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[Icinix]

With all due respect...

FRACK THAT!

I haven't invested 100 hours in my shep over two games to not have them carry into my first playthrough of ME3.

[jenaisa]

Nerevar-as wrote...

Considering that in ME2 playing default meant less camaeos, e-mails (so much for importing choices), and especially Shepard being a lazy full renegade, I´m not thrilled about default ME3. As he said, Shepard didn´t wake Grunt/got him killed - replaced by random krogan, so probably not a big impact on the storyline, just will makes things more personal, and that´s something I´d rather have since the first playthrough.

This.
And I don't want  a random krogan, but Wrex. 

I don't know, but The First experience of the game is 'special' and it will be more rich if it's full with details I can recognize, i think Maybe i'm just an impatient 

Modifié par jenaisa, 15 février 2012 - 09:47 .

[macrocarl]

YO DAT GUY HE BE CRAY Z

[Goneaviking]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Yes yes, I hear you ranting at me "Priestly! You hadsome fool, of COURSE we are going to import our saved games into ME3. Why, I have 17 saves and I'm bringing each one. ME3 is all about finishing MY Mass Effect story, etc etc" and yeah I totally get that, but hear me out.

That was always the plan, it was how I played ME2 the first time and it made the imported replay so much more satisfying when I noticed the changes that I made when I imported my ME1 saves.

[Lexa_]

Shouldn't a mod completely avoid spoilers? The minor spoilers are not really minor. Not enough that I can't discuss some interesting stuff because of some people. But if someone who already played the game, starts threads about it, that's messed up IMO. Save us from spoilers, don't create them, please.

[llandwynwyn]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Yes yes, I hear you ranting at me "Priestly! You hadsome fool, of COURSE we are going to import our saved games into ME3. Why, I have 17 saves and I'm bringing each one. ME3 is all about finishing MY Mass Effect story, etc etc" and yeah I totally get that, but hear me out.

I did. Still going to import my first Shepard. It would feel wrong if I didn't.

Remember that couple in ME1 on the Citadel debating whether to have a child or not?

ME 1 and 2. And, unless there's a mission I don't know about, they were arguing about gene therapy. Also, the guy was just the uncle.

[Candidate 88766]

Its an interesting idea. I probably won't do it myself - I want my first playthrough to be with my own Shepard, before I know how things go - but I may give this a go for my second playthrough. I was originally going to import one of my other Shepards after my first playthrough, but it'll be interesting to start a new character just to see how much is different.

[DCopeland]

I wish I could hate you to death.

[Goneaviking]

devil_foetus wrote...

That goes against common logic for those who have played the previous games.
Whats this all about, downplaying the point of playing the previous games or the fact that choices never mattered?

I think it's more about highlighting how much impact your previous games actually did have on the way the game plays out. If all the influences you've made are in there from the start then you'll take them for granted and since you probably won't play the default game on following playthroughs you may never actually see the differences.

[Chris Priestly]

abnocte wrote...

doing so means that I'm playing Bioware's Shepard not the Shepard I created with the options you gave me....

This is the 100% HUGE flaw with my theory.

[OneDrunkMonk]

I see your point but I think the fact that you can replay and do multiple save endings in ME1 and 2 is more than enough to see how things played out alternatively. I know this is a tough concept for some gamers but sometimes you just gotta live with your choices. That's true to life. Of course I did replay ME1 and ME2 and saved slightly different versions. Interestingly enough though I've always played majority Paragon, I always saved the Rachni Queen, and I always took out the Batarian fixing up the chopper, etc. That's just how I decided to have my Shep roll. They only alternates I did was mostly around choices that I really had a hard time in deciding, like romancing Jack or whether Kasumi should destroy the box or not.

[siarheicka]

Thanks for the suggestion, Chris.
I'm going to do quite the opposite - first play with my character, and eventually default to see what is going to get missing.

[DragonRageGT]

Not too good of an idea for me. I understand what you are suggesting but I have way too many different Shepards with different decisions to import, so I can experience the difference between the runs as I go and I really disliked ME2 without any but my own Sheps. I fail to see how it would be different in ME3. I will know exactly what is there because of my decisions.

This is not my entry point to the series, I don't need to play it like it were. I would actually be very mad if I played it without seeing my decisions or my previous Shep's stories reflected in any of my ME3 runs and there will be many!

Now, if I could start an imported character at level 1 instead of 30, that would be a good idea for me. I don't want to make Insanity any easier than it already is if an imported level 30 char would cause that. (and no matter how hard it is, soon enough it will be even easier). So I ask you, can we start fresh with an imported character?

[Ihatebadgames]

Not saying I won't play a ME3 only game,but MY Shepards go first.I have four years worth of Shepards who started in ME1,who want to see where Bioware went and messed with their life.

[Xarathox]

No...I'll import my shep. I want his story done and over with so I can move on.

[don-mika]

That's make sense, i'm too think about this, thx for opinion Chris. When even devs says it make sense- this probably mean something 

probably that's exactly what i'm going to do :happy: 

[schnydz]

I think the point of doing the non-imported shep first is to truely appriciate how dynamic the ME story is.

You can argue that by waiting for your second run to see the original or "canon" shep storyline may make it seem not as impressive. Just one more thing to make you go hmmm.

Modifié par schnydz, 15 février 2012 - 10:00 .

[Gabey5]

Chris Priestly wrote...


The first time I played through ME3 in its completed state I played the default game,

the default game kinda sucks

like wrex vs wreav

wreav does not stand out

even if i had not met wrex, he has new ideas and fire in his belly

if wreav for example was not just krogan 6663

it would be interesting

That is why playing renegade sucks for the most part you kill everyone and see no interesting content
.
Renegades won't have any cool characters they exclusively come across and when we do they seem like stand ins or second fiddle

Modifié par Gabey5, 15 février 2012 - 10:02 .

[Tiger]

No thank you

[kirvingtwo]

sackyhack wrote...

uh oh, did you guys mess up the import system like what happened in DA2 and trying to cover for it until it gets patched??

This.



Why is this thread pinned?

[Segameister]

Can't do it, BUT my second playthrough will be with a new character!  

BUT I do get what is being asked.  IF you play through it without a save, you'll notice just how much 'richer' the playthrough with your imported character is.  To save time (lost ME1 game saves last year), I used the 'genesis' item to cover the major decisions and romances, but ME2 was missing tons of content when I played it again.  No Gianna Parsinni (spelling), No surviving asari from the thorian battle, I don't see the asari from Saren's base (I let her live usually), etc, etc.   It's pretty empty. 

It's like books and movies based on them.  The books are always better than the movies, so if possible I'll read the books after the movies - that way I'm pleasantly surprised.

Off-topic-ish: Chris mentions the Widow and her brother-in-law arguing in ME1, you'll briefly see them in ME2, they are in one of the lower level shops on the Citadel shopping.

Modifié par Segameister, 15 février 2012 - 10:51 .

[stysiaq]

Doesn't make any sense.

We don't know (at least, the most of us) the story. You (I presume) already knew what to expect of the game. I do not. While playing ME2 I already noticed all the flags, that were imported to the game, and it made the game more involving. I want to discover the story with the Shep I looked at for compined 80+ hours, not just scout the territory with a random grunt and then give my main Shepard (which I have a connection with) a go.
It's like suggesting a full paragon playthrough the first time, and a real role-playing the second time. The difference between the gasp moments after watching your Shep in some awesome cutscene for the very first time, and knowing what will happen in a minute, because you saw the default Shep doing it.

You are wrong on SO many levels, or you are just trying to troll.

[corporal doody]

it sounds all cool and dandy...but it would cooler to replay ME1 and ME2...then go hey...thats the dude i bumped it a few days ago!!

but yeah...appreciation is what it would be for! nothing wrong with that.

Modifié par corporal doody, 15 février 2012 - 10:04 .

[DragonRageGT]

Rogue-Element wrote...

DJRackham wrote...

ReallyRue wrote...

Yep, that really does sound crazy. I intend to that at some point, but certainly not on my very first playthrough. You only get one first playthrough, and it's not going to be wasted playing as RandomShepNumber1.

+1 

+1

+1 :happy:

[adamross]

I will try this you were really convincing Chris.