesn't mean inquisition isn't pretty cuz it is) the inquisitions worlds can change from night to day after certain events unfold and it feels more of your decisions actually carried over resulting in certain events playing out different and having an after effect.

Much less buggy and even it had stupid bugs. I've had no banter, cutscenes freezing resulting in me having to replay it, character conversations in the hawke/warden storyline just stopping and having to restart various times to progress. I'll take that over falling through geometry, getting stuck to objects, seeing duplicate characters, having the audio bring up character dialogue when I have yet to even recruit said companion, etc etc.

Honestly I only see Andromeda being better by environment looks, and the side quests aren't as tedious. It also encourages exploration where as even though inquisition is open world esq, I never felt the need to explore.

Andromeda is the first mass effect game that I view inferior to a dragon age game.

As for the title question: Andromeda has the better open world, but it's not the better game.

How I feel every time a new thread is made on the same thing.