Bioware's hoping to invite new players into Mass Effect 3.

That's not something the developer felt it achieved with Mass Effect 2, with the game's impactful opening leaving newcomers in the dark.

“In all honesty, we didn’t do a really good job of new player orientation,” marketing manager Nick Clifford told IGN. “If you didn’t play the first game then [Mass Effect] 2 was pretty jarring for the first half hour.”

So, given Mass Effect's heavy story emphasis, how does Bioware plan on rectifying that in the franchise's upcoming threequel? Simple; just as the game changes conversations for those players that import a previous save, it's going to change up dialogue for those that don't too.

“If I’m a new player and some guy walks up to me and is like ‘Ohhhh Shepard! Remember that one time?’ I would be like ‘No. I don’t remember that one time,’” Clifford explained. “So we wanted to make sure that there aren’t those moments that the player is like, ‘Who is this? What’s going on? What are they talking about?’”

Of course, as VG247's Brenna Hillier points out — if you've just straight up forgotten, then you're out of luck.

[source vg247.com]