Favorite planet (and why)?

Havarl because it looks beautiful,unique and alien and it doesn`t require the Nomad.

Elaaden because I find it beautiful

I enjoy Eos the most.

Eos has a well developed backstory. We start out exploring Sites 1 and 2, and learning about the early setbacks and losses. Then, every step of the way, I feel like I'm accomplishing something that will help our species (plural) to get a foothold in this new galaxy. I love its topography, with caves, plateaus, hills and valleys. I love its color-palette. I think it's a believable world with great stories. (Some of the side quests really have "feels".)

For the rest of the game, we encounter worlds on which people have already established a foothold. While I love them all, Eos is special. It's the one that was pretty much barren before we arrived.

I loved the story elements and events on Kadara and Eladeen.

I liked Eos and Voeld but not as much as the others.

In future games I would like to see one or two Kadara/Eladeen size maps and then more linear elements like the Exaltation Facility. When exploring random planets would be fun to run into H047C like planets where there are one or two quests, you get to drive around and have fun and then move on.

Aya and Nexus were excellent hub locations. Loved them both.

I love open world elements but they need to be reigned in a bit in future games. More linear story driven areas would be good. I think the bones are there between MEA and ME3 to create a solid hybrid that would be a ton of fun. Though the completionist in me loved this game.

Havarl, because of it's contained size and quest pacing. Felt like an old-school BioWare zone, but with a second act. Good to do in two satisfying chunks.

Voeld is nice and expansive but it became my Hinterlands on my first PT.

Eos had potential, but ends up a bit boring. It's atmospheric at the beginning but that clears up too quickly.

Elaaden is the best designed landscape. Lots of varied conditions for the nomad. It's just the narratives feel a bit under-written here.

Kadara looks and feels nicely alien, and contains the best sub-plot in the game, but is somehow annoying.

H047c was pretty fun. Here's hoping we have worlds with different gravity in a sequel or DLC. Be good to change up jet-pack usage in low and high gravity environments.

Edit: Aya, while feeling large enough to represent an Anagram city, suffers from grid syndrome. It's clear it's layout was drawn up on graph paper. Be nice for future cities to have a more organic layout.

Now that would bring back those KOTOR days on Manaan with the Selkath. There's plenty of thing BioWare could do with a world like that.

Interesting how varied the responses are....shows how these forums are so hotly debated at times. I hated Havarl, but mostly because I hated the Angarans. I thought H-047c was the best, wish there was more to do there. Eos, Voeld, Eladaan, Kadara all felt pretty similar, not bad, but nothing to make one stand out above the others.

Speaking of interesting planets, I just scanned Netiquur. It has large plant growth linked together like a single organism. Can't help but wonder if this isn't another Thorian.

Kadara - My favourite planet mostly because I already dubbed it as the "New Omega". The environment was visually appealing for me (although some of those mountains are annoying to climb) and I love the story arc regarding the exiles. Kadara Port is probably one of my favourite places in Andromeda (Like I said, "New Omega").

Habitat 7 - It was okay for me, nothing too exciting. The floating rocks and glowing korus looked cool though.

Eos - Visually, it's not the most intriguing one out of all the planets we get to explore. However, some of the story and areas are pretty cool. The outpost certainly feels homey and August Bradley is pretty awesome.

Eladaan - Although I'm not a huge fan of dessert planets, I actually didn't find the planet that bad. The giant Remnant ship reminds me so much of Jakku from Star Wars. Also, the krogans are here! (and most of them are chilling next to a giant pit)

Voeld - I think this might be the best-looking planet for me, maybe even just a bit more so than Kadara. The scenery is breath-taking, and when I finally activated the vault, that was probably the turning point for when Voeld looked even better than Kadara.

Aya - The city looks nice and lively, and it was interesting doing some of the side-quests here. It'd be great if we could explore the planet more though.

H047c - Damn, this is also a nice-looking planet location. The scenery was definitely breath-taking. I've only just recently started my 2nd playthrough, but I feel as though I should go back to my original Ryder and just explore H047c further, since the only time I went there was for Vetra's loyalty mission.

Havarl - This is a 50/50 for me. I wasn't a big fan of how compact & small it is, and the wildlife certainly annoyed me that I can never seem to take a peaceful stroll anywhere. However, the views can be gorgeous, especially at Mithrava or during Jaal's loyalty mission.

Eos, it reminds me of parts of the western United States, where I grew up.