Sentox6 said:
Sonic Doctor said:
BioWare needs to stick to its guns, it already established that male Shepard is canon.
Dear Lord, there is no facepalm in the universe big enough to encapsulate this statement.
There is no canon Shepard (in terms of gender, appearance, etc). There are only canon actions.
For the billionth time, the Shepard who is on the box is the default
marketing Shepard, not fiction canon.
Actually you'd be dead wrong here. It's important to understand that Mass Effect has springboarded into other media beyond the video games, things like novels and comic books. The comics in paticular round out the storylines, especially those of characters like Liara. Those sources have made desicians about who Shepard is, for the universe the game is based around.
It's sort of like how in "Knights Of The Old Republic" you can choose either gender and a range of abillities for Revan. In "Knights Of The Old Republic 2" you can also fill in those details in the backstory to some extent. In the official "Knights Of The Old Republic" canon however Revan was a man, and he wound up redeeming himself and becoming a Jedi, as explained in spin off material, and also as is integral to the storyline of "Old Republic Online".
Political correctness destroys everything it touches, and truthfully after all the mistakes made with "Dragon Age 2" you would think Bioware would have learned it's lesson about messing around in this general area (which I won't get into yet again).
I've played a Femshep myself, and truthfully that's one of the only reasons why I even know who Jennifer Hale is and can say I like her voice work... that does not however mean that I think that for the third part of a trilogy we should start seeing Bioware trying to get politically correct with the advertising.
What's more, given their desire to spin this into a multi-media franchise, that's just going to complicate things if they start to cater to this, and then as they generate more media wind up having to just assume a default anyway which they have already done. You really can't do a novel or comic book and be ambigious about Shepard, ditto for the backstory of other games that might mention Shepard but not feature the character (and if the franchise survives the whole "Knights OF The Old Republic II" approach isn't going to work, as increasing numbers of players wouldn't have played the first triology and would have no idea why they need to fill out a questionaire about some character mentioned only in the backstory..., lol).