Please don't be like the Guardians of the Galaxy

If Bioware wants to ape the GoTG film in any fashion, I wouldn't want to stop them.

But where's the FEELZ in that? 

Too soon 

Yeah but if Mac write the script, Mal probably would have had to impale himself on a power generator to get the signal out, River would have become a Reaver and have to be put down by Simon, who dies in the process.  Jayne and Zoe would have succumbed to their wounds, And Kaylee would have died blowing up the Serenity to kill the last of the Reavers.  

Leaving Inara in front of a memorial wall holding a plaque reading "Malcolm Reynolds" as she stares off into space.

And at the very end, a charred, bloody brown coat gasps.

FEELZ! 

As for the "feelz", I have a serious passion for good SciFi that eclipses anything I feel about most characters. For the same reason, silly stuff like that exposed skin in space in ME2 can adversely affect my appreciation of a SciFi story far more than bland characters. Good characters are a dime a dozen, but most people who make SF on visual media appear to think they can just ignore consistency and at least some realism if only there's enough drama. I think cheap drama can destroy any story, and it has adversely affected, for instance, ME3 as a whole far more than the ending.

So here's a resounding "NO" to the unintentionally silly stuff, and please keep the humor below the parody level and put some serious SFness into the story. That will do much more for my emotional connection to the story than character drama, which feels forced most of the time anyway.


Edit:
With regard to Iakus' comments: I like things to be more serious, I even like the "deeper" stuff, but serious and deep themes have to arise naturally from the story. Also, "serious and deep" is different from  "grimdark" or "downer". Warhammer 40K is grimdark but I could never take that universe seriously. It's just too over-the-top. ME3 attempted to introduce a metaphysical dimension into its ending, and that failed spectacularly because it wasn't grounded in the story that came before and because it was attached to the enemy boss. Some of ME3's sideplots addressed some pretty fundamental stuff, too, and there it worked much better because it *was* grounded in the world. 
  

I wouldn't go so far as to lump them in with us WH40K fans. Warhammer is grim dark, but not angsty grim dark, there's a definite line between those two points.

In WH40K's grim dark your hero will in all likelihood die and/or go insane, but they will do it murdering countless foes before they are (quite literally in some cases) buried beneath the bodies of their enemies. This all being approached as the logical end point of said hero's journey even before the adventure begins, and even in more serious stories set in the setting its all still approached with a level of "fun" in the way of wanton slaughter and mayhem.

Angsty grim dark is your hero moping about the meaning of life and death before being arbitrarily killed off for the 'feelz'.

I agree with you in general, just had to point out that distinction 

As to the whole Guardians concern, I didn't get a feeling Andromeda was channeling Guardians at all.

There are elements of Guardians I wouldn't mind seeing in Andromeda though, like the quips and banter between the crew, but then that isn't alien to the Mass Effect trilogy, there has always been that element in all three games, they just increased it with each entry, and that humour aspect shouldn't go away in Andromeda I think.

Overall Guardians and ME are different kinds of space fantasy/sci-fi, and even if Andromeda fundamentally feels different to the ME games that came before, I don't see it becoming a full on Guardians clone, but sure I wouldn't be surprised if a few production details or elements that strike familiar will be there.

Also, as to the whole ludicrousness of silly space suits meet hazardous and toxic environments, I would like to see some realistic sticking to lore or just sensible and established adherence to basic rules about being in hazardous environments. The fact Miranda could walk around planets like Tarith in a stupid catsuit and bubble mask (I thought of Fleur and Cedric's breather bubbles from Goblet of Fire when I first saw them) broke immersion very easily. Sure ME2 took a lighter tone, and wasn't as serious, but breaks in lore and realism like that are cheap and lazy and hopefully shouldn't be seen in MEA.

But every piece of sci-fi and space fantasy does have breaks in realism here and there, and basic scientific fact, it wouldn't be fiction after all. But there is a point between a slight break in scientific fact to help the fantastical aspects of your fictional story, and stupidness like making sure in no way is Miranda concealed behind proper hazardous planet armour or breather protective equipment because of her ASSets.

Frell Farscape! If this is an ape-off, let the best ape win!



(The best ape is Picard. Empirical fact.)



(Okay, fine, Farscape's pretty great too.)



(But dat Picard tho.)

Um, nooo... Farscape was made in 1998-2002, GoTG was 1969, Star Trek was 1966-1967. Gamora showed up in 1975. So, no, sorry but you're wrong on Farscape. Gamora's green skin and look is Orion from Star Trek.

The original comic book version of GotG is not the version that movie is based on the current version.
Character wise they are pretty much type of characters.

Star-Lord=John Crichton. The only real difference is the age that they left Earth.

Gamora=Aeryn Warrior woman who start out not liking the male hero but do fall in love with them.

Drax=D'Argo Big warrior who take everything way too seriously to the point of them being funny and they have their own personal needs for revenge.
 
Rocket Racoon=Rygel Small scheming greedy smart-ass bastards.

Groot=Zhaan The soul of their respective teams and also walking and talking plants.

Ronan=Scorpius Super ambitious villains who are nowhere near as smart/ruthless as they think are.

Nova Corps=The Peacekeepers Morally questionable space cops.

In the comics the Nova Corps were basically Marvel's version of DC's Green Lantern Corps.

Uhm, did you forget that humanity was hunted there because it exactly was special snowflake?

The thing is that they didn't even need any major support because a couple of them was enough to destroy most dangerous species in the galaxy. So I honestly doubt that this is a good example of non-snowflake humans.