Has MEA became COD?

No I would say that other angarans are quite brutally honest about their feelings, their merchants who send us finding is merchandise in the galaxy will be honest that he feels betrayed by the fact that milky way raiders attacked his shipment, even if he knows Ryder is not responsible his feelings of betrayal bypassed it and he clearly says that he does not wanting naything to do with ryder, even if the human pathfinder just worked harsh for him.

And jaal is more stoic because well he is more stoic, the fact that he does not express all of his emotions does not means he hides them all underneath, it maybe be cause he does not feel them immediatly. He is really honest when he admits he does not know what to do about the whales that lives in voeld, should we let the female angar hire more poacher to help her people or forbid the hunts of the sacred beast despite the fact that it could help other angara? He is pretty much open what he feels at the moment and tells to the world is insecurity in the face of the situation.

And also what jaal's sister did was because of the situation she did not know what to do, Angara can totally live like that, its just that most of them are not in a situation of conflicting loyalty between family and an organisation like jaal sister was.

Lets take a journey back to 2007. ME was not even considered in the same class as games Bioshock, Halo 3 or even Assassins Creed. Its got better with time because ME2 was the greatest. 

It was pretty much in the same league as Halo 3 and Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed really? That shit is sitting on 79 at Metacritic while Mass Effect is on 91 

The point is not the  music or the ambiance, what you are talking about is so unrelated to what we said before. The fact that it has corrupt corporations ruling on Noveria and insect aliens. All right so what, why does it feel more "sci fi"than a playground ruled by  criminal organisation  (among them a lots of alien, and the planet has a fauna) on a polluted wasteland?

The envinronment of noveria is so similar to many places of earths, the planet of noveria is not "sci fi" or at least itsn ot more than the other planets unless you want to explain why do you feel that way. Its an envinronment we fucking know that exists on our planets. Why does a planet that ressemble the artic feel more "sci fi" than the parts of africa? I am quite curious.

It was pretty much in the same league as Halo 3 and Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed really? That shit is sitting on 79 at Metacritic while Mass Effect is on 91 

Mass effect has never been in the same league as halo 3. Halo at that time was the #1 shooter, had record sales(12 million and ME wasn't even getting over 6), had record player populations(getting over one million concurrent players is an anomaly these days), was advertised all over the place, was popular in MLG, etc etc. H3 was on a pedestal by itself from 07-10

So what?

Right now every mass effect should be always indoors and therefore more claustrophobic because its more scifi to you? So in the end the so called snow does not make it more scifi, the envinronment does not make it more scifi, its just because you like things indoors, it has nothing to do with the planet itself.

Even in Combat MEA may be over all better then ME1 but losing the ability to directly control your squad mates AND only having 3 usable skills without going through a fancy switch sure lessens that aspect in MEA, IMO.

I was just talking about Noveria. Otherwise a lot of the off world planets in ME1 gave a pretty nice alien/sci-fi feels compared to Andromeda outdoors as already mentioned by others here. There were even example pics included in one post.

Which posts have picture included in this thread about the planets, go ahead?

And I don't care what the other said I am talking to YOU, you still did not told me why you feel that the previous outdoors of mass effect felt more alien or sci fi, why suddenly having a planet that ressembles africa means its less aliens than a planet that is artic.

You said before that is the indoors envinronment that feel more sci fi. Ok, but you still did not gave any arguments why the OUTDOORS of the previous planet felt more alien?

Could you please give arguments instead of just deflecting things or going everywhere else than what I just asked, you know answering the question.

You started this conversation by saying that a planet that ressembles africa means its not alien, but then you claim that a planet that ressembles the cold parts of our earth means it feel sci fi. When I asked you why you think that, you just said "well Noveria was mostly indoors", sorry but that was not the question, why does the outdoors of the previous mass effect feel more alien or sci fi.

I'm a lazy SOB, why waste time explaining when others are doing a better job;

Yes and this can be counter argumented, you could find domething like Atahe in a rock desert at night when there is lot of clouds and sandstorm, Nonuel is similar in some part to aurora borealis, nepmos feels like a volcano ground, antibbar also looks like an aurora borealis. And I do not see what is so special with tuntau. By the way those are the few planets that feels different from each other, lost of other are recycled again and again.

the proximyty of encampments is for gameplay reasons, the same way in witcher you could a 50 meters from a village and meet monsters, even if the villagers are defenseless and there is no way the monster would never see them from that distance if they stay there all day long, they would have easily see them and attack. Camps and outpost are near each other to make things not too far away because if we had to do one killometers between encampments it would get longer and more boring.

Its a classic case of gameplay and story segregation : tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameplayAndStorySegregation