It's Either That or Waste 25 Omni-Gel.
September 26, 2011
Recently I've been playing some Mass Effect and I've picked up on a couple comic worthy topics I've overlooked. Today's comic has to do with the scanning in the first Mass Effect.
In Mass Effect you have an all purpose device, aptly named an Omni-tool. In the first Mass Effect at least the use of the Omni-tool is shown as a quick time event similar to a game of Simon, Everything leads to a game of Simon. Scanning objects, play some Simon. Hacking computers, gotta play Simon. You wanna open a locked door, well you better win at Simon first.
This was one of the best things they changed in Mass Effect 2. Instead of playing Simon to do everything, opening locks is now a mini game where you have to connect nodes on locks circuit board. Hacking a computer now has you searching through currupt data for the three files you need. Both activities are a lot more entertaining in my opinion and they make sense as far as what you're actually doing in game. It makes a lot more sense knowing the door opened because you rewired it to do so, not because you pressed red, red, green.