New Players! A question...

I'm not a new player, but when I was, I picked engineer for my first playthrough. I'm playing an engineer again now. It is the very best class

Way back in the day Adept was my first PT because my teenaged mind went *Space wizard, Jedi, cool*...and then I hated it. Then Vanguard which was OK and then Soldier where I fell in love with...well the soldier.

Back in 2008, a warez version was installed first.. I clicked around fast to get into the game, so I think I took soldier (the other ones didnt make any sense fast) the game started, I was hopping on this 'train' on Eden Prime when I saw it...

The desktop. Cracked game had crashed and crashed over and over at that precise same point.

Few days later I bought the game and I think I chose soldier again. I also didnt use much powers at all


EDIT: Why warez? Well there were no demos, and I deleted the ware version back then when bought the game or didnt buy.

Good choice.
Sentinel is arguably the most unique class, because very few squadmates are Sentinels, and no one quite has your skillset.

As a long-time veteran of the series, I chose not to vote. But way back in the day, I chose the default Shepard, which meant the default Soldier John Shepard.
For the Legendary Edition, I chose... Soldier again for my first playthrough, to test out the changes to shooting Immunity. It is the easiest class to play and allows you to learn some of the game mechanics through your squadmates. The next playthroughs where you choose different classes is where you can really start to dig into the game mechanics and vary your choices.

Yeah that's pretty muc hwhat I did for m yfirst run of ME as whlis tI was nwe to RPG's I knew how to pla ya shooter so figuerd soldier would be the easies tone t oplay for me until I learned the ropes. I hada felin t omaster the other classes I'd need to figure out how to play RPG's and fast which at the time I felt was a bit ogf a tall order. Thankfully I've found the RPG system in ME easy to maste rwit htime Dragon Age on the other hand took me a while as I definitely feel tha thas the more complicated system of the 2.

M yfavouriet class I think these days is definitel yAdept but Soldier definitely runs it close

Yeah I really enjoyed Soldier.  I did not find the rpg mechanics that difficult in the games.  But it did take me awhile to understand what the biotic powers did.  

I was confused by the classes at first, too. Coming from Dragon Age and other fantasy games, I really wanted the classes to be analogs to fighter, rogue, wizard, etc. and it doesn't really work like that. I think I only picked engineer in the end because it seemed nerdy.

Yeah that was why I picked soldier it sounded pretty straight forward.  Also it didn't help that I never played a futuristic rpg, aside from Fallout all of the rpg's I played are set during classical or medieval times.  So I was very confused with ME1 in terms of classes.

I didn't vote since I'm definitely not a new player.

My first playthrough in 2007 was a Soldier. I only reached level 43, if I recall correctly, and missed some stuff.

I played Adept (+assault rifle) on my second playthrough and was forever after a fan of biotics. I mostly played Vanguard (+singularity) and Infiltrator (+hacking or medicine) once I "got gud" at building characters.

It's hard to say what my favorite class in the trilogy is now, as they all offer a great experience. For ME1, though, it's definitely Sentinel. The classes were far less unique in ME1, and Sentinel offers the most complete package.

Speaking about leveling.  In both my playthroughs of ME1 I played with classic leveling, but I can never reach level 60.  The highest I reach is 54.  Has anyone ever reached level 60 in OT or LE?

Here I thought I explored everything and did every quest. I never reached level's 57/58. Next time I play ME1 I'll reimport the character. Thanks for the help!