Will/should EA dust off that remastered trilogy idea?

Okay, IF they included all DLC, yes, I'd buy it. I refuse to pay what they charge for them, it's crazy.

but I would rather they bundled all DLCs and put the bundle on sale for the sake of all that is holy. It's been 5 years.

I agree in principle but at the same time there was never the promise of more than one game.  That was said even before MEA was launched.

Could an Unreal engine version be better enough than what people have to sell?

The Unreal Engine is more than enough to get the job done right. Its like taking Metro 2033 and putting it on the upgraded Metro Last Light engine = Metro 2033 Redux.
Redux is a really nice improvement. It would be even more so with ME1 moving more towards ME3. ME2 really only needs a nice HD upgrade and maybe add in the tech burst from ME3.

A resounding yes. Considering they have the story, mocap and all the voice work already done it would cost a damn sight less to produce than a new product. It's a safe bet that would undoubtedly bring new fans to the franchise that have been put off by ME:1 dated graphics and clunky systems... and I don't think EA is in the frame of mind to take another gamble on ME just yet. It could also be an opportunity to perfect their engine and their team in preparation for another fresh foray in the ME universe.

I wouldn't be interested and prefer they actually make new stuff.

Might as well at this point, honestly.

MEA2 isn't coming anytime soon.

Given the original trilogy was made in Unreal Engine 3 and range between 5-10 years old, it would be a massive undertaking upgrading the games in Unreal Engine 4 (unlikely given EA's ownership of Frostbite) to meet modern standards, and 'porting' them over to Frostbite would more or less involve recreating them from scratch - people don't seem to get that you can't just straight-up transfer the entire game from UE3 to Frostbite and expect it to work. You'd literally be making the game from the ground up, only with a very strict plan of where everything should go.

The only way it would be feasible is if the games simply recieved high-res textures and maybe some general improvements to lighting; anything more would require far too much work, because a lot of it would need to be done by hand. For example, many of the assets in ME1 likely exist (if they've been kept) in far higher quality than they were featured in the original game (being created in software such as maya or mudbox or Zbrush), but each and every one of them would need to be re-sourced from those assets, otherwise we'd be looking at the exact same models in our shiny modern resolutions, and I just can't see that selling. And that's before we get onto environments or special effects or swapping out textures for material based rendering.

Just think of all those corridors that would potentially need to actually reflect their environment rather than relying on crude texture maps, or the areas with baked-in shadows that would now need real-time lighting so your characters aren't casting shadows on shadows. And all the hair that would need remodelling, and would the skin recieve subsurface scattering, and would the game use more advanced depth-of-field effects, and would they seek parity between all the OT games, meaning ME1 & 2 now need even more work, etc. etc.

And let's not forget, as many did when comparing MEA to the OT - we're talking about three whole games here.

There's just so so many things that would have to be effectively remade from scratch, and while it would certainly sell, I very much doubt it would even come close to covering it's production costs given the amount of work required to make it anything more than the original games looking no better than they did on PC with a couple of texture mods.

tl;dr - the cost effective option likely wouldn't sell well, and upgrading/remaking the games would likely require more effort than just making a brand new game

I'd be interested in a remaster if they added some new content, or expanded on things they cut in the original release due to time constraints etc.

I know this is not going to happen at all due a great many reasons, but Mass Effect 3 with all the DLC brought over to ME:A-Frostbite, with a much bigger ''Priority earth'' mission - yeah, I'd buy that.

Sync-kills, no dodges, gigantic manifest, can't play Gold till you ground out tons of guns from super expensive packs, can't play Vanguard above Silver, the godawful reload cancel...

me3mp awesome in that it offers tons of variety of maps and kits, but Andromeda lets you go further way, way, way faster and do much better with Veteran bonuses on common/uncommons, if you are not really that great with guns. And playing Vanguards finally does not carry the penalty of an insta kill if the game decided the boss is primed. Objectives are also way better in Andromeda, no dumb restriction on crawling with pizza or having to drop it like you are having a seizure...

i dunno, ME3mp was great, but if they actually expanded Andromeda's one, it's really built for more fun, less for frustration imo.

I like exactly the things you don't like, except I totally agree that Andromeda was shortchanged on the variety of maps and species presented in kits. I really dislike it how much your enjoyement depended on unlocks in ME3MP, whereas in MEA just ranking up a common char can give you gamegasm. You do not need to get some super-rare Cabal to be mobile, in fact you can play the character you like the look off, and it's good, and do not have to unlock the Reegar and Whatever that was called kit to be able to do stuff. And, the mobility, and the unpredictability of the enemies is refreshing and gives you a fighting chance vs some guy who memorized the spawns three years ago and destroys everything with one shots. In Andromeda I get to play (for the most part), in ME3mp - just sit in the corners like spiders. And, yes, thanks goodness it's fast, you can do bunch of different zones instead of sitting in the same one wave after wave. And if all zones were as awesome as Aqua, Paradox, vertigo and Nimbus vs the trailer park of Sandstorm, and there were more of them... aww... would have been great.

i do love the old kits though, and super-miss some of them visually.