Which do you perfer. Neither are great or fun or even....well designed but which do you think is better?

Scanning planets takes less time, but I enjoy the feeling of rolling around in my tank exploring planets, even if the planets are mostly boring.

Neither, but if i had to choose... i'd scan. At least with scanning I can just get that upgrade and only quickly scan rich planets.

the mako was horrible, and the scanning was boring as hell.

Scanning planets, definately.

Though I am really interested in how the Hammerhead will turn out.

Driving is much better. I hate holding LT while pushing the right stick to the left, and then hitting RT to launch a stupid probe. Let me drive.

I'd rather use a Mako that didn't control like shit than either of the other two.

Scanning the planets relaxes me. Driving the Mako just pissed me off, so I prefer the scanning.

The problem for me wasnt the controls, or the Mako, it was the fact they gave us a square to drive in, and it was nothing but mountains. I explored every one of those squares in a criss cross pattern, looking for something interesting, and what do ya know, I never found a thing. Scanning is so much easier, and less time consuming.

Scanning planets + pants down.

That's kind of hard question. The Mako could have controlled a lot worse, it was always fun going around on the empty planets.

I preferred the Mako, driving around and finding little outposts and that kind of thing was pretty fun - a highlight of Mako driving was looking at the sky in different worlds, and how the planet description translated to the atmosphere where you were.  Mako driving wasn't bad on PC anyway, climbing some hills and stuff was troublesome but WASD to drive and mouse to aim is natural to anyone that's played mechwarrior or GTA.  The scanning - while faster it felt like something that the ship should be doing itself, or at least have some crew members gathering resources while you were off on an away team.

Rather than feeding my fish... I wish Kelly would make herself a little more useful and scan planets for me.

I liked Mako...

It would be more fun if you could drive around the planet environments and pick up minerals as you drive around.

scanning planets for mineral might be boring but for mission is a non-issue, in the other hand the mako was bad experience all the time

We really can't have this discussion until the Hammerhead DLC comes out and we see if the new vehicle for ME2 sucks less ass. But if I had to choose I would scan planets. Sure, it's tedious as all hell, but thankfully if you get the Long Service Medal achievement (Play through the game twice or once with an imported character) you start with 50K of each resource on subsequent playthroughs, which removes a lot of the hassle, especially since you will never need that much Element Zero. 
 
The Mako segments in ME1 are the bane of my existence. Considering that there is one on every single main quest and every single sidequest outside the Citadel, they are an unavoidable menace that had to be endured throughout.

 
The Mako segments in ME1 are the bane of my existence. Considering that there is one on every single main quest and every single sidequest outside the Citadel, they are an unavoidable menace that had to be endured throughout. "

I loved driving the Mako. Exploring planets was fun even though most the planets were pretty boring I still enjoyed it. Although I'm talking about the PC version. I've never played the 360 version so I don't know about the horrors of those controls.

Both are completely horrible.

Neither.
 
They should have fixed the mako, and made the planets a bit more interesting.
 
I can bet that the planet scanning feature won't be in ME3.

Scanning Planets can consume far less time than the mako and isn't required for side-missions, however I did quite enjoy driving the mako for a short amount of time, and therefore would have preferred them to improve those sections rather than, or in addition to the new planet scanning mechanic

The Mako. 
 
The design of it, and how it traversed planets had an inspiring look and feel to it. They just needed to ameliorate the concept a bit; having the same side quest structure in ME2, added with the Mako would make the game fucking awesome.

Mako. Scanning is boring as hell and takes a long time, even with the upgrade. 

I listen to podcasts to pass the time when scanning the planets, so it's not too bad.

Scanning gets me shit.
 
The Mako didn't get me shit.
 
So scanning.

all i played so far is the first mass effect, but i can say that i would much rather just scan some planets than try driving that garbage again.

Scanning time can be greatly reduced by using a guide, and I find it easier to scan while listening to a podcast. 
Mako, on the other hand, cannot be. And the rewards for driving the Mako were much less than for scanning.

I actually like scanning planets. It's the kind of sci-fi that I like. I really like reading the history of each planet and scanning it, while sometimes tedious, feels like something that a captain of a starship should have to do.

i'd rather scan planets than drive the mako.  scanning planets isn't so bad. by the time i beat the game i think i had scanned and fully tapped out about 15 rich planets.  i had all of the ship upgrades and a vast majority of the armor/weapon research complete.

I think every argument out there that is anti-Mako is totally right. 
 
BUT, there is something about using the thrusters on the Mako and seeing what sort of ridiculous maneuver you can (not) pull off that was really satisfying. It totally broke the tone and the immersion of the game, but it was good to zone out a bit. 
 
And then, when Thresher Maws attacked. Holy shit.

I think I prefer the basic concept of the Mako, rather than the concept of scanning planets.
The concept of landing on planets and exploring it would be better with a new vehicle, and actually having different looking planets.
 
Scanning is just boring.

" I preferred the Mako, driving around and finding little outposts and that kind of thing was pretty fun - a highlight of Mako driving was looking at the sky in different worlds, and how the planet description translated to the atmosphere where you were.  Mako driving wasn't bad on PC anyway, climbing some hills and stuff was troublesome but WASD to drive and mouse to aim is natural to anyone that's played mechwarrior or GTA.  The scanning - while faster it felt like something that the ship should be doing itself, or at least have some crew members gathering resources while you were off on an away team. "

" I loved driving the Mako. Exploring planets was fun even though most the planets were pretty boring I still enjoyed it. Although I'm talking about the PC version. I've never played the 360 version so I don't know about the horrors of those controls. "

" The Mako.   The design of it, and how it traversed planets had an inspiring look and feel to it. They just needed to ameliorate the concept a bit; having the same side quest structure in ME2, added with the Mako would make the game fucking awesome. "

Scanning planets. Easy. Hands down. I actually enjoy it in small batches...its a nice soothing thing to do between all the action. In my opinion on the other hand.
 
The Make on the flip side...was horribly designed, and boring as hell. Frustrating too. 
 
Scanning planets is WAY better.

Personally, I liked the Mako. But whatever your preference, what this poll actually shows is that they replaced a much criticized component of their game with something that is apparently only slightly more appealing to the masses. In other words, even if scanning is better, its still a failure. Don't take my comment the wrong way though, I love ME2.

" The Mako.   The design of it, and how it traversed planets had an inspiring look and feel to it. "

The controls were worse on PC...

I wish you can just send someone else to do the scanning, I mean shit I'm commander of the f**king  Normandy, why do I have to do it.  But something nice that they could do in ME3 is something like Assassin Creed 2 with passively earning money, but in this case it would be minerals by like investing in something to mine for me while I'm on missions and cruising space.

My arm started to hurt so much scanning planets on ME2 PC.... sure the Mako wasn't perfect but if they tweaked it and put more in it would have been worth keeping.  Mako needs to control more like the Warthog from Halo.

I actually enjoy the hunt of the scanning a bit more.

Scanning isn't too bad with the upgrade that makes it quicker, too many bad memories of raging with the Mako to go back to it.

I shouldn't have to search were to scan if there is stuff on the planet just give it to me, but the mako sucks the most i never gathered anything with that in the first at least with scanning i improved my weapons

Mako.
 
The Mako wasn't too horrendous; it had potential. A lot of the time I felt it was nice exploring around different planets. I think the biggest problem here was the terrain designs.  

To me Planet Scanning was tedious and just plain un-fun. I think the best way of improving scanning would have been just to make it an automated process. ie. visiting a planet and pressing a button to receive whatever minerals were on that planet. That way there's still the satisfaction of exploring planets without the tedium that is planet scanning.
 
(PC)

Yeah, I too think that most of the hate for the Mako is actually meant for the terrain designer. Some planets had POIs that were just impossible to get to without have to climb some 90 degree grades (Nodacrux).

I enjoyed the mako a crap load, found it fun to visit tons of almost desolate planets and then: BAM, Thresher Maw. Or something else interesting, hell sometimes I went planet hopping just to explore stuff on foot. The mineral scanner I found to be far less interesting, far too detracted and left me wanting a sticky control for the LB trigger (ended up having to use an elastic band to keep scanning)