Share your thoughts on how you envisioned "Mass Effect 4"

Kind of what we got honestly.

The next game i was gonna crank another 1000+ hours into. The game didn't really come out at all as expected for me.

But i sure love the jumpjet and looking foward to MEA 2 with high expectations. To correct and learn from MEA.

I never expected a "canon ending". They had already begun to make it clear that wasn't going to happen. I also never thought there would be a continuation of Shepard or a Shepard2.

I wasn't sure what to expect, but ME:A certainly fulfilled my expectations for a new Mass Effect experience. I'm definitely happy with what I bought.

I agree with you.  I prefer classes.  Not having classes, for me, does not lead to replayability.

I thought it was going to be about three factions (red, blue, green) trying to dominate the Milky Way galaxy. I think I was a little off.

After finishing the game I thought they're going to canonize Red Ending, but soon enough they made it clear that canon is not hapening and I stumbled upon Andromeda theory. So it was my expectation ever since.
I even guessed right stasis/FTL combination for their escape. Still I missed with ODSY drive, was expecting them to use Sovy's core on single Ark.
As for the story I expected more grounded story about settling unknown frontier and dealing with natives in contrast with galaxy wide doom in OT. Not entirely wrong, but that's clearly turned out far from main point of the game.

Not MEA, even long before it was announced...what was your initial thoughts?

I thought the next game would feature Shepard, but instead of playing as a soldier,  play as a farmer. The game would be titled The Farm Effect. Shepard plays as a farmer who has to deal with the local government about land rights. Conrad Verner plays as her beau. Udina is the bigshot government official. Samantha Traynor is her lawyer. James and Ashley play as hired farm hands. The game takes place in the state of North Carolina.

After my first playthrough, the guy says One more story. I thought, cool, Shepard will be in another game. Of course that didn't happen.

I don't know for sure what I thought the next game would be like. Maybe have it continue in the Milky Way and have Shepard. Still like to see Shepard in another game.

I expected a sci-fi epic with infinite replay value, not a high fantasy sloth run. Even the game play is a let down. But more importantly, I envisioned an alien with Miranda's butt x2.

I expected utter garbage, after where ME2 and ME3 took the series, and then the ending. Oh GOD the ending. Yeah, I heard about Andromeda and I immediately dismissed it and ignored it until 2-3 months before launch. Then after watching enough stuff about it, I went from thinking I'd never even TRY the thing, to cautiously optimistic.

It's actually much better than I was expecting, but I was going in with some pretty low expectations.

I don't like or dislike it as a concept, I'm just in favor of anything that gives players more choices, not less.  I'm pretty sure I voted in that poll.  You were under the impression that what class people played controlled subsequent playthroughs, which isn't the case for a lot of people.  Some people play every playthrough as one class, but change up story choices, love interests, etc.    

I never thought about leaving the MW. I suspected it to take place either during the trilogy or before. Perhaps First Contact or the beginnings of Cerberus, or maybe play as a merc during the events of ME:T and we'd get secondhand accounts of Shepard'n'crew from civilians or news networks.

I wanted a more personal story that didn't focus on saving the galaxy, or even a world for that matter. The people you met along the way and became your crew would be the driving force you'd become the hero for. We'd see a civilian side to Mass Effect's Milky Way instead of through the eyes of the military and officers and the political bigwigs. I wanted environments that put you on a personal level with the everyday people (like what we got in the Citadel DLC, where Shepard fought through back alleys and shopping districts). Slice of life stuff. I didn't think we'd actually get this, but hoped it would exist in some capacity in ME4. Andromeda is sorely lacking this.

The endings were such a hot issue, I figured they'd leave it be for while. I didn't expect anything to take place after the games events unless it was decades later, a future where it just about didn't matter which ending you picked, you'd end up in the same place and ME would continue on as it had before.