Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

If you gave Tali the shield drain from ME3 then yea they would be a beast combo as Tali drains the barrier, Jack makes them float and then the player blows their head off.

Also CRPGs are fundamentally different from a 3rd person cover shooter game.  Different controls, different PoV and different UI, etc. Trying to say Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect 2 are the same because they offer you the ability to control your party members is silly.

Mass Effect 2 Collectors use barriers not shields.  Energy Drain doesn't get the bonus effect on barriers.  On insanity their defenses are increased so without that bonus damage energy drain will not strip their barriers effectively. Maybe the base line collector troops but the one with the particle beam and the one that can put up the little shield have a lot higher barrier strength then the basic troops.  If you already shot someone up a bit then yea it can drop the barrier. But at that point with the barrier down you can focus fire on it with your weapon/tech/biotic powers to kill it.

Maybe it is a different definition of crowd control. In my mind crowd control is dealing with enemies that I am not actively targeting.  I can point to them to use their power while reloading behind cover and they deal with the target while I go back to another one.   That is why Tali still retains crowd control because of the drone acting as a distraction for any enemy I point to and tell her to spawn it at. But the stronger barriers and lack of bonus damage to barrier that energy drain has (and wouldn't get until ME3) requires active attention from me to effectively strip their barriers which removes the crowd control aspect.

By the logic that just because ME is an RPG it is the same as Original Sin 2 is exactly as silly as saying South Park is animated so it must be exactly like the Care Bears.  RPG is a very broad genre and trying to lump everything into the same is silly. Individual games are developed with different UI, game play, combat, etc. You can compare similarities but you also have to be aware of the differences.  Both Diablo and Borderlands are looters games but you wouldn't say they are the same simply because they both have a heavy emphasis on looting gear.