When Mass Effect 2 came out last year, one of the biggest selling points was the ability to upload old save game files to carry over key choices your Commander Shepard made in Mass Effect. But what about those people who didn’t play the first game? Well, they were stuck with whatever randomness the game saw fit to give them. In the first random game I started, Liara was on the Normandy in the opening scene, the Council had perished, and I was known as a ruthless spectre. In the second random game, Ashley was on the Normady—which lead to an instant reboot. Third random game it was Kaidan overseeing the evacuation, but he wasn’t my love interest—which lead to another instant reboot.
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