Duke Togo

Visually speaking, not alot different, story wise VERY different. Starting from scratch, Shepard is a xenophobic male who made all the renegade decisions in ME1. Humans dominate the council, the Rachni are dead, and Wrex is dead. Here be ye ol' spoilers for ME3: Paragon: With the help of , Shepard leads the forces of Citadel space against the Reapers. Renegade: With the help of , Shepard leads the dominant human forces against the Reapers. When I say "leads", I mean in the way he has in ME1/ME2. As we've all seen, not everyone listens to him, no matter what he's done. I have to say, the Renegade story is playing out to be far more fascinating than the Paragon story. Humans has basically gone from developing sub-light travel to in the span of a century. What are the consequences of this , and what impact (beyond what we've seen) will it have on the rest of the galaxy?

Unfortunately I can now report that all gear/power/weapon/ship upgrades do not carry over from your ME2 complete game save.

Starting a new save (for my "perfect" ME3 Paragon starter save) with a level 30 ME2 save file gave me a bonus talent of my choice, 200k Credits, 50k of each Resource, all of my armor, and all of my weapons. I cannot yet confirm whether my bought upgrades are all still in place, though, or whether I have to purchase them all again. I do know that everything I bought for my captain's quarters are all gone.

Game over, Paragon ending went exactly as I expected. My entire team made it through. Just a heads up, you won't be able to buy all of the upgrades in one playthrough. I think I still had 2 or 3 left to buy, and I started out with 100k because of my ME1 save. I did ALL of the side content. Final game time was over 40 hours.

Wow, just wow. Some "high-anus" stuff went down, and I have no one to talk about it with because all of my friends who are playing are ten hours behind me, LOL.

I dunno, I've done all of them, and I maxed out a while ago (as Commando with only 70% bonus).

You mean Mordin? It gets even better as you get deeper into the game.

Yeah, be careful with that, LOL.

Depends. Do you like your skills? Plus, eezo is not that hard to come by. I reskilled once; once I got a handle on what the abilities did I wanted to change it up,

BTW, you can get a Geth assault rifle if you do the mission on Hard or above. I do not believe its better than the Collector AR or the Revenant.

Not much of a spoiler if you don't know what it means. Its not a very big spoiler, either. Not even sure you can consider it such, its not a major plot point. I am not there yet, myself.

Do you have yet? If yes, you can read my spoilers and perhaps answer my question.

Kelly is unreliable. My fish are all dead.

Yes, I forgot to point that out.

I didn't know they could die, thankfully I've been feeding them all along. And you don't have to feed the hamster (there isn't an option for it). And I agree about the bachelor party, its worth the two minutes to stand there and listen to the entire thing. Speaking earlier of the reveal, I assume you are talking about ? For those who are past the , is there no "going back" at that point? When the mission came up, it gave me the option to go do it, or recruit more people (I didn't have the Justicar yet).

Actually, they didn't. The very first teaser trailer stated it, and the second video they released was actually of that cinematic.

Voice cast: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540125/fullcredits#cast

Then you must have missed a vendor (or two), because there is no way you did that just clearing the Omega Nebula.

My ME1 Paragon Shep was level 60 (only two playthroughs for it) and loaded out, and I got a 10,000 of each resource bonus on top of the other stuff. The combat system is definitely superior to ME1. I love how cover works and I love the head shots. I am indifferent about the ammo clips; I like the mechanics but it seems like a step backwards tech wise from ME1. Right now I am reserving judgment on the inventory system. Too much game left to play and too many upgrades yet to come. However, I do love having the N7 armor for the entire game (granted, I'm in Collector's armor right now, but whatever). It reminds me ever so slightly of Vagrant Story's gear system (forging your gear), and that's not a bad thing in my eyes. The hacking mini-games are actually fun, but not too involved (which is good). Resource gathering/planet exploration is also vastly improved, and it still has enough "Starflight" flavor to keep me happy. Voice acting is top notch, and the dialog/role playing options are quality. Its a shame they took out teammate armor, I don't see any reason why it couldn't have been handled like the weapon system was. A heads up, though, they get new armor if you complete their loyalty missions.

"I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite shop in the Citadel!"

A voice actor needs spoiler tags?

Woot, Tigh is on the Citadel!

Taurons came off as some sort of Sicilian/Aztec cross.

Star Wars, yes. But most non-effects driven films don't need it, and shouldn't get that treatment.

So, after seeing like everyone playing MW2 on my PS3 friend's list, I decided to order it. Bad timing, though, ME2 in a few days.