Bonus round: what’s the most absurd run you’ve done?

I tried to do renegade once, but I always end up going paragon by the end. I just can’t be a dick to my crew, no matter how hard I try… 😢

  • Spectre@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Full Paragon is my usual OT run because I feel like I get the most satisfaction being the pure hero of the trilogy, but I’ve dabbled with being the morally gray Shepard from time to time.

    Some things will get the Renegade option, others won’t. ME3 is insanely difficult to balance this on because some Renegade options are typically full blown war criminal status versus just being a badass dude with no care in the world.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      ME3 requires you to do a personality change if you ever decide to not stick with one or the other. I miss the ME1/2 days when you could be neutral and it just felt like “fuck it, let’s get the mission going” because realistically sometimes you don’t need to go into a tirade about how fucked the system is or how you don’t care how fucked the system is.

      Regardless, ME3 Renegade is just full on psychopath sometimes because you have to have the opposite of Paragon and that means occasionally just completely fucking losing it and watching Samara kill herself and then shoot her daughter anyways thus invalidating her sacrifice while simultaneously showing that Shepard recognizes killing Falere would incite Samara and doesn’t want to fight an incredibly powerful biotic so he just allows her commit unalive because he knows she will do it cause her code has no grey areas.

      It’s absolutely brutal in the most cunning of ways, Shepard takes the easy road and just let’s her remove herself as an obstacle for the equation. Falere is dead because she’s a potential banshee and Renegade Shepard is willing to kill her simply because she may eventually become one, but they can’t tell Samara that so they just play along and watch as she blows her brains out.

      ME1 Renegade: Smart-Ass

      ME2 Renegade: Bad-Ass

      ME3 Renegade: Ass