'I only wish we had been able to then do a second one,' says Mass Effect: Andromeda's creative director.
was Walters moved over to work on Andromeda, so his answers mostly focus on the later stages of its development.that it was originally planned to have a procedurally generated galaxy, inspired by No Man's Sky."Ultimately, that was too much at odds with a lot of the way that we tell stories," Walters said,"and the way that we create our content, which tends to be very bespoke—a lot of big set-pieces and things like that. It's hard to translate into a procedural world.
When Walters was brought on, Andromeda was"in that pivot point, in that sort of inflection of, 'Oh we can't do both procedural—all of this stuff—and fulfil all the wishes and hopes of our fanbase who really want to see a lot of this bespoke narrative written in a certain way." Another challenge was that"there were just a lot of things that we had to relearn, re-figure out", presumably due to the switch from Unreal to the Frostbite engine.
Walters suggested that, to avoid some of Andromeda's problems,"we probably should have—in hindsight—just reduced scope more and executed on what we could to [ensure] quality. But, we were also in a weird phase in the industry where a lot of people were saying quantity was quality, so we were deluding ourselves internally a little bit that if it's maybe not as polished as [Mass Effect 3], it's fine—it's bigger and there's more here, and there's more to do.
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