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Regretting intense preparations?


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coinop25

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I played Mass Effect 1 an embarrassing number of times because I wanted to have Shepard set up JUST RIGHT for Mass Effect 2. I knew that there was no guarantee of which skills or decisions would carry over, but I loved the game, and figured I'd rather have too much saved than not enough.

When Mass Effect 2 came out, I was very pleased to have save files to import, and I was impressed with the new system. I was feeling pretty sheepish, though, for having completed several times through with some characters just to find out that it didn't really matter that I made a "gold standard build" to max out Charm and/or Intimidate without spending a point on them. I was especially annoyed with myself that for at least one character, the choices I wanted carried over were spread between two play throughs.

"Erica Shepard," for instance, could be imported having saved the council, but that was the playthrough where she romanced no one at all and killed nearly everyone she met. On the next play through, she was usually a renegade, but romanced Kaiden and left some interesting NPCs alive -- but killed the council, whom I wanted to have alive upon import. I left a save right before fighting Saren, figuring I could just create another end-of-game save by beating it one more time, but for some reason it didn't work. Either I beat it too many times already, or it will only keep track of one level 60 Ruthless Spacer Vanguard named Erica.

This (and the ability to respec at will) has somewhat changed the way I approach Mass Effect 2. I'm putting points in willy-nilly to try different things, using "Retrain Powers" often rather than letting points lie idle until I have enough to put into the next skill level. I'm also creating a number of different characters, rather than duplicates of the same character, to help keep straight which Shepard did what so I can decide later what I import into ME3.

Don't get me wrong -- I think the stuff that carries over from ME1 to ME2 is great. But I have to ask: Does anybody
else out there kind of regret having meticulously prepared Shepard in ME1 in ways that didn't carry over at all into ME2? I'm wondering whether it has affected how others play ME2 as it has for me.

Modifié par coinop25, 18 février 2010 - 05:13 .