Chignon wrote...
jwalker wrote...
And she's the only who acknowledges your relationship with Liara !!!
I hear you and she were an item before (or something like that)
And she, like Liara, doesn't with Kaidan. 
(Thanks, Bioware, for twisting the knife!)
this. so this.
re: the gender issue, this is what i think about the writing - a broad spectrum is needed. some want their sheps emotional and talky. other want their sheps stoic. some want their sheps to be pursued by an LI, other want their sheps RAWR! *tackle*
ME1, i felt, gave a good spectrum. i really felt i could RP my sheps any which way i wanted him/her. i could have stoic, mean femshep or a talkative, sensitive maleshep, or whatever the heck i wanted. ME2, with it's decentralized narrative that focused on the comanions rather than shep, painted shep into this james bond corner with MUCh less dialog and options for characterization. as a result, i could do little with her except for make up in y head what she was. lotsb, with it's one "i'm frustrated" line, was a welcome change. it was what i wanted to say all along. but again, i could have used that anywhere else - a talk with garrus post horizon would have been most welcome. just - somehting.
male/female is more a spectrum than two distinct camps, imo. bioware really rocked the spectrum of alignments with the renegade paragon. in the first game, i felt there was enough masculine/feminine spectrum going on to be able to be happy with my rping. me2, however, seemed to me to say "shep is a hetero MARINE! with no feelings. deal with it" and that made me kind of sad.
i hope against hope that was an oversight on the writer's part, purely an accident of how they wrote the missions, and will be remedied in me3.
but i am an eternal optimist.