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[Erani]

PhatSeeJay wrote...

I sense a disturbance.

This made me  so hard!
@Renee, your FemShep is so beautiful. <3

[100k]

RinjiRenee wrote...

Celebrating my femshep's first ME2 playthrough.  This is Leona Shepard.

I remember her, she's one of my favorites! Keep posting her!
:O:O:O

[JamieCOTC]

rynluna wrote...

Ottemis wrote...
Oh Ryn.. i've missed youuu, haha

I've missed you!

Yay, new FemShep contest!

and a new place to play: femshep.com on facebook

[thompsmt]

ADLegend21 wrote...

Femshep question, as it's something I've been doing.

In game , whether intentional or not, Shepard is sort of portrayed as invincible (getting brain probed but still operating at peak performance within seconds of that happening) How do you, for lack of abetter word, weaken your Shepard?
(snip)

I see Renée as being afraid to stop.

She knows how there's so much to do and plan, but if she stops and thinks about it now, she'll get paralyzed with fear.  When you're part of a small group up against the unknown, not thinking about it helps her stay sane.

Also, she's very much wearing the mask after Horizon.  The only person she's removed it for is Liara, and that's after LotSB.  She's staying emotionally distant from everyone onboard SR2 because she's afraid of losing someone else.  Ash was hard enough. . .

[Interactive Civilian]

Did someone say kung fu?

http://cloud.steampo...8F92E13EEE0ADB/

http://cloud.steampo...BA24CF95FB0230/

Other...

http://cloud.steampo...E1175556D4E1C1/
Quick! Steal a kiss while she's out!

http://cloud.steampo...BDE89DD0706BFB/
Now now, Artemis, no need to steal.

http://cloud.steampo...794F40EDC95357/
Tali: They... they do realize we're still standing right here, don't they?
Garrus: I don't think they care, Tali.

http://cloud.steampo...EB06D59B6F8272/
Ooops. Wrong Artemis.

Actually, there's a reason for that last picture (besides showing off alternate universe different face post-apocalyptic Artemis). Along with the Portal style loose pony-tail that Chell has, I also really like the Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas style "Rosie the Riveter" pony-tail. I would love to see a style like that make it into ME3.

[sagefic]

Playing Capture the Flag with Team Cerberus.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" 

[nranola]

ADLegend21 wrote...

In game , whether intentional or not, Shepard is sort of portrayed as invincible (getting brain probed but still operating at peak performance within seconds of that happening) How do you, for lack of abetter word, weaken your Shepard?

Being invincible is something, as you've already said, portrayed. She's Commander Shepard, the sole survivor of the Mindoir as well as the thresher maw attacked that killed fifty marines. She's the savior of the Citadel, the pride of the System Alliance, and the best humanity has to offer.

But she's only that - human.

Basically, anything that has to do with her pre-service history, psychological background, and her close relations has a potential to throw her out of whack - all topped with the stress that comes with trying to stop the Reapers.

ME1 doesn't give me much of an opportunity to showcase this as she's living up to her Commander role for a large part of it, but ME2 gave me a handful of material to work with: joining Cerberus intensified by that angry letter from Toombs (Sole Survivor), questioning Vasir's morality in LotSB (Sole Survivor again), sacrificing more than 30,000 batarians in Arrival (Colonist), and of course Kaidan (Horizon). Those were the few times I could see her cracking in varying degrees. But like what most have said, I don't see it happening in front of others. Silent moments in her cabin and a few drinks now and then, maybe. Can't have anyone see her crumbling when the fate of the entire galaxy is resting on her shoulders.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

I'm amazed this thread survived so long.   Can't get Shep down huh?   Just to keep it lively, my 2 cents worth.



Shep from ME1. I spent hours trying to figure out the settings, restarting again and again.   I didn't keep count, must have been over 10 attempts.



Shep from ME2. By this time, I've gotten the hang of the settings, sort of. I didn't accept the import face option but opted to try a hand at creating a new face. But I think I fell back on the old settings except that I decided to make her more gaunt (considering what she had gone through). I didn't have anyone in mind when I created the face, merely thoughts that a female protaganist would be h*lleva stubborn / determined / strong-will to get the job done. And the equation ended up lines and angles.  



The dress is really nice but that is the only occasion she wears it. Onboard the Normandy, she wears the black "shoot-me-now!" black suit with the nice bull'seye on the back.  



Yeah, yeah, Hock, bluster all you want.  



This is one squad I am looking forward to in ME3, depending on their skills however. Doubt Legion will be available.

Modifié par Obsidian Gryphon, 11 août 2011 - 11:47 .

[Hyper_gateway]

Hmmm 3 hours without any post? Not acceptable~


Here is my recently re-edited photomanip, the old version of Colly look too aged, so I have given her more smoother skin and the skin color is lighter a bit


One wrong step, and I will shot you!

Modifié par Hyper_gateway, 08 août 2011 - 08:29 .

[f1r3storm]

Even the thread needs a break from all the awesomeness from time to time.



"Ugh, what kind of drink was that?"

[KyreneZA]

Ottemis wrote...


Zaeed you photogenic bastard.

Zaeed's not the only one it seems. That femShep certainly is too. Is she the one in your avatar?
***
I'm definately struggling to stay focused with my Jane Shepard playthrough. It doesn't help that it's back to ME after three back-to-back ME2 playthroughs with my canon Jack's John Shepard (to get it just so–I'm too anal at times by far). I've forgotten how boringly long the ME missions are. How do you all stay focused with so many different characters, or weren't they all played from ME?

Jane is already 4/16 paragon and only 3/16 renegade after I promised myself she'd be an edgier character than Jack's John. Jack's John ended the SM with about 5 bars paragon, 2 bars renegade (imported with 150 bonus paragon, 90 bonus renegade so the split seems about the same; if anything he was a little goodier-two-shoes in ME2, but I'm digressing).

Do you all battle as much with a manShep as I'm apparently doing with Jane, or do you also battle with different Jane, Mary, Sue and Mary-Jane Sue playthroughs. Are they all really distinct characters or do they kinda start bleeding into each otehr, possibly only having different LIs, occupations and looks?

[Captain Crash]

JamieCOTC wrote...

FemShep.com Contest #2

I've created a poll to determine the medium of the next contest.  The reason for that is the first place prize. 

HyperGateway is donating one of her long service metals as first place prize in the next contest.  A VERY special prize indeed. Thanks, Hyper!


So think hard and let us know what you'd like to do. The contest will be femShep related and have a theme. Theme will be revealed at a later date. Contest will be this fall. You must be a member of femShep.com to enter the contest.

So, go VOTE!

femShep contest Poll

Wow hyper thats generous to donate on the medals for a prize!!   :happy:


Anyway I voted art,  I not that great at it but at least I can take part this time round!!    

[f1r3storm]

More FemShep art.

[Ottemis]

Kyrene wrote...

Ottemis wrote...

*picsnip
Zaeed you photogenic bastard.

Zaeed's not the only one it seems. That femShep certainly is too. Is she the one in your avatar?
***

Yeah she is, and thanks =)

I'm definately struggling to stay focused with my Jane Shepard playthrough. It doesn't help that it's back to ME after three back-to-back ME2 playthroughs with my canon Jack's John Shepard (to get it just so–I'm too anal at times by far). I've forgotten how boringly long the ME missions are. How do you all stay focused with so many different characters, or weren't they all played from ME?

I vary ME1 and 2 but my playing time is far less impressive then that of many of the others here, as it stands I've done 3 ME1 playthroughs now.
Last time round I did all the exploration sidequests in one day.

Jane is already 4/16 paragon and only 3/16 renegade after I promised myself she'd be an edgier character than Jack's John. Jack's John ended the SM with about 5 bars paragon, 2 bars renegade (imported with 150 bonus paragon, 90 bonus renegade so the split seems about the same; if anything he was a little goodier-two-shoes in ME2, but I'm digressing).

It's earier when you have them a bit more fleshed out going from their preservice history or whatever really. For me that worked wonders for Raine and her more renegady tendencies, as she's been on Torfan I motivate her choices to prioritize the bigger picture and to shun evil where she deems it's gone too far.

Do you all battle as much with a manShep as I'm apparently doing with Jane, or do you also battle with different Jane, Mary, Sue and Mary-Jane Sue playthroughs. Are they all really distinct characters or do they kinda start bleeding into each otehr, possibly only having different LIs, occupations and looks?

I guess that depends per person, for me my three are distinct personalities.
While the LI for ME1 is a b@tch to avoid on any of them.. (they all romanced Kai) the divercity of choice in ME2 on that field really accentuates the differences between them nicely.
And yes, I'm all for unique looks for every Shep I play, which does make it increasingly difficult to make them and agree to them as being a new incarnation of Shepard. Their preservice history and psych profile at times are appointed to them automaticly when you look at a new character, instead of making a character for the purpose if giving them a certain background. I've always liked that happening because they kind of 'force' a personality upon themselves that way, it just flows.
I've tried Sheploo/manshep but it doesn't grab me enough to push through to the end.

Modifié par Ottemis, 08 août 2011 - 11:55 .

[Silver]

@Fire
wow, that is awesome, as I just told the guy who created it

Modifié par silverhammer08, 08 août 2011 - 11:52 .

[KyreneZA]

Ottemis wrote...

It's earier when you have them a bit more fleshed out going from their preservice history or whatever really.

Yeah, I even went that route. John was a default Sheploo in ME, only getting his own face (and also changing to an infiltrator during the last-and-final 'canon' playthrough) in ME2. Never had any problems except for replaying due to tweaking his character a little in my mind.

Jane is a spacer/ruthless/infiltrator with a custom face in ME already, but I'm still battling. Granted, I'm meta-gaming Therum last, possibly even after Virmire (if possible), so she's only done Feros and any side-missions spawning from hacked terminals on Feros (plus the big paragon/renegade giving X57). Yet she's still almost a John-clone up to now. Or perhaps the big paragon/renegade decisions haven't yet entered stage left?

I've tried Sheploo/manshep but it doesn't grab me enough to push through to the end.

Perhaps it's a little of this. I can instinctively play a male character, but RPing a female is a lot harder. Or rather a female living in the same galaxy as I do.

I had a lot less trouble with compared to in DA:O because there my mind insisted they were in a fictional 'verse.

Anybody else had problems getting 'in character' for specific iterations of Shepards? How'd you solve it?

[Ottemis]

For me the break in immersion with manshep comes from the voice-acting compared to that of femshep. But it's a matter of taste really, I don't on average have an issue playing a male over a female.

As to fixing the immersion issue, maybe you could flesh her out more on the groundlines of someone you know?

[nranola]

I've honestly tried going through a manShep playthrough. I couldn't do it. He just feels very flat to me... I'm determined to finish at least one playthrough with manShep though, but I reckon that won't be for a long time yet.

As for characters it's a must for me that they're different from one another at some substantial degree. Like what I'm doing with two of my femSheps right now: Jennelyn is Paragade, Jennica is Renegon. They react different to situations and they're visually distinct, but they both share the same pre-service history, core principles, and a few other similarities (there's a reason for that but I'll spare you the essay lol). This way I enjoy both "worlds" without deviating so much from my canon view of the game.

Immersion really varies to me. Sometimes I find it easier to play a character I can relate to, sometimes I find it easier to play a character who's very different from what I'm used to. >__< I can't pin down what it is exactly that makes a character immersive to me.

Modifié par nranola, 08 août 2011 - 03:41 .

[Patchwork]

The last male PC I managed to get past the opening quest was a male DAO city elf and he didn't get further than Lothering.

I can't stick with male characters, I just can't get into them and I don't even buy a game if I can't play a female. I applaud gamers who can play both.

@Kyrene have you tried playing a different game for a while and then coming back to ME? I find a break after completing one playthrough makes disconnecting from a character I've spent hours playing easier if I spent time away from that universe.

[Tup3x]

It's really game dependant what character feels "the" character. I did numerous Sheploo runs before my femShep but now for some reason I really don't enjoy playing that character any more. It doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel like "the" Shepard any more. The fact that my femShep is custom has most likely something to do with it, I'm more attached to femShep character. In KOTOR my femRevan didn't feel like the Revan (I've yet to finish that playthrough). In some cases both feel just fine.

For me immersion is not being one with the character, it's more like what seems to suit the game, lore, story and things like that the best. It's a bit difficult to explain but I (being a male) don't feel any closer to male character than female character because I don't play myself, they aren't me. In this case it's commander Shepard.

In fact, it doesn't make it any harder to play female character than male. I may have somewhat different approach to this than what some might have. Though, obviously I put myself in every character up to certain point.

However, I do have tiny issue playing with different looking characters. That's why I have only one femShep and maleShep look (same goes to KOTOR for example). I play 'em all over again and change everything else except look.

Modifié par Tup3xi, 08 août 2011 - 04:34 .

[100k]

I see it as me being the author of Shepard's story. Like a choose-your-own-adventure-book, but with more depth. Shepard's choices reflect how I want the story to proceed, rather than how I personally feel -- hence, I'm like writer.

[Rinji the Bearded]

Ottemis wrote...

For me the break in immersion with manshep comes from the voice-acting compared to that of femshep. But it's a matter of taste really, I don't on average have an issue playing a male over a female.

As to fixing the immersion issue, maybe you could flesh her out more on the groundlines of someone you know?

I actually appreciated a lot of the manshep's delivery in ME2 because he sounds like a soldier guy.   Hearing those same lines with femshep, she seems to carry more of an attitude... but that's not always something I appreciate out of a character who was trained in the military.   I tend to enjoy Paragon femshep lines and Renegade manshep lines, though there are times when those are switched.   (Also, Mark Meer's occasional tongue-in-cheek delivery of certain lines just crack me up.)

That all being said, I have both a Manshep and a Femshep and I love them both pretty equally.  Rather than attaching myself to them, I see them unfolding the story in slightly different ways.  They're both equally Shepard to me, kicking butt and saving the galaxy.

Modifié par RinjiRenee, 08 août 2011 - 05:16 .

[CroGamer002]

Not sure if this was posted before, but here's something for lolz.