Mass Effect 2: 10 Reasons It's Overrated As Hell

You have been resurrected to save humanity and your ship needs upgrades to survive a suicide mission. Instead of going on exciting missions to achieve this goal, you are tasked with scanning and probing planets for resource.

Doesn't Cerberus have other people who can do this? Perhaps someone they haven't spent an inordinate amount of money bringing back from the dead?

So begins the dull and repetitive mineral gathering mini-game. You are tasked with rolling your cursor over planets like a giant metal detector and clicking the launch button until you have collected all the materials you need. This process is only lengthened by having to restock probes periodically, given the limited supply on your ship.

Sure, the Easter Egg that pops up when you probe Uranus is mildly amusing in a pre-school kind of way, but it hardly justifies the time wasted on this most blatant of fetch quests.

If you don't undertake this dull activity, your team dies as a result, punishing players for valuing their time.

At least with the Mako in Mass Effect 1, you got to drive around and shoot things to acquire minerals