Figured they'd do this and I'm glad. I don't want a game to be too easy. If they hadn't done the level reset I probably would have just made a new Shepard. Now to level up a new Shepard on my new gamertag. ^_^
Starting Over With Commander Shepard
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I'm going to bank on the "Six Million Dollar Spectre" idea wherin something bad happens to Shepard, injury-wise, and as such resets a lot of his stats because of recuperation time from his wounds/surgeries/what have you.
This seems like the most likely to me. Better than Shepard (It's got an 'a' in it, and there's no h in it guys ;D) being an amnestic I suppose.AceDiamond said:
As long as they port all my story stuff over like they said they would, I'm not fussed. New combat system means new powers which means new toys to play with. Take away my guns, I'll just earn them all back later anyway. I've pumped hundreds of hours into Bioware's RPGs before and I daresay with ME2 I'll do so again.
Or as you play the game you find out that shepard is really vat-grown clone or something like that b/c earth wanted expendable super troopers to combat the alien's Council Spectre forces if need ever happened.Heavy_Moses said:
When i heard that Mass effect 2 would port over the character from MS1, I thought they meant that you would get a new character that starts from scratch but with better equipment or one or two better stats not a complete port.
I remember what the Gothic series did. In the second game, they used "selective amnesia" (the Nameless didn't remember any of his skills, but remembered the events and characters of the first game). They got a lot of complaints about that one, even though the game itself was the best in the series. In the next installment, they took the battle-hardened veteran (although someone stole his equipment right at the start) and put him in a land where apparently sparrows eat dragons for breakfast... Also, he could take on more enemies at once, but he WAS attacked by more enemies at once. Oh, and apparently the locks were completely different, and the animals different enough that a whole new set of skills was required to skin them.
Either way, as cheesy as the "amnesia" cop-out from Gothic 2 was, I preferred it.
Baldur's Gate managed to do a good job, with each installment letting you start with a progressively more powerful character - level 1 in BG, 7/8 in SoA and 20 in ToB - and I think it was a great solution, but then again, the game mechanics stayed the same throughout the series.
I guess my point is that whichever solution you choose, you can screw it up or make it work perfectly.
Besides, it's Bioware, guys - maybe they'll surprise us yet again?
Either way, as cheesy as the "amnesia" cop-out from Gothic 2 was, I preferred it.
Baldur's Gate managed to do a good job, with each installment letting you start with a progressively more powerful character - level 1 in BG, 7/8 in SoA and 20 in ToB - and I think it was a great solution, but then again, the game mechanics stayed the same throughout the series.
I guess my point is that whichever solution you choose, you can screw it up or make it work perfectly.
Besides, it's Bioware, guys - maybe they'll surprise us yet again?
Sure is awfully necrotic in here
anyway i'm going with the belief that Shepard suffers some sort of near-fatal injury and as such is not fully rehabilitated by the time he's pressed back into service, or even with said rehabilitation he'd still have been out of the field for a long time and as such wouldn't be in top condition.
anyway i'm going with the belief that Shepard suffers some sort of near-fatal injury and as such is not fully rehabilitated by the time he's pressed back into service, or even with said rehabilitation he'd still have been out of the field for a long time and as such wouldn't be in top condition.
That would actually be pretty fucking funny. Although if it was Wrex throwing the ball it would have damn near killed him.RedMenace said:
To tell you the truth I never cared so much about the RPG element of Mass Effect but rather the storyline aspect wherein I just wanted to explore the universe, develop said characters and other such things. Hence why I'm really glad that all the old cast at least make appearances in Mass Effect 2.
The trailer with The Illusive Man seems to prove that this is probably going to be the explanation. If you haven't seen it, Shepard says something like "Why are you calling me back into service", which would seem to suggest that the shit hit the fan at some point fof poor 'ol Shep.AceDiamond said: