We can all agree that Commander Shepard is essentially Chuck Norris in space, but we're given little insight into how he/she became the Reaper, *****-slapping machine he/she is.
Whether your Shepard is a paragon of virtue or a badass, fiery haired vixen, you had to decide in the original Mass Effect how your Shepard grew up and eventually joined the military, as well as the act that made them famous/infamous in the Alliance.
Now don't get me wrong, there's enough information to go by, with interactions with NPCs to Codex entries, but I thought it would be a nice feature in Mass Effect 3 if we, the player, got to see Shepard's past. I for one, would love to see a young, vunerable Shepard, survive an attack by Batarian slavers and then grow up to single handedly win the Skillian Blitz. Or see a young Shepard living in the slums of Earth with nothing but her wits and hardened emotional shell, but because of her indomitable nature, is the single survivor (yes, I know about that side-quest, so don't bother correcting me) of a Thresher Maw attack on Akuze.
It would be interesting to form your Shepard from those points. Is your renegade Shepard that way becasue she had to in order to survive the slums? Is your Shepard a paragon because he vowed, given the chance, to never let others suffer the way he did when the slavers attacked?
I know it won't happen, there's no real purpose of retreading old ground, especially if it detracts from the plot we bought the game for, so would you like to see it as DLC perhaps? Shepard telling his/her story to anyone who will listen? Maybe the weight of the universe on his/her shoulders is getting too much and he/she just needs to unload on somebody, perhaps his/her love interest?
What do you guys think? Should we just let our imagination fill in the gaps or do you think it would be cool to see Shepard's past in more detail.
Whether your Shepard is a paragon of virtue or a badass, fiery haired vixen, you had to decide in the original Mass Effect how your Shepard grew up and eventually joined the military, as well as the act that made them famous/infamous in the Alliance.
Now don't get me wrong, there's enough information to go by, with interactions with NPCs to Codex entries, but I thought it would be a nice feature in Mass Effect 3 if we, the player, got to see Shepard's past. I for one, would love to see a young, vunerable Shepard, survive an attack by Batarian slavers and then grow up to single handedly win the Skillian Blitz. Or see a young Shepard living in the slums of Earth with nothing but her wits and hardened emotional shell, but because of her indomitable nature, is the single survivor (yes, I know about that side-quest, so don't bother correcting me) of a Thresher Maw attack on Akuze.
It would be interesting to form your Shepard from those points. Is your renegade Shepard that way becasue she had to in order to survive the slums? Is your Shepard a paragon because he vowed, given the chance, to never let others suffer the way he did when the slavers attacked?
I know it won't happen, there's no real purpose of retreading old ground, especially if it detracts from the plot we bought the game for, so would you like to see it as DLC perhaps? Shepard telling his/her story to anyone who will listen? Maybe the weight of the universe on his/her shoulders is getting too much and he/she just needs to unload on somebody, perhaps his/her love interest?
What do you guys think? Should we just let our imagination fill in the gaps or do you think it would be cool to see Shepard's past in more detail.
