Spoiler:
So regardless of your choice on Noveria, the reapers acquire a rachni queen. If you made the paragon decision, it's the queen from Noveria, but if destroy the queen the reapers simply have another one. It's an enormously contrived slap in the face, but at least it doesn't put you in a worse position than the paragons even if it should have put you ahead (and it's not as though the reapers have two queens on a paragon run).
Where things really start to turn for the worse for renegades is the inevitable choices available from the above decision. As you would expect, part of the plot of ME3 is combating the threat posed by this reaperized rachni force and at the end you either get to save or destroy the captured queen. If you save the queen you get another war asset to help you, but there's a caveat. See, in the script there's also a conversation about the acquired rachni, one iteration mentioning how they've integrated into your forces as productive members while a second mentions them getting violent and having to be exterminated. Now, I confess I'm making an inference, but based on past treatments of renegade choices and Hudson's comments that in order to achieve the best outcomes with either path the player needs to continue down that path (i.e. the paragon decision yeilds the optimal outcome for a situation resultant from a prior paragon decision) I suspect that attempting to save the rediculous new rachni queen as a Shepard who previously killed the Noveria rachni queen will result in the sub-optimal, really failure outcome.
This all means that if all of the above holds true, not only does the renegade not result in better results in a situation where it incontrovertibly should, but even if they attempt to salvage a positive from a bad situation it will backfire, meaning paragons ultimately get the optimal outcome for that whole chain of events. I'll add that this is not an isolated incident; there are no comparable instances where paragon decisions are so egregiously hand-waved away and result in a less positive outcome than their renegade counterparts. Not even Cerberus getting the collector tech regardless or Anderson getting replaced by Udina are as egregious as some of the things that consistently happen to a person playing a pure renegade run.
I know that everyone likes to gripe about their lot and hate having it cast back in their face that they're better off than others or that they've been spoiled, but paragons: you've been spoiled.
Modifié par Troika0, 18 décembre 2011 - 09:58 .
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