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[Beltan]

Hi all.

Those of you that play this series multiple times, how do you decide the arch of your next playthru? I'm considering going again through the series. in ME2, one has a lot of choices. Do you plan your playthru? Do you say "I'm going to do Zaeed's loyalty mission by not Miranda's? At the end, are you deliberately choosing to send people certain directions, thus resulting in different outcomes (to be a bit general)?

 

I want to play ME2 again, but I know myself: I want to make the best choices all the time. 

 

I was thinking about how to do this: When I get to a loyalty mission: roll a die to see if I'm going to do it or not.

 

How do you decide what to do during a playthru?
 

thanks.

[RedCaesar97]

I usually decide my playthroughs by going through the following checklist:

 

1. Male or Female?

 

I try to play 50/50 split between a male and female character. This also depends on who I want Shepard to romance (if any) during the game. It my last few playthroughs I have been playing Shepards that romance characters I had seen play out before (such as Tali or Steve Cortez), so this makes choosing a specific gender easier.

 

 

2. Class.

 

A lot of this depends on what I want to play in ME2 or ME3, since I have more fun and playstyle choices in those games than I do in ME1. I like to mix things up and try unique builds or playstyles to see what works. I will usually test it out first with an old save beforehand before I commit to a whole playthrough with it. 

 

For example, I plan to play as a Shepard in ME3 that plays like the Female Quarian Engineer in ME3 MP (Sentry turret, Cryo Blast, Incinerate), so I will be playing as a female Engineer.

 

 

3. Suicide mission.

 

Right now I am doing some "themed" suicide mission outcomes, like pro-biotic, anti-biotic, pro-tech anti-tech. I know players who have done pro-human, pro-alien playthroughs, or 'only Cerberus', or all-male, or all-female outcomes.

 

So I look at this thread before starting and try to map out how I want to achieve the desired outcome. (Also a good idea: make sure to save before starting the suicide mission or even the Reaper IFF mission in case it does not work out as planned).

[cap and gown]

Roleplay.

 

I have 4 different playthroughs up on Youtube right now and I am currently planning a 5th playthrough for my "Canon" Shepard. And these are just the playthroughs I have on youtube. I have many more playthroughs that I did not record.

 

Rather than going for your idea of the "best" results, create a character with a certain background and outlook and then play that character. Stop playing as yourself.

 

Play as a Colonist who had their entire family killed by Batarian pirates when s/he was 16 and is out for revenge. S/he joined the military at 18 to make sure that what happened to their family doesn't happen to other families and hates Batarians witth a passion and distrusts other aliens as well.

 

Play as the child of a military family who is a stickler for military discipline, but was traumatized by their experience on Akuze when their entire unit was wiped out by Thresher Maws and is now reluctant to get close to anyone lest they die too.

 

Play as an Earthborn ghetto kid who escaped the world of petty crime and drugs by joining the military and became a hero on the colony of Elisium, rising above their previous background.

 

In otherwords, invent a story for your Shepard that you have them makes choices you haven't taken before to see how they work out.

[ArcadiaGrey]

I have 4 Sheps, from pure paragon to pure renegade with 2 more reasonable mixed Sheps in between.  They all have different attitudes to aliens, the genophage, the council etc, and different personality types.

 

I planned them out so that everyone dies in the SM at some point in one of the worlds so then I can see the effect later on.  I chose the 4 romances I most wanted to do, had 2 cure the genophage and 2 not, and so on.

 

I have no 'perfect' playthrough.  In my mind there must always be a cost.  Even my canon Shep loses Tali in the SM and she was super close to her, but that creates drama and sadness in ME3 and I think that's important.  There should be ghosts weighing down Shepard, those they've lost that they're fighting for.

 

Then I just figure out how to achieve what I want, so if Jack needs to die in the SM for example, I can either not do Jacob's upgrade or not do her loyalty mission.

 

As to choosing who dies, for example my pure paragon hates Cerberus with a passion.  So she ignores Jacob, hates Zaeed for being a mercenary, and Jack for being a murderer.  So they all die and she's totally okay with that.  But then sometimes I deliberately kill someone important to my Shep for the dramatic impact.

[themikefest]

For ME2 specifically. I recruit 8 squadmates. I always have at least one death. I do enough loyalty missions for the rest to survive if I choose.. I haven't completed any of the side missions in a very long time. The only dlc I complete is Arrival and depending on the playthrough, I will do the firewalker dlc.

[Beltan]

For ME2 specifically. I recruit 8 squadmates. I always have at least one death. I do enough loyalty missions for the rest to survive if I choose.. I haven't completed any of the side missions in a very long time. The only dlc I complete is Arrival and depending on the playthrough, I will do the firewalker dlc.

I was hoping you would respond. As you said somewhere else, you'll never stop playing the series. It is interesting to see what you do.

 

I've never played as FEMShep. Maybe that's a start. I'll try it with her out and see, but the voice and default look of Male Shep is so nice And I like him in a relationship with Kadian. And I've never played through where I lost a squadmate. I'll play it w/o viewing the document provided for the "all survive" scenario, and see what happens. ME3 gets a bit tedious when meeting all the alive characters, anyway

 

In my next playthrough i'll be more consistent. If I hate Cerberus, I'll ignore those who work for it. If I love Cerberus, I'll tell Jack to go to hell. 

[themikefest]

I was hoping you would respond. As you said somewhere else, you'll never stop playing the series. It is interesting to see what you do.

 

I've never played as FEMShep. Maybe that's a start. I'll try it with her out and see, but the voice and default look of Male Shep is so nice And I like him in a relationship with Kadian. And I've never played through where I lost a squadmate. I'll play it w/o viewing the document provided for the "all survive" scenario, and see what happens. ME3 gets a bit tedious when meeting all the alive characters, anyway

 

In my next playthrough i'll be more consistent. If I hate Cerberus, I'll ignore those who work for it. If I love Cerberus, I'll tell Jack to go to hell. 

For me, its hard to say what I will do in a playthrough until I start it. What I posted is usually the norm, but with different results. ME2 has many different scenarios depending on what you do or not do. You can have a playthrough recruiting the same number of characters with different results.

 

When I start a trilogy playthrough, I know what I will do, except maybe a few minor details, that will happen for each game.

 

The more playthropughs that a person completes, the more that is seen by doing different things, no matter how small of a difference that playthrough is from another playthrough.

 

I have done a playthrough just to hear a particular line of dialogue that I saw someone post that I never heard about.

 

If you have questions about whatever, don't be shy about asking them. Myself or others can answer them, and I'm sure others may want to know the answer as well.

[monicasubzero]

I think that after some playthroughs, you want to experience different outcomes.

Anyway, I always plan ahead my playthroughs. First, I choose the gender, the romance/s (for all the trilogy) and the class. I'm actually playing my first Infiltrator run with a full renegade femShep who hasn't romance anyone so far and she's going to end up with Kelly (who will probably die in ME3) and then Traynor. The main change I'm going to do is to let all the aliens die during the SM.

 

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