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ackblom12:
Well, I personally would not be surprised eitehr way, but there were several choices from the first game that would make a siginificant affect in the game world with or without Shephard.

Wrex being alive/dead, Kaidan/Ashley status, the Rachni Whether or not the Council views the humans as anything but assholes for example.

KvP:
So you gonna put money down or not.

Slick:
They said decisions made would affect the game and characters would return, assuming they did not die. I think this game would make a lot more sense were you not to play as Shepard again; I would assume that if Shepard is not really dead they'll be an NPC at most.
I spent a lot more time playing the game than my housemate, running pretty much all of the side-quests, so the last battle was almost trivial for me. It would really hurt our relative gameplay experiences if I had a character so much more powerful than his, and how stupid-powerful would you character be after two full games of leveling up?

KvP:
I think it would be a nice upheaval of the sort of story arc Bioware's always pursued (the whole Chosen One deal) but I really don't think they have it in them, honestly. Bioware's a very "safe" developer and that's one of the reasons why they're as successful as they are. I mean, think about it. ME2 is invariably going to be bigger than ME1, and if they can't handle a single character going from one game to another how are they going to expect us to invest anything in our second character? We know he's just going to get killed off if killing off your PC is necessitous as a matter of game mechanics going from game to game, and all the relationships established are going to be discarded and all the consequences of your actions are going to be felt secondhand and wokka wokka wokka. They'd be hamstringing themselves, and if they figured out a way to make character porting feasible from 2 to 3 why wouldn't they implement it from 1 to 2? They've planned this as a trilogy from the start and if they didn't have an idea of how they were going to balance the three games progressively then they aren't the professionals they've proved themselves to be in the past.

And I'll tell you one thing, the Mass Effect storyline is not strong enough to sustain itself without a strong main character. It's been set up as the story of the Galaxy's Last Great Hope and if they renege on that in ME2 and say "whoop, just kidding, this is about Humanity's struggle and blah blah blah, not Shepard's quest to save the Galaxy" or some shit then it's going to be an absolute disaster. This isn't the Lord of the Rings, this is James Bond. They don't call it "James Bond and friends" because it's about James Bond. How is Shepard's replacement going to be special? Is he going to be the second human Spectre? Is he just going to be some grunt? Is he going to be a different race?

I've heard some speculation that Shepard doesn't die but has his brain transplanted into a geth body, which is both a hilariously literal interpretation of the teaser and an incredibly stupid course of action on Bioware's part (even if it does provide widely desired fanservice in a *gasp* geth party member!). We'd be going from Star Wars / Star Trek to Robocop 3, and they'd be turning their established universe on its head in a number of ways. For one I don't think Bioware is willing to take that risk and for two I don't think they'd be able to make that landing even if they attempted it.

JD:
I think there will be more Geth encounters certainly but It is a bit far fetched to have a Shepard cyborg.

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