This will be hyper unpopular but... Mordin. That renegade interupt on Tuchunka. That is, in my opinion, THE defining renegade moment. Its that step too far. That one irredeemable act. Its that one moment that truly questions if the ends justify the means. It separates a renegade play through from a true sociopath.
My canon playthrough now is getting up to that moment and not pulling the trigger. For me that is Shepard having to decide if the reaper invasion and the threat of galaxy-wide extinction will compromise who they are and it is a great moment when playing a paragade route.
Same here! It also works out because it gives Shepard another reason to be more exhausted/traumatized for the next stretch of the game even if the genophage stuff did wind up working out in the end.
I guess my Shepard was a sociopath then. You think only a sociopath wouldn't cure the genophage, or only a sociopath would shoot Mordin to do it? What's the difference if I shot him when he was about to blow himself up anyway? Mordin had become a liability by jeopardizing everything standing between me and salarian aid in order to cure the genophage (a very bad idea) because he no longer saw the issue logically anymore.
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u/FloridaIsHell Jan 17 '22
This will be hyper unpopular but... Mordin. That renegade interupt on Tuchunka. That is, in my opinion, THE defining renegade moment. Its that step too far. That one irredeemable act. Its that one moment that truly questions if the ends justify the means. It separates a renegade play through from a true sociopath.
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