Mass Effect 3

Not at all, first of all the paragon and renegade options rarely deviate from the character too much. There's only a hand full of choice's that do and on both sides they are a little nuts (renegade shep being a cold blooded killer or paragon shep being incredibly tactless and militarily unsound) apart from that the only real difference is patience and empathy. Otherwise they are the same. (be very hard to write it any other way and not have it be stupid)

I'm primarily talking about what makes a good story and how the story line works , (eliminating the base is nuts from a writing perspective so much juicy story would be wasted)

But as far as the moral choice aspect of the argument, :

Kirby wrote: »

The paragon option is the high and mighty option. To destroy the base. Because its morally wrong. Don't see why you can't see that. If you didn't like the choice, thats cool. Pick the renegade option. But your stance that destroying the base is out of character for a paragon is way, way off base. If you will excuse the pun

Kiith wrote: »

but i see it as destroying a station that had created a Reaper (i.e. ultimate life killing monster) from the reprocessed remains of hundred's of thousands of people. That's not destroying it just cause i don't like it, or to piss of The Illusive Man. It's morally because it's the right thing to do.

Sheppard has belief in his, and his allies, abilities to get the job done without resorting to becoming the very enemy he is trying to fight against. Plus, you think giving something like that to Cerberus is a good idea? They have shown, time and time again, that they only have human interests at heart, and The Illusive Man is definitely not to be trusted.

Heres the thing, shepard is pretty much responsible for the lives of every intelligent being in the entire galaxy. Shepard knows this more then anyone, and knows how dangerous the reapers are due to the prothean vision/message inserted into his/her mind.

This choice is a gamble, the price? the lives of everyone, its a bigger gamble to destroy the base and hope shep and co can come up with some other random way of beating the reapers that no other race could do for all those millions of years the reapers have been doing this, then it is to keep that base intact even if it has to go to TIM for the mean time.

Thus it is immoral to make such a massive gamble on behalf of all the intelligent species in the galaxy just because every fibre of your being wants to blow up the thing for personal reasons.

This isnt Disney, this is BSG type stuff, its good writing , its a dark storyline and in fairness you have to hand it to the writers if you can get a nice debate on morality from a video game story line

People are completely free to use their imagination to make that choice seem plausible, in the end its all about enjoying your own experience but there is a base line story there that flows with the writing , I guarantee you if they decided to use some other story element as the big choice in the end of the game and not the base, shep would keep the base. But cause they did, they'll just have to make it so "paragon" sheps failed in totally destroying it or something in the 3rd game.

ME2 had **** all story but it put down foundations for a really good final chapter , if "paragon" shep got his/her way though all those foundations would blow up along with the base, I doubt the writers will let that happen.

You can save everyone and not blow up the base or get everyone killed and blow up the base too you know :pac:

But yes, for me one of the best bits of the what imo would be cannon ending Is when finally our boy TIM lets slip his guard for that one second and gives one hell of an evil smirk as he sips his whiskey and watches the holo image of the base.

I thought it was brilliant, as just before hand I had my shep ranting at him about how she only kept the base cause the reapers are a bigger threat and she does not trust cerberus for one second - "I'll be watching you" kinda thing. To which TIM came back with the usual "Don't judge me, I'm not evil just misunderstood" etc stuff to which shepard cuts him off and storms off.

He lights a smoke and pours a whiskey , sips and looks up with such an evil smirk I was like "Oooooooh you illusive son of a bitch, I can't feckin WAIT for ME3 now " was such a great moment.

GTR63 wrote: »

Fingers crossed we get at least a Side Quest in Ireland (a distress signal asking for money perhaps).

hahaha brilliant!

Ya, id even prefer the elevators, the load screens were very long (on ps3 anyway) and it was funny hearing Garrus say to tali 'hey you ever miss our elevator conversations?' haha

Sounds class!!!!

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Cool news on the weapon mods i was sick of running around with the same weapon with no add-ons. 1 went a bit crazy with the amount of weapons to pick up and 2 was the exact opposite; really limiting the weapons. No mention of tali, i want to see what a quarian looks like.

Ya Really hope Tali is back, worked too hard on it in ME2!

Just give me Miranda!!! ALL I WANT IS MIRANDA!!!!

:pac:

I hope Liara has a much bigger role to play. After the the events of The Shadow Broker I'd say that is pretty much guaranteed.

Multiplayer is apparently a no-show.

sheehy83 wrote: »

Thank God!!

Second.