Importing a character from ME1 mitigates this somewhat, as you start with a moderately large bonus to your meters based (roughly) on what they were at the end of ME1. Playing the game without being entirely dedicated toward either red or blue feels more natural to me, and ME2 punishes you for it. (A particularly difficult one is sorting out an argument between two party members, and it’s hard to have this happen any time other than near the very end of the game.) Unless you go very hard toward one or the other, you’re likely to find that you can’t pass either Paragon or Renegade checks near the end of the game. The problem here is that while your scores aren’t mutually exclusive, most of your actions are. Instead, they’re a percentage of the total number of paragon/renegade points available in the areas you’ve been to. Because Mass Effect 2 is very non-linear, the values required aren’t static. Mass Effect 2 decided to use your Paragon/Renegade values directly to determine your effective charm/intimidate values. Mass Effect 2 got rid of the Charm/Intimidate skills, in favor of an alternate approach. In Mass Effect 1, these scores determine how many points you can put into Charm/Intimidate, and the resulting value of your Charm/Intimidate skill is what gives you access to particular conversation options. The red one has a star, so it must be better. These aren’t directly opposed, so you can have a high score in both, depending on your actions. (You might also kick some puppies.) For those unfamiliar, Mass Effect tracks your decisions as either “Paragon” or “Renegade”, where Paragon is “Compassionate and Heroic” and Renegade is “Apathetic and Ruthless”.
(Neverwinter Nights and other D&D-based games have been really bad about that, as is Knights of the Old Republic) In Mass effect you’re always the good guy, you might just be a bit of an asshole about it.
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I have to give the Mass Effect series credit for being the first series I played where the morality system isn’t choosing between “Be a Good Guy” or “Kick Puppies”.
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