Not bad indeed. Next playthrough, I recommend you leave Liara's mission as long as possible. You get some funny dialogue as she's been stuck in that thing for weeks and thinks you're an hallucination.
For my first playthrough I did a female Earthborn/sole survivor/soldier. I think just about everyone plays as a soldier the first time out. Biotic and tech powers take some getting used to, but weapons are always familiar.
on the Hallucination! 
Ashley comes across as ever so slightly racist, but with her hair down she's something of a hottie, while Liara is quite cute, but I prefer to save her for my femShep. Purely to piss off Fox News, of course. 
But of course. Part of the fun of replays is to try different outcomes. In fact, this thread makes me want to play the game again as a complete renegade manShep, but I'm not sure if I want to play it this far out from ME3's release.That doesn't mean to say of course than I won't tailor things a little in later play-throughs.
As far as *THAT* decision goes (he said trying not to spoil two things for DH in as many days) I think my main Shep made the right call. I had a feeling doing otherwise would bite me in the arse.
You can't really paint yourself into a corner, at least not in the first two games. But you can fall into a situation where a character you like dies or where you do something that causes the alien races to become suspicious or outright racist towards humanity. Then again, you might actually want those things to happen.And yes, no reloading, even if I paint myself in a corner
For example, my renegade femShep absolutely hated Tali for some reason, so she ruined her life.Yeah, but you can make her more open minded. By having sex with her.
That's the consort for you, she throws everyone a "bone."
You may be glad to know that for ME2 they TOTALLY overhauled the combat system and AI. No more useless cover and enemies swarming you mindlessly. They also cut out these copy/paste side missions where you visit the exact same prefab colony/bunker/freighter/mineshaft over and over and over...The Lt. Kyle bit battle was tough as heck, but after the third or fourth time, I survived and kicked some tail. and thanks for not spoiling
As far as *THAT* decision goes (he said trying not to spoil two things for DH in as many days) I think my main Shep made the right call. I had a feeling doing otherwise would bite me in the arse.I thought that they were going for an In the Pale Moonlight kinda thing where you do something morally questionable for the sake of the galaxy. DS9 trained me poorly for life in the ME universe.
Plus, I have trouble saying no to Martin Sheen.
My main femShep is a bit like that. It helps that being Earthborn she's basically a reformed hoodlum/street rat but while she has a strong moral compass, she's not above decking someone that pisses her off (you know who I mean.) Girl has anger issues.
That's the consort for you, she throws everyone a "bone."
You may be glad to know that for ME2 they TOTALLY overhauled the combat system and AI. No more useless cover and enemies swarming you mindlessly. They also cut out these copy/paste side missions where you visit the exact same prefab colony/bunker/freighter/mineshaft over and over and over...
As far as *THAT* decision goes (he said trying not to spoil two things for DH in as many days) I think my main Shep made the right call. I had a feeling doing otherwise would bite me in the arse.I thought that they were going for an In the Pale Moonlight kinda thing where you do something morally questionable for the sake of the galaxy. DS9 trained me poorly for life in the ME universe.
Plus, I have trouble saying no to Martin Sheen.In a rare convergence of intent and result, my thoughts at the time were pretty much what Shep's dialogue turned out to be after I selected the option: "you're completely ruthless. next thing you'll be wanting to build your own reaper."
Reaper tech, even *dead* Reaper tech has consistently proven to be extremely insidious and pervasive. A whole base full of the stuff? Noooo way!...of course that didn't stop my renegade, council murdering, Rachni exterminating, pro-Terra Firma maleShep.
Sure, it was heavy risk, but the priiiiiiize...
OMG HARDCORE HUMAN ON BLUE ALIEN SIDE BOOB ACTIONPurely to piss off Fox News, of course.
Defiantly agreed about living with the decisions. I'm not much of an RPG gamer (though between Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Fallout I've probably played more in the last few years than the previous twenty) but when I do I always go with my gut on the first play through. I think it's even more important with ME as you'll get to carry all of those accumulated decisions through the entire trilogy.
That doesn't mean to say of course than I won't tailor things a little in later play-throughs.
All told I think I have about 6 Sheps (one of each class) though most are femsheps (much prefer Hale's voice work.) One even boned Kaiden against my better judgement...just for the sake of doing something different. I think I only have one that I didn't finish the ME2 play through on. Aside from being a little burnt out of the game by the time the Arrival DLC...um...'arrived'...I plan on saving that one until the lead up to ME3.
As far as *THAT* decision goes (he said trying not to spoil two things for DH in as many days) I think my main Shep made the right call. I had a feeling doing otherwise would bite me in the arse.
Yeah, that just about covers the risk part.Sure, it was heavy risk, but the priiiiiiize...
Is the Reapers being able to build more of themselves to saend to kill you while Cerberus hunts you down for their new space squid machine overlords
Oops.I was just playing ME1 earlier and realised that my previous autosave was 45 minutes prior. I forgot how poor the autosave feature was in ME1. Thankfully, in ME2 it is much better and you rarely lose more than 5 minutes of playtime.
Don't forget the blue ass! They weren't fans of that either.OMG HARDCORE HUMAN ON BLUE ALIEN SIDE BOOB ACTION
