User blog comment:Masseffect7/Why aren't their neutral options in Mass Effect?/@comment-78.8.131.1-20130725205442

What Shepard needed in ME3 was not renegade or paraggon points but charisma called reputation points. That reputation was treated as someone doing extraordinary things and everyone respects and listens to people like that. Paragon and Renegade points were in ME3 needed only to make endings sound different, ex in control ending paragon Shepard is a guardian of peace when renegade Shepard will keep order by fear of devastating Reaper power.