Mass Effect

I picked up my first renegade points of the run last night. Someone was trying to murder a bad scientist I wanted to arrest so I ended up shooting him and taking the scientist in.

I’m really appreciating that playing it as a story/power fantasy with the difficulty on the floor means I mostly get to pick armour based on look rather than stats. Its not as bad as the KOTOR games but ME1 has some ugly gear.

The weapon mods situation is a faff too, you collect so much, so often its barely worth looking at. Upgrading every two or three levels of kit since the incremental changes of single level upgrades don’t make any different on casual. As long as the weapon itself is the newest model everything is fine.

The worst is when you’re a good few hours into it and you’re trying to loot armor or a weapon, but you’re out of inventory space because you’ve picked up too many weapon mods.

I do think the armor mods are a bit better though, because they’re less common and they can give you useful bonuses like regenerating health or extra shields. But I’ve never played it in easy mode, so I guess they’re unnecessary in that case also.

BioWare used to write a good story then shit out a game onto it. Then they rerolled and put stats into game design at the expense of INT and CHA.

Yes you did. Can't believe you call yourself a Renegade.

Thanks, chaps (although I shall hang my wannabe-Renegade head in shame).

Default HeShep does have a very natural renegade vibe while Fem seems a good fit for paragon though

Unless I’m just a big sexist.

It really starts to shine in the second game, where half of the Renegade reaction prompts are you interrupting someone's big villain speech by shooting them. Or throwing them out a window. Commander Shepherd, Space Badass.

I think the vibe they are going for in this is more "good cop/bad cop", rather than "good/evil". Though you can do some pretty morally questionable things as a Renegade, they're usually more interesting and justifiable than the "murder people for no reason" variety of evil in most RPGs.

I'm the same, usually, which is why this is such a nice change of pace!

There is some pretty horrific murder if you're going down the always renegade road. I actually had to stop that playthrough at because I just couldn't go on after that anymore. It was too much.

Screenshot your ugly renegade Shepard.