Huh. I made mine pretty hot, actually. Thank you, character customisation. ^ ^Distorted Stu said:
BioWare: Gamers Prefer a Manly Shepard
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I've finished entirely too many playthroughs so as to have plenty of options available in ME3 (also, cause I'm more than a little obsessive when it comes to branching storylines). Most have been with a manshep, but that's more because my best import from ME1 was a manshep than because of any preference. Overall, I actually prefer Jennifer Hale's voice acting or Mark Meer's, and have enjoyed my femshep characters more.
I prefer playing FemShep, but unfortunately three of the game's four interesting romance options are MaleShep only. Jacob's kind of creepy and Garrus is too inhuman for my taste.
But, still... my male/female ratio in ME2 is 50/50 (1v1) right now, while it's been 25/75 (1v3) in ME1 so far.
EDIT: Also, I'm completely worthless at creating male custom faces.
EDIT2: Additionally, I just can't think "Garrus" and "romantic", for some reason. The two concepts just aren't compatible to me.
But, still... my male/female ratio in ME2 is 50/50 (1v1) right now, while it's been 25/75 (1v3) in ME1 so far.
EDIT: Also, I'm completely worthless at creating male custom faces.
EDIT2: Additionally, I just can't think "Garrus" and "romantic", for some reason. The two concepts just aren't compatible to me.
Oh I've still got more plays left ahead. I played the first one about 14 times now from start to finish, and I had three different characters. Oddly, I never cared for the soldier class in either game, but in the first the biotics were way better. My good Shep, ultra paragon man of justice, is well, good all the time, the great peacemaker. Then there's my evil renegade selfish masochist Shep, a female, all bad, cruel at every opportunity, likes double-crossing when she can.
My normal Shep I play based on my genuine feelings, about characters, situations (like friendship, bigotry, loyalty to a cause). I really do my best to let go and immerse myself, and with ME and ME2, even if they felt limited in a lot of ways, I was still able to really do that.
My normal Shep I play based on my genuine feelings, about characters, situations (like friendship, bigotry, loyalty to a cause). I really do my best to let go and immerse myself, and with ME and ME2, even if they felt limited in a lot of ways, I was still able to really do that.
On my first playthrough I romanced Tali, was a renegade/paragon hybrid and ended up wiping all collector life forms from their base. I did not import a save game as I had not played ME1 so I had the default start.I was thinking that giving the Collector base is a reaper construct this will lead to an easier win in the next game, as you can easily reverse engineer the technology there and end up creating even more powerful cruisers/weapons. I realised my mistake once the Illusive Man started acting like a mad-man, boasting about humanity's place as the leader of the galaxy. I ended up re-doing the last mission just so I can get the ending where I flip the Illusive Man so now I have 2 saves ready for ME3.
On my second playthrough I decided to import a ME1 save game from that database website and ended up having Liara as a romance in ME1, with the council also surviving. I was completely paragon this time around and attempted to be the "model soldier", resolving every conflict and being a goody two shoes. Of course this was done after Lair of the Shadowbroker was released as there really was no reason to continue any relationship you had in the past since, well, you just stare at a picture goddamnit...
On the first playthrough Grunt died and so did Jack if I'm not mistaken. I had all the upgrades but unfortunately getting all the upgrades meant I had to spend more time mining since I didn't have enough time to recruit all the dudes and dudetes I ended up not saving the entire crew. When I reloaded the save I ended up saving everyone.
On my second playthrough I managed to save everyone. It was my perfect ending as humanity's role in the galaxy was expanded through the use of the council, I was reinstated as a spectre so as to reafirm my loyalty to the council rather than Cerberus(this also included flipping off the Illusive Man) and I also managed to keep Liara as my besttest buddy with benefits.
I ended up playing Mass Effect 1 just so I could get a more "personalized" save for ME2 but I can't believe how annoying the levels are. Every single area has the look and feel of a labyrinth and to be honest I hate that. Still, I ended up completing it as a Paragon Shepard with Liara as my romance. The weird thing is, I always felt that Shepard and Ashley were the intended romance plot for ME1. I mean, there's the awkward sister event, then there's her calling Shepard skipper... I don't know. None of the other romance interests expressed any interest in Shepard without sounding robotic. At least with Ashley it felt built up from the scratch... Oh well, I'm just rambling.
On my second playthrough I decided to import a ME1 save game from that database website and ended up having Liara as a romance in ME1, with the council also surviving. I was completely paragon this time around and attempted to be the "model soldier", resolving every conflict and being a goody two shoes. Of course this was done after Lair of the Shadowbroker was released as there really was no reason to continue any relationship you had in the past since, well, you just stare at a picture goddamnit...
On the first playthrough Grunt died and so did Jack if I'm not mistaken. I had all the upgrades but unfortunately getting all the upgrades meant I had to spend more time mining since I didn't have enough time to recruit all the dudes and dudetes I ended up not saving the entire crew. When I reloaded the save I ended up saving everyone.
On my second playthrough I managed to save everyone. It was my perfect ending as humanity's role in the galaxy was expanded through the use of the council, I was reinstated as a spectre so as to reafirm my loyalty to the council rather than Cerberus(this also included flipping off the Illusive Man) and I also managed to keep Liara as my besttest buddy with benefits.
I ended up playing Mass Effect 1 just so I could get a more "personalized" save for ME2 but I can't believe how annoying the levels are. Every single area has the look and feel of a labyrinth and to be honest I hate that. Still, I ended up completing it as a Paragon Shepard with Liara as my romance. The weird thing is, I always felt that Shepard and Ashley were the intended romance plot for ME1. I mean, there's the awkward sister event, then there's her calling Shepard skipper... I don't know. None of the other romance interests expressed any interest in Shepard without sounding robotic. At least with Ashley it felt built up from the scratch... Oh well, I'm just rambling.
I played as female Shepard. I played both for a while in mass effect 1, but the woman voice actor sounded miles more into it than her male counter part. That and it gave me something nice to look at I MEAN... I PLAYED AS AN INFILTRATOR
100% survival (even crew), love and collector ship destroyed. I wanted to give it to alliance space but ah well...
Strangely, Mordin died on the second play through. This made me sad, so I replayed the last mission and made sure that salarian survived. No one can sing scientist salarian like he can.
100% survival (even crew), love and collector ship destroyed. I wanted to give it to alliance space but ah well...
Strangely, Mordin died on the second play through. This made me sad, so I replayed the last mission and made sure that salarian survived. No one can sing scientist salarian like he can.
I didnt upgrade the normandy ship at all, but not because I was unaware you could, but it was my understanding that people would die if you didnt. I didnt want to skip any loyalty missions, but I didnt want to finish the game without losing anyone either.
I mean come on! This is the middle chapter, it's supposed to end on a low point. The empire is supposed to strike back, where is my frozen han!? I liked the idea of losing some party members, I figured it would have a more emotional impact.
Even though Thane died....YOU MUST BE AVEEEEEEEEEEEENGED!
I mean come on! This is the middle chapter, it's supposed to end on a low point. The empire is supposed to strike back, where is my frozen han!? I liked the idea of losing some party members, I figured it would have a more emotional impact.
Even though Thane died....YOU MUST BE AVEEEEEEEEEEEENGED!
It's funny I feel the exact opposite. Hale's voice acting for Shepard just doesn't do it for me.unoleian said:
I've done one renegade female Infiltrator Shepard that saves the base, one paragon female Soldier Shepard that destroys the base, one renegade male Soldier Shepard that saves the base, and one paragon male Soldier Shepard that destroys the base. At least, those where my primary playthroughs I decided to keep. I've done at least 13 so far, all together. I preferred my female Shepard, however. Jennifer Hale's voice just sounds right for Commander Shepard in my mind.
If you read Mass Effect Retribution, you know why allowing the Illusive Man to hold onto Reaper technology is a major fuck-up in decision making. But I did it with a male and a female for the sake of having a more varied gameplay and storyline available for Mass Effect 3. Otherwise, nothing pleases me more than telling the Illusive Man to go and kindly fuck himself when I blow up the base he so badly wanted.
..And my crew survives every time. The suicide mission has become "butcher Collectors and laugh in their melting faces" mission for me now, with so many damned playthroughs. Mordin withstanding. With enough interaction, he becomes just.. invaluable. In. Valuable.
If you read Mass Effect Retribution, you know why allowing the Illusive Man to hold onto Reaper technology is a major fuck-up in decision making. But I did it with a male and a female for the sake of having a more varied gameplay and storyline available for Mass Effect 3. Otherwise, nothing pleases me more than telling the Illusive Man to go and kindly fuck himself when I blow up the base he so badly wanted.
..And my crew survives every time. The suicide mission has become "butcher Collectors and laugh in their melting faces" mission for me now, with so many damned playthroughs. Mordin withstanding. With enough interaction, he becomes just.. invaluable. In. Valuable.
My first and main character is a FemShep Infiltrator with max paragon who stayed faithful to Liara (unless you count Kelly), got every upgrade, gained every squad member's loyalty, kept everyone alive in the final mission and gave the Illusive Man the finger on her way out the door. Miranda and Jack were most commonly by her side unless serious tech support was required but that's mostly in the techies' loyalty missions.
I didn't use Garrus very much because he's rather redundant on an Infiltrator's squad. He's infinitely helpful to my Adept though.
I didn't use Garrus very much because he's rather redundant on an Infiltrator's squad. He's infinitely helpful to my Adept though.
I think the pictures used here and by the linked Destructoid article to illustrate this story is probably a large reason why.
Played through as Man-Shepard. Customized his face to have a dirty mustache because it suited his voice more.
I set him up as a surly space-biker. Mostly renegade, but with a bent towards the freedom of sentients. Didn't lose any of the teammates on the final mission, so it's quite the redemption from his "sole survivor" past. He left the borderline psychopathic Liara for Tali. He's no longer on the Illusive Man's Christmas list.
I really wish that the team mate death had you choose for someone to die. With the option of no ally deaths, it feels like anything but a cop-out is a loss.
I set him up as a surly space-biker. Mostly renegade, but with a bent towards the freedom of sentients. Didn't lose any of the teammates on the final mission, so it's quite the redemption from his "sole survivor" past. He left the borderline psychopathic Liara for Tali. He's no longer on the Illusive Man's Christmas list.
I really wish that the team mate death had you choose for someone to die. With the option of no ally deaths, it feels like anything but a cop-out is a loss.