See How Your Mass Effect Choices Compare to Everyone Else's

[MPerce]

FemsSheps unite! WE ARE THE 18 PERCENT!!!

I always liked these statistic things. It shows how differently we all approach gaming. I never even thought about playing a soldier (why do that when I have the option to rip apart matter with my brain?) but apparently I'm in the minority here.

 

[Irridium]

Not surprised more people saved the Geth than the Quarians. ME3 really made the Quarians look like utter bastards and the Geth like poor misunderstood victims while in reality both did terrible things to each other.

Well, more people chose to save both, but still. ME3 could have made the Geth look less like poor, misunderstood victims. There used to be billions of Quarians, now there's only about 17 million. Take a guess at what happened to the rest. Wish you (or someone else) could bring that up.

The quarians brought it on themselves by trying to wipe out the geth in the first place. I'm glad most people don't have too much sympathy for those whiners.

Perhaps, but the Geth still nearly wiped out an entire race. There's also the Quarians who tried to defend the Geth. Would be nice to ask Legion or any of the Geth what happened to those defenders.

I just wanted a bit more detail and ambiguity, is all.

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

The ones that let Garrus die must be the same 3.8% who shot Mordin.

Only if they let him die on purpose - my first time through, I made Miranda my biotic specialist (she said she could do it!) and the swarms carried my turian BFF away. Actual tears were shed.

 

[nodlimax]

No, you insinuated that people who liked the ending haven't played Mass Effect 1 and 2. No true Scotsmen, etc.

And people consider this an insult? seriously......

 

[Artemis923]

Lots of pussies played ME3. Such a low Insanity percentage...

And soldiers are boring as shit. Engineers get Overload AND Incinerate...what more do you need?

I think these stats would be more accurate if they spanned the entire franchise, not just the last game.

 

[thiosk]

These statistics really shine a bold light on recent comments, like Jim's comments relating to whether male players want female protagonists.

Here we had the option to play both, equally, with associated furor regarding what she looked like during the release of various games, and included same sex partnerships on both sides of the gender divide.

We got about 1/6 playing as a female. That says to me, its not the chicken and the egg scenario like Jim hypothesized, its all the audience's fault.

If they wanted to be really incendiary, they'd have posted the relationship statistics.

 

[Cybylt]

These statistics really shine a bold light on recent comments, like Jim's comments relating to whether male players want female protagonists.

Here we had the option to play both, equally, with associated furor regarding what she looked like during the release of various games, and included same sex partnerships on both sides of the gender divide.

From things I've heard/seen, many people pick default soldier shep because the character creator can't really make anything as detailed and pretty as the default face, especially in first game. I'd say that factors into the divide a good amount. It might also explain why the series went less rpg and more shooty as it went along, most players when presented with gravitational magic and technological prowess, chose the super special and unique to the ME universe power of guns.

That's a lot of people who dislike fun.

 

[daibakuha]

No, you insinuated that people who liked the ending haven't played Mass Effect 1 and 2. No true Scotsmen, etc.

And people consider this an insult? seriously......

You basically accused everyone who liked the ending of not being a fan of the series. So yeah, insulting.

 

[kael013]

Only beat ME3 once and that was with a mostly Renegade F!Shep Sentinel (Destroy ending), so I'm standing out from the crowd like usual; every time BioWare releases a statistics sheet I'm in the minority.

Only two statistics that surprised me were the Soldier % and that so many cured the genophage. I expected that one to be lower since it's a pretty grey moral issue on both sides.

 

[mirasiel]

Not surprised more people saved the Geth than the Quarians. ME3 really made the Quarians look like utter bastards and the Geth like poor misunderstood victims while in reality both did terrible things to each other.

Well, more people chose to save both, but still. ME3 could have made the Geth look less like poor, misunderstood victims. There used to be billions of Quarians, now there's only about 17 million. Take a guess at what happened to the rest. Wish you (or someone else) could bring that up.

The quarians brought it on themselves by trying to wipe out the geth in the first place. I'm glad most people don't have too much sympathy for those whiners.

Perhaps, but the Geth still nearly wiped out an entire race. There's also the Quarians who tried to defend the Geth. Would be nice to ask Legion or any of the Geth what happened to those defenders.

I just wanted a bit more detail and ambiguity, is all.

The Anti-Geth Quarians killed them most likely or they died when someone deployed nuclear and chemical weapons.

 

[orangeapples]

In my first run I was a renegade femshep engineer :3

Also, in that run of the game I convinced Mordin to leave so I didn't have to shoot him

And I would like to know how they figured that Tali wasn't a very popular character. If it is based on how many missions the characters go on, it is kind of unfair for her considering she shows up last of the squadmates.

 

[Absolutionis]

I was hoping this image would tell us how many people refused to buy EA's day-one DLC.

 

[ZombieMonkey7]

Huh this is pretty interesting, wait, what's that? Well this poll is probably completely false or just most of it. Vega is the third most popular squad member with 16.8% and Tali with 7.8 are you kidding me Tali is top tier along with Garrus and Liara and Vega gets double the votes as her? I'm sorry Bioware, but however you get your poll results is shit. In fact there was just a poll here taking into account all squad members and asking which one is the worst, I think James was rated the worst, however it was very close with Ashley and Jacob. I'm actually really concerned where Bioware gets it's information since the last time they talked to a fan who claimed they thought they were listening to fan feedback and were going to release post ending dlc. Jessica Merizan the Community and Social Media Manager for BioWare responded by saying they have run the numbers and said no such majority exists.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

How on earth does Kaiden get such a low score? He was my favourite human in the game.

My thoughts:

As a male who plays FemShep, I have to say that I'm saddened by how few people play her. Not exactly surprised, admittedly, but Jennifer Hale is a fantastic voice actress, and from my point of view it was nice to see a huge, blockbuster RPG trilogy with a female protagonist. Hopefully there'll be a more even distribution next time.

I'm also baffled by the apparent popularity of Vega. I can only assume he ranks so high because he's around for all of ME3.

I also find it weird that 2/3 of people who played ME3 didn't meet Wrex. I'm surprised that most people didn't play all three games; the experience is so much richer if you do.

I too was saddened by the considerable lack of FemShep in those results. I knew she wouldn't be as popular but I didn't expect such a large gap.

I played as a Female Vanguard, mostly paragon. She was known to hit the renegade swicth a couple of times when some bad guys really pissed her off!

I'll always play as a female in games when given the choice. I never feel like "I am the protagonist", I never try to put myself in their shoes and mentally "be" that person, it's just not how I play. I prefer to make my mind up about who the character is, as a separate entity, and how they would approach the situations they face. This is escapism after all, I want to be as far away from normal and acceptable as possible! So if that means I play as a woman romancing dudes... so be it!

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

And I would like to know how they figured that Tali wasn't a very popular character. If it is based on how many missions the characters go on, it is kind of unfair for her considering she shows up last of the squadmates.

That and her skill set is arguably the least effective in dealing with Reaper or Cerberus enemies, which is pretty much all you face after Rannoch...

 

[00slash00]

i didnt realize wrex was so popular. he was probably one of my least favorite characters and i think i used him all of once. i liked grunt sooo much more. i even liked ashley more than wrex...in mass effect 1 anyway. in 2 and 3 she was constantly nothing but a miserable asshole to me. that was probably my biggest issue with mass effect 3. i thought that, by the end of the game, she would have come to terms with why i joined cerberus and we would be friends again. NOPE! treated me like shit right up to the end. and then she acts all sad at my funeral. shut up, ashley, we both know you dont give a shit

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what was i talking about again?

 

[wildpeaks]

I guess female vanguard isn't as popular a choice as I thought, interesting.

 

[nodlimax]

You basically accused everyone who liked the ending of not being a fan of the series. So yeah, insulting.

Well, feel free to prove me wrong....

In other news:
I played a fem shep from 1-3 and she looked awesome. I played soldier because I wasn't very fond of the tech and psi stuff (I had Liara and Tali for this kind of stuff). And my Femshep went for Liara as a companion. Why? Because I can!

 

[jackdaniel0001]

I'm also baffled by the apparent popularity of Vega. I can only assume he ranks so high because he's around for all of ME3.

On my first play through I ignored him the whole time, thinking that he was just a token muscle head, but on the next run I picked him for all my missions to find out what I missed, and Vega came out to be my favorite character. Writers gave him a lot of funny lines and character depth.

Not surprised more people saved the Geth than the Quarians. ME3 really made the Quarians look like utter bastards and the Geth like poor misunderstood victims while in reality both did terrible things to each other.

Well, more people chose to save both, but still. ME3 could have made the Geth look less like poor, misunderstood victims. There used to be billions of Quarians, now there's only about 17 million. Take a guess at what happened to the rest. Wish you (or someone else) could bring that up.

There is no such thing as "in reality." The entire conflict is fictional, if Bioware wants the Geth to be innocent misunderstood victims, then they are just that. That said, the morning war is vague enough that people can interpret whatever they wish. Maybe the Geth did round up Quarians civilians and slaughtered them, or maybe the warfare is so brutal that those are just casualties. Judging by how the Rachnni War or the Krogan war turned out in that universe, maybe billions of dead is the norm for that setting.

 

[snekadid]

82% of the players who finished Mass Effect 3 were playing as Male Shepard, leaving only 18% playing FemShep.

The fact that this adds up to 100% is weird. I finished multiple playthroughs with both female and male Shepards, how the hell do I fit into this statistic?

If the number of playthrough are equal then 0% as they would cancel each other out, otherwise which ever is higher would add to either sides count and affect the % by almost nothing unless you completed the game 100 times as male Shepard.

Why is it weird that it adds up to 100%? I always find it weird when polls don't equal 100%.

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