The next Mass Effect might bring back the original morality system

digitaltrends.com:

Mass Effect is a sci-fi epic in video game form, currently stretching across four games, with the fifth one coming at some point in the future. And based on a few cryptic social media posts, fans believe the creator might restore the original morality system that set the first game apart.

Michael Gamble, director of the franchise, has referenced the Renegade/Paragon system of the original in recent posts on X, and that’s led many players to speculate that he intends to bring back the system for the next game in the series. Mass Effect: Andromeda was met with a lot of criticism, with many players holding the belief that it doesn’t fit into the overall franchise. Players have expressed a desire to recapture the magic of that first playthrough in the next title.

If you didn’t play the original game, the morality system allowed players to work toward being a Paragon — a good player — or a Renegade, an evil player. Each choice had immediate consequences, and many party members would react poorly to Renegade choices. However, the further you went down either path, the more dialogue choices opened (including the option to kick a reporter through the window at one point).

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To be clear, this is all speculation and, for now, wishful thinking. Little detail has been provided about the next Mass Effect game aside from short teaser trailers and promo clips, and it might not even release until 2029 or beyond. No, that’s not a typo — we’re looking at Bethesda-level development time. However, as Gamble points out in his message, the team developing the next game is the same team that worked to make the original