So i Know it's ages off but this is something that will no doubt eat away at me for the next year as it did with mass effect 2 which game import to bring into me3 for my 1st play through. i ended up importing one of my 2nd or 3rd plays into me2 and always had a feeling in the back of my head that i should have imported the 1st play through where i did not know the outcome of all my actions.
 
So now i don't what to do about me3 do i go in with my 1st play through with half my crew dead or do i use my perfect run and feel like i'v cheated again
 
Am i insane or do the rest of you suffer this dilemma too?  also sorry if this is all super confusing
 
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I have 4 characters, 2 females - 1 renegade, 1 paragon and 2 males, each paragon or renegade 
 
Im going to go through my paragon female. She didn't hook up with anyone and still has liara as a romance( haven't done Lair of the shadow broker yet) so I would like to see how they do the romance in the final game

I'm going to play Paragon Lady Shepard Vanguard, had the most fun with that character on my three play troughs.

My renegade one.

When I get done with my ME1 playthrough on Insanity, I will use that character for ME2 and I suppose that will be the one I use for ME3 as well. 
Now the only problem is I still have to finish my Krogan and Quarian ally achievement playthrough, then a Hardcore playthrough, and lastly the Insanity playthrough before I can move on to ME2... 
Then there's the issue of playing through ME2 on Insanity, which I've heard gets pretty rough... I guess the good thing is I'll have plenty of Mass Effect to play until ME3 comes out.

Paragon, male Shepard. Ashley is dead. Wrex is alive. The council was saved. Everyone survived the suicide mission, I did the Tali romance, and screwed over the Illusive Man.

played through ME2 about 3 times. 
not because i really really loved the game play, but to get the story i wanted.  
 i got Mornith as a crew member, and i hope she features into ME3,  could be interesting. 
 
 
long story short, create the story you want to play, nothing to do with cheating.

" @FreakAche:  How do make wrex survive? Is it only by importing a ME1 file?? If not what do you have to pick?? "

" @gamefreak9 said:

" @FreakAche:  How do make wrex survive? Is it only by importing a ME1 file?? If not what do you have to pick?? "

Wrex is dead if you don't import an ME1 save file where you didn't kill him. There's no way to get him back without a save file as far as I know.  If only there was a resurrection spell in Mass Effect... "

I lost my first original playthrough so, right now I just gave up on my second playthrough so I can play through ME1. I needs mah Wrex and Rachni Queen.

Gonna make a whole playthrough of all the games to get the whole thing. It'll be awesome.

Male Paragon w/ Ashley romance. Saved Wrex, spared Rachni, saved the council and nominated Anderson, blew up the collector ship, etc. I have a bunch of saves, but that's the one I did the first time I played through the game.

Renegade Male Shepard, with full crew alive, and wrex dead. First game romance was Ashley, second game was Tali.

Paragon Male Shep, Ashley dead, full crew alive, Wrex alive, Council alive, Liara Love interest. That being said I have around ten different Shepards, i'll likely play them all in the sequel if given the chance.

First I will use my first ME2 play through which was my perfect femshep vanguard play through from ME1 , on the second playthrough I will use my first fem shep ME playthrough as a soldier , then my bad ass renegade male adept then whatever

 Dick Shepard (The Adventures Of):
 
            

My first import is going to be my renegade female shep who did every side quest in ME1 and in ME2 and kept everyone alive.

Femshep, Adept, Liara romance in first game and through Lair, Full crew survival, and a big fuck you to Cerberus.

Gonna probably use my first or second. One romanced tali and the other romanced Liara and stayed with her. But once saved the collector ship and the other destroyed it.

• Ladyshep
• Alinement: 75ish% Paragon 25ish% Renagade
• No Romance
• Rachni : Alive
• Left to Die:  Kaiden 
• Wrex: Alive
• Counsel: Alive
• Counsellor: Anderson
• Genophage: owned but not cured
• Rogue Geth: Converted
• Quarians: Told to colonise 
• Base: Saved
• Conrad Verner: Shot in the foot

" @MaFoLu said:

" @gamefreak9 said:

" @FreakAche:  How do make wrex survive? Is it only by importing a ME1 file?? If not what do you have to pick?? "

Wrex is dead if you don't import an ME1 save file where you didn't kill him. There's no way to get him back without a save file as far as I know.  If only there was a resurrection spell in Mass Effect... "

Wow! That means that all the new fans that the PS3 release will bring, will experience a Wrex-less Mass Effect. That just seems wrong somehow. "

Hm well... i'm sure i can find a save file... ME1 was not fun for me... what happens with Wrex anyways?? Is he just sitting on the throne? Any nice extra dialogues?? "

Shepard Prime for me is full paragon, all teammates alive at the end of ME 2, destroyed the collector base, Wrex alive, soldier class.

I am going to stay loyal to my original ME1 Shepard that I have imported to ME2, thank God I now have a perfect save.

I'm going to playthrough both the games again with all the DLC, so probably the outcome of that one.

I'm reallyhoping there is something like an xbox live/psn app that you can download and play to establish a new characte/world, and almost more importantly, remember what the hell you did with each save file.  
Like a motion comic that runs through the stories and side missions breifly, getting you up to speed, and replaying what you did, or letting you choose A,B,C for a new character. 
 
I'd pre-order (actually probably will anyway) for an app like that. 

I'm going to replay one of my earlier saves so that I can finish the game with all characters (no casualties), go through all of the DLC and then import that one into Mass Effect 3. 
 
I'm so pumped for this...!