Sovvolf said:
Well seems most here played the Female Shepard. Well sadly I can't join that little band wagon as I played the male Shep. I even gave him his own personality and his own name. To me, my Shepard is commander Shepard... Tried doing it with a female and it just wasn't the same.
The fact is, to me Commander Shepard is a male soldier named Garret. He's more on the paragon side but he still doesn't fuck around. He was born on Earth and sole survivor of a Thresher Maw attack. Commander Shepard looks like what I made him look like and acted the way I made him act.
Which to me is the beauty of Mass Effect, you create your own canon.
I'm also happy with what they are doing here. Nice to see a company giving a shit about its audience. There's so few of them around these days.
Hear hear. My canon is that Shepard is a female Infiltrator named Adrian (... II, technically, named after her father), who feels more comfortable living in a ship or on a station than on any planet because of the constant change in her parent's stations, and like yours, is the sole survivor of the Maw attack. I've even gone the extra bit to write a page or two on her personality, including why she is almost fully Paragon, yet justifies several Renegade acts (most Paragon acts are just genre savvy-ness on her part, if it's of the record and not for her crew, she can go from one extreme to the other); why she's so defensive of having aliens on her crew and why she was so hell-bent on saving everyone (she started studying alien cultures when she was young, and is very supportive of humans playing by the rules of those who came first, and her way of growing up left her with a strong sense of 'defend those who stick with you'); and that she has absolutely no qualms using something until it's no longer profitable (i.e. why she just shrugged it of and went to work or Cerberus until the end of ME2, where she blew the base to bits).
I love how Mass Effect can be a self-insirtional fantasy for those who wish to play it that way, but can also function as a real, interactive story for those who like to make their character with some depth.
And it is interesting to see Bioware actually collect this data, it's very entertaining, I wonder if it'll continue into the third game.
... and entirely off the main topic, but on the subject of giving the finger to Cerberus... has anyone ever seen the fact that three of six love interests are aliens as a way to further tell Cerberus to go to hell? Because I've certainly cemented that into my canon xD
