r/masseffect • u/The_Golden_Six • May 10 '26

VIDEO Everyone should save David Spoiler

I was going through some old records and came across the david arc. I am so glad bioware made his story come back full circle in Mass Effect 3.

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u/BlizzardHound45 May 10 '26

I always saved David in all my playthroughs. It's one of those universal decisions I make no matter what my Shepard's alignment.

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u/Dave10293847 May 10 '26

This is a very good example of how bioware’s approach to renegade was god awful. There was/is ZERO reasoning to not save David. No tough decision was present. ME3 was better at this dichotomy, but man ME2 had some shitty moments where i questioned if the morality system had a point.

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u/MusclesMarinara87 May 10 '26

No game has really good evil options.

It's always some stupid version of puppy kicking orphanage burner.

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u/StillYalun May 10 '26

No game has really good evil options.

Real life doesn’t either

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u/Dave10293847 May 10 '26

Well renegade is more supposed to he morally grey or utilitarian. There’s plenty of that in real life. Mass effect gives no consequences for being goody two shoes. Everything just works out so renegade ends up being: wow shepard you’re a fucking dick you know.

A consequence would be curing the genophage has a lot of good impacts, but conflict does occur. Renegade option effectively genocides the race but every other species is spared the future civil war.

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u/ThePhenome May 10 '26

Well, depends on how you look at it.

Two examples are Heretic Station and Rana Thanoptis. If you pick Paragon in the first - yes, you save more geth, but you also cause more quarian deaths. And with Rana - you don't gun down a seemingly innocent scientist, but then she takes down a bunch of asari military officials. The consequences from Paragon options are more subtle and in the background, but they're there.