I'd take driving over bumpy ass planets again any day over scanning them. God damn that shit gets aggravating by the time you are on your third playthrough.

Yeah, the planet scanning shit was a serious grind. I wouldn't have been so bad if

1.) The scanning cursor was larger

2.) You could find Element Zero a little more often

3.) Shit picked up phat beats

Fuck larger it needs to be faster. If it scrolled as fast as it did when you weren't holding the button then it'd be fine. BUT IT DOESN'T.

I hope those people who complained about the Mako are happy. Assholes.

Planet scanning sucks. Mako sucked more. Here's hoping they do something better in numbah 3.

I don't know, I think it worked really well — in ME1 you could find a nice chest-high wall to hide behind and spend ten minutes sitting there picking off wave after wave of enemies. ME2's ammo system actually forces you to move forward, and it's never that hard to find.

Nope. Bioware are hard at work on ME3, and it might be coming out in 2011. Plus, there's always DLC to keep us busy; I'm hoping they'll put out a full expansion pack à la Dragon Age.

Does Krelian have any helpful suggestions for beating the game on Insanity? I just started that up last night and I figure its going to be a serious grind until I can get the bigger armor/health bonuses.

Well, if you're playing through Insanity with the Shepard from your first playthrough then you're in for a real fucking treat — all of the enemies start off tuned for whatever level you were at when you finished the game, and with no upgrades at first, you're in for a world of pain.

The main things I can advise are to conserve the hell out of ammunition and medi-gel. Don't use heavy weapons on anything other than boss encounters and YMIR mechs; you'll need as much of that shit as you can get (that said, I did beat the final boss without using any heavy weapons at all, seeing as I brought the flamethrower along like the dumbfuck I am). If you reckon you can get through a battle alone, then don't waste medi-gel on getting your assholes to stand up again. I don't know if resources like that are scarcer on Insanity than other difficulties, but until I learnt to conserve them I constantly felt like there wasn't nearly enough available.

Also, if you're playing an Infiltrator, Assassination Cloak is the best friend you'll ever have. I found the best way to deal with the sections of the game with husks and abominations — which are armoured on Insanity, by the way — was often to cloak, run the fuck away and find something to hide behind before spraying their legs with my SMG.

Basically just be prepared to spend most of the game in cover if you want to survive (unless you're playing a Vanguard or just enjoy getting up close and personal — in which case, good fucking luck).

Soooo here is my take on the game, i beat it last night on normal as an adept (I bow to the people who beat it on insanity). I love the idea of people emailing me and letting me know what happened to them rather than just doing it and wondering later. I loved the idea of some many different endings that its just crazy, i was sitting there the whole time thinking if Tali died i would quit right then and there. lol

I only killed Zaeed and Legion, I really didnt like Zaeed anyway.

Soooooo the only bad thing is with the way that i play i had a hard time finishing the game without very single planet that was in the game scanned and depleted. It took forever!! Whoever desgined that planet scanning system has had some serious problems. >.< Where was the automatic scan button when you needed it?

Why the hell would you scan every planet? You need maybe a tenth of them to get every upgrade.

Actually, that leads to one complaint: Not enough money in this game. Need more cash, man.

I said "fuck that noise" to scanning and popped open a trainer to max out my resources. Folks will bitch/diss me for it, but fuck that noise. As it stands, they set hard caps (ie: find X more of this upgrade time before you can do this) often enough that it ain't a big deal. Plus it allowed me to rather painlessly re-build my character a few times, in addition to swapping out skills until I found one I liked.

I've got a long enough backlog =I I ain't about to get bogged down by scavenger hunting for that extra 10% damage on my poopsock. I did planet exploration for a while, but scrounging for Element Zero or getting 50k of Palladium just grated on me.

Edit: Totally knew Deni would diss this :V

Three words.

Squad. Cryo. Ammo.

Holy jesus shitballin' christ the amount of ammo you save by killing an enemy because he's at half health and he shatters is immense. Drops both husks and collectors really quick. Only problematic thing it's not that great for is Scions, which you can deal with via the assassination cloak, though.

Also on insanity, since this game has no reward for actually killing enemies, if you can cloak and then haul ass to the next checkpoint, and if you die after that, the previous enemies count as killed. There are parts later on in the game with multiple husk attacks where you can do this and skip multiple annoying encounters. If you're super quick at the bypassing minigame you can cloak and do that to pass by some doors and fights too, although I never bothered with that. Using mouse control makes that easier I imagine on PC, than the slow scroll of the stick on circlebox.

I don't know how you can not like anyone voiced by Robin Sachs.

Anyone interested in dialogue left out of the game but the data still being on the disc, there was a thread on /v/ some time ago that had some interesting links:

Fuck them for not letting Legion be recruitable earlier.

For the 3 guys interested here, yet another DLC Coming soon.

I just hope to god it isnt another Hammerhead type DLC, because that was just terrible. The gimmick of that ship was over before it even began. Kasumi stolen memories was pretty good, but short.