Now I'm torn over the new dialogue system, I think I might miss Renegade Shepard.

I was against P/R bars because they forced you to stick with one option for the rest of the game, but I favored system itself because it at least gave you distinct variety of responses. This time... you can't even be a dick to someone who's being a dick to you. Feels like RPing a wimp.

I greatly enjoyed both the paragon and the renegade in the MET, and one reason was that renegade Shepard was not an evil stupid guy, he was simply someone who did not believe that it will all just sort itself out if only he keeps his hands clean & do the morally right thing. he was the sort of a guy who had to toss a few people overboard so that the rest may make it to shore. I have never seen the similar thing in the red/aggressive/direct response in DA2, and DA:I did not have anything remotely like it. I am hoping that as the game progresses, a harder, more sinister Ryder may eventually emerge. One of the attractions of the MET was that it made you buy into a renegade who did not just "oh, it's not really evil if it's revenge on horrible, horrible, horrible people!" stuff and still slept well at night and remained a hero.

Yep. I will miss my renegade Shepard.

In essence, the new system gave BW greater control about where the main character goes as a person... that can be a good or a bad thing, depending on the character ark.

Yeah, there's a point after the first mission where someone is extremely rude and dismissive to you, where I felt the appropriate reaction was to tell her off, but it didn't seem to be available. She was all "you have to earn my respect" and my feeling was "good God, you're presiding over a complete disaster, you have no ground to tell me anything."

Already did a sidequest where my choice mattered, but you know. 

I think some of Renegade Shepard's choices/dialogue options were too comically evil at times, but I do really miss being able to be a mouthy, stubborn, aggressive jerk when the situation calls for it. So yeah, I'm quite worried that BioWare are dictating Ryder's personality too much in ME:A.

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This is one of my issues with the game. I didn't like the paragon/renegade system in how it shoe-horned you into certain paths, but I loved how I could react (or, at times, act pre-emptively) in ways that helped define and flesh out my character's personality beyond the almost formulaic method so far seen in Andromeda. Not being able to respond in a fitting manner to Addison was very frustrating, especially considering the circumstances around the conversation. But, to be fair.. I don't think there's a single positive aspect with interacting with Addison (bad animations, bad dialogue, bad VA work, limited emotional response by both Ryder and Addison to certain news, etc., etc.)

I will, admit, however, that even if I was playing full Paragon.. that merc always got the express trip downstairs. I simply couldn't resist. Ever. It was hilarious and fitting. I will miss such moments.

Not a single opportunity to be mean in 10 hours. 

Right I forgot TW3 is the only modern WRPG...........

I was always against the people pushing against the Paragon/Renegade system because they had their sticks up their butt about it. It was just fun and nice and you had plenty of reserve to almost max out both bars in a single playthrough of ME1 and ME2 respectively, and i say that as someone who often neutraled my way through the games and switched often. I also saw the persuade choices as sort of bonuses for really committed players but not a 100% kind of thing where full paragon meant full completion. People are just obsessed over ideas of "winning" a game when it's actually more about story and roleplaying.

I could live without the score but Mac's creative direction is a continued hinderance and has been since he became so prominent with ME3 (he said he designed Action mode) and they constantly talk about how they remove choices to "keep up the flow". I'm so bloody tired of that. It's not a friggin movie, it's a fucking RPG and a game. The game-design comes way before making it play like MGS4 IMO.

The thing about the streamlining of dialogue choices that happened since ME3, you have to understand, it's a writer's heaven because it means they can just write their story the way they want, which is almost the exact opposite of what they should do as writers that are working full-time at a game company, which is very rare -- they are supposed to write for the game and not just the story of the game or they're just like all the other hack scriptwriters that game developers hire at the last months of a game's production. I really think Mac's idea of keeping up the flow has much more to do with "I want my job to be easier" than it has to do with "I want more consistent characterization".

If more consistent, focused character-development was a thing they'd have written Ryder so much better than what is in the game. The dude doesn't even know what the Nexus is until someone tells him for christs sakes! 

It feels like a definitive downgrade to the sort of character I had in Inquisition or Dragon Age 2 or Shepard in Mass Effect 1.