User blog comment:Arbington/My thoughts on the central theme of the series./@comment-5274392-20120727041531/@comment-899316-20120727072555

Mass Effect 2 still has relevance to the series, and still contains many examples of my ideological conflict theme. ME2 elaborates more on Cerberus' results-based approaches. Also, the choice at the end of the Collector base. You can destroy the base, keeping potential super-weapons out of a madman's hands, or you can preserve it, giving that madman all of the new toys he wants and, for all you know at the time, dooming the galaxy to human dominance, but gaining a potential weapon against the Reapers. The Paragon vs Renegade thing is still going, and, like I said, just about every time you get a choice in dialog, it can be construed as a choice between these philosophies.