So, would I.Flies_by_Handles wrote...
I like the fun look of your fist banner Iwakura, but I say screw the banners! I want an easy way to upload my own avatar! Since I use a Mac I don't believe I have access to the DA creator to insert my own picture. I would love to have my own Shep as an avatar pic.
FemShep Fan Thread- Show me yours, tough guy. I bet mine's bigger!
#7376
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:03
#7377
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:06
#7378
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:12
Christmas Ape wrote...
What about Boot Camp or similar Mac-to-Windows options? My entire Mass Effect 2 PC experience has been on a Macbook Pro running Windows XP.
Which begs the question, as you do not seem to have DA registered, how, if I may ask, did you upload a custom avatar?
#7379
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:15
#7380
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:23
Dragon Age Character Creator, the tool they released before the game's actual release.Iwakura-Lain wrote...
Which begs the question, as you do not seem to have DA registered, how, if I may ask, did you upload a custom avatar?
@Sagequeen: I've been sporting that one for months now; glad you like it. It just boggled my mind one day when it struck me that, for various definitions of the term, half of the actual romance options in Mass Effect 2 are poisonous to Shepard, and two of them would find Shepard toxic - but apparently that makes more sense than humans of like gender being attracted to each other.
It's also more or less what caught rynluna's attention and got me invited to these groups and threads and such, as I recall correctly.
#7381
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:24
LesEnfantsTerribles wrote...
... Reason being is because it's becoming increasingly harder to imagine the character of Commander Shepard as anything other than my main, Kate. When I hear Jennifer Hale's voice, and think of Shepard's role within the events of the game, I immediately think of Kate and she is the first character that comes to mind.
Ahem. I can relate to this sentiment quite a bit; I admit, I actually find it very strange to watch Youtubes of other female Shepards as I get this weird "but.. that's Kate's voice! Why do they have her voice!" sort of reaction; I just have the performance so strongly associated to my own Shepard by now that it's difficult to unassociate it. And this is with having heard Jennifer Hale in many other titles, and still associating her voice as much to Ground Control as Mass Effect. I'm possibly just weirder still, but it's a reaction that keeps striking out at me.
It's never really happened much either, so I'd suspect it might simply be due to how the combination of BioWare's writing and Jennifer Hale's acting meld together into a characterization that imbues a much stronger identity on that one character than most other games do.
#7382
Guest_Flies_by_Handles_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:27
Guest_Flies_by_Handles_*
Christmas Ape wrote...
What about Boot Camp or similar Mac-to-Windows options? My entire Mass Effect 2 PC experience has been on a Macbook Pro running Windows XP.
I did have boot camp but removed the windows partition and I thought it would be a little silly having to jump through ten hoops all for a little avatar. I still don't understand why Bioware chose not to let us have one from the start. Sorry to everyone else for getting a bit off topic.
#7383
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 03:41
Nhani wrote...
It's never really happened much either, so I'd suspect it might simply be due to how the combination of BioWare's writing and Jennifer Hale's acting meld together into a characterization that imbues a much stronger identity on that one character than most other games do.
Yeah, I agree with this sentiment. Hale's Shepard has life.
#7384
Guest_LesEnfantsTerribles_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:03
Guest_LesEnfantsTerribles_*
Nhani wrote...
! Another Shepard Kate! I feel my uniqueness draining awayyyyy~
Hah! It was an inevitability, I suppose. I was expecting to eventually meet someone that had also named their Shepard "Kate". Between you and me, it's obviously by far the greatest name for a Shepard.
It's never really happened much either, so I'd suspect it might simply be due to how the combination of BioWare's writing and Jennifer Hale's acting meld together into a characterization that imbues a much stronger identity on that one character than most other games do.
Yeah, I'd agree with this sentiment. To me, Jennifer Hale's Commander Shepard seems to be more richly characterised to an even greater extent when compared to most other RPG protagonists. When you develop your own unique perception of the character of Commander Shepard, which is reasonbly easy to do so with FemShep due to the reasons that you outlined above, it's strange to see her act in any other way.
#7385
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:04
#7386
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:07
LesEnfantsTerribles wrote...
Nhani wrote...
! Another Shepard Kate! I feel my uniqueness draining awayyyyy~
Hah! It was an inevitability, I suppose. I was expecting to eventually meet someone that had also named their
I've always dreaded the day when someone else will make another Kira. Weird at that, isn't it?
#7387
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:15
Nhani wrote...
I actually find it very strange to watch Youtubes of other female Shepards as I get this weird "but.. that's Kate's voice! Why do they have her voice!" sort of reaction; I just have the performance so strongly associated to my own Shepard by now that it's difficult to unassociate it.
And this is why I cannot make a unique Shepard. I started my first shep with blue eyes, pale skin, and the blonde short hair. Then I just tried to perfect that when she turned around, she'd have the "right" face.
anything else is just too weird.
@ christmas ape - such a good point. at this point, i don't think i'll ever play any shep but mine or any romance but kaidan (best VG LI evar imo, and i just can't get enough of him + femshep), but i have to admit i find it really breaks the realism of the game to have no same-sex romances. like, even on the ship or as a subplot or anything.
"we intend for femshep to find thane attractive - but not miranda" <---wha? seriously.
but i digress.
femshep!

"Wait. How did you get on my ship? I thought teleportation was a Star Trek thing."
#7388
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:21
As for creating multiple Shepards and finding it difficult because of identifying Hale's voice with your 'canon' face, that's not wierd. It's why I've played through both games twice with Jessica and am in the process of another run through both of them (just finished ME1 last night), and have not been able to get any other Shepard, male or female, off the Citadel as a Spectre.
Christmas Ape wrote...
@Sagequeen: I've been sporting that one for months now; glad you like it. It just boggled my mind one day when it struck me that, for various definitions of the term, half of the actual romance options in Mass Effect 2 are poisonous to Shepard, and two of them would find Shepard toxic - but apparently that makes more sense than humans of like gender being attracted to each other.
It's also more or less what caught rynluna's attention and got me invited to these groups and threads and such, as I recall correctly.
The whole "poisonous" thing has been way overdone. Levo and dextro amino acids usually have zero effect on each other, and in Mass Effect 1, the explanation of turian physiology never states that levo amino acid based foods or substances are outright poisonous to them, it merely mentions the allergic reactions that can sometimes occur, up to and including fatal anaphylactic shock. I suspect this would be rare, though. In the real world, we eat dextro-molecular substances all the time, and at worst, they just don't provide us any nutritive value. The one area where substances of the opposite chirality can be deadly to humans is in the pharmaceutical industry. Now, granted we're talking about a completely different life form here, so quarians and turians could theoretically react to more substances than just drugs, especially since a bunch of those substances never existed on their own homeworld. Nevertheless, Mordin's explanations about allergic reactions has been taken to an illogical extreme by the fandom, and I'm not sure why. I wouldn't expect Shepard to suffer anaphylaxis from ingesting turian... uh, well, fluids. The consequences Mordin mentions would probably be no worse than stomachache or diarrhea.
Same sex attraction is a whole 'nother can o' worms that I am not interested in dealing with right now, let BioWare try to explain that away if they can.
Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 03 octobre 2010 - 05:30 .
#7389
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:26
#7390
Guest_mashavasilec_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:28
Guest_mashavasilec_*
#7391
Guest_LesEnfantsTerribles_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:29
Guest_LesEnfantsTerribles_*
sagequeen wrote...
@ sable: that is interesting. i find fanart a mixed bag. some of it is awesome - sweet, moving, epic, what have you, some is just...disturbing. i get really annoyed when people hate on characters. seriously, if you don't like them, fine, just don't hate on them. it's so childish.
QFT.
If I'm reading a fanfic in which a character is badly represented, or is generally derided, then I just abandon it altogether and move on. It's quite irritating that people wish to bash certain characters in this fashion. Why dedicate so much time and effort to writing about a character you obviously dislike? I don't understand it.
I love most fanfiction featuring FemShep, though.
#7392
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:31
mashavasilec wrote...
fanart with babbies freaks me out the most
This.
#7393
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:31
mashavasilec wrote...
fanart with babbies freaks me out the most
Wut do you mean?
#7394
Guest_mashavasilec_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:33
Guest_mashavasilec_*
jlb524 wrote...
mashavasilec wrote...
fanart with babbies freaks me out the most
Wut do you mean?
i mean this is borderline crazy most of the times. i don't want Mass Effect to turn into dating and mating sim
#7395
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:35
#7396
Guest_mashavasilec_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:37
Guest_mashavasilec_*
Modifié par mashavasilec, 03 octobre 2010 - 04:39 .
#7397
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:38
jlb524 wrote...
Me neither, but I've found some cute fanart with babbies...blue ones.
This...
Some of it is a bit much, but I've found a couple really cute ones as well and yes, they are generally the blue ones, lol
#7398
Guest_LesEnfantsTerribles_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:40
Guest_LesEnfantsTerribles_*
I draw the line at fanart/fiction featuring Shepard becoming a parent with Garrus/Tali/Thane, though. That's weird.
#7399
Guest_mashavasilec_*
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:43
Guest_mashavasilec_*
Modifié par mashavasilec, 03 octobre 2010 - 04:44 .
#7400
Posté 03 octobre 2010 - 04:44
i like to think that shep could have kids - fem or male - and probably will some day. and there's other possibilities if lazarus didn't do a good job with the womb reconstruction - cloning, mixing DNA, etc. i think it really depends on the shep. some sheps would run in terror. others might secretly wish for a "normal family life"
it's one of those things that i think really should be left to the "what if" time after the game. just give us a possibility of a happy ending and a sunset kiss with the LI of choice and i think my imagination can take it from there.





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