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    Mass Effect

    Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Nov 20, 2007

    Humanity is still a newcomer on the futuristic galactic stage, and it's up to the charismatic Commander Shepard to investigate the actions of a rogue agent while under threat from a dangerous synthetic race known as the Geth.

    My girlfriend deleted my save data...

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    #1  Edited By RedSox8933

    Fuck. She was downloading a game off of XBLA and she needed to make room. Of all the things that she chose to delete. It had to be my fucking Mass Effect save data. Now I have to go through the whole thing again just to get Shepard as powerful as I had him. There goes 30 hours of my life.

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    #2  Edited By AgentJ

    oh well, I guess you'll just have to play it again. Really dude, you'll probably enjoy it more the second (third, fourth) time around

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    #3  Edited By mordukai

    Ohh man!!!! Harsh 

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    #4  Edited By Nasar7

    have her make it up to you ;)

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    #5  Edited By Lies

    I doubt your level will carry over, just the choices. Mass Effect 2 would be so incredibly fucking broken right off the bat if you could just waltz in with a level 60 character from the beginning.

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    #6  Edited By keyhunter

    I've played through it to 100% completion about 6 times, and am working on it a 7th time (to get one last 20 point achievement). That's uh.. almost 400 hours. I'm sure you'll manage.

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    #7  Edited By TheKidNixon

    Just hoping you do like the game?

    Still...blows.

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    #8  Edited By RedSox8933
    @Lies: I suppose that I don't HAVE to play through it again, but I do want to have the full experience of Mass Effect 2 and this is a big part of it.
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    #9  Edited By JJOR64

    Well, that's a stinker.  I would be fucking piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised.  I would expect a blow job from her doing that.

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    #10  Edited By TheKidNixon

    I will say I have every intention to play through Mass Effect 2 as my three different Shepards, as well as likely with the official "canon" version.

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    #11  Edited By RedSox8933
    @JJOR64 said:
    " Well, that's a stinker.  I would be fucking piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised.  I would expect a blow job from her doing that. "
    She was confused as to why I was mad, then she got mad at me for getting mad at her, so I don't expect anything. Lose-lose for me.
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    #12  Edited By Lies
    @RedSox8933 said:
    " @Lies: I suppose that I don't HAVE to play through it again, but I do want to have the full experience of Mass Effect 2 and this is a big part of it. "
    If I were you, I'd blow through and just imitate the moral choices you made the first time through so all that carries over. Maybe do the romance too if you want- I would be willing to put down money that's all that transfers over. Just the major decisions:
    • Virmire choice
    • Council choice
    • Wrex choice
    • Rachni choice MAAAYBE
    • Probably romance
    • Maybe the Tali sidequest with the Geth data (unlinkely)
    I honestly can't imagine anything besides those transferring over- it's just a matter of fracturing ME2 too much.
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    #13  Edited By RedSox8933
    @Lies said:
    "
    @RedSox8933 said:
    " @Lies: I suppose that I don't HAVE to play through it again, but I do want to have the full experience of Mass Effect 2 and this is a big part of it. "
    If I were you, I'd blow through and just imitate the moral choices you made the first time through so all that carries over. Maybe do the romance too if you want- I would be willing to put down money that's all that transfers over. Just the major decisions:
    • Virmire choice
    • Council choice
    • Wrex choice
    • Rachni choice MAAAYBE
    • Probably romance
    • Maybe the Tali sidequest with the Geth data (unlinkely)
    I honestly can't imagine anything besides those transferring over- it's just a matter of fracturing ME2 too much. "
    But maybe they are creating an adaptive difficulty thingy, so that you can carry over your level, without the game being ridiculously easy.
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    #14  Edited By keyhunter

    What if I carry over my Level 60 EXTREME POWER GAMER character? Does that mean they increased the level cap?

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    #15  Edited By TheKidNixon
    @keyhunter said:
    " What if I carry over my Level 60 EXTREME POWER GAMER character? Does that mean they increased the level cap? "
    I think that's fair to assume.
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    #16  Edited By keyhunter
    @TheKidNixon: If that's the case, then it would take like 6 playthroughs from level 1 to get to whatever the new level cap is...And if they make an achievement for that, they are assholes.
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    #17  Edited By Luke
    @RedSox8933 said:
    " Fuck. She was downloading a game off of XBLA and she needed to make room. Of all the things that she chose to delete. It had to be my fucking Mass Effect save data. Now I have to go through the whole thing again just to get Shepard as powerful as I had him. There goes 30 hours of my life. "
    Just restore it from your backup.  You do backup your 360, PS3, and PC at least weekly, right? 

    Unfortunately, I myself still haven't figured-out how to backup my Wii 100% yet... just been copying my saves to SD, but not all of them allow for this. 
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    #18  Edited By Ouroboros

    It's time to dump her..

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    #19  Edited By TheKidNixon
    @keyhunter said:
    " @TheKidNixon: If that's the case, then it would take like 6 playthroughs from level 1 to get to whatever the new level cap is...And if they make an achievement for that, they are assholes. "
    You mean if you're making a brand new Shepard? I doubt that the standard "canon" Shepard would start at Level 1; it would be weird if he/she did.
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    #20  Edited By asurastrike
    @RedSox8933 said:
    " There goes 30 hours of my life. "
    Lucky for you Mass Effect isn't a 30 hour game. More like 16 hours. :P
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    #21  Edited By RobtheRobot

    Think about it is it really worth losing "things", possibly her as a girlfriend for being mad be forgiving and never play mass effect again they're plenty of other games out there!

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    #22  Edited By Red

    Since you already know what to do, how to play and I doubt sidequests and levels would carry over (at all), you could probably beat Mass Effect in 10 hours. It's not that long at all. And pursue the romance SQs with the volume turned up to make her jealous, and remember to ask before she deletes game data.

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    #23  Edited By Xeiphyer

    Ok, what you do. Demand blowjobs while you play until you finish the game. That will teach her. Also gaming + blowjobs = the best thing ever invented ever. Make her watch you sex the alien babe. then make her paint her skin blue and reenact. ???. Profit.

    I still need to finish mass effect, been so busy lately I havent gotten to playing it :( I have really liked what I saw of the game from watching my friend and I definitely wanna finish it before ME2 comes out so I can get the full experience of it.

    Note: They should release Mass Effect Game of the year with DLC edition. make it like $40, itl sell tons before the next one comes out. PROFIT!

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    #24  Edited By AhmadMetallic

    I'm sad when i listen to people talk about Mass Effect :(


    I gave it a shot, it went so slow and laggy and kept crashing, and it seemed like some kinda Halo1 ripoff with the crosshair and the little creatures you shoot..

    Now i wish i kept it cuz it seems really good and theres a second part.

    =[ 
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    Sounds like time to delete your girlfriend.

    jk. That sucks though. I guess Shepard really does die.

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    #26  Edited By TheJollyRajah

    Why did this have to be a topic? Woohoo you have a girlfriend good for you.

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    #27  Edited By revan342

    1 thing i wanna know is what part of sheperd will be carreyd on as an iv complead it like 5 time with 1 account what 1 out of those 5 times will it use plus where do i have to leave it ( save wise ) do i compleat it then not start a new with same guy cause i scared

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    #28  Edited By SaucySala

    Play through it as opposite of whatever you were.

    That'll give you some interesting events, I would hope.

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    #29  Edited By ArchScabby

    oh no! too bad you have to play through one of the greatest western rpg's ever, again.  Your life sucks man.

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    #30  Edited By Baillie

    My girlfriend plays monopoly and er, scene it, oh and she loves playing persona 4.

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    #31  Edited By CowMuffins

    Dump her.

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    #32  Edited By killdave
    @ArchScabby said:
    " oh no! too bad you have to play through one of the greatest western rpg's ever, again.  Your life sucks man. "
    Fixed.
    Oh no! too bad you have to play through the greatest rpg ever, again.  Your life sucks man
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    #33  Edited By yakov456

    I feel a backhand coming on. And don't let her touch that shit ever again. If you have to buy another one just for her.

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    #34  Edited By natetodamax

    Leave her now

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    #35  Edited By Matfei90

    This is exactly why I'm buying my girlfriend her own 360 (when I get one, that is.).

    I won't fiddle with her data and she better not fiddle with mine.

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    #36  Edited By AndrewGaspar
    Why was that bitch out of the kitchen and playing video games?
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    #37  Edited By Absurd

    I remember when my sister deleted all my save games off my ps2 memory card...

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    #38  Edited By Green_Incarnate

    Go for achievements this time. That's the only good thing that can come from this. I had to go through the game like 5 or 6 times to get them all.

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    #39  Edited By jonnyboy

    Women, you can't live with 'em, you can't kill 'em.
    Just hide her sanitary products. That'll show her.


    Just kidding.

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    #40  Edited By Agamembar

    I feel the pain of game save deletions, a moment of confusion and poor GUI information provision by the 360 dashboard or what I like to call The Event I deleted every single save I had built up on my 360 over a period of two years, including one and half run through ME, half way through lost odyssey and half way through eternal sonata and full unlocks of all g hero games plus a few other things. I was surprising clam. traded LO and ES though I just could go through it all again. Luckily achievements are stored server side.

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    #41  Edited By jakob187

    Kill her.  She deserves it.

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    #42  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    Oh mant that really sucks, try and get her to ask you next time before she deletes stuff like that.

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    #43  Edited By birchman

    Delete her.

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    Truly a tragedy... I don't know what I'd do if my wife did that to me... thankfully we're on a policy of if she wants to download something and there's not enough room, she waits for me to find some stuff to clear out. 

    Her sister unplugged my computer once while I had paused a game so that she could charge her cellphone... that wasn't a good day for me.
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    #45  Edited By AutomaticSnake

    play it again.. i know i am, just for fun!

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