XBOX SHOWCASE | X Gonna Give it To Ya

[hamarr]

I believe that there are hidden artifacts that give you such powers but yes it mostly looks like Mass Effect although much grander in scale and with building/crafting elements. It does look like missions are pretty much limited to raiding bandit camps in space though. All the gameplay they showed outside of building and crafting was basically shooting. 

The biggest question for me is if the game is interesting enough to be such a time sink. 'Just go out and explore' is fun in theory but without some sort of hook or objective it gets boring quickly. Especially if your only option is to shoot things.

I think I am okay if exploring planets is closer to Mass Effect. The combat encounters would maybe get old, but I don't think I want to invest the time to explore fully if it is like No Man's Sky or something.  With building and everything else, it might already feel like there is way too much to do. 

This is maybe a hot take, but I'm not really a fan of building stuff in games. Maybe if they have pre-designed room types you can slap together or something.  I wasn't really a fan of trying to assemble the walls and everything in Fallout 4. I did enough to complete the quests but never got around to making fancy homes like my friends were doing.   I did kind of like Star Wars Galaxies having a pre-fab home you drop on a building location where I just had to decorate it. I wasted a lot of hours flying around the galaxy trying to find a vendor with a decent couch.