I know, yet another Mass Effect Andromeda thread? But, I feel like this is important enough because while people like to get bogged down on the surface level problems of MEA they seem to miss the major issues with the game. It's not just the jank, ME1 was a janky mess with serious issues regarding pop-in textures and yet many people found the game to be their favorite in the series. I found this video which does a good job just quietly showing off the differences between the series over the decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYxLC3FCzVU
You don't need to watch the whole thing but can skip around to get the idea. It's been a decade since ME1 and with the power of next-gen we have Hub Worlds that are smaller and less interactive than ME1, stiff characters, worse dialogue, worse writing, obnoxious loading times, and an all around lack of creativity. The first hour into ME1 and you were introduced to about seven different alien species. Ten hours into MEA and you get one (the enemy) only to later discover one more and that's it for the whole game. Every merchant in ME1 could be spoken to and had interesting lines of dialogue which fleshed out the world. In MEA you can't even speak to the merchants on the various worlds. Like, what? A new galaxy of literally infinite possibilities and what we get is a game that is completely creatively bankrupt and risk averse.
What do you say after watching that video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYxLC3FCzVU
You don't need to watch the whole thing but can skip around to get the idea. It's been a decade since ME1 and with the power of next-gen we have Hub Worlds that are smaller and less interactive than ME1, stiff characters, worse dialogue, worse writing, obnoxious loading times, and an all around lack of creativity. The first hour into ME1 and you were introduced to about seven different alien species. Ten hours into MEA and you get one (the enemy) only to later discover one more and that's it for the whole game. Every merchant in ME1 could be spoken to and had interesting lines of dialogue which fleshed out the world. In MEA you can't even speak to the merchants on the various worlds. Like, what? A new galaxy of literally infinite possibilities and what we get is a game that is completely creatively bankrupt and risk averse.
What do you say after watching that video?