Honestly, I don't understand what the issue is. You die at the end of ME2, YOUR Shepard isn't in ME3. Shepard is meant to survive but if you are so incompetent that you can't survive the mission then you shouldn't continue anyway. It's not the fact that Shepard dies that is the issue. It is the fact that YOUR Shepard dies.
Desert Tiger said:
"And that is the tragic death of Gordon Shepard."
"Meanwhile, on the OTHER side of the galaxy, JOHN SHEPARD, HIS LONG LOST TWIN BROTHER, PREPARES FOR WARRR!"
You're right. This makes so much more sense.
You're right it does make sense. Because Mass Effect is meant to be 3 games comprising numerous stories, not 3 games comprising one story. So if you mess up (to put it lightly) in ME2 YOUR story is over. The game won't cater to people dumb enough not to find a way to stay alive when the vast majority of people stayed alive. Your choices have an impact on the ME world you create. Therefore, if you die, you waste everything you've worked towards. This isn't an issue of Shepard dying, this is an issue of people not accepting that Bioware means for this to be a trilogy that you have to earn, you can't just waltz on through and expect to just win because you killed the final boss. It's all about choices, and if you make the choice to be a terrible leader then you deserve the fate of your character dying, but don't expect them to cater to the extreme minority of people who killed off their Shepard because they can't seem to realize how to play the game.
Mimsofthedawg said:
this is stupid. "You can kill off your main character and lose all your stats, BUT DON'T WORRY! we'll just create you a useless clone to take up his mantle in the next game!"
am I the only one that thinks this is stupid?
And if only one outcome is canonical, than let that be the only outcome!
Stupid developers trying stupid things to add weight and uniqueness to their games....
No, in a sense both endings are canonical, seeing as how whatever you chose is essentially canon. This may be a difficult concept to grasp, however, is it canon that the Rachni queen is alive or dead? seeing as how that is a choice you make. Is it canon that Wrex is the leader of clan Urdnot on Tuchanka or that he is a pile of radioactive goo on Virmire? Is it canon that the Council is alive or dead? Is it canon that Ashley or Kaiden is dead? There really is no canon in this game. Sure the overbearing arc of the series is that Shepard lives, but what makes this game different is that you in a sense create your own canon. This is the end of your Shepard, this is the end of your story in Mass Effect. However, you can't expect Bioware to come up with a whole new character in the third installment because 1% of the player base was bad enough to get their character killed. If you don't want to try and stay alive maybe you shouldn't play this game.
