Ryder too soft

And  let Ashley kill the krogan.

That is fine, and makes perfect sense. What I am asking is do you think a hard and soft option should have been available to both types of players as I do?

If only! Unfortunately even more people would have hated the game if they did that.   Sometimes it is impossible to please everybody.

Lighthearted stories about colonialism? Never heard of such a thing.


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I gues I do not have the right words for to be understandable.

So... well I am the admin of a company and have to fix something with the bosses computer, lets say, just replace a memory module. Whatever I do, I totaly destroy the HD and all data of my boss are gone and when I tell him, he says: aw it was fun to find out all data is lost, well boy, be more careful next time.

That is how Ryder react to Liam and Peebee.

Did the neighbors kid kill hundreds of Kett? I am pretty sure he did not, but I am also pretty sure he stomped hundreds of ants in the garden behind the house. Well and he is quite unremarkable person, a follower and thats why he is justa voice in a gang he is not the leader of.

I do not know if you know such people, but there are people in the world, who enter a room and everything goes silent, everything about them "cries" for attention and they get it. And there are people, who, when talking with a bunch of friends, shout like 100times "now let me tell something" and noone listens to them. That is basicaly Ryder. I would not mind to start like this, but I am not willing to wait 3 games before my "pathfinder", who i see like the marshall from wild west, turns into a respectable person.

And I am not saying I would throw Liam into jail and Peebee out of my ship, but I would like an option that is not "you did great son" in two different tones. As to your comparison, we are sometimes forced to work with people we do not like or just disagree, but we are never forced to take their crap. And if we do, that is the very reason why people look down on us. Sure, not everyone can be a leader, unfortunately, Ryder has to be one, at least in this setting. Though, with the roadtrip tone of the game, Ryder fits in perfectly. Kinda reminds me what is going on out there with millenials and generation z... special snowflakes, never tell them they are wrong, they are just special, shield them from competition and losing, always win.

I would add there is a definite different between reading a lighthearted story set in a violent setting and being givent a similar setting to play in and be expected to follow a lighthearthed story.

Its the nature of video games. Your immersion is shaped as much by the story as it is by the actions youre expected to perform. 

Not padding the game with 20 extra hours of pewpew / fetch would have done a big diffrence to the situation IMO. 

Sure, not directly, but if they all expired somehow, he probably wouldn't be broken up about it. 

In my MT playthroughs the only renegade interupts I use are during the Archangel mission, when you're sabotaging all the mercs equipment. I have no idea how that can realistically be clased as "renegade" since you'll be shooting these mooks to death 20 minutes later anyway. It's strategy, not ruthlessness.

well he is Salarian.

Paragon/Renegade never panned out to what it was supposed to be.

Example: You have a prisoner and torturing prisoners is against rules.

Paragon: We torture this prisoner we're no better than they are.
Renegade: Our enemy doesn't play by the rules, why should we, torture this guy if it helps get the intel we need to win

A Paragon should have been a person that held to a certain moral code, someone who was trying to be moral in an immoral world, and a Renegade should have been someone who took the world as it was and did what they felt they needed to do to change it even if they had to cross some lines.

Somewhere along the way renegade decisions just turned into killing people for no reason sometimes. I remember on Mordin's recruitment mission, when you're going to find his assistant. You tell the Batarian let him go and you can leave here I give you my word. The Batarian lets the guy go, and the renegade option is just to go back on your word and kill the Batarian anyway. It added nothing to achieving your overall goal, it was killing for the sake of killing, and too many renegade choices came out this way.

Not how I see it.

Example:

To me - a Paragon is someone, who would never have shot Mordin - no matter what the justification might have been.

The Renegade did what he considered necessary for the "Greater Good".


R.I.P Mordin....*sniffle*


But the point is - you had the choice.
No soul-wrenching choices in MEA.

I've now played ME1 five times, and the others several times as well. And every play-through was different. The various incarnations of Shepard were all enjoyable.
Ryder is Vanilla - and I don't see any difference if I were to play MEA again.

Thanks! I have tried a few of them out, and I admit, they are not for me. All of my chaarcters in any Bioware game go for the pure altruistic route. I am a goodie goodie it seems.