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[Ghost Clock]

Did Mass Effect 3 in any way, be it the ending, tone or anything else, cause you go to back through the first two Mass Effect games and change some of your decisions for your main Shepards?

One major thing I'm changing about my main Shepard once I replay the game when the EC comes out, is changing my Virmire Survivor over to Kaiden. She had always saved Ashley but I'm going to be replaying the relevant parts to change this to Kaiden. The main issue being that I was heavily disappointed by how reluctant Ashley was willing to talk to me about anything once she boarded my Normandy. She's about as interesting in this game as a pile of bricks and that's in the context of comparing her to Mass Effect 1's own pile of bricks, Kaiden.

I pick on Kaiden but honestly I've kind of grown to appreciate him and after playing through a Shepard where he did survive, I definitely feel he's the more interesting of the two. It's a shame because I felt Ashley had a much better chance of having interesting character developments. Barring some drastic work from the EC, I'll probably only play through ME3 once or twice more and I want one of those to be with my main Shepard and I want her to get the best of all the possibilites from my perspective and so Kaiden it will be.

I'm also going to change it to save the Rachni Queen the first time. This is one I've actually went back on and changed back and forth several times for my main Shepard because neither choice seemed just right for her. Giving the lack of substansial difference this choice makes as of now, I'm now leaning to saving her the first time and to heck with her the second time as fitting my character the best.

I'd like to hear what else anyone has done to tweak their Shepards post ME3 release. If you only played through once and are never going to play again because of the ending, good for you and I hope this sentence covers your need to say so in this thread.

[Mysten]

I was happy with all of my decisions except one - staying true to Liara, I didn't invite Kelly to dinner. I was always friendly with her and even flirted with her but I avoided taking that step because I was staying faithful. Turns out, no dinner no appearance in Mass Effect 3.

Since I'm replaying Mass Effect 2 anyway, I've decided to take a few of the least renegade-ish of the renegade interrupts. I really don't see why even a paragon Shepard still wouldn't blow up the mouthy krogan in the abandoned krogan hospital turned blood pack base. I'm mostly doing this because of a few select renegade interrupts in Mass Effect 3 that I found created a more balanced Shepard than my purely paragon one and I felt like I would be more consistent this way.

[Oldbones2]

If you mean in game personal choices, then the only one I've never done, but regret is that I never chose to save Kaidan.

But in head retcons I have scores.....

[Ghost Clock]

Oldbones2 wrote...
But in head retcons I have scores.....

If you mean "How I changed my precieved headcannon in relation to ME1 and ME2" that might be okay. If you mean "How I'm changing ME3 in my head" That would be more for another thread and probably one in the story forum.

Mysten wrote...
I was happy with all of my decisions
except one - staying true to Liara, I didn't invite Kelly to dinner. I
was always friendly with her and even flirted with her but I avoided
taking that step because I was staying faithful. Turns out, no dinner no
appearance in Mass Effect 3.

Since I'm replaying Mass Effect 2
anyway, I've decided to take a few of the least renegade-ish of the
renegade interrupts. I really don't see why even a paragon Shepard still
wouldn't blow up the mouthy krogan in the abandoned krogan hospital
turned blood pack base. I'm mostly doing this because of a few select
renegade interrupts in Mass Effect 3 that I found created a more
balanced Shepard than my purely paragon one and I felt like I would be
more consistent this way.

I was fortunate in the fact that my main Shepard was always something like a 60/40 mix. It made some decisions hard (like the Rachni) but she just happened to fall in line with a lot of how she was written into Mass Effect 3 in terms of a consistant character. I realize I'm very lucky in this regard because a lot of my other Shepards (about 8 of them) I've given up on pretty quickly when trying to run the story with them. I don't think anything can fix it for those Shepards and so I'm doing a lot more NG+ runs with the couple that work than in previous games which is both kind of nice and a huge shame.

Modifié par Ghost Clock, 10 juin 2012 - 01:47 .

[Iecerint]

I'll go back and kill Wrex for the first time so that I can save Mordin.

[Fidget6]

I now will always let the council live and have Udina as Ambassador at the end of ME1. You just feel cheated if you don't. If you chose to let the council die, the human council that you never got to see just gets replaced with cheap knockoffs of the original council members and if you choose Anderson as councelor, by the time ME3 comes along he's mysteriously been replaced by Udina anyway with no explanation other than a codex entry and a novel in the expanded universe. 

[Chala]

Kill Jacob...

Modifié par El_Chala_Legalizado, 10 juin 2012 - 03:23 .

[Ghost Clock]

El_Chala_Legalizado wrote...

Kill Jacob...

Forgot about this one. My main Shepard has always lost one to the suicide mission, which always had a right feel to it and changing that to Jacob now is very tempting.

[MrDbow]

El_Chala_Legalizado wrote...

Kill Jacob...

Why?

[Iakus]

Well, I'll have to rewrite the whole "WHen the time comes, our voice will join with yours. And our crecendo will burn the darkness clean" Because apparently the rqchni really promised to go away and never bother anyone again.

[Ghost Clock]

SimplyNeo wrote...

El_Chala_Legalizado wrote...

Kill Jacob...

Why?

He's a doorknob in 3. Doorknob in 2, but at least he was attached to a door. His survival, his loyalty mission and his romance all add up to null and change nothing. You can barely tell the old guy who replaces him in his scenes isn't him.

That's my reason anyway, I don't speak for El_Chala_Legalizado.

Modifié par Ghost Clock, 10 juin 2012 - 04:44 .

[Ryzaki]

El_Chala_Legalizado wrote...

Kill Jacob...

This. It's preferable to the absolute douche he becomes in ME3.

Always make Kaidan the VS. Ashley's just too much of a pain in the ass to deal with.

Save the Rachni Queen (I mean honestly the alternative just blows).

Have everyone loyal for the SM except Tali who's unloyal because Shep exposed her dad for his crimes. 

Make sure I kill Jack because I hate her cameo and it makes my Shep ridculously OOC.

Have Tali get taken away by the bees.

Everything else is fine.

[Chala]

SimplyNeo wrote...

El_Chala_Legalizado wrote...

Kill Jacob...

Why?

Simple:
Despite that I usually like the image of a family man, in Jacob's case I felt it more like a big f--- you than a natural evolution of the character.
Also, good thing I'm a straight dude and never romanced him... that must be a real kick in the quad for the Jacobmancers.

Modifié par El_Chala_Legalizado, 10 juin 2012 - 07:13 .

[dklancer02]

I don't make retcons with my Shepards as that would be metagaming. If you're going to RP a character you have to do so using only the knowledge that the character would have at the time of the decision, not base the choice on future events that the character would have no way of knowing about.

[Ghost Clock]

dklancer02 wrote...

I don't make retcons with my Shepards as that would be metagaming. If you're going to RP a character you have to do so using only the knowledge that the character would have at the time of the decision, not base the choice on future events that the character would have no way of knowing about.

Shepard is never knowledgable of the fact that Jacob and Ashley are dull.

[CSly]

If I were to ever replay the series, I would save Ashley instead of Kaiden. I remember liking Kaiden, or at least being ambivalent toward him in ME1, but he's incredibly annoying in ME3.

[StonedBatman]

After finding out Kaidan has liked men all these years in secret I went back and saved Ashley.

f**k retconned characters.

[Ryzaki]

dklancer02 wrote...

I don't make retcons with my Shepards as that would be metagaming. If you're going to RP a character you have to do so using only the knowledge that the character would have at the time of the decision, not base the choice on future events that the character would have no way of knowing about.

Hey you can make certain decisions and come up with perfectly legitimate and IC explantions for them later. I for one dislike Ashley. She always dies in my ME1 games. My IC justification is that Kaidan's at the bomb since he is more technically inclined than Ashley and Ashley is better with the salarians since she can take more damage so Shep making sure the geth don't disarm the bomb is a priority. Thus I can always kill Ashley and it's always IC for my Shep.

[StonedBatman]

Kaidan is gay therefore he dies

I wish I could have left Miranda and Tali on vimire 2 i would have glady chucked more characters at the bomb GLADLY!