It is bad news for like 90% of games. Big world usually means empty boring space or a repeated propylene of the last section in the maps. 

I have confidence in Bioware to deliver an excellent huge world though. I'm not worried about Mass Effect.

I'm playing Final Fantasy XV right now and liking it, but a boring 7 minutes drive to finish a 2-3 minutes side mission in the beginning of the game isn't a smart idea. And you would think by visiting most of the areas on the map you will fast travel and solve the issue? No! You still have to go through a long loading times for some reason no one talked about.

And did I mention a long walking distance after a long drive or loading time?

The best thing is when you finally reached the mission area to find it full with 20+ overpowered soldiers you have to wait for them to leave.

As you said "that sh*t is retarted"

I finally finished the main story a week ago. I agree with what you mentioned but the game had so many other annoying design choices too. Lost count how many times I got pissed off while playing. Most boss fights and dungeons were terrible and frustrating.

Still somehow I liked the game. I guess the story was nice enough. I found it to be mostly nonsense and they tried too hard to shove emotions down your throat, but for me it was all about the dynamics between them four main characters. There's no way I could rate this game higher than 7/10 even though I'm happy I played it. I'm NOT looking forward to another jrpg tho that's for sure :P

Thissss

The game is amazing.

The gameplay is the best in the series imo, the Campaign is really interesting and when it matters the animations and facial expressions are on point.

The Multiplayer is also really good.

Agreed man. People just love to shit on bioware for reasons beyond me. It's an awesome game, hope it sells really well so EA will continue to inverts in the series and bioware.

Most games let you turn it off though anyway

Guys!
Get Axiom Verge while it's still on sale. Extremely good Metroid clone.
Also the story lasts more than 10 hours, so for $10 it's a really good deal.

Thanks for the heads up.

I wanted to play Mass Effect as it's one of my favorite game series but the recent news about the game kind of turned me off. So I decided to sell my Xbox One and just wait later this year for Scorpio (anyway I think taking a break from gaming will only do me some good) and then get Mass Effect along with a new tv. I'm really glad MS decided to get in on the iterative console releases. This way I keep my games and I'll just have to download them when I get a Scorpio.