What if Mass Effect Andromeda had a silent protagonist?

ME use lots and lots of cinematics so it would be very awkward at this point.They'd need to redesign a lot of stuff.
Silent protag has some advantages for roleplay and strangely enough lots of people didn't appreciate having a voiced protag in FO4.For some it killed replay value too.

I can appreciate both but voiced protag has a list of "meh":
If you don't like the PC voice actor it's annoying.
Bland lines are less jarring when not voiced.(you can always imagine your pc say something a bit different ,way more difficult when voiced)
Voice actor performance .In DAI I enjoyed the male British voice actor but Jeez , don't let this guy yell orders he's terrible at it...and for some exchanges during Trespasser he sounded super posh.I don't think my dalish is "posh".Broke mah immersion.
Voice acting for the PC has a cost ,it means every word is more pricey.It usually translate in less words.Less words tends to translate in less quests or quests more streamlined.

I would throw this game out the airlock

But honestly, I prefer games with voiced protagonist. The game would lose some of its appeal to me. I don't have that much problem with it if other characters are also silent, but when they're fully voiced... I know there're people who liked this, but one of my main problems with DAO is exactly silent protag (in fully voiced world).

Sarcastically: Yes, I would love to have one especially during key moments in the story &/or cinematic cutscenes where it looks like I'm contemplating everything. I would be as deep as a black and white filter. In fact, if this was the case the game would greatly benefit from having the whole game be in black and white like cat vision from The Witcher.

(Ex.)

LI - You think we'll make it
Ryder - ...(yeah)
LI - You're always keeping a level head about all this, even when you started the war.
Ryder - *looks at plant* ...(plant is cool)
LI - Why did you start the war anyway? Did you think it would really help us find peace with the ********?
Ryder - ...(plants are nice)
LI - Are you listening to me?
Ryder - ...(yeah)
LI - Been cheating on you with the Asaru.
Ryder - ...(what)
LI - She listens to me, and talks to me, unlike you, what do you even sound like?
Ryder - ...(plant)
LI - I'm leaving you. *walks out of airlock*
Ryder - ...(the asaru was a girl?)

They said it would be more realistic, so there you go. LI can cheat on you, be stupid, and die in an non-cinematic way. All because you look at plants all day.

Devilishly: Then they couldn't say no.

There is also the aspect of interpretation that comes reading that cause huge misunderstandings and headaches. Some of that is why social media is such a pain in ass right now. A joke or a sarcastic comment doesn't work very well when it's read but when you get spoken dialogue you can hear inflections, the tone of the voice, and other such things. Unless it's spelled out literally, you get blown up outrages over what is really a joke.

Now I'll try to explain this with a simple two word example: no.
Can anybody honestly tell if am I being snarky, angry, sarcastic, seductive, intelligent, stupid, loud, and quite?
I can vocalize the differences in just saying the word "no" in ways that I can never do typing the word. I know adding different punctuation marks and capitalizing the letters can tell you what I mean but that actually just makes my strengthens point. Someone speaking can put more meaning in one simple two letter word, and give an exact emotional meaning that reading can't and never will.

Now I understand the appeal the silent protagonist but when you have other NPCs talking and the PC can't it looks and feels off putting to me, I would like to one day play a game where the silent protagonist can be silent for a reason in the game and has to interact with others in an interesting way, (i.e. writing stuff down and having people read it, sign and body language, interpreters, telepathy) but you all will pardon if I'm not holding my breath on that happening anytime soon because of technology limits or the sheer cost of making that actually work in a game that I would want to buy and play.    

That depends... I prefer no voice acting for characters who have little to no history. Let's take Warden as an example - yes, you have six origins for him (or her), but most of the information about his childhood, friends, etc. is unknown. The Warden has no standard character traits - you can make him a charismatic leader, a simple thug, a powerhungry overlord, a sadistic bastard, a goody-two-shoes kind of hero, a womanizer, anything that dialogue options allows you to do (and that's A LOT in Origins).

Voice acting works better for characters with character traits that he/she has no matter what. Commander Shepard is a charismatic leader with an ability to solve difficult problems. Whether you solve these problems with bullets or red/blue yelling is up to you but it doesn't matter that much. Commander is simply "the only person who can save the galaxy" and "the one who can bang anyone". And (s)he also makes A LOT of motivational speeches.

I usually prefer Warden-like-characters but I doubt we will get that in Andromeda. Just, for a **** sake, write decent dialogue lines for our character. Make him/her look smart! Jesus! "Can Asari reproduce with each other?"

There's really no point. We're playing as a human and only a human with likely a set background, a set faction and a set authority.

Games like Fallout absolutely need it because the world is so filled to the brim with possibilities for the player(or should be). Likewise in Dragon Age Origins our character can and should be many different things, be it a snooty Dwarf noble, boy scout human noble, vindictive city elf etc.

I would still buy and enjoy it (not as much as with a voiced protagonist though). My multiplayer hours however would outnumber my singleplayer hours even more than they did in me3.

I would be very disappointed, but gladly that's not going to happen. It was my only complaint about the Warden. He was supposed to be the leader of the group but often the companions had to speak instead of him because he had no voice.

In all honesty? It would probably have room for more features around other areas. Software is kind of like how they say once you go blind your other senses become intesified? If they had to cut out voiced protagonist they would hopefully allocate that budget to other suffering aspects(suffering because not given enough attention) of the game. The voiced protagonist is one of bioware's main features but it is also one of it's main dependencies. Each scene requires, voice to be recorded, dialog to be written,cinematography to be designed and dialog trees path to be programmed.

However, from a design perspective, i think the game would suffer if they had to remove voiced dialog while going for a more cinematic approach. Having a silent protagonist in such a game wouldn't be beneficial because of how out of place the protagonist will look. They are ways around this like having graphical emotes to highlight what exactly the protagonist is feeling when delivering that piece of dialog but they do not have as much effect as the voiced protagonist.

Silent protagonist is not worth it.

Now if you had magical technology where the player was responsible for all the protagonist dialogue, that could be interesting.