AwesomeName wrote...
General User wrote...
AwesomeName wrote...
General User wrote...
I don't like any of these. They all look too young. Shepard is in her early thirties.
As long as she looks like she's in her early 20's but looks battle-hardened (like Aris Ravenstar's photoshop - see sig and avatar), I'm happy.
I like your avatar. I'd have pegged her at 24-26, which is... acceptable. There is something about the set of the cheeks and texture of the skin that makes her look appropriately aged. I would like to change my vote to "Aris Ravenstar's photoshop."
If I might ask, what is it about a FemShep in her early 20's that appeals to you?
On a related note I would submit that the rigors of military life and the stresses of combat being what they are, Shepard should, if anything, look older than her years.
I sort of see early 20's as a nice balance between keeping with the lore, but not to the point that it's inconsistent with the way they've already made people look in the games.
According to the books, humans generally look younger than humans today (big medical advances, of which one consequence has been longer life expectancy (~150, I think?) and another is that people generally look younger by today's standards (e.g. Kahlee Sanders, despite being in her late 30's/early 40's still looked like she was in her 20's - so apparently anyone with reasonable health care in the 2100's ages like a celebrity).
The problem, however, is that this wasn't really reflected in the games - I think all the human characters we've seen whose ages we know look how they would look if they were in our time. So basically, early 20's, to me, is a nice balance between being respectful to the lore, without being jarringly in contrast to everyone already seen in the game. Plus, it would indeed be easy to explain that since Shepard is a very busy soldier, as you say, that that will add a few years to her appearance; and we can say the same for folks like Anderson, Kaidan, etc..
You bring up a good point: which should Bioware be more loyal to, their design or their lore? Normally I would say "Lore!", but in this specific instance I'm going to have to go with graphic design just because MaleShep's design is already all but set in stone. What I mean is, Advertising MaleShep appears to my eyes to be a physically fit chap of military bearing in his late-twenties/early-thirties. To my way of thinking, Advertising FemShep should look to resemble a physically fit gal of military bearing in her late-twenties/early-thirties, rather than these, if you'll forgive my saying so, pissed-off teenagers.
These girls are cute, these girls are pretty. And that's really the heart of my problem with them. They are cute, pretty girls. Shepard is not a cute, pretty girl. She is a strong, beautiful woman (at least she is in my mind). I've always held that the difference between "pretty" and "beautiful" is the air of dignity that in so intrinsic to the latter. So, on a personal level, I would hate to see a character as important to me as FemShep have her public face (literally in this case) robbed of that dignity.
And that's another angle to this that me thinks is worth considering: ie the overall treatment of women in Mass Effect. It's hard to deny that ME2 was a pretty miserable offender when it came to objectifying women. With that in mind, I'd be lying if I said I'm looking at Bioware's treatment of women with anything other than an extremely wary eye.
Modifié par General User, 26 juillet 2011 - 01:18 .
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