| naznatips said:
I thought Renegade was insanely evil in ME... Talk Wrex down? Fuck that just shoot him in the head... lol. I mean even when your decisions weren't particularly evil (focus on Sovereign versus save the council) Shepard became the devil incarnate in the following cutscene if you picked the renegade choice. *shrug* I find the choices to be just about identical in this. That said, I sorta look at this game as the Empire Strikes Back of this trilogy... it's Shepard's dark hour. Even on Paragon you are part of a criminal underwold the goodie-twoshoes Shepard in the first game wouldn't have dealt with. You're in a darker setting, and surviving here requires darker behavior. |
Well not really. I can honestly say that after maxing out the Renegade bar in Mass Effect 1 (and having finished it last week) that a lot of the choices weren't really that evil. In fact, most of them just involved shoving a gun into someone's face and/or making a few colorful threats. The two that stood out most as actually evil were exterminating the Rachni (one of the few choices where I went Paragon) and the UNC: Dead Scientists sidequest where you can elect to execute the scientist instead of Toombs and write it off as Spectre activity. The Wrex situation was a no-brainer to me because I <3 Wrex. He was one of my favorite party members in ME1 so I had to save him.
As for ME2, the Renegade path stresses over and over that Shepard isn't a part of Cerberus. There are a lot of neutral pro-Cerberus answers though. Paragon is "Trust me, not Cerberus." Renegade is "Fuck Cerberus, I'm in command." Neutral is "Get used to it, we're with Cerberus." I think the only really bad Renegade/Cerberus choice is shipping Legion off for a measily 50k credits (total ripoff since Legion is a GREAT party member). But the Renegade choices are definitely darker and not to my taste.
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