Poll: Paragon vs Renegade.
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I'm all about "the end justifies the means", so I would like to choose renegade, but the system is flawed. No matter what you have Shep do paragon, he will succeed. Life isn't like that, its about hard decisions, sometimes people die if you don't make the renegade choice. Also, when playing through mass effect 1 the very first renegade choice there is is essentially "shut up and do your job"... not very renegadey. I'll stick with renegade for me3, just because I have been through the first 2, I just wish it was a better system, right now it's essentially Paragon or Selfish dick.
Nope, wouldn't work. If there's a grey question and you get it on the side you don't want, most people are going to reload the save and do it again.Aircross said:
I'm a PS3 player, so I've only played Mass Effect 2. I've done mostly mixtures of the two which mostly end up with Shepard being entirely paragon by the game's end. I've done a purely paragon path on my insanity difficulty playthrough and I've done a purely renegade path as well.
That's why it's fun to a play a (mostly) neutral character. You can be nice or mean mostly, but switch over depending on the situation.Zeckt said:
As for me though, even with KOTOR, I always pull paragon. I like being the ultimate hero; defender of the innocent; the one who can put up a fight, but only as a last resort; the beloved savior (not the hated jerk who everyone, begrudgingly, admits saved the galaxy); the ultimate good guy.
Paragon when it means "don't trust Cerberus or be a racist dickhead", renegade for the quicktime actions ("I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR DISINGENUOUS ASSERTIONS!").
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"I think that might have been a little extreme commander..."
I mostly go paragon, but I love alot of the renegade actions. Though I think Bioware just doesn't know what to do with the Renegade/Paragon thing at times. The option to kill your enemies in cutscenes to save yourself the trouble later is always "renegade!", even when it makes perfect sense, like in ME2 when you electrocute the repairman,or shoot the drone's head off when recruiting Garrus. You KNOW they will be trying to kill you in the next few minutes. It's not chivalry or honor Mr. Paragon, it's DUMB.
Renegade just seems like an asshole sometimes whenever he/she can't do a "badass" move -like hit someone- and it doesn't make sense when you act like that to your own crew. It's especially wierd when in Mordin's loyalty mission, alot of the paragon actions of how you converse with Mordin are actually the asshole-options, and the renegade is the understanding one.
I think ME1 did the Paragon/Renegade thing better, because you could pour precious skill points into speech (P/R) instead of weapon abilities, and be able to talk your way out of more situations if you wanted to instead of shooting. In ME2, well, just read Yahtzee's rant on moral choice systems. Sums it up pretty good.
"I think that might have been a little extreme commander..."
I mostly go paragon, but I love alot of the renegade actions. Though I think Bioware just doesn't know what to do with the Renegade/Paragon thing at times. The option to kill your enemies in cutscenes to save yourself the trouble later is always "renegade!", even when it makes perfect sense, like in ME2 when you electrocute the repairman,or shoot the drone's head off when recruiting Garrus. You KNOW they will be trying to kill you in the next few minutes. It's not chivalry or honor Mr. Paragon, it's DUMB.
Renegade just seems like an asshole sometimes whenever he/she can't do a "badass" move -like hit someone- and it doesn't make sense when you act like that to your own crew. It's especially wierd when in Mordin's loyalty mission, alot of the paragon actions of how you converse with Mordin are actually the asshole-options, and the renegade is the understanding one.
I think ME1 did the Paragon/Renegade thing better, because you could pour precious skill points into speech (P/R) instead of weapon abilities, and be able to talk your way out of more situations if you wanted to instead of shooting. In ME2, well, just read Yahtzee's rant on moral choice systems. Sums it up pretty good.
What mod is this, and where can I get it?Epslion.Bear said:
I play the "good guy (or rather, girl, femShep/Hale ftw) who doesn't take shit from anyone". Basically, when it's a choice between good or bad, I'll do good, but if someone's giving me crap, is being annoying, not respecting my autoritah and such, I'll punch them in the face. It's a playstyle I developed when playing ME2 (for the second time, my first time was a goody two shoes I always used to do) and found it's a LOT more interesting way to play the moral choices, makes for a colourful character, rather than a one dimensional tool. It's been my favourite moral standing ever since 
90% Paragon, 10% Renegade.
Almost always Paragon when I am making a major plot point decision, or protecting innocent civilians. I'm Commander fucking Shepard, no enemy is going to escape me anyways. Although I did let the hostages die so I could take down the Batarian terrorist in Bringing Down the Sky, simply because the prospect of letting him go and having him potentially try that again with another colonized world was too dangerous to consider over saving the few hostages.
..Although I do miss the red eyes being a full on Renegade, would go good with my FemShep's crimson red hair. Alas, I can't bring myself to make that many Renegade decisions without feeling like a massive prick.
Almost always Paragon when I am making a major plot point decision, or protecting innocent civilians. I'm Commander fucking Shepard, no enemy is going to escape me anyways. Although I did let the hostages die so I could take down the Batarian terrorist in Bringing Down the Sky, simply because the prospect of letting him go and having him potentially try that again with another colonized world was too dangerous to consider over saving the few hostages.
..Although I do miss the red eyes being a full on Renegade, would go good with my FemShep's crimson red hair. Alas, I can't bring myself to make that many Renegade decisions without feeling like a massive prick.
My first run through of Mass Effect 2, I just picked whatever I felt like at the moment based on the actual situation. It ended up being about a 60% Paragon 40% Renegade split. Then I learned about the stupid loyalty thing they had going and I replayed the game as a full-on Paragon. Then just for fun I played as a full-on Renegade. I felt like almost all of the Renegade options were needlessly mean, and so I found it hilarious.
However, I must say that the implication that one would ever choose an option simply because the game deemed it Paragon/Renegade seems to defeat the whole idea of a moral choice system. I really wish there weren't major game-play consequences that kind of forced people to meta-game.
However, I must say that the implication that one would ever choose an option simply because the game deemed it Paragon/Renegade seems to defeat the whole idea of a moral choice system. I really wish there weren't major game-play consequences that kind of forced people to meta-game.
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Renegade just because it makes laugh, it amuses me to see Shepard being an asshole to everybody for no reason at all, that being said I don't think it's a likeable character or even right, I just do it because I find it incredibly amusing.
Seriously... you guys play Paragon shepard... so you guys never poisoned the batarian bartender? Never let the "great biotic wind" show off his prowess? What the hell have you been doing this whole time then?
I did both, but always started as Paragon. I did get Renegade points whenever I talked with the council either way though, those guys were ****s.
I sometimes hate being renegade, cause then my shep is a total d***, but being total paragon isn't all me either. I'm more: be paragon, but if I'm mad/pissed off/... then I'm renegade! The more important decisions are solved with paragon, but sometimes I use renegade to get there... In the end I'm pretty much a paragade.