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[ELE08]

Chignon wrote...

FireEye wrote...

I know one FemShep who is intrigued but ultimately lost by your technical expertise:

/cute Chan
Her mind is full of questions. 

It's not possible for Shep to be this cute.

After the good news about Ash and Kaidan, I've decided to give ME2 another chance. And Noah got a new armour to boot:



snippage

I really love this armor on Noah

...
Hmmm...how bout this one.

Modifié par ELE08, 18 juin 2011 - 09:51 .

[SkaldFish]

Sable Phoenix wrote...

"What tubes? Have you seen any tubes? Where are these tubes? And where do they go? And most importantly, how come there's more than one tube?"

... sorry, I'll stop with the randomness now.  I'm annoying femShep.

Just one more reference, then it's back to FemShep:


"You let those tubes get clogged, how long do you think the gerbils on wheels that power the Internet are gonna run? NOT LONG." - Jon Stewart

But, yes, Shepard is annoyed by these incessant digressions:

[TMA LIVE]

[sagefic]

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I ask because I'm curious how you see her. It seems there are many people who say, "Sheploo is the only Shepard!", but that's rare to see folks say "Default Jane is the only femshep." Just curious what your take is and why there seems to be such an acceptance of custom femsheps among femshep fans.


Blonde femshep is probably never going to be a poster girl, for example, but that's completely fine with me. I think I actually prefer it that way.

Modifié par sagequeen, 18 juin 2011 - 10:33 .

[Captain Crash]

Have you been following this thread sage?

My long winded answers are in there  :happy:


http://social.biowar...3/index/7672815


Basically no it doesnt bother me, femshep has become so diverse she no longer has a default image in my opinion. Yeah Jane cool, she my main play.  But Bioware are in a unique position created by the fans where so much customisation is around that femshep doesnt instantly create an image of  Jane.  Im far more likely to think of Teagan, Kyrie or Noah before Jane.  Thats not a knock, simply shows her diversity.

Plus out the 14+ media articles of late about the femshep trailer I only seen 2 where Jane is used as femshep. Marge has three now!    Sums it to me

So yeah Bioware can use Jane no problem.  I just think they should take advantage of the fact they can remodel her and it will still work out!

Modifié par Captain Crash, 18 juin 2011 - 10:48 .

[Ottemis]

sagequeen:
If I am able to customize, I will. As such default anything is never the 'real' one to me in such a sense. Default femshep I've never considered to be 'the' femshep, but then again, I don't necessarily see my femsheps as 'the Shep' either.
To me it's about which characters acceptably can be Shep, rather then who Shep is in any sole specificity.

In effect though, I can look at some characters and think, no.. that could never be Shep to me.
Nothing but personal preference though in the end. Incidently, default femshep and default manshep both don't feel right to me, and I couldn't play either as such.

Modifié par Ottemis, 18 juin 2011 - 11:14 .

[Captain Crash]

rynluna wrote...

I'll always love my customs more but I think the new default they're making will have a huge following. I can see it now. Threads will be made asking BioWare to include her in the ME3 CC. I'll probably give her a shot too. : )

Flaming high-res red head wielding fire upon everyone!! 

Damn shes going to rock everyones world!!!   



by the awesome Geira!!

[Tup3x]

@Sage

Tiia is the femShep for me. To be honest I do not care who is the poster girl and no, Jane isn't the femShep for me. What ever they are cooking there will not change that.

[TMA LIVE]

sagequeen wrote...

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I ask because I'm curious how you see her. It seems there are many people who say, "Sheploo is the only Shepard!", but that's rare to see folks say "Default Jane is the only femshep." Just curious what your take is and why there seems to be such an acceptance of custom femsheps among femshep fans.

Blonde femshep is probably never going to be a poster girl, for example, but that's completely fine with me. I think I actually prefer it that way.

I personally don't like the default femshep, because unlike the default maleshep, she was made in the character creator, and not scanned from a model. And she just looks so plain, and blank faced. Nothing about her looks special. While the maleshep one is unique, and can't be recreated.

Like compare Lady Hawke to Jane Shepard:





Lady Hawke looks cool and unique. Like actual work was put into her. I'd really wouldn't mind playing with that face.

While Jane Shep just looks... plain, uninteresting, with a blank face.

Modifié par TMA LIVE, 18 juin 2011 - 11:15 .

[meonlyred]

@SageQueen
I really like the original Default JaneShep. My first several playthroughs of ME1 were with her. I only did mild changes to her, eye color, makeup, etc. Mainly because I use to really suck at making different faces, they just ended up turning out hideous.

To me all FemSheps are Shepards. All with their own unique history, attitudes, and stories. I guess that is one good thing that has came from there never being a 'Right' Femshep in the marketing. It has forced us to make her up and not to see one FemShep as superior then another. Sadly, Sheploo is the only ManShep that looks right to me.

I don't expect them to make Default Shep look anything like mine. In fact I kind of hope they don't. For several reasons.

[NM7]

If I think of Shepard, it's Hrist's face that instantly comes to mind. In fact I don't always recognise default Jane when I see her in a screenshot. I have no real attachment to her, but I suppose she does represent everyone's FemShep to some degree, as there is no official face for FemShep like there is for MaleShep.

This lovely lady is and will always be Commander Shepard to me, regardless of what Bioware create.

[JamieCOTC]

@Sage

The paradox is that it is the very lack of a postergirl Shepard that has brought us all together and inspired a "movement" of sorts to get a singular representation. In a very real way, I feel femShep is defined not by a postergirl, but by the individual Sheps as depicted in the "Commanders" photo and in Sage Queen's video, "The Many Faces of FemShep." In essence she doesn't have just one face, but many. Now she will have one more, but she won't be my Shepard.



As for customs,  UJ is Shepard for me and the others are just copies.

Modifié par JamieCOTC, 18 juin 2011 - 11:17 .

[TheMarshal]

sagequeen wrote...

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I ask because I'm curious how you see her. It seems there are many people who say, "Sheploo is the only Shepard!", but that's rare to see folks say "Default Jane is the only femshep." Just curious what your take is and why there seems to be such an acceptance of custom femsheps among femshep fans.

*snip*

Blonde femshep is probably never going to be a poster girl, for example, but that's completely fine with me. I think I actually prefer it that way.

I think one of the reasons that us femShep players CAN get so attached to our femSheps is because there is no 'default' femShep popping up left and right in marketing materials.  Because then every femShep becomes 'the' femShep.

That said, I'm still happy beyond description that femShep is getting an official trailer, box art love for the CE, and a legitimized makeover for ME3.  I'm curious if they're gonna give her a high res face-scan texture or just a new custom facial texture.  Who will be 'femloo's face?  (God I wish I hadn't given that monstrosity a name...)

[thompsmt]

TheMarshal wrote...

I think one of the reasons that us femShep players CAN get so attached to our femSheps is because there is no 'default' femShep popping up left and right in marketing materials.  Because then every femShep becomes 'the' femShep.

Exactly.  I like my FemShep exactly how she is, and because marketing gave her no support, there is No Single True FemShep.  She is legion, each version is her in all glory.

[MizzNaaa]

TheMarshal wrote...

sagequeen wrote...

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I ask because I'm curious how you see her. It seems there are many people who say, "Sheploo is the only Shepard!", but that's rare to see folks say "Default Jane is the only femshep." Just curious what your take is and why there seems to be such an acceptance of custom femsheps among femshep fans.

*snip*

Blonde femshep is probably never going to be a poster girl, for example, but that's completely fine with me. I think I actually prefer it that way.

I think one of the reasons that us femShep players CAN get so attached to our femSheps is because there is no 'default' femShep popping up left and right in marketing materials.  Because then every femShep becomes 'the' femShep.

That said, I'm still happy beyond description that femShep is getting an official trailer, box art love for the CE, and a legitimized makeover for ME3.  I'm curious if they're gonna give her a high res face-scan texture or just a new custom facial texture.  Who will be 'femloo's face?  (God I wish I hadn't given that monstrosity a name...)

This so much this!!

[nranola]

M3cHr3p71l wrote...

Yyyep, it's official. David Silverman is now my favorite person at BioWare. I wish more marketing people were like him.

sagequeen wrote...

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

See, with FemShep it's really weird for me. Usually when there's a default character option I tend to use that and associate it with canon (like with iconic Hawke in DA2); I treat all custom characters as variations of that canon. But with the default femShep... I didn't feel that. It's probably because there wasn't a lot of work that was put into her compared to Sheploo. She doesn't quite stand out.

So in light of that I decided to make a custom to try and emulate what I think Shepard represents - a strong hardened soldier who gets the job done, but is also capable of kindness:




Unlike most of you (from what I've been reading so far), I can't bring myself to think that my Shepard is the Shepard, especially now that BioWare will be creating one of their own. But Jennelyn will always be my first, my ideal, and she holds a special place in my heart that no other Shep can fill.

[leggywillow]

I don't have a single image for FemShep, so the new default isn't going to feel weird for me.  I have an entire squadron of FemSheps, and while I do have what I consider a "canon", they all feel equally real and valid to me.

[ELE08]

sagequeen wrote...

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I ask because I'm curious how you see her. It seems there are many people who say, "Sheploo is the only Shepard!", but that's rare to see folks say "Default Jane is the only femshep." Just curious what your take is and why there seems to be such an acceptance of custom femsheps among femshep fans.
snip
Blonde femshep is probably never going to be a poster girl, for example, but that's completely fine with me. I think I actually prefer it that way.

Definitely the combined result of having played so many diverse femSheps (salutes graveyard) and playing quite a bit with other people's femSheps for various reasons, I don't have a canon Shep anymore.  I have my femSheps, and I have my favorite one to play, but she isn't any more valid to me as the character than any of the other versions on the thread.  They are all femShep to me equally and in their own way.

In that sense, I welcome a new default.  Even if the new face of the trailer and any promo material we get doesn't look like mine, it's still female Commander Shepard to me, and that's awesome.  The looks change, the essense of the character does not.

[Rheia]

I'm curious about the new default, might even do a run with her after I see what they do to her face in 3, but it'll be a #6 at the soonest after the 2 of my favorite Shep versions get a couple of branched out playthroughs. In 1 and 2 I am not particularly a fan of her face, and I doubt I'll stormach a 1-2 run with a present default. Maybe try to make a custom redhead in 1-2 to look similar to new default and then reset her? Time will tell! .

It'll be interesting if the remake gets a unique hi-res texture, though. May play with texmodding/backporting it in that case .

All in all, I'm really glad Jane is getting some kind of a facelift.

[nranola]

ELE08 wrote...

The looks change, the essense of the character does not.

Well said. That's all that really matters.

Modifié par nranola, 19 juin 2011 - 01:30 .

[Hyper_gateway]

Chignon wrote...



Completely on accident, I swear!

This is a poster shots, Noah. Spectre armor looks great on her!

@Sage

To me, what it matters is how I RP with my femsheps, if Jane and the new 'default' add into my playthrough. How they look is not important, it is always depends on how do you handle the playthrough as you want to.

[Interactive Civilian]

sagequeen wrote...

So, I have a question for you all:

Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I ask because I'm curious how you see her.

I'll see her as I see all of the other femSheps around this forum: a femShep who may be canon to someone, but is not canon to me. I'm too used to hearing Jennifer Hale's voice come out of Artemis's mouth that hearing it on another Shepard is still a little strange. I figure that when the trailer comes out, it will be like watching some of the awesome fan videos all of you folks make. Just another femShep, but not the real-to-me femShep.


In fact, the only thing I wonder about is if Bioware will put the care into designing theirs that many of you have put into yours. Will they succeed in making a femShep femShep that can stand up to some of the amazingly beautiful, well designed and thought out femSheps that are around here? Will their trailer be able to invoke the same kinds of emotions that many of the videos here invoke, videos which have been made about femSheps with significant time and care invested in them?

It will be interesting to see how they do.

http://cloud.steampo...3288B7B70F5763/
Garrus: We'll she's *kind of* like you, Shepard.
Shepard: Hmmm...Yeah, I guess.
Jack: Hell, I'd still do her.
Shepard: Hmm... Yeah I gu-- wait, WHAT?

[adneate]

sagequeen wrote...
Clearly, many of the folks here have custom femsheps that they are very attached to. What is your feelings towards/about default femshep - either the one currently made or the one the devs are working on? Do you feel she "is" femshep, that she's just the "poster" femshep, that she's the femshep that represents all femsheps, etc.

I think it's good for female characters and FemShep as a whole but my characters are mine, every feature they have has been crafted by me. Nothing and no design will ever surpass them as far as I'm concerned, mainly because they are exactly what I want. Defaults are just that, defaults and no matter how well they are made if I really like a game I'd make my own character.