Enjoyed The Mass Effect “Evil” Ending
I just finished Mass Effect, playing as a “Vanguard” on the “normal” difficulty setting. I went the “Renegade” route, which means that I chose the “evil” responses in most of the conversation trees. This would often make the game more difficult, since Renegades tend to end conversations with battles (“Oh yeah! Well take that!”) rather than negotiation (“Maybe we can work this out amicably?”). I’m not sure how this affected the ending cinematics, but I’m interested in playing it again to see the alternative ending.
You get the other ending if you play as a “Paragon”, a good guy. I’d like to try again as an “Engineer” and build up my “Charm” skill. As a renegade, I worked on my “Intimidation” skill instead. This made it easier to persuade some people, but I definitely came across as a badass. As an evil character, I made some unsavory decisions that had consequences in the game, such as allowing the Galactic Council members to die rather than assign resources to protect them in the final battle. I’m sure that the ending would be much different if my team had saved them from the Geth main assault.
I also found out that Bioware has released some downloadable content for free. ”Bring Down The Sky” seems to be a short side quest, but it’s nice that Bioware is still supporting the game. I think that I’ll try this out when I play the second time. I hope they bring out more downloadable content; the game needs more beef since the main storyline was pretty short. However, Mass Effect is only the first in a planned trilogy of games. I’m looking forward to the sequel, but I hope that they add more planetary exploration (one planet per system doesn’t quite cut it, I’m afraid).
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Wow, this has cropped up at an interesting time as I’m in the middle of writing a mammoth blog post in relation to what you’ve just written, regarding morality in video games (choosing to go good or evil). Mind you, your post seems to have proved me wrong! I’ll let you know when it’s up.
The more I hear about Mass Effect the more I want to play it. I have a fear of space though. I hate it!
I played thru Mass Effect actually as a very nice (hot) chick. Paragon almost all the way. However, at the end I chose one of the other options than saving the council. I’d done everything I could to be nice all thru the game, with them doubting me every step of the way. I finally had enough at the end. I’m wondering how this will effect the next ME 2.
That’s a good point! I played through as both alignments and several classes, and tried all of the endings. I know that your game can be imported into Mass Effect 2 and your decisions will directly affect the next game. However, it’s still possible to sacrifice the council and still be “good” by installing Anderson as the next head of government (as opposed to the smarmy Ambassador). But ME2 has to be affected by the saving or loss of the Galactic Council, just not sure how that will be represented.
I’ve been keeping tabs on all of the new information coming out on ME2. They just released a bunch of character bios (with animation) and a video highlighting the voice actors. I’m glad to see all of the characters returning too. This is going to be an awesome game! I’ll probably have to upgrade my PC to play it at a decent speed though…