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eighthphase) wrote2011-06-03 03:48 pm
eighthphase) wrote2011-06-03 03:48 pm
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I didn't want to mar that last post with Mass Effect, but the point stands that there is something that needs to be said about Mass Effect.
There's an assignment you can get in the Attican Beta cluster, UNC: Lost Module. The guy who wrote this assignment is an asshole on par with the guy who decided that the Mako maps needed all those mountains (which is a whole other complaint. I bet the conversation was something like, "So! This Mass Effect thing, I think it's about ready to ship." "No, wait, hold on. I don't think there are enough mountains in the Mako maps yet, let me add some more.").
So you go to the planet and you find the module. But wait, it's missing its data core! Well, the planet is home to these weird space monkeys. Clearly, one of them took the data core from the module! So then these four space monkey colonies show up on your map, and you have to go to each one. And search each monkey until you find the one with the data core.
Now, if you've already done this, or if you checked a guide or something, you'll know that it's the same monkey each time, and that that monkey is at the back of the mines, so you could just rock on over there and pick it up. But if you've done neither of those things, you'll go around to each monkey colony and search each and every goddamn monkey, because you don't know which one it is and the mines aren't even marked on your map! You don't even know they're there until you drive into them!
That, friends, is an example of a bad assignment. So don't ever do that.
There's an assignment you can get in the Attican Beta cluster, UNC: Lost Module. The guy who wrote this assignment is an asshole on par with the guy who decided that the Mako maps needed all those mountains (which is a whole other complaint. I bet the conversation was something like, "So! This Mass Effect thing, I think it's about ready to ship." "No, wait, hold on. I don't think there are enough mountains in the Mako maps yet, let me add some more.").
So you go to the planet and you find the module. But wait, it's missing its data core! Well, the planet is home to these weird space monkeys. Clearly, one of them took the data core from the module! So then these four space monkey colonies show up on your map, and you have to go to each one. And search each monkey until you find the one with the data core.
Now, if you've already done this, or if you checked a guide or something, you'll know that it's the same monkey each time, and that that monkey is at the back of the mines, so you could just rock on over there and pick it up. But if you've done neither of those things, you'll go around to each monkey colony and search each and every goddamn monkey, because you don't know which one it is and the mines aren't even marked on your map! You don't even know they're there until you drive into them!
That, friends, is an example of a bad assignment. So don't ever do that.