Stolen Pixels #171: Probe Away
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True. After a while I got bored with the whole combing-the-planet thing and just looked up the planet map in the wiki whenever I landed somewhere. That instantly changed the Mako jaunts from being a chore into massive fun. (Especially on planets with Thresher Maws or other baddies.)Tiamat666 said:
This is also true.Anaphyis said:
Yep, and BOTH of you spelt Iridium wrong.Irridium said:I have always thought about that myself, especially when I probe inhabited planets I can't land on. There's a good chance I hit a few settlements as well.
I was mentioned in a Stolen Pixel comic! I'm so happy
Well the correct spelling was already taken and I didn't want to put numbers on the end of my name, so thats my reason.Aurora219 said:Yep, and BOTH of you spelt Iridium wrong.Irridium said:I have always thought about that myself, especially when I probe inhabited planets I can't land on. There's a good chance I hit a few settlements as well.
I was mentioned in a Stolen Pixel comic! I'm so happy
Maybe it's just me, but I enjoyed riding around planets on the mako looking for resources when I got bored...I liked the scenery and after you got used to the mako, it's clumsiness and overall lack of real maneuverability became fun when there were hills and stuff.Lazarus Long said:
if it wasnt for my uber pistol running low on ammo all the time (still not happy about having ammo this time around!) i wouldnt even use the smg.FBPH said:As an Inflitrator I must say the SMG mows down everyone that gets through my sniping. Although platinum is always low and iridium is too damn plentiful.DTWolfwood said:as a vanguard i can attest that the SMG is ass XD
im always low on platinum
and yes always low on Platinum
The mining is pretty stupid, you just shoot a probe at a planet and all these rare resources magically appear inside the ship? They really could make that more stategic if you had to actually setup mining bases, develop them etc, or they could have had some kind've logic to it that lets you work out where the best place to search for minerals is. Instead, it seems every planet has a random scattering of minerals you just have to scan the entire planet by trial and error.
Also, if all you have to do is just fly around in a ship shooting probes to get minerals I don't know why there are any valuable minerals left in the galaxy at all. Once you get over the flashy graph on the mineral scanner, it just boils down to something far less engaging than minesweeper.
Also, if all you have to do is just fly around in a ship shooting probes to get minerals I don't know why there are any valuable minerals left in the galaxy at all. Once you get over the flashy graph on the mineral scanner, it just boils down to something far less engaging than minesweeper.
Oh god.Kevvers said:
Are we now nitpicking the minigames for their faulty logic? Those things where you get a headache whenever you apply logic to it, regardless of whatever game you play?
Seriously, what is the point? They have an entire galaxy they have to do something with. Skip free exploration? Yeah, I can already hear all those "these linear plots are sooooo 20th century, chaaa" 'reviewers' sharpening their knives. Missions everywhere, even on the gas giants because otherwise you realize that you have this wide open galaxy that might as well be empty? Then the game might not come out until the 22nd century. They tried to do something about it in ME1 and everyone hated it. They tried something else and everyone hates that too and has already buried the nightmare that was ME1 under a ton of nostalgia.
The REAL mistake BioWare did was combining that planet scanning mechanic with the upgrade. Because most gamers are magpies when it comes to stat boosts even for weapons they will never use. Seriously, hands up if you've got Krogan Vitality or Geth Shielding even if you never had a Krogan or Geth in your party except for the loyalty mission.
It's funny that only one Internet review I saw mentioned this in conjunction with an idea on how to make something worthwhile out of that huge-sandbox-problem. The rest either looked at metacritic and still believe non-conformism is cool or are for one reason or another overly nitpicky and I still don't get why.
Well, it wouldn't bother me except they've made such a massive effort in the codex to try to get it hard sci-fi.Anaphyis said:Oh god.Kevvers said:
Are we now nitpicking the minigames for their faulty logic? Those things where you get a headache whenever you apply logic to it, regardless of whatever game you play?
You still don't get it.Abedeus said:
The mako was great to me. I don't care what these hundreds of people think. To me they have no taste and the mining game is twenty times less engaging than what it replaced. You won't change that, neither will anyone else. I just had more fun in the mako.
I've always found that damn scanner probe thingo painful. Everything costs Platinum and I never get any. It's always Iridium everywhere!
Have you checked to see if it's the same people? It doesn't take many posts before 5 loudmouth trolls become "The Majority".Anaphyis said:
I replayed ME1 to get a save for 2, and I have to say I quite enjoyed driving around, blowing shit up, but thinking it felt very, very basic. What I couldn't stand though was when I had to drive up a hill or uneven terrain. Spending a full minute climbing a cliff only to find out that it's just a biiiit too steep at the top to let you get over the ridge was in no way fun. Instead of replacing it with a terrible, grindy minigame they should've just improved the driving bits. Maybe given you a nitro to get up those cliffs with, or a super-jump maybe. It's not like you took falling damage anyway.
