This is how the Mass Effect: Andromeda UI used to look...

Now I'm imagining something like the gestural computer interface of Minority Report.

Wow, now that's a case of vivid contrast instability. Make's the present MEA look like the downgrade of the century. If only it could have been 50% as good as that art and not the muppet show we now have.

Hmm.. Game concepts are always more "fleshed out" and more beautiful than what ends up in the final game.

Game designers can have beautiful designs and great ideas, but the restrictions of reality will tone them down very fast. First of all - You can have incredible beautiful detailed designs, but when you try to run that on a average system that most players will have, you get an unplayable frame rate of 3.5 or lower. So - you have to lower detail. Then you have to lower the amount of things showed at the same time (because of same reasons), and finally come to the conclusion that this "toned down" image/concept looks terrible.

Thus - they start the cycle again with another concept, and it's "rinse and repeat". At the end what you get is what is put in ME:A. Not because it's the most beautiful concept, but because it's the concept that works best on the player's system.

All other hings are just nice wishes, without any practical use. I hate to say that, but that's reality in game design.

Oh and another time that stupid violent psycho "strip"? Really? Wow - I am really glad that Shepard maniac is gone for ever.

Agreed - It's starting to get irritating.
I am all for criticism deserved or not, but some people seem to make it a personal endless bashing crusade and post over and over again. Oh well, that's the internet I guess (or I'm getting too old and grumpy)...

What is interesting is that Remnant interfacing stuff. So they planned us to have some basic and upgradeable ability to control Remnants, based on how many Glyphs we found.

A lot of things change between concept art and in game design. Look at Zevrans original concept art compared to his final design.

I would have loved some of these things though, like expanded settlements and the omnitool interface. You can tell that Andromeda would've benefitted from not losing a year of development to trying to replicate No Mans Land though.

I do like the game we ended up with, but I'll be the first person to admit it was unpolished as fuck

There's a switch button for alternating the squad outfits...We might see it in a DLC one day 8-\.

Well I would like the Blue/Red option if put in the new game alongside 4 other options.
Violet for sarcastic/humorous answer
Yellow for financial/economic answer (the Volus love this option)
Green for mother nature and environmentalist answers (Space elves?)
Gray for nerd/geek answer

Concept art of concepts that didn't make it into the final product? Colour me surprised!

I think that Cora design would have been a great default Ryder, but i prefer the Cora design as it is now in game.

Exactly.  People using this as an excuse to bash the game again are conveniently forgetting that EVERY game goes thru a ton of concept art before inception.  But then I suppose they enjoy finding a new thing to criticise.

This place is getting dumber by the day.