BioWare: Gamers Prefer a Manly Shepard
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Found out this has no bearing on who lives/dies, unless there's a random variable. Circumstances led me to choose between Tali or Legion's loyalty, and I chose Legion (because, well, how can you NOT?!). Kept Tali on my team thinking that might make a difference. I was wrong. Don't know if a non-loyal member will always get it at those last few moments, or if there's a roll of the dice involved, but keeping her in my team did little favor for her mortality...nightblade253 said:
ed- May sound confused, will elaborate. I always do loyalty missions. Always trip up at the Legion/Tali choice. Never seem to have enough reputation either way to have any dialog option to rescue the situation. Always lose the non-loyal after making my choice. Going for a strict 100% Paragon play-through this time and hope it all works out. Must be able to make Paragon dialog choice to save both, or all hope...lost.(Notice now, edit sounds like Mordin wrote it. Is ill-advised to revise again.)
I played as a female Infiltrator, but otherwise followed the Para path. I played once as a male simply to get the Tali romance, but it was hard to stomach, as his voice actor sounds like he's literally reading a script.
I like the Male Shepard more simply because I recognize his voice as "Commander Shepard" right away, since I really can't think of any other major voice acting Mark Meer has done- and while Female Shepard and Jennifer Hale did phenomenal as well- I still keep thinking of the voice as "non-posh Bastila" or one of the many characters that Hale has done over the years- it's a much more familiar voice that makes me realize this is another character.
Instead of Mark Meer, who to me, is only known and recognized as Commander Shepard
Instead of Mark Meer, who to me, is only known and recognized as Commander Shepard
Agreed. I always have trouble creating male characters, and sometimes I just wondered if maybe creating your opposite gender is just more difficult. But thankfully I like the default male Shepard's face so I didn't have a problem playing with him for my male runthroughs.Brutal Peanut said:
Guy Shepard is better for Renegade because he sounds like and absolute jackass, Lady Shepard is better for Paragon because she can fucking emote, fully upgraded the ship, Lost Jacob the first 2 times I played through, 3rd time around I saved Jacob but lost Tali, haven't really played much since then.
Let see 6 play troughs, 66 hours + per play, fully upgraded the Normandy, I love Miranda and Garrus, I got with Garrus, I let Grunt out, I kept Legion, I told TIM to fuck off, I was a FemShep, didn't use my face for my Shep, everyone lives and loves me and I killed Morinth. Also VANGUARD.
Complete Paragon, full ship enhancement, loyalty of all my members, and saved every person of my crew. And yes, I pissed off the Illusive Man. I've only played a female Shepard for an hour, and I didn't really like it, probably because I tried starting a new game right after finishing it so I was getting a bit bored with it.
What really surprised me was that I looked to my crew for specialization for when I assigned them tasks during the final mission. I didn't just give the task to a random person. I had Mordin take the crew back to the ship because I figure he could examine the crewmates to see if they were alright. When we needed to split the team, I put Garrus in charge of the other team because I felt he had more experience being a leader than other members of the team. When I needed someone to hold up a barrier, I chose Jack because of her immense amount of power. When I needed someone to hack a door, I chose Legion because I can't think of someone who would be better at hacking a machine than a machine.
I grew close to all of my teammates and actually even trusted them even though they are just poorly programmed AIs. I started the game already knowing a bulk of who the characters were and I only liked a couple, and I really didn't like Jack. But by the time I finished the game, I felt sorry for the traumatic past Jack went through and grew to love all of the characters for who they were.
Except Zaeed. I never really liked him and his loyalty mission just made me dislike him even more. He just seems like a sad excuse for a human being.
And I boned Miranda. Too bad Liara wasn't in your squad in ME2. <3
What really surprised me was that I looked to my crew for specialization for when I assigned them tasks during the final mission. I didn't just give the task to a random person. I had Mordin take the crew back to the ship because I figure he could examine the crewmates to see if they were alright. When we needed to split the team, I put Garrus in charge of the other team because I felt he had more experience being a leader than other members of the team. When I needed someone to hold up a barrier, I chose Jack because of her immense amount of power. When I needed someone to hack a door, I chose Legion because I can't think of someone who would be better at hacking a machine than a machine.
I grew close to all of my teammates and actually even trusted them even though they are just poorly programmed AIs. I started the game already knowing a bulk of who the characters were and I only liked a couple, and I really didn't like Jack. But by the time I finished the game, I felt sorry for the traumatic past Jack went through and grew to love all of the characters for who they were.
Except Zaeed. I never really liked him and his loyalty mission just made me dislike him even more. He just seems like a sad excuse for a human being.
And I boned Miranda. Too bad Liara wasn't in your squad in ME2. <3
Psychotic and incopetent leader? Heavy risk. But the priiiiiize...Disaster Button said:
Sorry I had to. Uhm, First, custom male infiltrator paragon, romanced Tali, cheating on Liara, get my whole crew alive even the unnecesary ones, saves the base, goes back and cheats on Tali with Liara. Don't you just love videogame escapism?
Second, custom female soldier paragon, the crew lived but not the faceless ones, made an enemy of Cerberus and romanced Garrus, who by the way was a total let down.
I stopped playing my "scary black man" vanguard but will get back to him when I'm particularly bored. Looks like both Mass Effect games only have a fun length of two playthroughs.
If you have a default character that is male and you live in a society where masculine is the dominant gender it's not interesting data at all. It's inertia. That said the rest of the data is still kinda neato.
PS: Full disclosure I had two female Sheps and one male in the first game and used all three characters in the sequel. I assume I prefer the female voice of Shep because she was my first. Inertia... *sigh*
PS: Full disclosure I had two female Sheps and one male in the first game and used all three characters in the sequel. I assume I prefer the female voice of Shep because she was my first. Inertia... *sigh*
I wonder if Soldier is most popular because it's the strongest class? I mean, I know that when I was prepping saves in the first Mass Effect I always went soldier, just because it was the quickest way get through combat to prep my save. Soldier may have been the last class I tried, and the one I found least enjoyable, but statistically I played Soldier at least three times as many times as all the other classes combined.
Hales performances is too monotone and fake sounding. Hale cannot pull that type of voice off. It sounds ridiculous.
Meer likewise sounds boring at times, but he can inject anger and other emotions without it sounding fake. Hale should stick with the more softly voiced characters in future, but her performance as Shepard is unbearable at times with how fake it sounds.
Meer likewise sounds boring at times, but he can inject anger and other emotions without it sounding fake. Hale should stick with the more softly voiced characters in future, but her performance as Shepard is unbearable at times with how fake it sounds.
I pity all those fools who have failed to recognize the majesty that is FemShep.
MaleShep sounds like he got recently lobotomized.
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MaleShep sounds like he got recently lobotomized.
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I think its really funny how subjective voice acting is, seeing how my opinion is the EXACT opposite. Which is why it is so great to offer players the choice.Xaositect said: