it better not be another five years for a sequel

Yep, I'm one of the more vocal "a**holes" about the state of the game when it arrived and the total unpolished feel to it, but it's good. The canvas is the issue, the artist needs more experience and developers are having to recreate systems that were never there. Not to mention, leadership seems abysmal from an outsider's perspective and all the junkies (I mean fans like myself) want bigger, better and longer-lasting every time. Five years... oh god... just put me in a cryo chamber until Dragon Age comes back. 

Well I'm not saying the next game will be awesome, I'm just saying the foundation is set where it can be awesome.

i don't see how inquisition comes into play anyways when that studio didn't make this game. The current studio had no previous experience with the frostbite.

i hope 2 or 3

but if they are working on the new dragon and the new ip and maybe a star wars game, then it could take longer than 3

What good is sharing the tools if you still have to make things up from scratch and if you're a brand new studio with no previous experience? There's also not many other RPGs using the FB3 engine, and you can't have Andromeda build its game up like battlefield did.

reality is Montreal built this game from scratch, they tried a completely new approach with making characters with face scans rather than how the originals did it as well as the inquisition, the combat isn't relateble to the inquisition to where they can borrow off it, they had to completely make up new models since they're on a next gen console and a different engine, there is no copy and past like ME1-3 did.

its pretty clear that bioware started from scratch with this game. Having the tools given to them doesn't just make them better at their jobs though.

Have to be something to ask them. I know that just cause multiple studios are under one division, doesn't mean they have to make their games like the others. So I'd say Montreal wanted to be different than how Edmonton did inquisition. Because andromeda has so many differing features and such, I'd guess they wanted to experiment a little(and experimenting isn't always a good thing to do, especially when it differs from the original). The face scans are a neat idea, but I'd say it's not worth using untill they put serious work into it as right now it's an abomination.

Inquisition cc was targeting different player races, all of which has to look stylistically similar, so it is more anime style. ME games always had that artistic style that tried to make humans to look as real as possible rather more like anime characters. So, they started in a different place. Yes, there are less sliders, but to accurately portray specifically humans the cc suits better, however the variety will absolutely need to be addressed.

Customization/crafting was never a big part of ME, so I frankly rather see them drop it out altogether, tbh than turn to Inquisition. Honestly, it seems very similar to Inquisition, pattern research, painstaking material accumulation, then click Station to craft. I am not even sure what's so different about the two, I think they lifted it pretty much completely from Inquisition.

for squad control, I.e. The absence of it, they actually did borrow from their other game, but it was not Inquisition, it was SWTOR. They explained their reasoning by wanting to eliminate the necessity to pause during combat and add verticality and mobility for the PC. Like it or not, they specifically wanted something different. May be it is a hint of things to come, of them moving towards games with a soloist protagonist.

Depends, what's not working for the frostbite 3?