I got the game for the pc and my galactic readiness is now at 85%. :D

I'm angry that they used the booster pack type of progression, since I was addicted to pokemon in my youth because of the possibility of getting something amazing.

Yeah I'm not too thrilled with the randomness of MP stuff. Not being able to buy specific upgrades and getting useless weapons over and over kinda sucks. After the demo I was hoping they'd drop or alter the idea! D: Although they did apparently increase the drop rates of the rare stuff, so that's something I guess.

I'd only be able to use the Live for some Call of Duty, wish I had ME3 or even Battlefield 3. :o

Were you able to import your face data?

No, it was all fucked up so I had to start from scratch LOL

Supposedly Bioware is working on the issue, though I went ahead and tweaked my own shepard as well.

I want the gooooooold! e_o >:O

I will offer artz for gold!

This game is just too awesome. I'm not gonna lie I'm an ME fanboy and I will throw money at anything related to the game. What system do you have it for?

360, and I'm a bit of a fangirl too =D

Nothin wrong with that. We need more of those lol. Anyway if you ever wanna play online I'm AuzzyPanda on xbox.

I'm significantly less than pleased that I cannot import my ME1 character. I think I might be half-way through ME2 with him, but it just didn't keep me glued to the tele long enough. And I hate the goddamned mining/probing/resource collection thing in ME2!

I found that minigame kinda fun, but I guess I'm the only person! =p and it kinda makes sense that you can't import straight from ME1 to 3 since there are a LOT of the choices in 2 that are missed out on and what were they supposed to do about that? lol

None of them seemed particularly important to me. :/

Compared to the original, where not only do you determine who among your party survives and who dies (pretty much the only thing you do in ME2), you also get to save a species from extinction (or wipe out the last members of the species), and determine whether or not to expend human lives to save the Council. The only important decision I recall from ME2 is whether to leave the Omega Reaper/Collector facility intact for Cerberus or destroy it.

Rewriting or destroying a significant amount of Geth, keeping or destroying research that can cure the genophage, saving the colonists of Zhu's Hope from unethical medical experiments, getting Tali exiled from the Quarian fleet or not, along with the freedom to basically kill off anybody or even refraining from recruiting a few squadmates, they're all pretty major things and that's not even counting DLC events like Overlord or Shadow Broker.

From a mechanics point of view I can see why allowing a bypass import is something they didn't go to the undoubtedly excessive trouble of including. That's time and resources better spent elsewhere.

I don't see why.

They already have three dozen variables to track through the first two games. It's not any more difficult to randomly generate, or allow the player to select a certain number of outcomes, from the list of possibilities and roll from there. Hell, they could have allowed folks starting new ME3 characters to just decide each outcome from every major turning point in the first two games and doubled or tripled the game's replay value.

Because implementing that kind of system would cost time and money that they could have spent working on the actual game itself?

I can see them maybe making some sort of import save generator that lets you custom flag decisions as a dlc piece though.

Pfft. It was published by EA. We'e lucky it's even playable.

I need the Gold