Do you ever come up with ideas for ME:A that you like so much they make you sad because they'll never actually be in the game?
I've been thinking about ME:A a lot and what I want to see/experience in it and I've come up with ideas that I really love and think would make for an amazing game. I get really attached to the ideas and flesh them out, only to come to the realization that it's pointless and never going to happen. And then I has a sad.
Anyone else been doing this?
Based off some of the original concept art, I've always wondered what direction Mass Effect could have taken.
In this case, Saren has a sword and a presumable protagonist isn't exactly wearing combat armor.
Oh, yeah, most definitely. I so wish I could make games myself. 
But that goes for any game I play. I don't mean that the games are bad in any way but just that I would like to add and/or change things here and there. When it comes to ME games, I love them and would only change four things from ME3.
Sometimes, I suppose. But I'd have to see what exactly we're working with first to really get an idea.
The only one I'm really stuck on is the return of actual armor tiers and inventory systems. God I miss that.
In this case, Saren has a sword and a presumable protagonist isn't exactly wearing combat armor.
Personally, I'm quite glad this route wasn't taken.
Then again the sword thing reminds me way too much of Kai Leng and, you know, screw that guy.
I don't like space ninjas. I'm playing scifi, I want pew pew pew pew pew. Not swish swish. I barely give Jedi/Sith a pass on that.
No i do not because im not a game developer.
Based off some of the original concept art, I've always wondered what direction Mass Effect could have taken.
In this case, Saren has a sword and a presumable protagonist isn't exactly wearing combat armor.
Saren has a sword and the protagonist is wearing Thane's armor. Later we get Kai Leng dressed in black and wielding a sword, and Thane is in the same armor getting impaled.
I try not to. I don't want to get my hopes up too much and set the bar too high, in a way. Thinking of really awesome game elements that ultimately wouldn't be in the game anyway would make me kind of sad.
Though it's easy to think of things that I wouldn't want to see in MEA.
Same here.
I'm not going t lie, in an earlier forum I thought about instead of having fish the PC has a bonsai tree in their cabin that overgrows if they don't trim it. I still am really attached to this idea. I mean I trust bioware with the general plot and characters so I suppose my dream list is pretty minimal.
I feel this way with the DC cinematic universe.
I cringe every time I think about the train wreck the Wonder Woman is going to be.
As for ME, I have bought one game since ME3 came out (and it was Minecraft), so I'll take whatever they give me.
I always do, but I study game design, so that's not much of a surprise.
It's never made me excessively sad that an idea of mine likely won't come to fruition, potentially because I may eventually have the knowledge and power to actually see it through myself. However, even the most excessive of pipe dreams don't darken my spirits. I think there is inherent value to a thought: if nothing else, it proves I'm still intelligent, creative and above all, still apparently driven to think. And I always have the hope (expectation, more like) that there is or will be some other artist somewhere else that has or will have the same thought (or perhaps better!) and have the will and means to give it shape.
I think it's only reasonable that we accept that any game made by our hand isn't our artistic expression and therefore couldn't possibly live up to our imagined ideal. It actually makes me somewhat happy knowing that something I like is neither enhanced nor hindered by my own ideas, but is the expression of someone else's. The best thing we can do is have these thoughts and discuss them. Best case: they're adopted by BIoWare; worst case; it passes the time and may serve as inspiration for others.
Space exploration. First person camera.
All the time, but I try not to factor them into whether or not I enjoy the game.
It would be hillarious if IT was proven right and Bioware decided to sent an ARK to Andromeda to rebuild civilization and continue in fight against the Reapers in next cycle 
Yes. So cool that if it ever get into a game, they probably produce a few game sequels and a trilogy of movies. Sadly it never going to happen.
No. I only dream about mating with Asari.
Yes, the fact that ME:A will not include a magical moon kingdom fills me with despair.
Sort of. I think about the context of Andromeda and what the major themes should be, internal and external conflicts, and the type of story that best supports that. I'm very pleased Bioware has decided to focus on a human protagonist because I feel that lends itself to having a more focused narrative. I'd really love to have backgrounds like Shepard had but more fleshed out. One background could have a family (an actual interactive one)...I could roleplay the hell out of that in the context of Andromeda. But as OP suggested it's unlikely to happen...and a bit depressing.
Oh yeah. I mean, before we even got a title, I'd attached myself to this idea of what I kept referring to as Indiana Jones IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! (yeah, I can't help doing that every time), a plot of staying in the Milky Way and focusing not on major military forces but on a ragtag band of misfit archaeologists digging into the galactic history - focus on the galaxy's past, you don't have to pay too much attention to the present, and these are the kind of people who wouldn't be the major news focus anyway. I knew it wouldn't happen, but I thought it would have been a great way to personalize the narrative better, bring the scale down from a galaxy threatening invasion to a more intimate narrative between the protagonist and antagonist.
And the thing about us being left to speculation for the time being is that, inevitably, due to the sheer number of fans going around, theorizing and coming up with ideas, statistically, there are bound to be plenty of ideas that are better than what will be in the final game. Some of them would bust the budget completely, some of them might be better suited to a sidequest than a full game story plot, some of them are just downright impractical for the medium, but they can easily be better than the finished product, which makes it a letdown because it wasn't THIS.
I always get ideas for ME stuff...like a TV show called Mass Effect Origins: Earth, telling the story of the discovery of the Prothean archives on Mars, finding the Mass Relay in Charon, the First Contact War. Maybe have a couple of episodes dedicated to the background of the Illusive Man. Also having the conflict with the Batarians in the show.
Mass Effect Origins: Citadel (movie) telling the story of the Asari finding the Prothean archives on Thessia and discovering the Citadel. And then having the Salarians reach the Citadel and having them create the Council. I would only make it a movie because I couldn't see so many Asari for more than 2 hours.
Mass Effect Origins: Tuchanka (TV Show) showing the story of how the Krogan destroyed their planet but then Salarians come to uplift them. Also include the Rachni Wars and Krogan Rebellions, including the Turians and Salarians create and release the Genophage.
I get an unhappy feeling when I realize it won't happen though. There was so much talk about a Mass Effect movie and I bet that won't be happening either.
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