Forum:How did you chose what class(es) you were going to play?

I have five Shepards total and going to start working on the sixth. I will only talk about my main two here. When ME1 first came out, being the detail oriented individual I am, I set about studying each class, background and service history option I had to work with. Then I decided to follow certain lines of concepts. I started out deciding that I would have two main shepards, a male shepard and a female shepard. For my main male shepard I wanted him to be a soldier who had survived mindoir and akuze. I wanted him to be the ultimate survivor. But because I am a fan of dynamic opposites, I also wanted him to be a consummate diplomat. Instead of being the run and gun soldier, I turned him into more of a talker and focused on building and strengthing relationships thus taking the paragon path. I also left him single in my ME1 playthrough prior to learning that Tali was a LI in the second game to which I promptly pursued her as LI. For my main female shepard, I wanted her to be the opposite of my male shepard. I chose her to be an Adept who had been earthborn and ruthless. I wanted her to be tough, no nonsense person but basically good. I played her as though she was prepared to make and do the hard decisions, focusing on brutality and aggression. But I also wanted her to be a generally good person and not xenophobic. I tended to make her more hostile to humans. Because of this I focused as much as I could on renegade but ended up 90% renegade and 10% paragon. I also left her without a LI in ME1 but hooked her up with Garrus in ME2. What, if any processes did everybody else use to decide who and how they were going to play? --Iiams571 02:03, July 27, 2011 (UTC)