Gamasutra Article - ME:A's closed open world

Author seems to claim that the problem with MEA's open world is that it's to small. That's the last thing I would consider as MEA's problem.

...and she really should learn how to spell "Kadara".

Best part of that article? The reviewer misspells Kadara. Always. How do you misspell a major plot area of the game the entire article? How does the editor not catch it? It made me wonder if she actually played it despite her claim to 69 hrs.

When Andromeda's metacritic falls to 69% will you take it seriously?

I think the game would have been much better if it adopted the ME1 open world idea of smaller but way more of them.

I think 69% would be appropriate I'd probably have to add that in my forum sig. Wouldn't even have to post a response to people like Russell Westbrook - just a down arrow to my signature. He should be able to read arrows.

As for the article, not being lived in struck a chord with me - quest givers just felt like placeholders.

Rated it 4/10 on metacritics
IF they fix all the bugs
IF they drasticaly improve the UI
IF they bring consistency to all the content (I highly believe they forgot to "uncomment" conditional flags, responsible for when, if, and which content have to fire)
IF they improve facial expression even more
IF they add more face models to asari and angara
IF merchants receive some love and a purpose
IF inventory receives some love and a meaning beyond just being a limination
IF cluster exploration receives some love and meaning beyond just rightclicking
IF planet exploration receives some love and some meaning (like let us find out stuff on our own without a million nav points, and how about SAM memory blocks are tied to map explored and not some navpoints)
IF we can custom equip our squad again
and while this can be fixed, but not without a ton of work, which would be basicaly a new game IF they give us some pretty decent (realy great) story DLCs that are more MEish (ie more involvment of our squad during conversations and missions and our 4 "tone" choices force 4 different answers and 4 different outcomes)
then MEA could actualy reach 7 or even 8

I prefer the larger, fewer worlds.  Mostly because I like driving the nomad instead of watching Mass Effect relay cutscenes over and over and over again.  One quest chain in ME1 could lead  you through at least 4-5 of those animations, plus 3-5 minutes or more on each planet, for a total of about 20 minutes of pure travelling before any combat or plot content.  ME:A, while it could definitely use some improvements, is HELLUVA lot better than that.

Contagion I'll grant you, but at least we weren't driving  around on those one-texture planets with the crazy terrain that made the Mako cry.

Man I remember being really disappointed in that robot race in FO4. I hear this announcer calling out the funny names of the various robots, and as soon as I get close, I have an Assaultron on my ass. Thank Atom that I had my Fat Man with me. Jesus.

Just skimming through, one of the reviews used the phrase "lackluster combat". Lol, as if.