BioWare: Gamers Prefer a Manly Shepard

[DTWolfwood]

ME1 i played as the Soldier because i had no idea how any of the powers worked.

ME2 i only played characters with Biotic powers. Vanguard and Adept were the most fun! nothing like Bum rushing some1 thru walls and smashing them with a shotgun shell to the face, or Arching a Pull at a near 180 completely around a chest high wall, floating them into the air, then "force" pushing them into oblivion!

I refused to bring any of the dudes on non-story side missions. Only females on my away team!

and yes i played as the Male Shepard because romancing a dude isnt my cup of tea in a ROLE PLAYING game XD (although judging from what i hear the Female VA is far and above the better VA, so i might replay it thru just for that. I guess i can go for Garrus as my man crush since he was in the original crew!)

 

[cobaltfram]

Hale's voice acting never ceased to amaze me in the first game, and I'd feel weird playing it any other way. I do hope she makes it into the third game, just for sexism's sake.

 

[tthor]

Yeah, I screwed over TIM, and my squad survived. However, my crew became a giant slushy because I wanted to bring Legion everywhere and see everyone's reactions. :-/

lol i tried to bring him onto the quarian ship just to see what would happen, but they wouldn't let me back on after i had finished tali's quest

 

[MasterSplinter]

"How did you do?"

I couldn't get pass the part where you have to battle some robots at the top of an elevator after rescuing that alien chick you can bonk in ME1.

I think it was a problem with mi pc, I've since dropped it until i can upgrade my rig.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Protip: Mordin on the escort. Tali on the pipe.

Odd, because I sent Grunt off on the escort mission, Jacob was taking on the boss with me and Tali, and nobody, not even Mordin, died. I even got the "everybody nods and smiles at Shepard while we fix the ship" ending.

Maybe it's because I upgraded everyone's tech in addition to the loyalty missions? Maybe I stumbled across some other winning roster? Maybe there's only a percentage chance of him dying and I was lucky? Maybe my game's got a very fortunate bug?

Because I'm thumbing through a few walkthroughs for the first time and, by all rights, the consensus says Mordin should have died.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Is it me, or is there too much testosterone in this article... as if the targeted public, is the one that plays Gears of War, God of War, something of War...

 

[sumanoskae]

Well, on my first playthrough, Samera, Grunt and thane died, I boned Miranda, and everyone loved me. Made the Renegade choice at the end.

However, on the playthrough I'm taking into ME3, Tali(My love interest, Jack, and Zaed?, I think, It's been a while.(I know for a fact that Tali died(Because I sat in my chair for five minutes listening to angst rock afterwords) but the rest I'm not sure about),

I made the Paragon choice at the end, if memory serves me, guess I'll know when I play ME3

 

[sumanoskae]

I can't see how the soldier is the most popular class. It's so....bland.

Bullet time sniper round to the exploding head of a robot.

Watch as the disruptor ammo tears up his insides while he explodes and blows up the corespondent mechs causing a chain reaction of awesomeness... in slow motion.

P.S: The solider gets access to the most weapons. The only thing he/she can't use are SMG's, and they only have one upgrade(which is DLC) and function similarly to the Assault Rifles

 

[Liquid Ocelot]

I absolutely decimated this game. Got through without a single crew member perishing. First playthrough I hit up Jack, and in my from ME1 playthrough, I stayed loyal to.. Shit.. I forget her name. The Asari from the first game, anyway. I think it was more heartfelt to see Shepard look at her photo, looking sad.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Id be surprised if there was a high percentage of people who didn't upgrade their ships at all...

That 50% of people upgraded fully is crazy! Thats many many man hours of pointless MINING!!!

I refused to mine for that long so I used some .ini mods and got all the resouces I needed pretty quickly, one reason I play PC instead of Xbox, if you dont like something...mod it!

Ah yes. The Blessed .ini file.

I'd still be playing Bad company 2 all squashed up with a 55 fov... instead of a nice roomy 75.

 

[Blunderman]

Outrageous and most preposterous. Shepard is a woman, end of story. Come on. Men are boring, inferior and would most certainly never ever be responsible for saving the galaxy.

What made you so angry? The point of character customization is there IS no canon, it's all based on your own preference and your own experience.

"Men are boring and inferior." Sheesh.

Relax, I'm just joshing, man.

Well, the anti-men stuff may be a bit true.

 

[Dr. Paine]

Hale's voice acting never ceased to amaze me in the first game, and I'd feel weird playing it any other way. I do hope she makes it into the third game, just for sexism's sake.

Do you honestly think Bioware will screw over the FemShep players like that?

 

[unoleian]

I prefer Hale's voice acting. And I'm not saying that to be different. I truly do. It feels....weird playing male Shepard now. It's just not the same :-/

Fully upgraded the ship, lost that amazing Professor on my first finish. Second finish cost me Tali.

I just can't seem to get everyone out alive. I'm still working on that one.

Usually if you do all the people's loyalty missions and make them happy by doing so they'll survive. Also you might want to send specific people on tasks at the end. AKA throw legion in the pipe and send mordin back to the ship. Also use tali in the last mission, she might have the highest chance of dying otherwise.

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...

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.)

 

[Sniper Team 4]

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.

 

[Caligulove]

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

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

I prefered the female character, if you ask me the voice acting was soooo much better. She just looked ugly as fuck.. (plays a great ***** themed character though)

Huh. I made mine pretty hot, actually. Thank you, character customisation. ^ ^

The female character creator options are 10x's better in Mass Effect, then the male options. Though I'm picky and hardly settle for what I am given, if I am allowed a great character creator! =D

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.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

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.

 

[Nurb]

How did they collect this data?

 

[Lizmichi]

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.

 

[ksn0va]

I hope this doesn't discourage Bioware from continually implementing both genders in future games. I for one am tired of playing as dudes after nearly 15 years.