StreetMagic wrote...
Fixers0 wrote...
daleshepard wrote...
Well here we go, just booted up ME1, and was a little nasty to kaiden and joker already, i feel horrible inside 
I love the first renegade line, chose it in my very first playthrough. Only a shame that it wasn't as represenative for renegade as i thought.
Yeah, it seems often that Renegade is more about just being a hardass marine and authoritarian. Going Renegade on Joker, Vega, Ash, Gabby/Ken, Jack, etc.. all basically amount to this.
To me, "Renegade" is meant to be Billy the Kid or Han Solo. That's the true definition of the word.. an outlaw of sorts ( Sometimes it's like that though).
Renegade is arguably not "bad." Paragon is more idealistic/means justify ends while renegade is more practical/ends justify means.
Some paragon choices in the game are kind of stupid. Releasing the rachni queen in ME1 is a HUGE risk. The rachni slaughtered all life they encountered in the galaxy without compromise until they were put down. There's no reason to show them sympathy.
Rewriting the geth heretics is also stupid. Even the geth consensus was divided on what to do and they had a better understanding. You couldn't know what would happen. Would they change the attitude of the normal geth? Could the geth be trusted in the future? Would they turn back to their heretic beliefs? How is brainwashing the geth more ethical than killing them? In that case paragon suggests losing free will is preferable to extinction. And it's not like these heretics didn't deserve death any less than all the others you kill throughout the series.
Destroying the collector base is also unwise. Yes, Cerberus having it is risky and if there was no reaper threat I'd probably destroy it. But there was a reaper threat and the reapers weren't going to be defeated with spears. Using their own resources against them was the best chance and at the time Cerberus had proven to be trustworthy in the fight against the reapers. The crucible itself relied on using the reapers' own resources against them.
The paragon/renegade scale isn't a right/wrong scale. The situations are very gray.
Modifié par congokong, 19 janvier 2014 - 05:20 .