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[SkaldFish]

Sentox6 wrote...

ELE08 wrote...
Here's a femShep fact that I have on the brain.  She is constantly ever so slightly cross-eyed.  Subtle enough to drive me a little crazy and the first thing I usually have to fix.

I'm not sure if it's strictly cross-eyed (see Ash/Kaiden on Horizon for that). Rather it's that - at least for some of the eyes - the iris/pupils are set quite close to the nose side. There's a lot more of the whites on the 'outside', so to speak.

Another pet peeve of mine is that the game seems to encourage you to set the eyes way too far apart. This leads to a secondary annoyance during face creation: when I spend so long on a specific aspect of the face that I can't decide what even looks good anymore.

The eyes drive me nuts. Every time Rhea does the finger-pointing speech before the SM, I want to say "OK, hold it. First things first. Priorities, people...." drag her over to the med bay, and coerce Chakwas to do some quick eye surgery.

It's such an obvious miscalibration. Is it fixable via any of the headmorph settings? I poked around a while back but didn't see anything...

[mellifera]

Miscalibration, you say?



"I can help you with that."

[Sinapus]

#14 is great, and so is #13.  :happy:

(Though that "Secret Romance" bit with Femshep broke my brain so I don't recommend that...)

[Captain Crash]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

PC Gamer US has compiled a list of the 15 things they'd like to see in Mass Effect 3. Some very good points about combat and such, but what really got me was the fact that they did comment on wanting Shepard to be able to reflect more on things, as well as fewer squaddies so they feel like family, not employees.

Also, they put Female Shepard boxart as no. 14

Linky

And uhm, on a personal note I rather like the apt description they give of Sheploo

Yay more media support :happy: Actually thats a really good article and has me thinking on a couple of points I blindly ignore.

And have never say never my good journalist.  Your helping immensely. The comments below the article are filled supporting this point so it shows it does actually mean something to a lot of people!

[NM7]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

PC Gamer US has compiled a list of the 15 things they'd like to see in Mass Effect 3. Some very good points about combat and such, but what really got me was the fact that they did comment on wanting Shepard to be able to reflect more on things, as well as fewer squaddies so they feel like family, not employees.

Also, they put Female Shepard boxart as no. 14

Linky

And uhm, on a personal note I rather like the apt description they give of Sheploo

I pretty much agree with everything on that list. Though I do have to take exception to this paragraph:

PCGamer wrote...
Yep, Liara is the only squadmate who’s guaranteed to survive both games. If BioWare don’t want to waste voice acting budget on people the player might not have access to, their only option is one of the least  interesting characters in the series.

Least interesting? Liara? Is this guy playing a different game to the one I've got?
*Might be a Liara fanboy*

As for number 14? Do it Bioware, I f***ing dare you!

Modifié par Akari Tenshi, 17 février 2011 - 12:05 .

[AkodoRyu]

You know that those articles are always strongly subjective, right? I'm not a fan of Liara, but saying she was "least" interesting... Well, this could be a wishlist of someone from this forum. So I'm not reading much into it.

As for FemShep on the cover, yeah, I believe the only place on a cover will be a small picture on the back. I don't expect the publisher to do any steps in that matter.

Marge just know that.

[Sinapus]

Or, IIRC was suggested many pages ago, a reversible cover? John Shepard on one side, Jane Shepard on the other or similar?

[Captain Crash]

It would be awesome.  But as we have already seen the quality of femshep fanart covers is going to be tough for Bioware to beat! 
Oh and Marge looks amazing in the above pic Akodo 











<3

Modifié par Captain Crash, 17 février 2011 - 01:20 .

[Jane Shepard]

I really would like to see both Jane and Jonh. At least it would be fair I think. Otherwise it may give the impression that ME games have only one main character. Male. But it's not true, we know it. Female Shepard deserves more

Modifié par Jane Shepard, 17 février 2011 - 02:43 .

[Eshaye]

Jane Shepard wrote...

I really would like to see both Jane and Jonh. At least it would be fair I think. Otherwise it may give the impression that ME games have only one main character. Male. But it's not true, we know it. Female Shepard deserves more

Reason why I'd never touch the ME movie if Shepard is in it and any publication with default Shep. 

Awesome covers!

[jlb524]

Captain Crash wrote...

That's awesome!

I'm using the boxart I created regardless, so no Calvin Klein model for me.

[ELE08]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

Aislinn Trista wrote...

I wasn't saying that person didn't have skill.  They're definitely an awesome shot.

What I'm saying is that I myself, personally, don't like to use exploits.

The headshotting of YMIR mechs is impressive, Stasis' overpowered nature notwithstanding. I think this person did something to hack the Mattock rifle as well, though, as it fires insanely quickly in that video. Either that or they can really just click that fast.

I'm pretty sure the Mattock is just bugged out the box at least with adrenaline rush.  It's what I used for my insanity playthrough and it was cake.

[TheMarshal]

LesEnfantsTerribles wrote...

I quite like this idea. As has been mentioned before, there are multiple ways in which BioWare can give FemShep the recognition and attention that she deserves, without compromising their supposed "idol".

The question is, of course, would marketing be willing to do something like this? I certainly hope so.

As much as I'd like to believe that marketing would be alright with including FemShep in some of their materials, I'm fairly convinced that showing a female in that role would potentially scare off/weird out their new core base (or at least what they think is their core base), which is first-person shooter fans.  Call me prejudiced, but I've seen too many fps-ers fit the stereotype of "rawr rawr men shoot!" to think otherwise.

[Jade Elf]

Pfft, that article's silly! ME2 was "Empire Strikes back" and ME3 needs to be "Return of the Jedi"!












Oh right, there's the list too...

I like the article overall, and it's quite humorous too. Clearly written by a ME fan. I don't agree with all of the points (mostly the gameplay-related stuff), but that's way off topic. Most of it is of course very subjective, in the end.

And then there's #14... Let me put it this way, I took a look at the standard ME2 cover, then saw the Collector's Edition cover. And since I didn't really want the vacant-Calvin Klein-model-with-a-buzzcut-posterboy on the cover, the choice was obvious for me!

In case any one is not familiar with it: http://tonywonyrony....Cover-159765488

And yes, the Mattock+AR is bugged, since you can fire/pull the trigger just as fast as without AR. OP, but fun nevertheless.

Anyway, FemShep time!

[Captain Crash]

I think we all somewhat agree with that analogy Marshal. Bioware have set up a recognisable protagonist to attract to a certain market of gamer.



What they didn't anticipate was how successful femshep has been and the fact in many peoples eyes she is superior to the protagonist Bioware setup. Thats not a knock on Sheploo fans, its just the fact Biowares stance has mitigated the situation. Here we have an amazing female protagonist who has a massive fanbase and Bioware continues to neglect and ignore her when they should be embracing and recognising how successful she can potentially be.



However out of a silly fear of scaring the shooter crowd away they are keeping to their stubborn marketing ideals and wont accept any flexibility to it. Sheploo is Biowares Hero not ours.

[TheMarshal]

But is the fanbase for FemShep that massive? Or are we just the vocal minority? According to Bioware's own statistics, 80% of the people who played ME2 used ManShep. Now, I don't know if that means that they're necessarily ManShep fans, but if I were a marketing drone, I'd consider that evidence that our materials worked.

[f1r3storm]

Jade Elf wrote...

Pfft, that article's silly! ME2 was "Empire Strikes back" and ME3 needs to be "Return of the Jedi"!

But hopefully without Ewoks.

I'd actually prefer a mixture of Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, where not everything works perfect and where we see losses (but not my LI ).

[Jane Shepard]

FemShep is the best!
Here there are my new screens
Jane and Liara






And Mikaela in ME1. I just love her face!

Modifié par Jane Shepard, 17 février 2011 - 06:22 .

[ADLegend21]

Aislinn Trista wrote...

That's pretty much exactly how I play Trista. =-) No stasis, though.  It's such a ridiculous power.

It's bugged and you get an even bigger damage bonus than you're supposed to.  Which is why that person is one-shotting YMIR Mechs and Scions.  On Insanity.

That's also how I envision Soldier Kallen. I beleive in ym story with her and ash she takes out both the Krogan on peak 15 with erh sniper and kills the second while her rifle is overheated and cooling, both Liara and tali are like:
" DAMN!" it's also how I played her casual when I was getting used to the old gameplay, jsut runing around sending a hailstorm of bullets at whoever was dumb enough to ****** her off.

[jlb524]

TheMarshal wrote...

But is the fanbase for FemShep that massive? Or are we just the vocal minority? According to Bioware's own statistics, 80% of the people who played ME2 used ManShep. Now, I don't know if that means that they're necessarily ManShep fans, but if I were a marketing drone, I'd consider that evidence that our materials worked.

I don't know...those stats are a bit shady for one.   That '80%' percent could mean tons of things:

1)  80% of all Shepards created were male.
2)  80% of all Shepards that finished the game were male.
3)  80% of gamers uploading data created at least one male.
4)  80% of gamers uploading data finished the game with at least one male.

Notice three and four say nothing about how many people created or finished the game with a female.

I would even fit under three, as I've created a male that didn't get very far, and I don't consider myself to be a MaleShep player/fan at all.

What we can say is that the FemShep fanbase on the BSN is quite large and we seem to be the most exuberant fans.

[Captain Crash]

TheMarshal wrote...

But is the fanbase for FemShep that massive? Or are we just the vocal minority? According to Bioware's own statistics, 80% of the people who played ME2 used ManShep. Now, I don't know if that means that they're necessarily ManShep fans, but if I were a marketing drone, I'd consider that evidence that our materials worked.

True you can look at it that way. But we have nothing to compare against.  If there was more advertsing would that figure increase?  What if femshep was the default character?  would the figures be the opposite way around? But it would come back too how would it affect game sales?     All hypotheticals. 

Biowares Marketing will have asked the same questions and done a lot of research into it and stuck with what they thought was best.  Cant complain with that.  However if you look back in this thread there are loads of posts of people saying "I didn't know you could play female"  ect like its a giant covered up mystery.

What I find annoying really is the fact Bioware wont budge on anything because of their stance. They created the stance prior Mass effect was released and wont update it.   With all the attention she does get on these forums and on multiple media articles you would think someone in Marketting would get the hint that they have created a truely special charater.  But they havent and dont seem intent to do anything.

Additionally when you see the attention DA2 has for the female protagonst you cant help but think your getting fobbed off again and again.

[Fraevar]

TheMarshal wrote...

But is the fanbase for FemShep that massive? Or are we just the vocal minority? According to Bioware's own statistics, 80% of the people who played ME2 used ManShep. Now, I don't know if that means that they're necessarily ManShep fans, but if I were a marketing drone, I'd consider that evidence that our materials worked.

The statistics are flawed, at least in the context BioWare loves using it to justify Sheploo. I imported one manShep into ME2. He never got much past Illium and I since lost that save. According to BioWare I am thus one of the 80% that plays manShep. But by the same token I've done 9 or 10 femShep playthroughs - playthroughs that were actually finished.
So yeah, flawed.

Edit: Jib made an excellent clarification post.

Modifié par Delerius_Jedi, 17 février 2011 - 06:34 .