Re: Hate Thread
I hate the mining minigame in Mass Effect 2. It is, without a doubt, the worst gameplay mechanic I have ever been made to sit through. I can almost guarantee that around half of the time it takes me to beat the game is going to be spent doing the horrid, bland, boring, and pointless mining, just so I don't have to play through the game more than once to get most of the achievements. Which will, ironically, ensure that I don't do a second play through like I did for the first game.
One would think that, after spending billions to duct tape him back together, get him a crew, and give him a space ship, that they could make an automated system for the god damn resource gathering, but noooooooooo. The commander has to shoot probes at the planet according to an illegible chart and the controller vibration to gather resources. Fuck you Bioware, for throwing something completely pointless into an otherwise excellent game that effortlessly destroys the flow of the gameplay and the story.
I played and beat the first Mass Effect four times. I even managed to sit through Dragon Age twice. I'm not even sure if I'm going to be able to finish Mass Effect 2, thanks entirely to the mining system. That's how bad it is. And yes, I know you don't have to actually get every planet down to depletion, or even do it at all.