After beating the game, I was going around and doing some of the side-missions I'd skipped just so I could get the rest of Legion's dialogue. I came across possibly the worst mission ever in the Caleston Rift (Caleston Rift>Solveig>Sinmara). If you haven't done this mission, I'll describe it for you:
You turn on a shield generator.
That's it. No, you don't fight through a horde of enemies to turn on the generator. You don't rush to the generator under a time limit before the base blows up. You don't have a dialogue with anyone to find out how to make it work. Just Shepard goes down there all on his lonesome, no backup, no resistance, and turns on this shield.
I mean, I can see making this a little side thing when you go to Tuchanka or something, but it's classified as its own mission and even has a cerberus report after you're done. Not to mention you need to take a mass relay to the cluster and fly to an outlying system just to do this.
I absolutely love ME 2 and I'll probably beat it several times, but this has gotta be the biggest waste of time out of both games.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:03
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I couldn't argue much but a lot of the smaller quests were of the nature "why did I bother". While your example is extreme I thought the quest to protect the Patriarch was lame. Go out of the door, turn left, meet assassins and you don't even get to shoot them in game ... it's just a cut scene.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:04
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You are saving a colony from harmful radiation....
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:05
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Walk on a cliffhanger ship to retrieve mysterious data....
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:06
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Feeding an Ymir Mech with batteries to get some minerals.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:07
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ExtremeOne wrote...
Tali's loyalty mission
What is this I don't even.
So far the worst mission I've done... was the one with the 'secret' stash and the three mechs... The area was just so bland, the crates were bland... the reward was very insignificant and the fight wasn't even slightly amusing.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:07
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Alamar2078 wrote...
I couldn't argue much but a lot of the smaller quests were of the nature "why did I bother". While your example is extreme I thought the quest to protect the Patriarch was lame. Go out of the door, turn left, meet assassins and you don't even get to shoot them in game ... it's just a cut scene.
That wasn't great, but at least you got some interaction and some dialogue choices out of that.
This mission was literally "Shepard walks over to a panel, flips a couple switches, and the mission is completed." I took more time traveling to the cluster and discovering the mission than I took to actually finish it.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:07
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Collector ship on insanity. That sucked really hard.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:07
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That is one of the 'Sci-fi eye candy' mission. Instead of rush to the objective, look around, it is a beautiful stage.
I would vote the "Reactive the heavy mech and have it blow some rocks up" mission the worst.
I would vote the "Reactive the heavy mech and have it blow some rocks up" mission the worst.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:08
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The shield generator one was the absolute silliest waste of time. I really couldn't figure out why anyone else on the colony couldn't be bothered to go out there and do it.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:09
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Haasth wrote...
ExtremeOne wrote...
Tali's loyalty mission
What is this I don't even.
So far the worst mission I've done... was the one with the 'secret' stash and the three mechs... The area was just so bland, the crates were bland... the reward was very insignificant and the fight wasn't even slightly amusing.
Yeah this one for me. I just did it for the first time, and bloody hell! I found it to be one of the toughest missions I've done. I went down there all cocky, as these side missions have all been pretty standard and easy and ended up dieing 3 times. I hate those bloody mechs.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:09
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ExtremeOne wrote...
Tali's loyalty mission
wow...
some people have so much hate
I gotta say that the shield generator one was pretty boring, actually most of the anomaly missions were boring
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:10
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I have to say the Mech that needed to be powered.
I think the reward was Eezo?
I think the reward was Eezo?
Modifié par Maj.Pain007, 23 février 2010 - 11:11 .
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:10
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Haasth wrote...
ExtremeOne wrote...
Tali's loyalty mission
What is this I don't even.
So far the worst mission I've done... was the one with the 'secret' stash and the three mechs... The area was just so bland, the crates were bland... the reward was very insignificant and the fight wasn't even slightly amusing.
There was another "find the resources" mission where you walk around a map finding fuel cells for a mech so he can blow open a wall and reveal a small stash of platinum for you. There are a whole two varren guarding one of the fuel cells, and that's the only opposition.
I understand that side quests aren't supposed to be extremely important to the story, but some of them are absolutely pointless.
"I'm commander shepard, and as a specter I fix generators and find minerals."
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:11
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Invalidcode wrote...
That is one of the 'Sci-fi eye candy' mission. Instead of rush to the objective, look around, it is a beautiful stage.
I would vote the "Reactive the heavy mech and have it blow some rocks up" mission the worst.
This....one of the few lame missions in the game
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:12
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On the other side, the N7 mission chain with the rampaging mechs is pretty well done. That was quite fun.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:12
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ExtremeOne wrote...
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I enjoyed Tali's loyalty mission a lot. There wasn't a lot of intense fighting, but the role-playing and interaction parts were superb, with excellent portrayals by the voice actors. I find that to be just as or more enjoyable than a huge shoot out. That's what makes it an RPG and not a standard shooter.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:12
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The mission on the chlorine world where you have to turn on all those light beacons. My squaddies run all the way back to the spawn whenever they see an enemy.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:13
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Maj.Pain007 wrote...
I have to say the Mech that needed to be powered.
I think the reward was Eezo?
i dont know if it s the same for everyone but after each times it eats a power cell (consumes it) it gets jammed and i need to reload to be able to feed it with cells
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:15
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Invalidcode wrote...
That is one of the 'Sci-fi eye candy' mission. Instead of rush to the objective, look around, it is a beautiful stage.
I would vote the "Reactive the heavy mech and have it blow some rocks up" mission the worst.
All the environments look wonderful, even on the worst of N7 missions, but come on: if you're going to spend all that work developing art and rendering it perfectly in game, at least think up a cool mission for it that makes it worth visiting!
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:16
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I liked that mission. Thought it was a fairly straight forward puzzle planet, short, graphically nice, easy. My least favorite was the one where you are running through the green fog (felt like I was playing an N64 game!!) where you activate beacons and fight a few Vorcha, some scuttlers and a Krogan boss. You find platinum in the level, I just found it to be very unappealing, second rate and the fog draw in to be boring.
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:17
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They are side missions, and different so you are not always just blowing stuff up. Geez people, you will complain when all there is is fighting, and you complain when the Devs throw some missions that are different, with no fighting. You don't have to do them, so if you don't like them, DON'T DO THEM!
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Posté 23 février 2010 - 11:21
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Orfinn wrote...
Walk on a cliffhanger ship to retrieve mysterious data....
I thought that was a pretty cool mission, I was afraid at many points that I had ****ed up.
The worst mission is Horizon. You've been trotting along in a lovely manner for the first part of the game, and you've been given a sudden mission by Tiny Tim which you MUST GO ON! How fun! So, a few collector drones later and you come up to this big blast door! What could be on the other side? We must go in!
Whats on the other side you ask? 1 hour of misery, irritating enemies and a single respawn point. Enemies who are rediculously too tough for your current tech upgrades, who have barriers whowm none of your squad members that you currently have are well adapted to take out and refuse to take any damage whatsoever from any of your powers.
Scions can have a train thrown at them and refuse to take much more than a pixel of damage or stop moving in their current direction or alter their firing pattern in any way. Collector "Assassins" will Zerg rush you at any point you have no shields and promptly surround you and kill you. Harbingers will continually throw their insta-stunning, un-dodgable cover-ignoring lolrocket regardless of how many times I snipe them in the face and the cover planned so that at no point can you possibly avoid being hit by something somewhere.
Oh, and if you slip up in any way your teamates die regardless of how many 100%+ health bonuses you research for them and leave you alone with all the deadly bee people and you can't hide in any remotely building like area because it's full of beetles and jellyfish and things that want to kill you.
And then-
"OUT OF WAY N00BZ. I R GUNNA TAKE OUT THIS NUB!"
"LOLOLBELLYFLOP! MY BARRIER R 1337 ONLY N00BZ USE SHIELDS LOL!"
"LOL HUSKS GET THEM I NEED TO CHAERG"
"LOL RUN OUT OF COVER N00B I R COMMING FOR U!"
"BELLY FLOP IS 1337 LOL"
All in all, this entire sequence made me want to pull out my hair and go to a small farm and strangle things.
