Side Quests and tasks should be should be restricted to ONE planet, two at the most.

I dunno if Movie Night is really worth singling out there, since most of the time you would probably be doing something else when you pass by the vendors that sell these quest items. Contagion is probably the worst offender, though it's just system hopping, which I wouldn't like a repeat of, even though I actually liked how that quest ends. I don't think we really got anything beyond that that really required that much hopping about. I'm still exhausted just thinking about the Helena Blake and geth outposts in ME1. Now those sucked.

meh...I didn't mind it, but if it would make other players happy I don't care. Quests like Pebee's loyalty mission though should be on multiple planets.

It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for
1. Take off scene
2. Open Galaxy Map
3. Zoom out of the planet
4. Zoom out of the system
5. Travel to the new system
6. Travel to the new planet (now skippable thank the gods).
7. Landing scene

(Alt #6. Travel to the anomaly)


Kinda weird that you have to go TO THE LOCATION to get a movie.  Aren't there such things as downloads? lol

I just wish the quest log(journal) was organized differently. I'd like a tab that shows all the quests you can do at your current location. You can click the icons on your map, but it isn't the same.

You mean since you actually do download them and then upload them to the Tempest?  Yeah, you'd think by 2819 you could simply send movies from the Nexus to the Tempest, sort of like how I can watch movies on my phone.

I agree with others that Contagion and the "retired STG dude" quest were the main culprits. I honestly don't mind the time in space, since I love the way it's presented in this game. I do find Kadara a bit annoying. Landing in the port, with its crappy ass doors, and then needing to take an elevator to the slums is a time-consuming mess. Maybe they thought we'd never visit Kadara Port again, if they let us land at Ditaeon? I don't know.

I think those two quests and Kadara Port's terrible accessibility issues are the only examples of this type of thing becoming annoying.

Ha. I rather like the immersion. In last playthrough:

• Never skipped a travel sequence.
• Never used a Forward Station.
• Always drive back to the Tempest to launch off-planet.

Glad those things are there for those who prefer to skip. 

I don't mind it so much. If it weren't for some quests like that there's a real possibility I'd never go back to a planet I've already settled, which would be a shame. I enjoyed the trips back to Eos or Voeld, plus new tasks/quests showed up when I did.

Yeah. I think the majority of quests should be beatable within one slice of gameplay. You get a quest, a marker shows up a bit away in the map and you go there to do combat, talking or scanning, that takes you to another thing or it takes you back and the quest is over and stuff like that.

When it constantly becomes a dragged out slog of having to go back to the ship, fly to a system, scan a thing then land elsewhere, then go back and talk to Kandros, then go back to the original planet and do stuff, then it becomes a shitty quest. The only thing that could redeem such a quest would be a really interesting quest-plot but none of them in this game go above merely interesting.

ME:A is set in a dystopian society where things like accessing data, making calls and downloading stuff through personal devices went completely extinct. In order to do these things you'll have to sign onto a government monitored computer in the Tempest or at specific locations with connection enhancers. To improve the connection between the computer and the mainframe in the Nexus the Tempest has to leave the atmosphere every time you board. Therefore we'll never see entering the Tempest without taking off added into this game. Breaking these laws is punishable by being thrown out of the airlock.

If you have more questions about these 'issues', please come see Jien Garson in her office. The location of her office is 'Location not Specified'.

QECs (expensive, and vastly limiting) and FTL comm buoys... that you have to drop. There is no proof of you dropping anything, so you have no idea how many planets are between you and the target.

This is the first BW game where I gave up completely on the sidequests. They were all so rediculous, and tedious just for the sake of being tedious. They were very, very poorly designed and implemented.