Your Cmdr. Shepard Lives On In Mass Effect 2?

great, hopefully it will come for ps3

I made my guy look like Wesey Snipes from Demolition man.  Can't wait to go on more evil adventures with Simon Phoenix!  YEAH!

"Lets hope Mass Effect 2 can be the best RPG since BG2. The story and setting certainly has the potential.
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I was like "oh, cooly cool cool", and then I remembered that save is on my old account and now I'm like "oh, shitty shit shit". Oh well, let's hope this game won't have any cool multiplayer functionality.

yeah shame I deleted all that off my drive because I never thougth I would need it!

I'm almost positive that you're major decisions will carry over. Probably in a way done at the beginning of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. Either check your save file or ask you a series of covert questions to establish the backstory. As for stats that's going to be trickier. They can't allow your previous game Shepherd to be overpowered at the beginning of the second game.

I just picked the default guy. >.>

Uhhh, they've been saying this since right after Mass Effect 1 came out. Were you guys not paying attention or something?

Old news but just means me needs to trudge through the single player several times over with different characters so me can PWN in ME2.

Why is this considered news? It's been confirmed many-a-times, even before ME 1 came out.

Stoked though, but I've been since '07 so yeah

Well considering my Shepard is a badass mofo at this point, it'll be sad when she ends up being a minor character in the next one who has a throwaway death near the beginning of the game before she can whip out the good ol' singulariy+shotgun combo that killed everything in the last one.

I played with the default skin. It's cool that they do this, though.

Awesome, Cole Shepard will return.

Great,so my stupid borked up looking shepard gets another journey? .....great >_>

this pretty much has to happen.

I cannot wait for this game to come out...

I'm kinda sad. I don't wanna have to play through Mass Effect again as a good guy (I played through as a bad guy because I never did, after I switched gamer profiles) and I really don't like Shepard. It's pretty much impossible for him to look unique, but not ugly and his voice and overall personality don't really fit the lovable rogue character I usually try to play as.

"Well considering my Shepard is a badass mofo at this point, it'll be sad when she ends up being a minor character in the next one who has a throwaway death near the beginning of the game before she can whip out the good ol' singulariy+shotgun combo that killed everything in the last one."

I'm curious what happens if you choose not to use your save, or don't have one.

Donny boy!!

"Strawberry Shepard" lives on, saving the galaxy and looking fine while doing it.  I wonder if you start with all the gear you acquired in ME1 and at the "paragon" level she's achieved.  I am so into this news.

This is non-news.  Bioware has always stated that Mass Effect will be a trilogy, and that you will be able to carry your character forward through all three games.

This is seriously great news, but I'm still waiting to hear from bioware about the atrocious inventory system.

Won't somebody please think of the inventory system???

"Shadow said:

"Well considering my Shepard is a badass mofo at this point, it'll be sad when she ends up being a minor character in the next one who has a throwaway death near the beginning of the game before she can whip out the good ol' singulariy+shotgun combo that killed everything in the last one."

...What?"

This feature would be even better if you could modify certain things about your existing character such as hair style/color, to reflect the dark path you're about to descend upon :)

I thought that was a given.

I love this game, cant wait to see me some more mass effect!!

Mass Effect was the best RPG since KOTOR,  in terms of engaging story, and incredible characters. I cannot wait for ME 2...
Is it confirmed for 2009???

"BiggerBomb said:

"Shadow said:

"Well considering my Shepard is a badass mofo at this point, it'll be sad when she ends up being a minor character in the next one who has a throwaway death near the beginning of the game before she can whip out the good ol' singulariy+shotgun combo that killed everything in the last one."

...What?"

oh just you wait"

"Mass Effect was the best RPG since KOTOR,  in terms of engaging story, and incredible characters. I cannot wait for ME 2...
Is it confirmed for 2009???"

ME 2 Will almost certainly NOT come out in 2009. I don't think there is any date yet, and bioware, though awesome, is not known for getting games out quickly, or even on schedule.

I wasn't expecting anything less. I want to play with my Caroline Shepard, to me she is the Shepard.

Maybe I'll actually have to go and acquire my save file from my buddy's XBox and steal his copy of the game for a while.  At the time this came out his 360 was in the living room so I played on it...sadness overwhelming now that he's moved out and about half the games I bought since I lived with him have their save files on his harddrive. 

Anyways, good to know.  Also, to the people who like to point out they already knew this and that this is "non-news"...guess what, it is news to the people who didn't already know it.

That would be really cool if they could pull it off.

Will the level 60 mark be reset to 0?  Or are they going to release Epic levels & I'll be able to drop hell fire rain down on my enemies during combat?

my character may look like a moron, but he's at level 52, so if the game lets you bring your character stats,and level  then its worth bringing him back, haha

I felt this was the only way they could make Mass Effect 2 continue the storyline in any meaningful way. Hyrcania Shepard will live on (got her to level 57 so far...so close to 60 and I haven't even gotten to Virmire yet - just finished Feros - and yes, it is a new game+)

Pistol + booming subwoofer for the win. BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!

Okay maybe you people don't realize something.  Notice it never actually says you get to PLAY AS your Shepard from the first game.  Maybe (almost definately), he/she will just be there.

"Okay maybe you people don't realize something.  Notice it never actually says you get to PLAY AS your Shepard from the first game.  Maybe (almost definately), he/she will just be there."

"Shadow said:

"Okay maybe you people don't realize something.  Notice it never actually says you get to PLAY AS your Shepard from the first game.  Maybe (almost definately), he/she will just be there."

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, though. It's an intensely character-driven plot, and Shepard talks about [SPOILER] finding and kicking the Reapers' collective ass, which would make no sense to just abandon that obvious sequel lead.
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"Lunarbunny said:

"Shadow said:

"Okay maybe you people don't realize something.  Notice it never actually says you get to PLAY AS your Shepard from the first game.  Maybe (almost definately), he/she will just be there."

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, though. It's an intensely character-driven plot, and Shepard talks about [SPOILER] finding and kicking the Reapers' collective ass, which would make no sense to just abandon that obvious sequel lead.
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Just because you're not a playable character doesn't mean you can't kick some ass ta the same time
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"Shadow said:

"Lunarbunny said:

"Shadow said:

"Okay maybe you people don't realize something.  Notice it never actually says you get to PLAY AS your Shepard from the first game.  Maybe (almost definately), he/she will just be there."

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, though. It's an intensely character-driven plot, and Shepard talks about [SPOILER] finding and kicking the Reapers' collective ass, which would make no sense to just abandon that obvious sequel lead.
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Just because you're not a playable character doesn't mean you can't kick some ass ta the same time
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I should add that player expectation does often play a big part in making a sequel - think of how many people would be totally disappointed not playing as Shepard again, even if the save won't transfer. Disappointment = lost sales.
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My dude's face caved in.

All that proves is that there's some Asari chick who thinks she sees Shepard.  I still say you don't play as the Shepard from the first game.  I would say that it's a trick that won't fool anyone, but seeing as so many people have been fooled by it, it's clearly a much more clever trick than I'm giving it credit for in my mind.  The fact that remains is regardless of any storytelling the game has to offer, you can't put the super badass decked out character from the end of the first game into the beginning of this new one without messing up the player experience, and it would surprise me greatly if I was proven wrong on this one.  Until then though, I still say that Shepard from the first game is dead and you're a totally new person that just happens to look the same as the custom (by the way) character that you controlled the first time around.  While I'm at it, there's also nothing in that one line of dialogue that proves you play as whoever that Asari chick is talking to in the first place.