User blog comment:The Milkman/Shades of Purple/@comment-24200891-20140703125950

In my opinion shades of grey shouldn't be binary choices, 4 or 5 maximum. An example of shade of grey would be a combination of behaviour and purpose. That was probably in Hanar prophet and turian cop case, you can side with one of them, but you can for the one you support nice or mean. In ME3 we have only binary choices and we can't give neutral opinions any more. The only 3rd special choices are Priority: Rannoch and the infamous ending of the game. I see as a problem our need for paragon or renegade points that makes us skip neutral opinions. I felt that when I played ME2 again and I knew what conversation need a lot of points for middle ground like Jack vs Miri and Tali vs Legion. By the way I feel sad for cutting Mordin vs Grunt. The best negotiation system in game I saw was in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, because diplomacy isn't just a charisma, it's also aproper choice of words.