Home / Software & Gaming / Mass Effect Andromeda’s new dialogue system moves away from Paragon/Renegade

Mass Effect Andromeda’s new dialogue system moves away from Paragon/Renegade

Mass Effect Andromeda is coming out in just over a month, so Bioware has been trickling out new bits of information here and there. A couple of weeks back we got an introduction to the Andromeda mission crew and this week, Mass Effect Andromeda's creative director spoke a bit about the game's all-new dialogue system, which does away with the Paragon and Renegade decisions of the original trilogy.

Paragon and Renegade decisions were an essential part of the original Mass Effect games and allowed you to easily go through the series as a good or bad person. However, with Mass Effect Andromeda, the lines between good and evil are going to be somewhat blurred.

Speaking with GamesRadar, Creative Director Mac Walters explained that the new dialogue system focusses less on good and bad responses and more on agreeing or disagreeing.

“So, Paragon and Renegade is gone. The reason they’re gone is because they felt very Shepard – they were very tied to the Shepard character, so they didn’t really make sense if we weren’t going to have Shepard as our protagonist. “What we have now is based more around agreeing and disagreeing. The reason I like that is because in the trilogy it’s like, ‘I’m gonna play Paragon,' and then you know which way you’re moving the stick on every conversation. You don’t have to think about it, because you’re just going to hit Paragon every time.”

“With agree and disagree it changes by the circumstance and it changes by the character you’re talking to, so you have to actually be more engaged in what’s going on, to know if you’re going to do that.”

On top of that, the dialogue system now has tones of voice, so you can customise your choices even further. Unfortunately, we didn't get too many details on that but given that the game is coming out in six weeks, we should expect to learn more quite soon.

KitGuru Says: The new dialogue system does sound like an improvement. As much as I liked the Paragon and Renegade theme of the first few games, RPGs can be about more than being entirely good or entirely evil. What do you guys think of Andromeda's changes to the dialogue system? 

Become a Patron!

Check Also

Episodic superhero game Dispatch hits 2 million players

Dispatch consistently garnered more and more hype as each episode dropped over the past few …

3 comments

  1. I think the new dialogue system is good for the new series of ME. Paragon or renegade are working well in trilogy because lots players starting their “career” from ME1. The down side is, as the writer mentioned, it is too predicable and you don’t have to know what exactly was the character said.

  2. Google is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family! !mj249d:
    On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it
    !mj249d:
    ➽➽
    ➽➽;➽➽ http://GoogleFinancialJobsCash249HomeStudioGetPay$97Hour ★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★::::::!mj249d:….,……

  3. Google is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family! !mj76:
    On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it
    !mj76:
    ➽➽
    ➽➽;➽➽ http://GoogleFinancialJobsCash236HomeFactoryGetPay$97Hour ★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★✫★★:::::!mj236:….,.

We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker.

Thank you for visiting KitGuru. Our news and reviews teams work hard to bring you the latest stories and finest, in-depth analysis.

We want to be as informative as possible – and to help our readers make the best buying decisions. The mechanism we use to run our business and pay some of the best journalists in the world, is advertising.

If you want to support KitGuru, then please add www.kitguru.net to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software. It really makes a difference and allows us to continue creating the kind of content you really want to read.

It is important you know that we don’t run pop ups, pop unders, audio ads, code tracking ads or anything else that would interfere with the KitGuru experience. Adblockers can actually block some of our free content, such as galleries!