Mass Effect 3: FemShep Winner

[Burck]

Does anyone else think she looks a bit derpy/constipated in this picure? LOL.

Don't get me wrong, I like her general appearance and it should be great, but I think this particular picture is a little silly looking.

Just look at the mouth and eyes xD

 

[NickCaligo42]

Goddamn. She looks pissed.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

WOOOOOOO!!! The readhead won!

That's awesome. Glad the one I voted for got in.

....now my problem will be to get that same femshep in Mass effect 2 when I replay it....

 

[Richardplex]

For those who say she looks too young, please remember the time period. People live to 150; people don't show aging anywhere near as quickly as they do now. Someone in their 40s looks like they're still in their early 20s, as pointed out in the Mass Effect books which I actually liked *hides behind flame shield*

WOOOOOOO!!! The readhead won!

That's awesome. Glad the one I voted for got in.

....now my problem will be to get that same femshep in Mass effect 2 when I replay it....

I have a piece of paper that has the exact numbers to use to get that face, after an hour of dicking around, both on the sliders and on the internet after giving up. My most precious possession.

 

[NickKuroshi0]

Nice job on making her look like a bad ass

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Oh shut up about how she is allowed to look young because of the setting. That's the same justification I've seen people use for watching lolicon, since they're really seven hundred years old trapped in the body of a kid.

If she looks too young to me, then she looks too young. I don't care if there is an explanation for it, she still looks too young.

 

[Garret866]

Its not lipstick.
if you look at the background you can see its quite cold, and shes outside, without a helmet - lips get red when they get cold.

 

[Zhukov]

Cool.

As people have said, looks a bit young, but oh well. It's to be expected with female characters. They're generally drawn to be attractive before any other considerations.

 

[DarkRyter]

She looks like a psychopath...

However, I'm more interested in the fact that Bioware has kind of abandoned realism; a twenty(?) year old isn't quite old enough to have reached such a senior position...

That said, I've never once even considered playing as Femshep, so I'm don't really care.

Well, it's the space faring future, so I would assume there does exist technology that'll keep a lady looking young well into middle age.

Although, personally, I like to think Commander Sheperd just doesn't give a fuck about things weaker humans do, like "sleep" or "age".

 

[ph0b0s123]

As long as I can set the face to be that of previous games fem shep that is all I care about. Have not cared about this competition at all.

 

[Legion IV]

Oh shut up about how she is allowed to look young because of the setting. That's the same justification I've seen people use for watching lolicon, since they're really seven hundred years old trapped in the body of a kid.

If she looks too young to me, then she looks too young. I don't care if there is an explanation for it, she still looks too young.

For you. If the canon justifies it (And the canon has, long before it was an excuse to make Shep prettier), then maybe you're the one with the problem, and not the material?

Just a thought.

Lol hey man as long as your okay with the example he used then am fine, i just hate hypocrites. You gotta be fine With Etna from Disgaea who's like what? 1800 years old? yet she looks the age of 18 or younger, am fine with it, just gotta make sure the mass effect fans arnt hypocrites.

 

[kouriichi]

She looks.... young.
Male Shep looks like hes 30, and Fem Shep looks like shes barely 20.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Allo me to say: Mmmm, redheads.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I dunno but it looks a lot like a slightly altered version of the original, default female Shepard [sub]which was a perfectly fine model, in no need of a change up I thought[/sub]

Evidently the facebook-going public who have been voting for this agree with you since that's what we got.

I think it looks alright and pretty much what I myself voted for. Green eyes woulda been better of course but hey.

That's the same justification I've seen people use for watching lolicon, since they're really seven hundred years old trapped in the body of a kid.

Mmm, delicious loli...

 

[Nickolai77]

Ah, a red-head

Yeah she looks fit as fuck, but if she's meant to be thirty something she doesn't look like it. She looks like she's in her late teens early twenties...

 

[DrWilhelm]

Three questions.

1. Why is Miss Shepard seventeen?

2. Why does her armour have breasts? Maybe Mass Effect's armour has always been like that, but I can't say I've ever noticed them being so prominent.

3.Why, oh why does it looks like someone has chucked a pot of red glitter at her eyes?

 

[Dr. Paine]

For those who say she looks too young, please remember the time period. People live to 150; people don't show aging anywhere near as quickly as they do now. Someone in their 40s looks like they're still in their early 20s, as pointed out in the Mass Effect books which I actually liked *hides behind flame shield*

Someone else on this site has actually read them? I was starting to get a little lonely, here xD

(Captcha: Icarvire priests. ... I need to write this down, that's actually kind of cool.)

 

[Akihiko]

Still not a fan of the red hair, but oh well. She looks alright.

 

[Erana]

What the fuck is wrong with the area around her eyes?

Its a weird result of the makeup, complexion and semigloss surface they have given her.

Her eye makeup ends before the inner corner of the eye, which works from a distance; it makes the eyes look rounder and more open. Doesn't work as well up close, in my opinion.

The biggest issue for me here is that they've made her complexion perfect- I don't mean just acne-free, I mean that there is absolutely no rings around her eyes. Most people have a bit of a darker ring between the ridge of the nose and the inner eye and nose ridge, which helps to give a bit of depth for the eye socket and nose.
If you use more than just a makeup base (whose purpose is just to make one's skin tone more consistent and less glossy) and try to conceal the darkness around one's eyes, and you wind up with this slightly off, wall-eyed look.
You don't really see much darkness around the eyes of women in posters 'n magazine covers, but that's because those shots are precisely devised and photoshopped to look more than reality.

The third thing, of course, is the reflectivity of her face. I get it- she's all soldering 'n what not, she's going to be a bit sweaty. But for some reason the fact that different parts of the face are more oily- and thus more reflective, seems to be overlooked in games these days. The upper cheeks, brow, above and below the lips, and especially the nose produce more natural oils. The eye area and the lower portion of the face tend to be much less so.
While this detail usually goes unnoticed in-game, a still like this makes one realize that this unnatural consistency in reflectivity makes it look like FemShep rubs vasoline in the corners of her eyes.

And I know it works for dramatic lighting, but if she were wearing eye make up, she'd also be wearing base, which would make her skin be much less reflective, and would be a little caked from all the action. >.>

 

[Richardplex]

For those who say she looks too young, please remember the time period. People live to 150; people don't show aging anywhere near as quickly as they do now. Someone in their 40s looks like they're still in their early 20s, as pointed out in the Mass Effect books which I actually liked *hides behind flame shield*

Someone else on this site has actually read them? I was starting to get a little lonely, here xD

(Captcha: Icarvire priests. ... I need to write this down, that's actually kind of cool.)

Others have read them, just almost all have despised them, and said that Mr Karpyshyn shouldn't write books and should stick to video games.