Undertone wrote...
While I do agree with you on what renegades should be, I believe the problem lies in that they are the anti-hero and therefore carry all the abiquity that entails. When compared to paragons which are very straightforward in that they are searching for the absolute happiest ending possible with no morals compromised. Where as renegade then becomes the dumping ground for everything else from the pragmatist, racist, humanity first, malicious and the just plain angry shepard. This problem is then exacerbated by the paragon, neutral or, renegade dialogue system as the renegade player is then at the writer's whim as to which of the renegades to repesent.
Now on to your examples
as you stated we do not know what bioware will do with the rachni so far they seem to be portrayed as the right choice but, bioware could choose to do something tragic to tug at heartstrings or just flat out have them betray you. However bioware is trying to incorporate as many people as possible including those seeking the tale of the hero who couldn't save everyone but never weighed a life.
Now the problem with the council decision is that it suffers from a rather common problem of renegade decision in that while presented as logical are in fact not. If you take the council decision as it is presented to you know that a battle is happening, Sovereign has broken away from his escorts, the Ascension is calling for assistance and that the Alliance 5th fleet is standing by to assist. Now understand that Sovereign only goal is to open the gate for his brethren this then means that all geth are expendable it also means that Sovereign would immedieatly call for assitance from the geth forces but will not necessarily come to their aid. This then translates to that if you bypass the geth fleet Sovereign may have the geth follow you in pursuit thus potentially exposing your more valuable ships to geth fire or forceing you to strech out your screening vessels both of which could be disatrous. So therefore not only safer to destroy the geth fleet but also a blessing in that you are granted the opportunity to engage a portion of your opponents fleet with the full power of your own fleet. Next we have the Ascension which as you know is currently being mauled by more nimble geth ships where its's heavy direct fire armament is more of a hinderance and with it's speed is hopelessly out matched but, if saved for it's harassers it's oversized main gun is actually an invaulable tool against a stationary reaper since it is quite possible that your cruiser heavy force may not be able to penetrate Soveriegn's armor which would then mean the task would fall to the fighters, frigates or, any dreadnoughts available. Also the very idea of shepard being the one to make that tactical choice is a little absurd in that the only thing Shepard can be sure of is the location of Soveriegn and that Shepard now has control of the station's arms which btw could guarantee Shepard could keep Soveriegn out of the fight. What this means is that the tactical viability of saving the Ascension would be know to Hacket as soon as he arrived and would not be reliant at all of Shepard. This then brings us to what I believe would be a better renegade decision in that after the the 5th fleet saved the Ascension their Commander could then attempt a retreat citing the presence of the council only to potentially have shepard invoke spectre status and demand the Ascension stand with the citadel fleet. With this path the crew of the Ascension would be given a heroes death, the Council would be an unforunate lose, the alliance would avoid being villianized and, humanity would not be that odd race that does not understand the definition of Alliance.
Now for the base while I do agree keeping the base appears to be a straightforeward decision but you are neglecting the prior evidence that suggest Cerberus is filled with adrenaline junkey scientist who apparently live on the edge and will throw away precaution for a slight or even nonexistant scientific gain. None of this however should entirely diminish the reason to save the base as perhaps Cerberus is worth the risk or, better yet why not utilize our wonderful Salarian STG ,along with the the IFF, to not only sieze the base but, perhaps some of the best and possibly closest scientist TIM has to offer. This path would appease the the anti-Cerberus Shepard's and, place the technology in more trustworthy hands who wouldn't melt down Bob to see if the tubes drain counter clockwise or not.
Your next example may be my most hated moment of the paragon vs. renegade debate as neither side seems capable of realizing that both choices are wrong in their given context. What is wrong about this choice is that shepard conviently forgets about the resources available, you know the thing I'm talking about that thing that carries you around everywhere you go, that thing with loaed with a sensor suite, mass accelerator cannons, torpedoes and, is stealthy so that ballak could never be sure of it's location and would just have run the gauntlet and hope it's commanding officer didn't order the crew to fire on anything leaving the asteroid. Anyway let's hope that in ME3 Shepard peruses through that combined arms manuel and, remembers that modern warships have CIC, silly grunts commanding warships. Also please let me mock jocker for needing a target the size of a motor pool designated.
Anyway while I do not believe renegades will get the best "fairy tale" ending as you are refering but, I do hope that renegades are not short changed into to being pointlessly negative and that their hard choices that they have to make are treated as unforunate damege control.
@CaptainZaysh
And for your information sir Asari are beautiful when they die as it wasn't until ME2 when I first charged and splattered an Asari against the wall that immediately caused me to think "Wow what a lovely shade of purple their blood was" and it made me wonder why bioware would do such a thing it was almost as if they were encouraging me to kill them or, perhaps it was poetic that a species I had passed of merely "space elves" would only show me their inner beauty in their passing and so enriched by experience I set out to see if this held true for the other races but it was only after so much ruin I realized that Asari purple was the only way for me and though their screams horrified me I knew that moderation makes everything ok.
But seriously does anyone know why Asari and Turians recieved such vibrant blood colors it actually is somewhat disturbing if you think about it
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