StrawberryViking wrote...
To anyone who says blonde shep (or any shep for that matter) looks too young, in the book it mentions that Kahlee Sanders is around 40, but says she could pass for 20 due to the advances in health. If she can look half her age then I think Shep could easily get away with a couple of years.
Modifié par DevilYoko, 02 août 2011 - 08:56 .
Pulletlamer wrote...
didymos1120 wrote...
TheKillerAngel wrote...
Samus is Blonde, but I have trouble thinking of other major female characters.
Rosa in FF4. Celes in FF6. Ashe in FF12 has dirty blonde hair. A few from various fighting games: Sonya Blade, Nina Williams, Cammy. Alexandra in Eternal Darkness (voiced by Jennifer Hale, in fact). The Boss and Eva in MGS3. All I got at the moment, and most aren't main characters (or even playable characters).
Sonya in Ninja Gaiden 2, but that is just, ehh... "oversexualized" we could say. The doctor chick form Vanquish, Jill valentine is dyed blonde in RE5 (which was stupid IMO, she looks better with brown hair), and we could say Lighting from XXIII (I got the number right?Sorry not a very FF fan myself) is blonde although she's more like "whitie".
Oh and also the police from Silent Hill.
Again, not main characters....
Ramus Quaritch wrote...
The one dark-skinned FemShep was way too emo for me. There's enough emo in Dragon Age 2. I don't want Mass Effect getting more emo. As I and many others said on the fb page and forum post here, we like blonde FemShep's hairdo but would like a darker hair color. But most of all, I like that hairstyle whether it's blonde or brunette.
GarrusV4karian wrote...
Ramus Quaritch wrote...
The one dark-skinned FemShep was way too emo for me. There's enough emo in Dragon Age 2. I don't want Mass Effect getting more emo. As I and many others said on the fb page and forum post here, we like blonde FemShep's hairdo but would like a darker hair color. But most of all, I like that hairstyle whether it's blonde or brunette.
Okaaaaaay...?
Modifié par Ramus Quaritch, 02 août 2011 - 09:06 .
Chris Priestly wrote...
The good thing about this is that there really was no "bad" choice.
Modifié par Upsettingshorts, 02 août 2011 - 09:22 .
fibchopkin wrote...
I didn't hate the looks of the character, (Here's the selection, for anyone who hasn't already seen it.) and I thought it was pretty cool that Bioware let the fans help pick the design, but I can't help feeling just a tad disappointed in us, the community. Really guys?* They offered us one Combat Barbie amid 6 women (all of whom seemed to look a lot younger than shep's 29-31 yrs depending on how you view the timeline, but hey, that's Hollywood baby) and we went with the Barbie? Granted, the tousled hairdo was cool and seemed to fit the Shep persona, and most of us femShepers will probably continue using our custom designs anyway, but it's still a small blow to see a gaming company struggling to make strides in acceptance and inclusiveness feature a typical and cliched version of feminine strength and heroism. Thanks for trying Bioware, but apparantly, we're not ready for that kind of responsibility yet. Maybe you should've started us off with a goldfish, saw how we did with that, and went from there.
Then again... maybe I'm just bitter that my choice was shot down...
*guys is being used here to encompass all genders, fyi
Lots of things. Mass Effect is a game that relies heavily on the story and setting. That means, the main character impression needs to fit into that story and setting. Simply choosing the most attractive does not mean that that character is the most suited for the universe. If that was the case, they might as well paste a dead or alive character with large boobies in it as Shepard. Obviously none of us want that. This is important, especially for a promotional character. It needs to give the right impression about the game, not be attractive because of sexiness alone. That undermines what the game stands for.StrawberryViking wrote...
Asking which Shepard they find most appealing is helpful in that in for those who judge a game largely from its box-art (me included), it could help in some way. Besides, what is so wrong about picking which Shep we find most attractive?
StrawberryViking wrote...
To anyone who says blonde shep (or any shep for that matter) looks too young, in the book it mentions that Kahlee Sanders is around 40, but says she could pass for 20 due to the advances in health. If she can look half her age then I think Shep could easily get away with a couple of years.
Upsettingshorts wrote...
The complaint that rings true isn't that any particular choice is bad, but that turning the selection in what amounted to a public beauty contest sends the wrong message.
Chris Priestly wrote...
Upsettingshorts wrote...
The complaint that rings true isn't that any particular choice is bad, but that turning the selection in what amounted to a public beauty contest sends the wrong message.
However, this WAS essentially a beauty contest. "Beauty" may be the wrong term, but it was definitely a contest to determine what the predominancy of the fans felt was the best facial appearance of the character, so a comparrison to a "beauty contest" is not without some merrit.
However, as with all Shepards, male or female, deault or custom, Shepard is what YOU make of her/him. Just because there will be a default setting does not change the ability to choose the story and personality of the character you play. I know there were suggestions of other ways to hold the choosing of the face, and all could have worked to varying degrees of success, but this was the way that we chose to do it. And, despite not everyone preferring the way that we did it, I think allowing our fans to actually chose something like this and including it in teh game was a pretty cool decision by the Dev and Marketing teams.
Sesshomaru47 wrote...
It wouldn't matter who won, a large portion of people here would still whine about it till there pants fell off. Don't like then lump it then mod the game. Personally I like her.
NightAntilli wrote...
Lots of things. Mass Effect is a game that relies heavily on the story and setting. That means, the main character impression needs to fit into that story and setting. Simply choosing the most attractive does not mean that that character is the most suited for the universe. If that was the case, they might as well paste a dead or alive character with large boobies in it as Shepard. Obviously none of us want that. This is important, especially for a promotional character. It needs to give the right impression about the game, not be attractive because of sexiness alone. That undermines what the game stands for.StrawberryViking wrote...
Asking which Shepard they find most appealing is helpful in that in for those who judge a game largely from its box-art (me included), it could help in some way. Besides, what is so wrong about picking which Shep we find most attractive?
Modifié par mione, 02 août 2011 - 09:40 .
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