Mass Effect 2 *spoilers around pg 29/30*

[Morat20]

You can play a female shep? 

yeah, it turns out she can actually emote, too.

[Ingmar]

If the blonde winning gets us blonde hair that actually looks vaguely realistic in-game then I call the vote a win. Right now the only colors you can pick in that category don't look at all right for actual hair.

[SnakeCharmer]

#6 looked like the chick from NCIS

[Teleku]

I don't understand, LadyShep is black. Who are all these women?

Uh, isn't #4 black?  (Its also the one I voted for, but alas, bland blonde shep won)

[Fordel]

#4 looks like a spray on tan to me.

[Sjofn]

I don't understand, LadyShep is black. Who are all these women?

Uh, isn't #4 black?  (Its also the one I voted for, but alas, bland blonde shep won)

I liked #4 best too, but she doesn't read as "black" to me, no. Her skin is mighty light and her hair isn't really right either. Of course in THE FUTURE of Mass Effect we're well on our way to all looking filipino, so it's not like that would be weird. In fact, boring ol' white-ass blonde LadyShep should be the weird one.  

MY LadyShep has much, much darker skin than #4, though.


EDIT: Also, MANSHEP can totally emote. He just usually does it in other games, like when he's playing a swishy elf prostitute in DA2.    Seriously, Mark Meer is a perfectly fine voice actor, I think the blame for his performance actually lies at the feet of whoever was directing him.

[Strazos]

Yup, evil Femshep is definitely dark-haired...what is this blonde person of which you speak? 

[Mosesandstick]

What was the default femshep look before this?

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What was the default femshep look before this?

default Shepard on the left, some random guy on the right.

[Sir T]

My first reaction was that default femshep needs the trademark designer stubble to be taken seriously. 

Might dig out mass effect again to play through it as the female shep to be honest. Would be nice to have some emotion in the voice for a change.

[UnSub]

BioWare has indicated that only about 18% of players use a FemShep. Who knew they all congregated here?

(My big question to BioWare would be: how many people play as both male and female Shepherds? The overlap is important.)

[TheWalrus]

I have full playthroughs on both characters. ME3 will have to wait for sale tho as wife has commented on the number of Valve Software notations on the ol credit card bill.

[Amaron]

It's too bad he didn't indicate how many use the default Shep skin instead of making a modified one.   I usually roll my own in most games but the Shep skin is odd in that it's just so much higher in detail than the ones you can make.

[Jeff Kelly]

Normally I wouldn't play a female version in most games, in ME I absolutely hated the male voice though. Not wanting to play the game any longer irrational hatred.

I have a douchebag allergy though maybe it's that. That voice coupled with the default look of manshep and all that is missing is an ed hardy cap, shirt and a spray on tan. Maybe we'll get it as a DLC character pack.

[Sjofn]

It's too bad he didn't indicate how many use the default Shep skin instead of making a modified one.   I usually roll my own in most games but the Shep skin is odd in that it's just so much higher in detail than the ones you can make.

I used the default MANSHEP for my first male playthrough. Making a dude (and really, the ladies are only marginally easier) that looks ... not ugly is nigh impossible. It's more like you have to pick an ugly you're OK with. Like my PigShep.    Mass Effect is an ugly, ugly universe.

Also MANSHEP's voice is hilarious, you crazy people. He's so Canadian.

[Jeff Kelly]

If you'd look up the definition of overacting in a dictionary you'd find a picture of that voice actor there.

[Sjofn]

Um, I'm pretty sure the main complaint about Mr. Meer in Mass Effect is that he's under acting. He does overdo it a bit as the vorcha, I guess.

[Amaron]

I don't know it's a bit unfair to judge the voice actor so harshly.   The problem is male Shep is just a fairly lame character in general.   You could say he's acting rather faithfully in that respect.

[PalmTrees]

Recently finished a very renegade playthrough to round out my sheps. Council died & everyone hates humans, Grunt and Legion unrecruited, chose Morinth, urged the quarians to war, deleted genophage research, kept the base. Curious to see just how screwed that Shep is come 3.

Dark Horse is putting out another ME comic, Mass Effect: Invasion. This one starring Aria. I might pick it up, she was a decent side character.

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Dark Horse is putting out another ME comic, Mass Effect: Invasion. This one starring Aria. I might pick it up, she was a decent side character.

Meh, Cerberus with main role in ME3, Cerberus with main role in the comic, i'm getting hesitant to open the fridge...

[Hoax]

Of course in THE FUTURE of Mass Effect we're well on our way to all looking filipino, so it's not like that would be weird. In fact, boring ol' white-ass blonde LadyShep should be the weird one.  

This was how I designed my Shepard and I was happy with the results. I did mostly keep a helmet on him but in ME2 he looked a little better, good enough that I was happy with it.

[UnSub]

It's too bad he didn't indicate how many use the default Shep skin instead of making a modified one.   I usually roll my own in most games but the Shep skin is odd in that it's just so much higher in detail than the ones you can make.

Same link says 13% stick with the default look.

[Mosesandstick]

I play default ManShep because I like playing the "canon" character, though I think I might do 2 run throughs on ME3 (also need to go back and do a female run-through on KOTOR 2...)

[Amaron]

Same link says 13% stick with the default look.

Actually if you read it more closely 13% go with the default premade "character".  In other words they don't change the class or powers or backstory or whatever.   I thought it meant default look at first too but that number sounded far too low which is what made me read it closer and think of the question.

[Bunk]

Also MANSHEP's voice is hilarious, you crazy people. He's so Canadian.

Ouch. Though I'm not really disagreeing.

[Kitsune]

FemShep can have worse body doubles than Samus Aran.  #1 would've been my personal vote, but no problem with 5.

[Sjofn]

Also MANSHEP's voice is hilarious, you crazy people. He's so Canadian.

Ouch. Though I'm not really disagreeing.

The best is when he's all GRR RENEGADE but Canadians it up so instead I go "awwwww." 

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Turns out oddly enough, the best comment on the recent female Shepard pageant comes from ME2 itself.



 

[Lantyssa]

Hah!  Perfect.

[Fabricated]

Still not getting the creepy nerd love for FemShep. Her VA was just as bad as MaleShep's, just in that she sounded annoyed and bitchy instead of terminally bored by the potential death of the universe like MaleShep.

[Tebonas]

I used Femshep for my Renegade playthrough and for that she was perfect.

[caladein]

Still not getting the creepy nerd love for FemShep. Her VA was just as bad as MaleShep's, just in that she sounded annoyed and bitchy instead of terminally bored by the potential death of the universe like MaleShep.

Renegade Shepard for me is equal parts annoyed and badass, "I'm busy saving the god damn galaxy, again, either help me or get the fuck out of my way." and Jen Hale just knocks those lines out of the park.

[tmp]

Still not getting the creepy nerd love for FemShep.

Competent female leads who simply get the job done, dressed like a sane person would and without the camera spending half of the time hovering over their tits and asses to make sure everyone notices it's zomg, a woman... are rare enough to love them when one pops up.

And yeah, the VA who does her work in straightforward manner helps, too.

[Bunk]

Still not getting the creepy nerd love for FemShep. Her VA was just as bad as MaleShep's, just in that she sounded annoyed and bitchy instead of terminally bored by the potential death of the universe like MaleShep.

Tali's the one who gets creepy nerd love. Jen Hale just gets respect for doing the role well. And annoyed and bitchy is more compelling than bored in my books.

[tmp]

What goes for Tali transcends creepy, i think. If someone updated the geek hierarchy flow chart it'd be right next to the people who write furry star trek fiction.

or below.