Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Yay! Just started playing it this morning. Gotta get used to the new controls, but it looks like it's going to be an awesome game!
Fight for the Lost - The Mass Effect 2 Thread
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Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Still playing. This is a very addictive game! I'm working through the various characters' loyalty quests right now. So far I've got Miranda's and Jake's loyalty, but wasn't able to gain the loyalty of Zaeed, Jack, or Thane (that one was a big disappointment!). I'm trying to stretch it out as long as I can, since I don't want it to end! That's always the mark of a good game.
Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Oh yeah, I always go around to most everyone every time I'm on ship to check in. I really regretted that I couldn't keep both Jack's and Miranda's loyalty after Jack's mission (not enough paragon points!). I liked Jack, but since I wanted to romance Miranda, I sided with her.
The reverse happened for me. Miranda was pissed. However, I was able to patch things up a bit later when my Paragon rank went up a little. I imagine you could do something similar with Jack, although I don't know if you need to have a high Renegade rank or not.
Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
Incidentally to this thread, I'm currently playing Mass Effect having already played Mass Effect 2.
It's really interesting to meet some characters in Mass Effect, given the events of ME2 (mentioning no names). I think when I go back and use this save game to play through ME2 again it'll make quite a few changes from the "assumptions" the game made without a previous save.
Also, I'm having a lot of fun filling in the gaps in my ME1 knowledge! You can get a lot of info about what happened previously from ME2, but now I'm getting it in detail...
It's really interesting to meet some characters in Mass Effect, given the events of ME2 (mentioning no names). I think when I go back and use this save game to play through ME2 again it'll make quite a few changes from the "assumptions" the game made without a previous save.
Also, I'm having a lot of fun filling in the gaps in my ME1 knowledge! You can get a lot of info about what happened previously from ME2, but now I'm getting it in detail...
Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Yeah, I created a new Shepherd for ME2 (not intentionally, but I had backed up ME1, and though the save game was still on the hard drive; it might be, but it didn't transfer), and the "story" is different than what happened to my Shepherd, particularly with regard to Romance options and the fate of some of the characters).
WizarDru
Adventurer
You also will find that much of the information you're passed in ME2 is false, at least with regards to the databank. Much of the information has been skewed to the party line of events, which often whitewashes what actually happened in the game.
For me, one of the best parts of ME2 was running into people who I'd helped (or had to deal with) in ME1 (in one case getting sweet, sweet revenge).
I was amused by the fact that my Paragon playthrough from the ME1 save-file had all kinds of recurring characters... while my Renegade playthrough (also from a save file) was a great deal EMPTIER.
Kind of hilarious.
Remus Lupin
Adventurer
Ah, finished. Very statisfying. Man, this game does not mind just killing off your supporting characters in the final act, does it?
