Mass Effect 2 won't allow second playthrough by character for sake of continuity

Unlike the first Mass Effect, the sequel will not allow players to restart the campaign with all the skills Shepard gained throughout his (um, her!) second adventure. Mass Effect 2 Lead Designer Preston Watamaniuk notes on the BioWare forums that the team is working hard to "offer a smooth progression into ME3 from ME2." The reasoning is that they "have to have reasonable knowledge" of where a character could end up at the end of the game. "Of course, Mass Effect 2 players can feel free to create a new character and start over. So, it appears that if you're looking to start Mass Effect 3 with a jacked-up Shepard, make sure to explore every little nook and cranny of the galaxy before going into the sequel's final mission."-Joystiq

-This is kinda stupid in my opinion, playin' back through countless times in part 1 to level up my guy (or girl) was one of the reasons I liked the game so much. First they take away our leveled up charcter from part 1, now we can't even level a new guy up in part 2! WTF

aslong as its fun ill play it

that's kinda stupid, hopefully its a load of crap, lets just hope they keep they character continuation from me1 to me2

im sure the game will have more than enough amazing parts to make up for this crappy one.mattg90520

Then they better not have reach level X acheivements. Level 60 took me three playthroughs to get.

So I feel like a bit of an idiot, as I didn't know you could play through the campaign with the same character. I got into the 50s with one character, being very thorough, and I was trying to figure out how the hell you get the Level 60 achievement.

I don't care about being a level 50+ on a new game but not being able to replay with each character is a bummer.

Kinda sucks, but i trust BioWare. Hope they have something big in plan for us :).

Ican see where there going. If you have a level 60 character, what else is there to achieve in the game other than finishing the story? Also wouldn't the game be really easy if you have a level 60 character? I don't know I only got to level like 35 before i stopped playing.

Ican see where there going. If you have a level 60 character, what else is there to achieve in the game other than finishing the story? Also wouldn't the game be really easy if you have a level 60 character? I don't know I only got to level like 35 before i stopped playing.

sullivan352

It's easy to get through ME1 without jacking yourself up. Even on Insanity. I have no problem at all with this decision.

I'm good with whatever because honestly as a stand alone or a continuation game it's looking to be very good. That said I have been holding off finishing ME again (this time as renegade) in fear it will bring him into the new game as such. Right now I'm only about 1/3 the way through it again after having finished it with whatever you call the good guy way.. errr the light side.. paragon?

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Ican see where there going. If you have a level 60 character, what else is there to achieve in the game other than finishing the story? Also wouldn't the game be really easy if you have a level 60 character? I don't know I only got to level like 35 before i stopped playing.

CNUrGames

i agree, we gotta remember who said this after all, they wont let us down.

That's cool with me. When I replay RPGs I usually do it and roll with a different party and level up totally different than I did in the past. Zero effect on me. The only "bad" part is that in Mass Effect 1 you would start a continued game and all of your party would have like 50 points that you could spend and totally re-spec them. I'll miss that, but it's not a game breaker and when it was there it kinda felt like a glitch.

I know that it wont, but I wish this game would be like a JRPG where you can grind in dungeons. JRPGs have mediocre combat but they let you play as much combat as you want. WRPGs usually have much better combat, but you can't grind and there's usually either a pretty low maximum level or only a set amount of enemies in the game and once you kill them they will never come back.

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Ican see where there going. If you have a level 60 character, what else is there to achieve in the game other than finishing the story? Also wouldn't the game be really easy if you have a level 60 character? I don't know I only got to level like 35 before i stopped playing.

Vashn

i agree, we gotta remember who said this after all, they wont let us down.