MEA producers talk about final boss and scanning

I almost did several times. This is part of why I feel it was a horrible addition to ME2! 
Everyone has different preferences.

In their defense I actually liked planet scanning in ME2 as well. I thought there was something soothing and meditative about it with the music and the sense of scope as you browse through the map. I never did it too long at a time and I was on PC so I could move the cursor much faster than on consoles. Maybe that's why I didn't mind it too much. Same as with ME1's elevators. The one on the normandy and few others take 2-3 seconds on PC but on console they deliberately go at snail pace to mask a loading screen.

Some sort of auto-alerting system on the Nomad would be nice.  I was thinking more about the wrist device shown in the trailer.  It's going to be a chore if we have to remember to activate it before walking through an area for it to tell us anything about what is in that area.  In ROtTR, you had to activate Lara's vision for all the various collectible resources to glow, but at least then everything in that area would glow all at once so then you could just run around the area and collect everything.  My favorite is still just the red circle's from ME2 that showed up automatically and could easily be seen even from across the room.  However, I'm thinking that in ME:A we'll have to activate the wrist thing and then actually point it at an object before it will tell us whether that mineral or whatever is collectible or not.  That's going to take more time and, as a result, I think it might get rather old rather quickly.

"Really commander?" "Probing Uranus."
Every playthrough, first thing I'd do upon opening the galaxy map.

Ryder gets in the car. Drives 10 feet. Car vi says, scanning for materials. 10 feet later car vi says, item found. Ryder gets out of car.  Takes item. Gets back in car. Drives 10 feet. Car vi says, item found. Ryder gets out of car. Takes item. Gets back in car. Drives 10 feet. Car vi says, item found. Ryder gets out of car.

squadmate: What are you doing Ryder?
Ryder: Quiet!.... Ok.....There.
squadmate: Did you just remove the scanner from the car?
Ryder: Sure did. I'll be damned if I'm going to get out every ********** few seconds to pick weeds or gather minerals
squadmate: But the people on the Nexus need us to scan and gather materials.
Ryder: They can kiss my a**. I'm not going to listen to that vi thing all day long. Now. Lets listen to some Ozzy while heading to the settlement that's a few miles away.

I just hope the minimap is cluttered with objective markers. To me that creates a really good sense of discovery and immersion. I just love checking boxes.

" ... and then Ryder & his/her Companions drove to the sunset on the horizon, listening "iron man", until a Treshermaw suddenly appeared and Fucking ate them" THE END!
*rolls credits*
a Bio game...

Then, shortly thereafter, his vision begins to blur as a deep ominous voice speaks to him "Shepard, I have assumed control of your form" and he slowly realizes he's indoctrinated. And thus every IT'er got the ending they always wanted. Congratulations!