The DeanBeat: Should you finish playing the vast world of Zelda or Mass Effect: Andromeda?

When multiple big games come out at the same time, I let out a groan. I usually wind up choosing one over the other. But in the case of the most recent pair of huge virtual worlds, I decided to play them both at once.

And so I am bouncing between Mass Effect: Andromeda, which Electronic Arts published this week, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at the same time. The experience has made me see some common threads in how developers try to entertain someone inside a vast virtual space.