Mass Effect 3 in space!

[Quindiana Jones]

Nah the weapons cooling system was an interesting mechanic that had good lore justification, and gave you options in what you were doing. Make a gun that can fire forever? Make a super powerful gun that only gets one round off before needing to cooldown? It added to your decision-making about weapons in a tangible, meaningful way.

Reloading was just generic bulltrout.

The planet scanning was also bulltrout, but I liked the Mako a fair bit (Though being hardcore and doing as much as you can on foot is better )

I agree completely. Weapon upgrading in games is always some "add pretty colours! Reduce reload time by 0.00005 seconds!" bulltrout. ME1 created an interesting and truly in-depth upgrading mechanic that altered gameplay significantly, and then scrapped it for some crap. Spending ages creating an assault rifle that never heats up or loses accuracy was a fun way to spend some time, as opposed to the scanning wank. My Adept was so boss .

And everyone who didn't like the Mako sections makes me sick. It was really fun going on a planet and ice-skating/drunk-frog-jumping everywhere. I spent ages trying to make the most ridiculous out of the blue jump, and I consider it time not wasted. But they removed it because some morons shat themselves. I blame those troutty morons for Mass Effect loss in quality.