Mass effect "hot" chicks

[Kermi]

Miranda is not hot. Jack is more attractive and she's bald. Tali is more attractive and you can't see her face.

I never understand why anyone likes Jack at all.
As soon as I picked her up I wanted to kick her out of an airlock.

I thought Jack was a realy stupid character before I played the game (the "introducing Subject Zero" video they did made me think they were ripping off Tank Girl, but less funny and charming), but I kind of game around. I think the "badass ***** with a soft centre" was a bit too predictable, but the rest of the character is nicely nuanced, if you ask me.

 

[kuroikitsune]

To me, the Romance Options, as far as People that are available or that i'd go for if given the Choice from only the latter Bioware Games, well lets see.

Mass Effect:

Shiala (Green Asari Clone Person from Feros)
Samara (Mature and very practical Attitude)
Asari Bartender on Illium (She's like Wrex, just female and a Asari, so there)
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Honestly, that is why I love Bioware games so much. The Asari Bartender is probably one of my favorite characters in Mass Effect and probably one of my favorite characters in video games. She was awesome. Great character, great voice, interesting story. And it was all just some throwaway lines that don't really matter in the overall game. This is why Bioware is a great game studio. Their throwaway characters are more interesting than the lead characters in most games.

 

[stiborge]

I thought Miranda was very attractive. Although I love the voice actress they got to play her from Chuck so perhaps I'm not giving an entirely fair analysis and I still love Liara more than any of them.

 

[kouriichi]

Miranda's jaw can grate diamonds. Seriously, she can mine obsidian with the thing like this dirt to a gold shovel.

But enough minecraft references. The only one i truly found attractive was Tali. The simple fact that we can basically put whatever face to her we want was one thing that made her so appealing. Jack wasnt to bad. Just a bit to..... "Butch" for my tastes.

I do hope they give the option for you to see Tali's face in the next game though. I dont thinkit would hurt to give us the option of "Ye or Ney" on knowing what she looks like.

 

[Jabberwock King]

I attribute this to the fact that Bioware isn't very good at making attractive humans. Some exceptions, but Ashley and Kaidan were in desperate need of an overhaul IMO and I'm glad they did so, even if the fandumb starts bitching at me about how she looks like a whore now (I don't care, better a whore than a... something) or that changing anything makes it automatically suck.

 

[radioactive lemur]

Agree with you on Miranda.

The weird thing is that Miranda is modeled after (and voiced by) Yvonne Strahovski, or as I like to call her, Yvonne Strahotski:

And yet they made her out to be this weird, big-headed Michael Jackson look-alike.

Miranda is hot, even fappable, but Yvonne is WAAAAAAYYYYYYY hotter. They really fucked up if Miranda was modeled after her.

 

[HazelrahFiver]

I am a bit puzzled by this naysaying of Miranda's looks. Hell, she looks almost exactly like Stra'hot'ski and she is absolutely beautiful. I was shocked at how well Miranda came out when I first started the game. I thought Bioware was going to botch it, but Miranda probably has the 'best face in a video game' (easy enough to do, considering her model).

P.S. Ashley is disturbing in appearance, and Jack is attractive.

 

[blankedboy]

Agree with you on Miranda.

The weird thing is that Miranda is modeled after (and voiced by) Yvonne Strahovski, or as I like to call her, Yvonne Strahotski:

And yet they made her out to be this weird, big-headed Michael Jackson look-alike.

That's horribly creepy considering I know a girl called Yvonne that looks almost exactly the same, but about 10 years younger (assuming she's 25 or so).

 

[Kahunaburger]

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Pointing out sexism =/= movement, dude. I'm just calling it like I see it, when I see it. And I absolutely see massive sexism in bioware when 90% of their female characters are hilariously objectified and/or doormats.

 

[Gitty101]

I find it depends on the angle you look at her. Face-on she looks alright, but it's when you look at her from other angles she looks a bit 'off'. Still nice though, but hopefully they improve it for the third ^^

 

[numbersix1979]

It isn't the face that gets to me as much as her...features.

They pertrude a good foot or 2 from her body.

It looks...unnatural.

Yeah, kinda like there was a character designer in the office one day, inputting her dimensions, then Casey Hudson comes up over their shoulder and suggested they multiply the T&A ratios by ten, because market research showed that adolescent boys weren't getting enough boobs out of their Mass Effect experience. It's the same issue that causes a warrior-monk with a strict code of ethics and honor to walk around with her armor unfastened and approximately as much cleavage as the diameter of Lake Huron.

Miranda, it's like Angry Joe said. She looks like Michael Jackson.

 

[AngryPuppy]

My problem with both Ash and Miranda is that they come off unlikable. Ashy because she's raciest, granted her family history explains if not out right excuses that.

I know this has been pointed out repeatedly but Ashley is NOT racist. She merely doesn't believe we need "aliens" to further HUMAN goals. She even compliments and shows compassion to the other non-humans in the crew and that you meet.

I really wish people would stop just regurgitating things they read somewhere without paying attention to how she really acted.

OT - I think Jack and Miranda are the most unattractive of the series by far, looks and personality both hollow and boring. While Ashley isn't a beauty queen I did find her semi-attractive and interesting. Though I will say without shame that I am a Tali fanboy 100%.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Yeah, kinda like there was a character designer in the office one day, inputting her dimensions, then Casey Hudson comes up over their shoulder and suggested they multiply the T&A ratios by ten, because market research showed that adolescent boys weren't getting enough boobs out of their Mass Effect experience. It's the same issue that causes a warrior-monk with a strict code of ethics and honor to walk around with her armor unfastened and approximately as much cleavage as the diameter of Lake Huron.

Here's my question: if they really, really have to insist on turning Mass Effect into Gears of War Effect, could they at least copy GoW's decision to have female characters wear things that wouldn't be a massive liability in combat? I want more of this:

and less of this:

 

[Nokterne]

You guys are crazy, Miranda is definitely attractive.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Actually I find Miranda rather pretty, but its creepy as shit pretty because you know that its been manufactured o.o or at least thats how i feel

[small]tali ftw[/small]

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Miranda: I don't think she's attractive, and I don't like her at all. "I'm so perfect, yet so scarred." Grah, just shut up already.
Jack: She's pretty, but I don't like her either.
Ashley: Is right in the middle for me. I think she's alright in looks, and in character.
Liara: Cute. I like her character as well. She was even more interesting in ME2. Talk about change.
Samara: Is elegant, well-built, and down-right intriguing (I literally listened to everything she had to say. I asked her so many questions), but that freakin' jaw. It's massive. I can't stop looking at it.

Though I play a fem-shep and I kept going after Garrus or Thane. I have a thing for tough alien men. All this talk really makes me want to playthrough the game AGAIN, and you know what, I think I will!

Spoiler: I'll post a cute Mass Effect 2 related picture for everyone. Just because. ^_^

 

[Kahunaburger]

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Pointing out sexism =/= movement, dude. I'm just calling it like I see it, when I see it. And I absolutely see massive sexism in bioware when 90% of their female characters are hilariously objectified and/or doormats.

I call it like I see it too, and unless I see you starting up threads when Skyrim's main man is a quiet, strong, silent, butch, overly masculine bullshit stereotype(same appears to be true for Deus Ex 3's protagonist), or that Catwoman and Harley Quinn are laughably over-sexed in Arkham City, or that the producers of God of War are beyond fucked up for so many reasons, or about a million other fucking things in any medium you choose in any time period you choose, then I sir, am calling you full of shit. You can see your brand of sexism everywhere if you take the time to look.

Which is exactly why I prefer to call the brand of sexism you're describing as 'bollocks'. It's not real sexism in any way that actually matters, it's just a part of story telling in a visual medium.

Ah, the old "if you don't spend all of your time pointing out everything everywhere is sexist, you can't point out sexism in a particular instance" fallacy, just when I was taking your argument a little seriously. I believe I may have been trolled. If so, well played sir.

 

[Terminal Blue]

what do you mean? the slave race her people created (and then tried to kill off once they achieved sentience) won control of her (and their) homeworld and killed some of her people in the process. even after 300 years that's still a good reason to realize you went wrong somewhere along the line and maybe give peace a chance.

Corrected.

Seriously. I know a lot of people seem to have some weird boner for shy girls with technical skills, but that really shouldn't stop you from recognizing how much of a dick her entire species is in this regard.

Here's my question: if they really, really have to insist on turning Mass Effect into Gears of War Effect, could they at least copy GoW's decision to have female characters wear things that wouldn't be a massive liability in combat? I want more of this.

Except that would still be horrible in combat. There's a reason modern soldiers don't go into combat dressed in medieval plate armour, primarily that it's incredibly heavy, doesn't stop bullets and metal has a tendancy to breach inward and get stuck in your wounds. Not to mention, they've missed the most important part of realistic armour.. Why the hell doesn't she have a helmet? Is her hair woven with advanced nanofibres which can protect her from shrapnel? For that matter.. why does she have hair and, assuming she has to have it, why is it loose? Even Ashley had managed to tie her impractical hair back and had an optional helmet.

Soldiers in the Mass Effect universe either wear kinetic barriers or suits made of advanced materials. Mobility > heavy armour. Miranda's unique class is equivalent to a Sentinel in alliance military terms, which means having her wear light armour is not inconsistent. While this doesn't excuse some of the outfits in ME2, it should be obvious that the armour design has very different priorities.

It's not even particularly less exploitative as neither suggests a realistic character. It comes down to whether you're really into penis envy or have a secret rubber fetish.

 

[Red Albatross]

Ashley >>>>> Miranda.

Ash has the whole "girl next door" thing going on. Miranda is constantly trying to shove her superiority in everyone's faces and that kind of personality is just intensely unattractive. She grew on me as a team member when she told the Illusive Man to shove it, but unfortunately that was at the end of the game.

As far as Jack goes, I wish there was an option to leave her in that prison ship and watch her get spaced. Just because you had a crappy childhood, you don't get a free pass to be a psychotic *****. There are plenty of people that come from crappy backgrounds that turn out to be fine people, people that learn compassion from their own suffering. It just shows that mentally, she's an immature child and probably always will be. If I were in Commander Shepard's position, I would never trust someone like that to have my back.

 

[SamtheDeathclaw]

I don't find ANY of the romances on ME to be appealing. Jack is the only one I can stand. Miranda is NOT what the dev's thought she was, evidently. Tali has the whole Geth thing, and the fact that she's a twat to Legion. Thane... Errg. I don't like the idea of romancing someone who has a dead wife and a son you help reconnect him with. Garrus is a cocky prat. Jacob has very little actual personality I've seen.
But that's just my opinion, no need to go spreading it around.