VentureBeat claims we're going to get a MET Remaster "Legendary Edition"

It's probably just a placeholder name and release date because nothing official was announced, we still have plenty of time until the end of fall or April 2021, and many online events in between to announce it.

SIGGRAPH (Aug 24-28)
GamesCom (Aug 27-30)
PAX Online (Sep 12-20)
HavenCon 2020 (Nov 6-8)
Dreamhack Atlanta (Nov 13-15)
PAX Unplugged (Nov 20-22)
Dreamhack Winter (Nov 26-29)
CES 2021 (Jan 6-9, 2021)

GamesCom and PAX are most likely I think, though there's also PS/XB events if they plan to show games coming to current gen, they definitely missed the opportunity for that in the previous PS event that was on Aug 6.

I wonder if importing manual saves from the original game will be possible, if they did the remaster in UE4 it might not be possible to do that because the original games are in UE3, though I wouldn't be surprised if they will implement compatibility with the Mass Effect Archives.

Wasn't that in ME2? Isn't this about ME1 vs MEA? But if you want to bring that into it, fine. I doubt any ship regardless if it was armed or not would have fared any better being ambushed like the SR1 was. Of course it didn't help that Moreau flew into the collector beam of doom. So much for those so-called evasive maneuvers

And yet those weapons help destroy the collector ship in the galactic core.

The reaper was already dead? What happened is after the reaper lost it's shields, it wasn't taking any damage, even when the Alliance ships were firing at it, until the itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie frigate, with a fighter on each side, fired at the reaper destroying it. The whole thing was setup for the SR1 to fired the kill shot. It was lame the way it was done.

Like in firefly? Wouldn't know anything about that.

No matter what, having weapons is better than not having them. If they're never used, great, but all it takes is that one time where they would/could have made a difference. At the very least give a few seconds for the ship to go ftl to avoid taking any/more damage.

The point is, being better in sheer martial strength isn’t the same as being better in terms of story. The reason people like the ship in Firefly is because of what it represents, not because of what the ship itself can actually do. It’s just a small, scrappy freighter held together by a small crew of outlaws. If the SR1 was purely a stealth spacecraft with no weapons capability, people would probably still love it, because it’s a sleek representation of the hero we play. Up until that last minute scene at the tail end of the battle, the ship might as well have been totally devoid of any offensive capabilities. 

ME1 started a franchise, MEA almost ended one.

Maybe they wanted to make sure all characters had something to do with the plot of the game or at least felt like they had some impact.  Having a character that might not be there means the interactions you might have with them need to go from mandatory or important to nothing of consequence outside of that character.  Which I believe was a complaint players had with Mass Effect 3 as well and all the returning companions that might have died for they were all locked off in their own little boxes that never interacted with the overall game aside from readiness.  Even in Mass Effect 1 aside from the Kaiden and Ashley choice on Virmire all the interactions with the characters was isolated and didn't impact the primary game at all.  Even killing Wrex is just a "you shouldn't have done that" and then nothing more.

I wouldn' t say that it was just put on hold s oEA could focus on other things such as Battlefront 2. 

Now that I played ME3 a bit, I would take a remake if we could even move properly again without pauses when evading forward or going over objects, maybe even jump, remove omnikey and its voes making combat frustrating as hell, remove stuck to objects/geometry, remove massive screen shakes and laughable gun rise when firing, real HDR lighting, pull camera back as Shep takes 1/3 of screen estate almost etc.. and in the end, make the sound effects more balanced. Story is ok but game mechanics are showing their age for sure. ME1 could also benefit from a lot of tuning, I actually like its graphics and realtime combat more than 2 or 3 (on PC, I dont pause).

Edit: Basically make it in new engine - dont take this very seriously, as I previously said at least how moddable the games are on PC and how fast they can run today (except ME1 is still a hog in some cases using high resolutions and textures), not in favour of remaster.

It's about immersion in a story. It's one thing to find yourself outgunned, but boing off into unexplored space where you can't even defend yourself from  space pirates is the epitome of idiocy. It's the horror movie equivalent of going off to check on the noise in the basement after several of your buddies have already disappeared.

Its all about personal views too, for me if you want to talk about poor storytelling I would also point to games like BioShock: Infinite and The Last of Us Part 2.  At least with Andromeda I didn't see the strings they wanted to pull, it just felt diluted so I could fix that by skipping padding.  Those other two games for me were far worse for there was nothing I could do to improve my experience with the story.

That isn't surprising that you might have only one completion of Andromeda.  Its also a much larger game, I have around 250 hours in Andromeda with just finishing my third playthrough which is how I found out that I can improve my experience with skipping a lot of the non-critical content.  That is about the same I have in Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2, so I have a hard time comparing completions when two games are much shorter then the third.  The interesting thing for me is with Andromeda is that its the second BioWare game I found more enjoyable after starting to skip content, the first was Mass Effect 1 where unless I was 100% it for export I skip almost all the UNC missions.