* ''MassEffect2'' goes with the OldSaveBonus approach. Unfortunately, if you don't have a save to import, the game gives you default choices that are not only mostly [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism Renegade]] such as [[spoiler: killing the Rachni and the Council]], but also some of the worst ones that very few players ever choose, such as [[spoiler: killing Wrex on Virmire and electing [[{{Jerkass}} Udina]] to the council]]. Some fans speculate this is a sneaky way of encouraging players to play the first game instead of jumping into the sequel blind. The PS3 version, due to the first game never being released for that system, includes an interactive comic book that allows the players to make decisions about major events. This feature was later released as DLC for the Xbox and PC versions.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' requires that Shepard survived the suicide mission of ''MassEffect2'' (you can't import a save game where Shepard died). This should be fairly obvious, as Bioware said when the second game was released that the trilogy is less about the universe and more about Shepard's story and how it affects the galaxy. [[spoiler: TheStinger of the third game drives the point home.]]

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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' goes with the OldSaveBonus approach. Unfortunately, if you don't have a save to import, the game gives you default choices that are not only mostly [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism Renegade]] such as [[spoiler: killing the Rachni and the Council]], but also some of the worst ones that very few players ever choose, such as [[spoiler: killing Wrex on Virmire and electing [[{{Jerkass}} Udina]] to the council]]. Some fans speculate this is a sneaky way of encouraging players to play the first game instead of jumping into the sequel blind. The PS3 version, due to the first game never being released for that system, includes an interactive comic book that allows the players to make decisions about major events. This feature was later released as DLC for the Xbox and PC versions.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' requires that Shepard survived the suicide mission of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' (you can't import a save game where Shepard died). This should be fairly obvious, as Bioware said when the second game was released that the trilogy is less about the universe and more about Shepard's story and how it affects the galaxy. [[spoiler: TheStinger of the third game drives the point home.]]

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**** Z2 seems to act as if BOTH characters were part of Zeuth. Which is impossible according to Z1. The one not selected is an enemy turned NPC assisting from behind the scenes and doesn't awaken their sphere, nor get their partners back. Not only that but their early route events happen without them as Xabungle/Turn-A/Gainer people don't know Rand and Zaft/Zeta/Gravion people don't know Setsuko if they aren't the main. The only thing that always happens is both their early encounters with Asakim (where he helps Rand and kills Setsuko's allies) but even then it's not quite the same as Mail isn't located when Rand shows as an enemy (where as she would be in his route) while Toby is already dead when Setsuko appears as an enemy (in her route he'd only be just about to die). In Z2 both Rand and Setsuko appear with their fully awakened spheres and upgrades, Mail is with Rand and the Glory Star are mentioned to be back in Zeuth world. And both of them have the same friendships they developed in their story route (Rand is buddies with Gain, and Roger, while Setsuko is buddies with Kamille and Shinn) which again shouldn't be possible if one of them is still mostly a stranger to Zeuth.

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** The OriginalGeneration series also tends to run into a RoadCone when characters and storylines from the various games in the franchise appear. Sometimes, Banpresto chooses one over the other, but more often, they TakeAThirdOption: 
*** [=OG1=] retains Kusuha and Bullet's Alpha portraits and personalities, but used the other six of the eight possible Alpha protagonists by means of DivergentCharacterEvolution. Kusuha and Bullet are placed in their SuperRobot Alpha roles (as a {{foreshadowing}} of their Alpha story in [=OG=]), while another pair (Ryoto Hikawa and Rio Mei Long) are given the RealRobot Alpha route (which originally negates the SuperRobot RoadCone in Alpha, concerning the fate of the Choukijin). The third pair (Tasuku Shinguji and Leona Garstein) are given all-new original robots never seen in SRW before, with the fourth and final pair (Yuuki Jaggar and Ricarla Borgnine) being introduced in [=OG2=] using existing robots from SuperRobotWarsAdvance. [=OG1=] itself possessed a very minor RoadCone: the choice to play as either Ryusei Date or Kyosuke Nanbu as the protagonist. The first halves of each story are completely separate, but canonical to each other. The second half is shared, with a few slight differences. Unfortunately, when [=OG2=] is released, the second game carries on with Ryusei's version of the second half, making Kyosuke's [=OG1=] latter half CanonDiscontinuity.

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** The OriginalGeneration series also tends to run into this when characters and storylines from the various games in the franchise appear. Sometimes, Banpresto chooses one over the other, but more often, they TakeAThirdOption: 
*** [=OG1=] retains Kusuha and Bullet's Alpha portraits and personalities, but used the other six of the eight possible Alpha protagonists by means of DivergentCharacterEvolution. Kusuha and Bullet are placed in their SuperRobot Alpha roles (as a {{foreshadowing}} of their Alpha story in [=OG=]), while another pair (Ryoto Hikawa and Rio Mei Long) are given the RealRobot Alpha route (which originally negates the SuperRobot example in Alpha, concerning the fate of the Choukijin). The third pair (Tasuku Shinguji and Leona Garstein) are given all-new original robots never seen in SRW before, with the fourth and final pair (Yuuki Jaggar and Ricarla Borgnine) being introduced in [=OG2=] using existing robots from SuperRobotWarsAdvance. [=OG1=] itself possessed a very minor example: the choice to play as either Ryusei Date or Kyosuke Nanbu as the protagonist. The first halves of each story are completely separate, but canonical to each other. The second half is shared, with a few slight differences. Unfortunately, when [=OG2=] is released, the second game carries on with Ryusei's version of the second half, making Kyosuke's [=OG1=] latter half CanonDiscontinuity.

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* In the original ''FinalFight'', any of the three heroes (Guy, Cody, or Haggar) could throw Belger off his building at the end of the game. In ''Final Fight 2'', it is Cody who is shown delivering the finishing blow to Belger in the opening intro and this actually becomes an important plot point in ''Final Fight: Streetwise'' ([[spoiler:in which Father Bella is seeking revenge on Cody for killing Belger]]).
* ''PrinceOfPersia: Warrior Within'' has two possible endings - one where [[spoiler:Kaileena is defeated]], and the other where [[spoiler:The Prince manages to kill the Dahaka, saving himself and Kaileena]]. The latter is acknowledged as canon in the opening narration for the ''The Two Thrones''.
* ''{{Gothic}}'' handles the choices of the previous game by having almost everyone that would care dead (or outside the area in ''Gothic 3''[='=]s case), or only talking about events common to all three paths. There are however a few dialogs that reference specific minor choices. One early conversation in ''Gothic 2'' establishes that The Nameless Hero did not pay Bloodwyn protection money (as he will reference the consequence of not doing so). One interesting bit in the expansion for ''2'' suggests he killed Bloodwyn (never required or recommended, but deserved), which occurs ''during a conversation with Bloodwyn'' (he notes [[UnexplainedRecovery he survived]]).
* In ''{{Runescape}}'', the "Temple of Ikov" quest has you choose whether to protect the Staff of Armadyl or steal it and give it to the bad guy. When the developers made the sequel quest, "While Guthix Sleeps", they realized the plot sort of hinged on the bad guy having the staff, so everyone who chose to protect it received a note from the guardians that it had been stolen by somebody else.

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* In the original ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', any of the three heroes (Guy, Cody, or Haggar) could throw Belger off his building at the end of the game. In ''Final Fight 2'', it is Cody who is shown delivering the finishing blow to Belger in the opening intro and this actually becomes an important plot point in ''Final Fight: Streetwise'' ([[spoiler:in which Father Bella is seeking revenge on Cody for killing Belger]]).
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' has two possible endings - one where [[spoiler:Kaileena is defeated]], and the other where [[spoiler:The Prince manages to kill the Dahaka, saving himself and Kaileena]]. The latter is acknowledged as canon in the opening narration for the ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'' handles the choices of the previous game by having almost everyone that would care dead (or outside the area in ''Gothic 3''[='=]s case), or only talking about events common to all three paths. There are however a few dialogs that reference specific minor choices. One early conversation in ''Gothic 2'' establishes that The Nameless Hero did not pay Bloodwyn protection money (as he will reference the consequence of not doing so). One interesting bit in the expansion for ''2'' suggests he killed Bloodwyn (never required or recommended, but deserved), which occurs ''during a conversation with Bloodwyn'' (he notes [[UnexplainedRecovery he survived]]).
* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', the "Temple of Ikov" quest has you choose whether to protect the Staff of Armadyl or steal it and give it to the bad guy. When the developers made the sequel quest, "While Guthix Sleeps", they realized the plot sort of hinged on the bad guy having the staff, so everyone who chose to protect it received a note from the guardians that it had been stolen by somebody else.

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