MASS EFFECT TWO: GIVE GARRUS A HUG

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The "half-half" Shepard kind of gets screwed.

Which completely defeats the purpose of measuring them separately in the first place. Also it takes away the player's ability to control their own character, because if you want to take one renegade option that's more in the "badass commander" vein, you have to go off and take a bunch of options that are more in the "space Hitler" vein in order to do it, at the same time eschewing things that your character would actually do.

It's like a shitty DM trying to force you to play your alignment to the letter. It's just annoying.

Kill the last rachni--while it is basically promising it will be good and begging for forgiveness/life, and after it has been explained that the creatures you'd been killing were retard evil rachni created because the scientists fucked up their ability to develop.

To be fair, this is a species that waged a bloody, vicious war on the entire galaxy and nearly won. I personally would let it go, yeah, but I could see why someone might not trust the psychic space monster when it says it'll totally be good. Especially when there would be not too much stopping it if it decided to turn around and eat them as soon as it got out. Killing it might not be a good thing, but I don't think I'd count that as one of the space Hitler options.

Otherwise, I'm mostly on board with ME2's options being a bit better rounded. There was really no good reason to push that guy out a window though. He probably deserved it, but he could have just as easily been knocked out or otherwise disabled. Same with killing the Eclipse chick - granted you found out that she was full of shit later, but she came across pretty sincere when you found her. Even if you thought she was lying, you were acting as judge, jury, and executioner (which, to be fair, is technically a Spectre's job, but you know, with great power comes something something).

Anyway, I just hope ME3 handles the options a different way. 2 wasn't so bad the first time through - occasionally annoying, but I was usually able to do everything I wanted to. I actually stopped my second play through though, because I just got fed up with having all my options greyed out.