A post on Penny Arcade has reassurances for those looking to play Mass Effect 2 who don't have access to their saved games from the first installment in BioWare's RPG series, amid all the talk of how your Mass Effect 1 saves will influence gameplay in the sequel. They spoke with BioWare Community Coordinator Chris Priestly, who offered reassurances that character creation in Mass Effect 2 allows you to manually select your choices from a list of key decisions from the first game. Thanks nin, who ended a 48+ hour gap between Mass Effect 2 stories here that could have cost us our internet license.