sagequeen wrote...
but about the femshep thing - bah. what is it? "There are lies, bigger lies, and statistics." as my jr. high history teacher always said. i think it's actually 'damn lies' but he cleaned it up for the kids.
seriously, though, that stat was taken when? 2 months after release, i want to say. i first played a male shep through me2 because i'd lost my femshep saves, so I, most unwittingly, was part of that "82%" who play maleshep. also, in that same batch of stats was somehting like '50% of people finished the game'. so that's implying that many people didn't actually play all the way through. maybe they just rented the game or... i dunno. i remember those stats and they were kind of whacked.
i feel like there are people who play bioware games and then there are fans of bioware games. i get the impression that BW tries to get the players to become fans, but they are well aware that their fans use the games quite differently than the casual user.
Yeah, the very first thing you learn in any good statistics class is that all statistics are
completley meaningless without context. That 80% dudeShep stat got put out there with absolutely no context (we don't even know if that's players or games, much less finished playthroughs, platforms, purchases vs rentals, mains vs alts, whatever), so I'm always dubious of anyone trying to draw any kind of meaningful conclusion from it.
Tup3xi wrote...

Haha that armroll. I love trying to justify Shep's fidgety idle animations. I figure that one is the Claymore/Widow/Revenant that humans aren't supposed to be able to use, causing muscle strain, because, you know, humans aren't supposed to be able to use them.
(I also like to think that hand-behind-the-neck nervous gesture is Jakarta fidgeting with her amp.)