Both ways have their advantages. In the Mass Effect games, "renegade" isn't so much evil as just mission oriented and everything else be damned.

In games like KOTOR and Jade Empire, you really had to embrace evil/good in order to get the full benefits of your choice. One of the annoying things about playing good in those games was you got penalized for doing shitty things to people who deserved it. The goody two shoes aspect of it got a bit tiresome.

Personally I prefer RPGs where I can just act like I would if it was real.

I have a very hard time acting as a true renegade in Bioware games all the way through, because you can do some truly evil shit, like initiate the genocide of an entire species to gain assets for an interstellar assault. But as Frazod said, for the most part, a renegade is really just a person that doesn't take shit from anyone. In the vast majority of interactions, I am a white hat, but there are several moments where there is nothing more satisfying than a renegade interrupt. I'll show you a few at the bottom of the post.

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They got rid of the paragon/renegade for Andromeda. I think there are still reaction choices that affect your relationships, but it isn't so black and white.

I always played a mix of both in previous games. On like my third playthrough of ME2, when you first meet Jack, I finally chose the paragon option. She responded, "You sound like a pussy." I got a laugh out of that.

I hated Jack. She was an annoying skank.

I do like the idea of getting rid of the total black/white choices, though.

Yeah, paragon/renegade is gone. Now I think there's up to four alternatives, the most I've seen discussed so far being casual and professional. Conversation interrupts are still a thing.


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Obviously any videos from PAX are just loaded with spoilers...

Ditto this.

I usually went the way of the white knight because some of those black choices were just too dark. For instance, when you had to decide the fate of the mentally handicapped person controlling the Geth in ME2.

Glad they have several other routes to go.

So finally gave in and pre-ordered a second ago. Wednesdays are my day off, so I know what I'll be doing next week...

Should be an hour of multiplayer streaming this afternoon. I'll link it once I find it.

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Looks pretty familiar for those of us who played way too much me3 mp.

List of profiles and bonuses:



Some cool looking stuff...

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Looks very familiar to anybody who played me3...

Really like that they've dropped the number of waves from 10 down to 7.

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I still need to preorder. Any idea if delux version is woth it or just fluff? Amazon prime has discount on both.