Mass Effect 2: Playable without mineral micro-searching?!

[Poomanchu745]

If you spread out the mining to 2 planets after every mission and spend five minute per planet, you'll find that you can complete it easily without it becoming too tedious. It really doesn't take that long.

This is an RPG. If you aren't comfortable with grind or you don't like long games, you bought the wrong title.

Seriously. Its an RPG. The point is a game that you drop hours into and become immersed in. I did a 100% of the game and it only took me 23 hours. If the planet was not a rich or a good I would just make sure there were no anomalies and then skip it. But if you don't want to put more than 5 hours into a game, might I suggest Modern Warfare 2?

 

[Jaranja]

Title says it all...

I am a normal person.

I stopped reading after that. If you can define normal without being offensive; I may read the rest.

 

[Socdk]

Haha sucks for you this is why I play on the PC, where cheats are easily available. For instance, I beat ME1 using a trainer that unlocks unlimited money, minerals, grenades, etc. And it was awesome because I didn't have to drive around that horrible SUV that controls like a Parkinson's patient on icestakes to search for resources. Anyway, I plan on skipping mining in ME2 by doing the same.

Oh and I never understand why people buy a game and then rant about a bad aspect, fully knowing the problem before buying it. Seriously if it bothers you then skip it. Mass Effect 2 is at least a 24 hour game if you do the minimum and want to survive the suicide mission (what my friend did).

I don't cheat. I'm sort of pathetic like that, but I can't enjoy a game if I cheated beating it. So no, doesn't suck for me

"Fully knowing the problem before buying it." - And who said I did?

"If it bothers you then skip it." - If it was skipable I would. That's why asked here innit?

"ME 2 is at least a 24 hour game" - I love long games. I was only concerned about how much of the time would be spent on a mini-game.

 

[Beatrix]

You really shouldn't blame EA, I'm pretty sure Bioware is behind the actual game mechanics since EA is just the publisher. One thing you should note is that after beating the game once, you get 50,000 of each element on your next playthrough.

Also, you're doing it wrong.

Bioware made the first Mass Effect.
Bioware got bought by EA.
Bioware and EA released Mass Effect 2.

It's not that hard to see where the conclusion that the bad new stuff is EA's fault is coming from, is it?

 

[Socdk]

Title says it all...

I am a normal person.

I stopped reading after that. If you can define normal without being offensive; I may read the rest.

Dude, I don't really care if you read my thread. No need to inform me and no I won't bother convincing you into reading it. Besides, the whole "What is normal really, huh?!" is an old cliché by now. Yeah yeah, you're a non-conformist or something, swell for you.

 

[theexhippy]

Haha sucks for you this is why I play on the PC, where cheats are easily available. For instance, I beat ME1 using a trainer that unlocks unlimited money, minerals, grenades, etc. And it was awesome because I didn't have to drive around that horrible SUV that controls like a Parkinson's patient on icestakes to search for resources. Anyway, I plan on skipping mining in ME2 by doing the same.

Oh and I never understand why people buy a game and then rant about a bad aspect, fully knowing the problem before buying it. Seriously if it bothers you then skip it. Mass Effect 2 is at least a 24 hour game if you do the minimum and want to survive the suicide mission (what my friend did).

By the way, do you guys know what happened to grenades and why Bioware didn't include them this time around?

Could it be that they were not a lot of use? By the time you hit level 30 on any mode above easy they did naff all damage and even the "specialist" types (freeze, burn etc) had effects that lasted milliseconds. Got through "Insane" without using one, didn't see the point.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

By the way, do you guys know what happened to grenades and why Bioware didn't include them this time around?

I think they where removed because they were apsolutely useless.

Well, that was my impression anyway. When you create a grenade that works like a frisbee and as a detonation radius of about 2 feet your doing it wrong.

Maybe they planned grenades at one point but they didn't fit into ME2s new combat system. If you use Zeed...y...muhzee (Oh who cares he's a crap character) you can train in a power called inferno grenade.

I thought it was almost as useless as the old grenades though.

 

[Socdk]

Seriously. Its an RPG. The point is a game that you drop hours into and become immersed in. I did a 100% of the game and it only took me 23 hours. If the planet was not a rich or a good I would just make sure there were no anomalies and then skip it. But if you don't want to put more than 5 hours into a game, might I suggest Modern Warfare 2?

... *sigh*

I love RPGs and I don't mind grinding (Completed Mass Effect a couple of times, currently playing Fallout 3, Oblivion before that, played loads of Baldurs Gate, etc. etc.). But on an reasonable level. I was mistaken at first thinking that I would have to scan and mine the rest of my life. Clearly I was wrong. However, IF I was right in my assumptions you've got to agree that it would be a bit much, right?

I don't know if you're trying to offend me with that MW2-thing. If so you didn't succeed. And I do play MW2.

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

You can't hate them for making it into a mini-game (not a very fun one) - at least they were trying to give you more bang for your buck. I personally like the hacking mini-games myself...

My advice is to just skip all the planets that don't have a "rich" rating

Other than that, I don't really see what else you can do. I think it's a little necessary.

I know what you mean though, It does get pretty tedious after a while. At the very least they could let you scan faster.

 

[Susan Arendt]

1. You're doing it wrong.

2. No planet takes more than 10 probes. Don't drop probes every time you detect something. Drop them only on large scanner spikes and focus on Rich planets.

3. You can acquire enough minerals for EVERY DAMN UPGRADE in UNDER AN HOUR. Not the game's fault you waste time and probes on junk worlds.

My thoughts exactly. I spent, perhaps, an hour total of my 40 hours of playtime mining for minerals. I only mined "Rich" planets, and pretty much only in systems that I was already visiting for some other quest.

 

[Irridium]

Actually, I found a way to make it significantly faster.

If your on the 360, just keep moving the scanner while continuously tapping the left trigger. It makes it go significantly faster.

Oh, and you don't need to completely scan every planet. I've gotten off fine by launching only 1-2 probes on gas giants, and sometimes even on planets with rich resources I've only needed to send 1-2 probes on.

You don't need to scan every planet. I suggest spending about 1 minute on each planet at most, and you should be fine.

The only time I spent longer was when I needed something for research.

 

[theexhippy]

You beginning to regret posting yet?

I'm like you, at first I worried that it was going to be several days worth of my life getting the minerals I needed. I did eventually think "S*d this for a game of soldiers" and stop all together. Had over 100,000 of everything except eezero and it's lasted the entire game.

Grind in a game is all well and good if it's not needed to complete it. It should be there for those of us anal enough to want to get absolutely everything it is humanly possible to get in a game without cheating.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

You really don't need to mine that many planets.

Just pick the right ones, and only send probes into high spiking areas.

Green planets tend to be good for Element Zero.

I got every upgrade in the game and only mined about 14 or 15 planets.

 

[Axeli]

You just really suck at it if it takes that long. A few hints:

Move the pointer upwards-downward along the planets, moving a couple of square to left or right when you've checked a column.

Don't bother with less than "good" planets: There are plenty of solar systems in this game and you'll have more minerals than you need by exploring just a fraction of them.

You don't need to probe every tiny deposit either, unless you are really short on certain mineral.

Probe Uranus.

 

[ShawnRiles]

.../Presses trainer button, get's 500k of all minerals

 

[Jaranja]

Title says it all...

I am a normal person.

I stopped reading after that. If you can define normal without being offensive; I may read the rest.

Dude, I don't really care if you read my thread. No need to inform me and no I won't bother convincing you into reading it. Besides, the whole "What is normal really, huh?!" is an old cliché by now. Yeah yeah, you're a non-conformist or something, swell for you.

And you think you're great for insulting me over the internet, nice. If you say you're a normal person for not playing games for as long as people like me, that want to get the most out of their games, then you can get out right now.

 

[brighteye]

I am really looking forward to ME3: Mineral Mayhem
80 hours of only mining, this time you have to walk around the planets surface to mine, with a shovel....

 

[Socdk]

Title says it all...

I am a normal person.

I stopped reading after that. If you can define normal without being offensive; I may read the rest.

Dude, I don't really care if you read my thread. No need to inform me and no I won't bother convincing you into reading it. Besides, the whole "What is normal really, huh?!" is an old cliché by now. Yeah yeah, you're a non-conformist or something, swell for you.

And you think you're great for insulting me over the internet, nice. If you say you're a normal person for not playing games for as long as people like me, that want to get the most out of their games, then you can get out right now.

Try reading my other posts, you'll find that I actually enjoy long games. But I guess you're to rad to be bothered reading them, right? I don't know if you took offense by the whole "normal"-thing, if you are targeted by people around you as not normal or whatever. I didn't mean anything by "normal", it's just an expression. I'm not saying that "geeks" are not normal, I'm a geek myself in many ways.

Sorry for coming across as rude, but you're the one who started out by telling me how you demanded a definition of "normal" in exchange for your attention. Sort of an arrogant reply don't you think? I really don't care if you read my post or not. If you don't want to read that's just super. But if you're so keen on letting me know, then you should be prepared to get treated without taking offense.

 

[RenegadeRed]

Haha sucks for you this is why I play on the PC, where cheats are easily available. For instance, I beat ME1 using a trainer that unlocks unlimited money, minerals, grenades, etc. And it was awesome because I didn't have to drive around that horrible SUV that controls like a Parkinson's patient on icestakes to search for resources. Anyway, I plan on skipping mining in ME2 by doing the same.

Oh and I never understand why people buy a game and then rant about a bad aspect, fully knowing the problem before buying it. Seriously if it bothers you then skip it. Mass Effect 2 is at least a 24 hour game if you do the minimum and want to survive the suicide mission (what my friend did).

I don't cheat. I'm sort of pathetic like that, but I can't enjoy a game if I cheated beating it. So no, doesn't suck for me

"Fully knowing the problem before buying it." - And who said I did?

"If it bothers you then skip it." - If it was skipable I would. That's why asked here innit?

"ME 2 is at least a 24 hour game" - I love long games. I was only concerned about how much of the time would be spent on a mini-game.

1.) Oh OK if you enjoy torturing yourself over a mini-game, posting rants about it, then go ahead knock yourself out. Do what you love. Also you seem to be under the mistaken assumption that cheating always takes the fun out of a game, a discussion of which I will not go into other than to say I had excellent fun with ME1 even though I cheated (whereas it was not as fun before).

2.) Virtually every game review site on the planet had mining listed as a drawback. Your own damn fault for not dong your research before you burn $60 on a game.

3.) Yes, indeed games are skippable. Strange for me to have to explain this, but you can in fact refuse to play a game.

4.) Umm, OK.