The return of the guy who outright destroyed Mass Effect (3) is a good sign?!
Bisnic! You of all people. You really didn't like Andromeda
Despite its ending, Mass Effect 3 was still more fun/replayable than Andromeda. It was a damn good game despite the ending and the star child nightmares/Kai Leng. And let's not forget that Casey was also behind the other 2 ME games.
Andromeda is too big and "open world" for its own good. I didn't hate it, but I was disappointed with what we got. I wanted explorable planets, yeah, but more than half a dozen(not to mention nearly half of them are arid/desert like) and not filled with pointless fetch quests that are not any better than what we found in WoW 10 years ago. Planets also didn't need to be that big. They could have made double the number of planets we got if they just cut them all in size. We could have gotten some nice alien planets, but all we had was desert, ice, jungle, arid, desert planets + asteroid.
I wanted a good, very replayable, ~30 hours game that mixed the good elements of ME1(story and atmosphere)-2(characters and world building)-3(combat gameplay), but they only succeed on the combat, some characters and perhaps atmosphere too, but the soundtrack was kinda lacking to help on that imo.
Instead we got a 80-100 hours game that I'm just forcing myself to replay a 2nd time because of its size. Even by ignoring the meaningless tasks section of the journal, it's still taking way too long to do one playthrough. And to think I used to replay the old trilogy at least once a year. Not sure I'll even do that with Andromeda.
