Obsidian Gryphon wrote...
Another Q for all. 
How did you come to know about ME? How long did it take you to settle down and play the game with your FemShep?
I came to know about Mass Effect randomly and fairly blind. I'd hear people mention on various forums (like ArsTechnica) how great a game it was, but I didn't pay much attention because it was labeled as an RPG and I'd never been much of an RPGer.
Then on a whim when it was low priced during last year's Steam Christmas Sale, I bought it after checking out the gameplay videos on YouTube and seeing that it was more action than I'd expected (for a long time, my only concept of combat in RPGs was turn-based stuff, mainly from watching friends play FF and such). Started playing it and was immediately hooked on the game itself and the overall story, but not on the character I was playing. First time I played, I started with a default Sheploo. I played about halfway through or so with him but his character just wasn't doing anything for me. I can't point to any single reason why, but I juswt wasn't connecting with the character. So, I thought making a custom character might be better for me, since I'd feel more invested in the character.
So, I started the game over. I went back to the beginning. Clicked the custom button. I saw the option for a female Shepard and thought, hey, that could make things interesting. I chose an infiltrator and customized her face and came up with the original Artemis, who is essentially identical to the current Artemis, except she had blue eyes and her face was a bit too thin and bony. I've essentially been playing mainly with her character ever since, though when I finally managed to pull a facecode from the ME2 import (and I'm still not sure how I did it) and backport it to ME1 sliders, I made 2 small changes. 1.) I gave Artemis brown eyes, as I thought it fit my vision of her better. 2.) I made a light-blue-eyed twin of her named Athene who is a Vanguard.
But, anyway, that's how I got into it. CSB, and all that.
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