SoRuffShoNuff
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Looking at the Mako missions in ME1 and Inquisition I have rather little faith in Bioware to actually fill hundreds of square kilometers (and that's what we're talking about here, the areas in Inquisition were arguably already too big and empty for their own good, and here they are we are with the smallest "zone" already being bigger than all of them combined) with meaningful content. It would be a challenge for CD Project Red, but for modern-day Bioware? And god knows how they can make those massive landscapes even look good or unique without turning into vast sameness after a few minutes with raw numbers of those proportions. Might look amazing on the backside of the retail box and the origin store page but few games manage to make country sized open-worlds compelling.
I would like to be optimistic but I just can't help being the exact opposite reading this. Talking about not doing something as part of PR is cheap, actually doing it is the opposite and the track record hasn't been good in that regard.
Keep in mind that the areas are so large because you can traverse them in a vehicle.