Starting the game again with everything I have still with me is something that words cannot describe simply.
I played through the Mass Effect trilogy 5 times... All three games 5 TIMES and will instantly buy the next installment. Do you know why? because the first game had a new game + mode. I could blow through it extremely powerful and ramp up the difficulty when I wanted to while pulverizing weak enemies early on.
Is it because I can only enjoy something when it's easy? Absolutely not. Is this because I'm a bloodthirsty maniac? Well that's beside the point!
The point is, I want to role play as someone who was powerful before things got exciting. It's hard for me to believe that Commander Sheppard - renown member of the human military brass with power and command... a man who is among the premium elite of the N7... a man so smart and combat savvy that he survived the Skillian Blitz (In my version, at least)... a man so renown that the Spectres are scouting him for potential... and he starts out with the galaxy's most BASIC armor and his skills are absolute garbage... like, he can't even hack an easy encryption or anything.
I didn't buy that and I still don't. But when I start with all of the awesome gear, I BELIEVE that Sheppard is someone that's worth risking political tension to have him with me in combat, I understand why he's moving the fate of the galaxy, it now makes sense that a military admiral will entrust me with delicate missions... not some lumbering oaf with neigh basic utilities and is still learning how to use a stinkin' dampening field.
I feel the same way with Inquisition. My character is a human - noble of the North. When demons attack him and Cassandra, he grabs two knives because he's a rogue. And even though he's not great at combat, he's still jumping at demons with coordinated strikes as if he was trained - and yet he doesn't know much at all. This man of prestige and royalty gets dropped in a camp with no money and no skills? I don't believe that.
I don't believe that my character would start as nothing and take the entire length of the game to become all powerful with the best armor and weapons.
Not only that, but the game is also kind of a dud now. I killed all of the dragons, and they were all super difficult when I fought them. I did all the missions and killed all of the mobs - there's nothing left to do and I only now have everything that I could have gotten.
Dead space 2 and 3 earned replays from me because I'll beat the game with some nice weapons and I can instantly restart on a harder difficulty and still feel powerful - like I can finally use the powerful weapons instead of just keeping up with the Johnsons. And by Johnsons, I mean bad guys.
I feel like I'd enjoy the product a lot more if I could replay through it with everything I've unlocked... thrones, powers and all.
Please give us a New Game +, Bioware.
I'll pay good money for one.
Mass Effect 1, your legacy, had it.
It enriches the depth of gameplay, and can aid immersion.
It will allow players to become more infatuated with the product.
And other successful EA titles have also done it.
Please give us a New Game + so we can restart the story with everything that we have at the end. It will make us feel happy, and It will make us most grateful.
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