>>723370496
>Game set during the Colony War would be retarded.
Can't imagine it being any more retarded than the current situation where both the UC and Freestar feel like they're on the brink of becoming failed states and the entire rest of the galaxy is overrun with pirates, bandits, and killer mercenaries.

>What does this even mean?
I mean that instead of trying to simulate exploration across entire planets filled with nothing but long-stretches of empty space and stock repeating assets, the devs should've just had us scan planets for resources & info like in ME2 and gave them a single "Point of Interest" full of hand-crafted content where we could land and do ground missions.

>The VA is generally pretty normal.
IMO, everyone just sounds so board and painfully obvious they're just reading lines of a script. So far I haven't encountered any NPCS that sound like they're genuinely emotional or invested in what they're saying.