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[shinobi602]

Onyx Jaguar wrote...

Because manshep is lame

How does that affect you? Is that lowering your enjoyment of the game when you play?

Got some mad feminists up in here. Oh noez more people play as male Shepards!1$@! gahhhh!!!

[Zan51]

didymos1120 wrote...

Zan51 wrote...
I like my Soldier because I can lead my team anywhere. Just a bit difficult with a more fragile character to be leading all the time... Having said that, I am enjoying my Vanguard right now.

I'm surprised you're not into Sentinels then.  Fragility is definitely not one of their problems.

Thanks for the tip! I will give that class a try next. :happy:

[Freakaz0idx]

PoliteAssasin wrote...

No wonder more 360 players played grunts mission more, and use the soldier class more often - they're shooter fanboys.

-Polite

so? what's wrong with that?

[lord berwick]

Argh! As a scientist, I loath simple stats; give me more graphs and tables dammit!



As others have pointed out, the 50% completion rate doesn't take into account someone restarting (eg designing a Shepard, not liking how it looks in-game, rinse, repeat). Same thing goes with the class and gender stat; is this a figure based on a 1st playthrough, or a cumulative one that takes into account the total number. And how many of those new or repeated games went to completion? The 15% conversation skipping raises it own questions. While Casey states in the article that this mostly occurs at hub areas, is this b/c the player is on a 2nd, 3rd etc playthrough? And is this also true with the differences in the number of players doing certain loyalty missions on the PC or Xbox? Drawing the conclusion that b/c Xbox players did Grunt's loyalty mission cp to PC players must mean they're only shooter fanboys seems a little too simplistic. If we're going to use stereotypes, that does mean their simple minds didn't appreciate Miranda's daddy issues, or that her suit wasn't tight enough?



I'd be interested in knowing how many players did the following: completed the side-quests, gained certain achievements, destroyed the collector base, kept all of they're squadmates alive at the SM (if so, who, & did the number increase or decrease according to the number of playthroughs?), gained their squadmates loyalty, downloaded DLC, picked certain skills and evolved them etc.

[SmokePants]

Speaking as someone who sticks with a male soldier Sheperd, I can say that 1) Soldier just seems right for someone with Sheperd's military background. Plus, I like having access to every weapon. And 2) female Sheperd is written like a man with a really weak chin. It just doesn't make as much sense to me in that role as a male Sheperd does. Call me sexist, whatever, I would probably pick a female Sheperd if all her dialogue was written specifically for her. Or if she was hot.

Modifié par SmokePants, 07 septembre 2010 - 01:36 .

[ciaweth]

SmokePants wrote...

Speaking as someone who sticks with a male soldier Sheperd, I can say that 1) Soldier just seems right for someone with Sheperd's military background. Plus, I like having access to every weapon. And 2) female Sheperd is written like a man with a really weak chin. It just doesn't make as much sense to me in that role as a male Sheperd does. Call me sexist, whatever, I would probably pick a female Sheperd if all her dialogue was written specifically for her. Or if she was hot.

Ha!  You and I are opposites on this.  I like femShep specifically because she's the same as maleShep--she does the same things, says the same things, is exactly the same kind of hero as a man would be.  They didn't tart her up in "look at my boobs" clothes, make her squeal and quake like an anime girl, or anything goofy like that.  She's just pure Shepard, a hardcore space marine.

[Digifi]

Yeah, I hope they don't put too much stock in the conversation skipping. I've been rushing two playthroughs to get ready for LotSB and have had to skip convos to get both done by tonight.

I am a little surprised there aren't more vanguards. From a shooter perspective they have the best "action" of any of the classes, but it does require you to man up and use biotic charge like it is going out of style for the class to really come into its own.

Modifié par Digifi, 07 septembre 2010 - 01:44 .

[AresXX7]

PoliteAssasin wrote...

No wonder more 360 players played grunts mission more, and use the soldier class more often - they're shooter fanboys.

-Polite

Please refrain from categorizing.

I happen to play on the 360, yet, I'm not a shooter fanboy, nor do I choose the Soldier class more often.
My favorite class is the Sentinal, and I like to mix things up, with tech & biotics, as much as possible.

[Freakaz0idx]

AriesXX7 wrote...

PoliteAssasin wrote...

No wonder more 360 players played grunts mission more, and use the soldier class more often - they're shooter fanboys.

-Polite

Please refrain from categorizing.

I happen to play on the 360, yet, I'm not a shooter fanboy, nor do I choose the Soldier class more often.
My favorite class is the Sentinal, and I like to mix things up, with tech & biotics, as much as possible.

A lot of people on these forums think it's okay to look down on people because they play their videogames on a console like there's something wrong with that. Yay for elitism and snobbery.

[FuturePasTimeCE]

they collected this from xbox live? those look like my stats :-(

[Rulid]

As noted by others, these are just general numbers farmed from everywhere. 50% completed can have various conotations; count per character, count per gamer, count per device etc.



bioware developers are no dummies and will probably come to the conclusion that we have; there is a default casual gaming population and hard core fans will also attempt various default option playthroughs once in their multiple iterations.



Ask me how many times I've played Baldur's gate, Bioware. I dare you.

[wizardryforever]

Freakaz0idx wrote...

AriesXX7 wrote...

PoliteAssasin wrote...

No wonder more 360 players played grunts mission more, and use the soldier class more often - they're shooter fanboys.

-Polite

Please refrain from categorizing.

I happen to play on the 360, yet, I'm not a shooter fanboy, nor do I choose the Soldier class more often.
My favorite class is the Sentinal, and I like to mix things up, with tech & biotics, as much as possible.

A lot of people on these forums think it's okay to look down on people because they play their videogames on a console like there's something wrong with that. Yay for elitism and snobbery.

Yep, it would be amusing in the extreme if the PC statistics looked almost exactly the same, maybe even more shooter oriented.  It's easy to dismiss console users as shooter fanboys or *gasp* casual gamers.  As though that makes them lower than low or something.  Whatever.

[Rip504]

Hangs Head... Male Sent. Shep... I may be getting close to that 23 lol... Went back and read... I have deff. beat the game 14 or more times,and I only have 1 female Shepard. Also I have deff beat the game in less then 30 hours. (More then once.) Also I have a few playthroughs I consider complete,that took 30+ hours.

Modifié par Rip504, 07 septembre 2010 - 06:17 .

[didymos1120]

wizardryforever wrote...

Yep, it would be amusing in the extreme if the PC statistics looked almost exactly the same, maybe even more shooter oriented.  It's easy to dismiss console users as shooter fanboys or *gasp* casual gamers.  As though that makes them lower than low or something.  Whatever.

According to Casey Hudson, that's basically what they saw:

"In general, pretty much all of the data for the Xbox 360 version and the PC version are quite similar."  

He just said that some missions, of which Grunt's and Miranda's were just examples, were done more on one platform than the other. In fact, he also said that X360 players did more loyalty missions overall than PC players.

[only1sgop]

ciaweth wrote...

SmokePants wrote...

Speaking as someone who sticks with a male soldier Sheperd, I can say that 1) Soldier just seems right for someone with Sheperd's military background. Plus, I like having access to every weapon. And 2) female Sheperd is written like a man with a really weak chin. It just doesn't make as much sense to me in that role as a male Sheperd does. Call me sexist, whatever, I would probably pick a female Sheperd if all her dialogue was written specifically for her. Or if she was hot.

Ha!  You and I are opposites on this.  I like femShep specifically because she's the same as maleShep--she does the same things, says the same things, is exactly the same kind of hero as a man would be.  They didn't tart her up in "look at my boobs" clothes, make her squeal and quake like an anime girl, or anything goofy like that.  She's just pure Shepard, a hardcore space marine.

Agreed! She's so bad ass like Mila Jovovich, Sigourney Weaver, and Michelle Rodriguez. Fem Shepard is good fictional role model that has very few girly like qualities. (That's the most awesomest thing about her). I will always rather play as a fem shepard onscreen for 50 plus hours instead of a male character.

[azerSheppard]

You'd think that the pc community are shooter fanboys, i mean, we have a friggin mouse, that's tech language for "great aiming".

All we got are rpg's (screw mmo's) shooters, rts and driving/flight sims. The 360 atleast got a little more variety, all we get are lame console ports(that are not optimized for pc) and about a thousand mmorpgs a month...

Agreed! She's so bad ass like Mila Jovovich, Sigourney Weaver, and Michelle Rodriguez. Fem Shepard is good fictional role model that has very few girly like qualities. (That's the most awesomest thing about her). I will always rather play as a fem shepard onscreen for 50 plus hours instead of a male character.

I presume you are female? It's only logical to think so (sorry if i'm wrong), a male would enjoy playing as a male, whilst a female would enjoy playing a female, it's called roleplaying, and it's easier to do as someone you can relate to.
(nobody start flaming "i'm a guy and i play femShep" please, i'm talking about the majority, not every single individuel)

Funny tho, all 3 of the actrices you mention have gained fame portraying "badass babes". Signourney was the hot and badass Riply in the 80's, Mila in resident evil and Michelle always portraying "badass babes".
I don't understand that "not being girly" is a good rolemodel, or being girly is a bad one. That just doesn't make sense  please explain.

Modifié par azerSheppard, 07 septembre 2010 - 10:21 .

[azerSheppard]

Modifié par azerSheppard, 07 septembre 2010 - 10:21 .

[SurfaceBeneath]

GG 80% of Mass Effect 2 players playing the game wrong.

[rheed]

Woah, my first ( and only ) playthrough on xbox360 lasted me 75hours ( including all DLC; playing on Insanity ), and I still have to try LSB yet so I'm off the charts!

[Sailears]

80% maleshep and soldier played more than every other class combined???!!!???
What the ....?!


Edit: We need some "I support femshep engineer" banners to encourage people to play and help balance the statistic.

Modifié par Curunen, 07 septembre 2010 - 12:10 .

[Valbruch]

I'd say that the preference of males and soldiers is influenced by Male Soldier being the default setting. Many ppl that play the game for the first time simply pick the default character because it is often assumed to have the most forgiving learning curve.



I know I did that in ME 1

[Crossofthorns]

I know some guys who played with fem-shepard =D

[sarahN7]

Engineer is the best class to play for ME2, I'm genuinely shocked it is the lowest!

The reason 80% are malesheps....FEMALE HAIRSTYLES STILL SUCK! Just kidding, they're not that bad. But I still wish there were other ones....(another rant for another day)

I actually have never gotten past the first mission with my maleshep. Only femsheps.

In any case, where did they get these statistics, I wonder.

Modifié par sarahN7, 07 septembre 2010 - 03:21 .

[Valbruch]

In any case, where did they get these statistics, I wonder.

I read on Eurogamer that aslong as you were connected to internet, the game sent anonymous data to Bioware. Don't know if that's true of course since gaming mags are known to be wrong sometimes