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adjl posted...

I tried doing a Renegade run after beating it as Paragon and quickly lost interest in the game because it just wasn't fun to be a dick for no reason like that. It can sometimes be entertaining to not be the good guy, but so much of that was just like "Hello! How are you?" "Eat shit and die.", which is so absurdly exaggerated that it's just kinda dumb.

The problem is they present it sort of like the difference between "hero" and "badass", but because they were still coming off of KotOR with the Light Side/Dark Side dynamic, about half the Renegade choices just sort of come across like "Be an asshole".

Alpha Protocol does it better, where your options are basically to be professional, sarcastic, or aggressive. Or as they put it, you're choosing whether you're Jason Bourne, James Bond, or Jack Bauer. It's not really "good" or "evil", or even "nice"/"dick", as much as it is how you view missions and the best methodology for engaging. Of course, in Alpha Protocol, you're kind of a dick no matter what options you pick - there really isn't a "good guy" option.