BioWare: Gamers Prefer a Manly Shepard

[fulano]

Haven't finished Mass Effect 2 yet...darn. Anyways, my crew kinda likes me and my she-Shepard is a lesbian badass, as she should be.

 

[randomize4]

I could see the statistic relating to the "fully" upgraded ship being vague. Does "fully" mean the three important upgrades (if you played it, then you know which 3), or all upgrades? In the later case, I did not fully upgrade my ship because I got every upgrade but the one that would fix my face from the Renegade scarring.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Hehe, seems that all the people who say they like to play as big twats are really just covering up for the fact that they do have a moral conscience in their games. Big manly talk and all that.

And though I love Jennifer Hale, gaming voice actor staple that she is, I don't like her as Fem-Shep. Something sounds wrong. And I like the "military drone" voice Mark Meer does - makes it feel much more like he's actually a professional soldier. Fem-Shep kept sounding like she wanted to crush the testicles of men under her boot.

However, since I watched all of the West Wing, I find it very hard to come up against the orders of the Illusive Man - I keep feeling like I'm saying "Fuck you, President Bartlet", and then I feel bad.

 

[ryo02]

I was a male infiltrator (har har very funny -_-) with the default face. (custom ones just dont look that great maybe if they work on it in ME3 and make it much better)

I played paragon romanced Tali (no 1st game romance) everyone lived and I blew up the base.

as for the characters I liked hmm Tali Garrus Legion (I wanna be able to take 3 with me on missions T_T) top my list Mordin and Grunt are close behind.

I normally use Legion and Tali (yay combat drones)swapping them out for Garrus deending on the mission. (Garrus and Tali were my team of choice in the 1st game)

Grunt and Garrus allways come along with me until I get Tali then its Tali and Garrus and that Holds till I can swap Garrus for Legion.

Grunt got to Fight a Geth collosus Gunship and a Thresher maw Im sure he's satified (not to mention husks collectors mercenaries robots and Geth)

Garrus lead the other teams in the final Legion took the vent and Grunt joined me charging down the middle with Tali and continued to do so within the biotic bubble (Samara) and then held the line with the others.

Mordin was the escort.

Tali and Legion helped take down the final boss. (not the best choice but I like em also makes sure they dont die) (and I got Kasumi after the end)


all of this offline so it doesnt matter to the developers T_T.

 

[GEAR BOSS]

For my playthrough, I did a male shepard, did all of the loyalty missions, had all of my crew survive the suicide mission, and told the Illusive Man to go suck a big one twice. In my opinion, Mission Accomplished!

 

[The Bandit]

I'm still sore with Bioware since the Shadow Broker DLC has been bugged for two months and they haven't even bothered to mention it.

 

[JeanLuc761]

I'm still sore with Bioware since the Shadow Broker DLC has been bugged for two months and they haven't even bothered to mention it.

I didn't notice a glitch on the Shadow Broker DLC. What problem are you having?

 

[Caradinist]

There are a lot of problems in the galaxy. It's going to take one...big...strong...MAN...To fix them!

 

[SG Xibalba]

Since no-one else has said it... DAT ASS

I usally play as a female Shepard though, because the male voice actor sounds terrible.

This still surprises me, as I think Mark Meer is perfect as MY Shepard thanks very much.

It's all down to perspective at the end of the day - something the gaming community is in short supply of a lot of the time.

 

[OiXerxes]

Male Shepard
Upgrades Ship
Entire Crew survived Suicide Mission
Archangel and Miranda used mostly
Everyone but Jack loves me
Chose Renegade option at end

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

It's not really fair regarding the award for Archangel. I mean he was one of the first teammates to recruit and was required to have to move the story along.

Samara, Legion, and Thane were among my favorites that were all in later sections of the game.

 

[gnomebard]

Just puting it out there: the voice actor for female Shepard is way better.

the male voice actor delivers all his lines flat. unless he is angry. the female voice actor always has some emotion behind what she is saying unless the situation calls for "hard to read."

all and all a great game but I have never made it more than 20% in game 1 or 2 with male Shepard.

 

[Fwee]

My original playthrough was a female Shepard, custom look, as a Vanguard. On ME 1.
Unfortunately ME 2 has things in it that make it very hard for me to sit through, so it's been put on the back burner until I can get a bigger TV so I can actually read the damn text at least!!!

 

[Yureina]

That's a shocker. Everyone I have talked to prefers the female Shephard. That's also what I prefer. The voice actor is better, but also I just don't like playing Male characters in general. I wonder where all these people who like Male Shephard come from...

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

Interesting stats, considering I played both Mass Effect games with a female character.

 

[znix]

Hale's voice acting is much preferable to the cheesy ham-fisted delivery by the male protagonist. No matter what, there's just no way I could sit through a whole game of that. Plus looking a male buttocks the whole way through is just .. eww?

 

[nightblade253]

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.)

Usually the last loyalty choice is a factor with their loyal/unloyal status and I know that you'd need 100% paragon/renegade in order to get it, but every time I've played it I've had everyone survive despite doing renegade and paragon plays. I honestly don't know what to tell you other than give that paragon play a chance to work and hopefully it'll work out. If not, there's always gamefaqs.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

My first playthrough I had a male shephard and used Garrus and Grunt as my main squadmates. Everyone was loyal, ship fully upgraded, and everyone survived

 

[Warachia]

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.)

usually if you do side missions you can get enough points to make any choice you want, my first playthroughs on normal and insane both got me maxed out in paragon and renegade, also, if you find you are still having trouble, look at the skill reassigner thing on your ship, one of the choices there gives 75% bonus to paragon/renegade the other gives 100%, ex. shock trooper and commando, if you switch at any point in the game it boosts your points up accordingly, and if you switch back, the points drop back down to what they were before.

If you want to survive the suicide mission, gameinformer graphed out all the ways that you can survive, but here is an easy way, choose miranda or garrus as your second team leader (whoever is loyal)send tali or legion through the pipe (whoever is loyal) use the asari or jack biotic (whoever is loyal) through the bugs, use miranda or garrus on the second team as the second leader (whoever is loyal) when sending the crew back send grunt or garrus along (the loyal one, zaeed works too)and for the final rush do not take anybody who is not loyal, or mordin, as even if he is loyal he will sometimes die (apparently not a glitch).

foollow this strategy and you should make it out with everyone alive, yes those who are not loyal can survive in this way, and anybody you choose to take on the final mission segment will die if they are not loyal.

 

[The Harkinator]

Paragon male Shepherd who romanced Ashley then Miranda who saved all squadmates and crewmen and let Cerberus keep the base because I wanted cool weapons in ME3. It could help fight the reapers and gain an insight to them. Paragon choice at that point felt like shooting myself in the foot for the next game. It also felt short sighted to choose Paragon at the end, a naive Shepherd who had percieved the threat and thought he alone could triumph.