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

Maybe because Bioware poorly managed the time they had. They had to make the game more streamlined, so they remove the power wheel, no option to not recruit,  just to get the game out in time. Either way, they removed something that was in the previous games. I view that as a step backwards. A good way to counter the not being able to recruit a squadmate is put in the option to have a squadmate removed for a being stupid because they did stupid things.

I rather have weapons or at the very least defense systems in place just in case. I would also add the poor design of the helmet at the beginning of the game. Why is the open part nearly all the way to the back of the head? Why wouldn't it be covered to the eyebrows? Maybe it's because the Initiative put safety and security at the bottom of the list. Maybe they didn't care.  They build fancy looking ships hoping people would ooh and aah without givng any thught to what protective measures the ships would have.

I take Bioshock Infinite over MEA. The Last of Us I know nothing about.

I can make a long/large game short. Speedruns. That I can say about MEA that I liked. DAI is a much bigger game than DA2 yet I have more playthroughs.

Unless they look out of a window...

I was going for "Windows are a structural weakness", but sure.

”Those humans would never try the ‘No Windows’ thing twice.”

You can never have enough Dakka.... 😉

If I had to guess, the Collector ship has it's pilots slaved into the ships navigation and weapon systems, meaning that they don't use scanners but view screens to move the ship and target ships.

But that's just a guess.

Reapers have far more advanced sensors so can pick up what other races can’t.

There, simple.

*Watches as Harby let's the Normandy fly away while the ship is in front of it*

Riiiight... 🤣😒🤣

Hey, Normandy's helping Harbinger there. He wants people to run away from the beam; no sense discouraging it. I'm more bothered by why the uninjured squadmates on the SR-2 didn't join the fight.

Cost/benefit analysis, probably. (Having weapons is always better than not having weapons if the weapons are free; if they're not, you have to do the cost-benefit analysis.) The likelihood of arming the ships mattering is small, and you'd lose a lot of payload doing it. Weapons don't help you evade combat in the MEU; either you can activate your FTL drive and be completely safe, or you can't. There aren't many compelling use cases for the weapons.

Ironically, ME:A ends up landing the AI in a situation where armed ships would be useful. But the chances of the AI showing up someplace where there are two locals starfaring powers without substantial space fleets -- the angara having lost all their big ships and industrial base, and the kett being only an expeditionary force with a small and shrinking fleet --were not very high. Regrettably, no one in the AI planning division was genre-savvy enough to realize that in a CRPG the least-probable situation is most likely to occur.