User blog comment:StagedDom19/Missing the Main Problem/@comment-24174486-20120709121147/@comment-2076032-20120709133515

Actually, I find all this complexity in ME3 to ring quite to to a very important element of the RPG theme - if you're gonna be a bad guy, be a bad guy. If you play the first two as a renegade, then suddenly decide to "shift your alignment" and play ME3 as a paragon, you make it a whole lot harder to "redeem" yourself. Likewise, if you switch from paragon to renegade.