Was anyone else surprised when Casey Hudson said that you can end up dead (proper dead) at the end of Mass Effect 2 ? I always thought BioWare were setting up the Mass Effect trilogy as Shepard's story but it looks like depending on your choices - ME2 can be a story dead-end for your character. While this spoiler bit of PR certainly did it's job of drumming up my excitement for this game, I'm somewhat worried where BioWare is headed with the series. I don't want this to be like Modern Warfare where your playable character dies on an almost constant basis.

I like the idea.  The way Casey Hudson said in the interview, "We wouldn't be serious about a suicide mission if your character couldn't have a permanent death" really had me into what they are doing with the entire series.  A lot of WRPG fans keep clamoring for choices, rewards, and consequences in their games, and it's as if Bioware listened to the requests and went, "Here it is... the ultimate consequence.  Just be careful for what you wish for."

This isn't really new news; this was discussed at length during the E3 preview showings. Back then, Hudson and others explained that if Shepard was dead, then the information would not be transferable to the eventual ME3. So the only way that you can again move your information over is for Shepard to make it to the end. My suspicion is, though, that you'll get pretty clear signs if s/he's not going to survive. Less likely is knowing if you're whole party is going to survive.

Oh man...decisions decisions.  Then again if Shepard dies, there are more characters. Maybe ME3 could be this crazy retaliation because of your death or something? Guess we will just have to wait and see!

" If you die at the end of ME2, that is the end of the story for that character. You can't import that playthrough into ME3 "

Who would you play then if you die at the end of ME2? 
 
Or do they just make you start a new game with Shepard anyway?  
 
But if you don't import your file, then they'll just do that thing they talked about when you make the choices yourself when they recap it. Won't that just happen in ME3 as well, thus negating the whole point of dying? 
 
I hope if you die in ME2 you can play ME3 as Wrex, who's with me?

" @General_D23 said:

" If you die at the end of ME2, that is the end of the story for that character. You can't import that playthrough into ME3 "

Greg Zeschuk from Bioware said that you will still import your decisions in ME3 even when your character dies on Kotaku's last podcast. "

" @Andorski said:

" @General_D23 said:

" If you die at the end of ME2, that is the end of the story for that character. You can't import that playthrough into ME3 "

Greg Zeschuk from Bioware said that you will still import your decisions in ME3 even when your character dies on Kotaku's last podcast. "

Really? Casey and most of the other devs have said that you cannot contiue with that save ino ME3. I'll go listen to the podcast. "

His suicide mission is a story related event. If you shepard dies story wise then you cannot import that ending to ME3, but you can try again and play me2 again with that shepard if you really want to bring them over to the third game.

" His suicide mission is a story related event. If you shepard dies story wise then you cannot import that ending to ME3, but you can try again and play me2 again with that shepard if you really want to bring them over to the third game. "