Mass Effect

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Paragon has less harm, more fairness than Renegade. Authority and loyalty are featured, though not as much.

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Mass Effect And Player Moral Intuitions-Boyan
- Your moral foundations of harm/care determine which game path you'll take in Mass Effect.
Designing Morally Engaging Games-Ryan
- In ME2, you can act morally in “quicktime events”, but the authors dislike it because it’s more a reflexes check than a morality check.
Challenges to Moral Engagement-Svelch
- Describes a variety of games and their morality systems, e.g. Bioshock, The Witcher, Mass Effect, I have no mouth but I must scream