GOONL!NE: BioWare's Casey Hudson has a stark warning for anyone going to play Mass Effect 2 next year: if Shepard dies in ME2, he/she stays dead for ME3.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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Diandra worked on Diablo 4 and also other games at Blizzard including WoW: Dragon Flight. She’s also been at Bioware, Carbine, RIOT, and she is currently working at Crystal Dynamics.
Brian was the Lead Writer on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, worked on StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft: Wings of Liberty, and was also a writer on Mass Effect 2. He’s also been involved in movies such as the Iron Giant.
Diandra and Brian discuss their industry experience, the games they have worked on, how the writing process works, and much more.
I bet my N4G account on it. ;)
He's too ownage to die anyway. ;P
Everybody in the squad dies. EXCEPT for Wrex. He ends up killing the reapers with his bare hands. WREX FTW!!!!
Keyword here is: If
My take: Shepherd CAN die, but depending on certain choices, he may stay alive
(sortta like the Heavy Rain thing where the main characters can die, but the story [trilogy in this case] can countinue with or without the character)
theres my 2 cents
Like wow, really? Who would have guess? A dead character won't be returning in a sequel.
So does that mean Mass Effect 3 will have a save recognition to see if your character died in the end of ME2, so ME3 adapts the story to that fact? (that would also mean Shepard in Mass Effect 3 will no longer be the main character but only a NPC)
There may be an Ultimate Survivor [You have successfully finished Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 without Shepard dying] 100G achievement, then :D
/jk