Your FIRST playthrough of Mass Effect 1

[dancinginfernal]

1) Paragon
2) Kaiden
3) Saved
4) Alive

Fucking Ashley, glad she's dead.

 

[blindthrall]

Some Renegade options were too funny to pass up, while others you would only do if you were trying to be a dick. I was...mostly good. I never turned up a chance to insult the council though. And I said 'see ya' at the end. It was a matter of one species survival against one inefficient government. I would have made that decision if it was any species, not just for humanity. So Chaotic Good basically. Kaiden was useless, Ashley was annoying. I would have let them both die if it meant I could recruit a Salarian. Or even better a Rachni. Needless to say, I didn't kill the queen, too many Ender's Game vibes for me to think it was a good idea.

Wrex and Tali. All. The. God. Damn. Way. Anybody ever notice that when you're fighting Geth, Tali's AI goes berserker mode? She just rushes across the battlefield blasting that shotgun. I could almost hear her say to me and Wrex-

"You ladies can get to fighting after your tea party, but I've got machine abominations to slay."

Tali didn't fuck around when it came to the Geth.

And yeah, Liara got it. I never took her into combat because I felt guilty throwing her to the wolves. Besides, I was an Adept, so it's not like I needed her with two shotgun toting badasses backing me up.

 

[Koeryn]

I took the "Paragon path" (as Mass Effect 2 calls it) throughout the whole game, and on Virmire I saved Ashley, due to being the Default Shephard.
I found Liara to be a bit too odd for my tastes, and therefore I bedded Williams shortly before the endgame.

The most frustrating part of the game were pretty much the entirety of Feros, especially if you are Paragon.
And contrary to what most people say, I found the random planet Mako drives to be very entertaining, and now in hindsight, it helped make the Mass Effect universe seem larger, since you could drive from one end of a large(/-ly featureless) map to the other.

I was kind of taken aback by Liara. Especially after she went insane and committed suicide in every fight I got into, and then came back to me going "Omhai yous interestings."

I sent her back to the ship and never let her go anywhere else ever.

Wrex, Vakarian, Ash and Tali all the way. =d

 

[Daveman]

1) I was pretty average, I initially tried be paragon but after ballsing up the mind-controlled settlers bit I gave up and just picked what I wanted.
2) I saved Ashley because I wanted to hit that. I thought it was funny because in an attempt to make him look like McKay from Stargate: Atlantis I made a hideously ugly Shepard.
3) I let the Rachni live, she made a good argument.
4) Oh yeah, also Wrex kinda died because he was a massive prick. Ashley saved me. I was such a ***** in that game.

I mostly had Liara and Ashley as crew as I was full engineer (again being McKay) and so after Wrex died I needed more combat, hence Ashley. Then I decided on Liara too because she's full biotics.

 

[Fappy]

The one I DIDN'T carry over? The one from 2 years ago?

I was a uber generic Soldier (I can't imagine being a boring enough RPG to even choose THAT class again).

And a giant prick to everyone.

Same here besides the latter point. My first playthrough was so long ago, so poorly executed and so many profiles ago I try not to remember it honestly

Glad you like the game though. It really is a remarkable RPG.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I went Paragon with some slight Renegade situations, rocked a Female Sentinel, killed Kaiden, let the Queen go, and got myself some vanilla/blueberry swirl.

 

[Byrn Stuff]

Paragon
Ashley
Set her free
Liara

 

[Blatherscythe]

I only screwed Tali and Ashley.

Bullshit. Tali wasn't a romance option in ME1

 

[Johnnyallstar]

1.) Paragon
2.) Ashley. Even though Kaiden was more useful in a fight, Ashley wasn't the whiny ***** of the two, and wasn't as annoying. Sorry Carth, you're a good voice actor, but you get the worst parts.
3.) I saved the Rachni queen. Bugz r frinds.
4.) Who didn't? Liara was my choice for the first game.

 

[Piorn]

How come so many people do multiple playthroughs? When I play an RPG, I choose the options I would chose as my RL character. So, on my second run, I'd either take the same options again, or always disagree with myself. All in all, I only played the first one once, and ported this Shep to the second.
Anyway, male paragon vanguard, killed Kaiden, saved Rachni, romanced Liara, saved Wrex, "disregarded" the council's safety.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

1.Paragon
2.Ashley
3.Released
4.See answer for 2

At least that was my "final cut" that made it into Mass Effect 2. My very first effort, which was basically a speed run with little exploration was much the same as above but I banged Liara. Plus Wrex died.
For some reason I never really gelled with Kaiden; that said I expected I'd have time to go back and rescue him. Oh shit...

In answer to your other question yes and no. I allowed Garrus to get revenge on Dr Heart (Salieon or whatever his name is), Liara to confront her mum in an effort to "save" her, however I saw something redeemable in Saren so I left Wrex back on the Normandy.

 

[Vuljatar]

1: Renegade. I was a good guy, and nice, too, but I didn't put up with any shit. I punched the shit out of the reporter, threatened the fan with my gun, hung up on the council... twice.
2: Ashley. She's nowhere near as boring as Kaiden
3: Torched the damn thing. They won't be re-infecting the galaxy on my watch.
4: Liara. I tried my hardest (lol) for a threesome, but Ashley wasn't into it.

 

[gigastrike]

By the end, I was mostly paragon, but most of the decisions I made were renegade. I killed both the Rachni queen and the council, but I was nice to ppl. Wrex and Kaiden lived and I sexed Liara.

 

[Koeryn]

Needless to say, I didn't kill the queen, too many Ender's Game vibes for me to think it was a good idea.

Yay! I'm not the only one who felt it get Ender-y.

 

[Spiner909]

Neutral/Paragon
Ashley
Spared
Nope. Tried, though.

I was really, really freaking amazed with the ending. GREAT ending for a game so epic.

 

[Gitty101]

1.) Paragon - just my natural, good natured self.

2.) Ashley - sorry Kaiden, she has something you don't.

3.) Released - potential friends for the future.

4.) Hell yeah I tapped that! ^^

 

[Koganesaga]

1) Paragon
2) Kaidan (I hated Ashley so very much)
3) The Rachni Queen was released
4) Eh, didn't particularly care, was too busy with gun fights and being awesome

Edit: Actually I did do Liara, because she did go on how her species was encouraged to mate with different species as they could with ANY species, freaky but very curious.