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[mranderson25]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I don't feel like digging, so i thought i'd make a poll asking which one you choose most often.

As for myself, i'd say my favorite is Spacer/Sole Survivor. I like the whole "Lone Ranger" kinda feel that the Sole Survivor role gives you, plus it's kinda like the Hollywood "random joe ends up saving the world" kinda story that i'm always a sucker for.

I also like the Spacer pre-service history because it just seems a bit more personal than some of the other ones when Shep talks to his/her mother, makes it more relatable IMHO. Plus the name of the mission is just cool too. "Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things"

Anyways, take a look at the polls!

social.bioware.com/2206032/polls/23313/ <---Pre-service History

social.bioware.com/2206032/polls/23314/ <---Psych Profile

[In Exile]

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

[100k]

I always got the impression that the Sole Survivor wounded several threshar maws, and scared them off for extended periods of time.

That's my only justification for the SS.

[mranderson25]

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

Haha, that's kinda true actually. And technically, his entire squad was killed (minus Toombs), so that can't really reflect too well on him either. However, it wasn't really his fault, and he did what he could, and he was able to put the whole ordeal behind him and move on and still be a good soldier, so that speaks well to his leadership ability i think.

[Clonedzero]

my current favorite is colonist / war hero.
i used to prefer colonist / sole survivor. but with the whole ME2 cerberus thing, without any way to confront them about the whole akuze thing it bugged me too much so i switched to war hero.

i like colonist because i like a tragic backround in my heroes. the spacer one seems too happy and all around hunky-doory. earthborn because its not so much tragic as just crappy. so colonist is the best. plus it easily explains being exposed to eezo for biotics.

[Rogue Unit]

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

Well, they made Ashley a Spectre and the only assignments she had before she got lucky and joined up with Shepard were "crap assignments".

If anyone, I think Kaidan and Garrus were the only two qualified to become Spectres.

Modifié par Rogue Unit, 14 août 2011 - 04:22 .

[Clonedzero]

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

yeah, its actually the worst backround when you really think about it with everything else. not only is it the least acceptable to prove shepards abilities, it conflicts too much wiht the story.

[Clonedzero]

Rogue Unit wrote...

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

Well, they made Ashley a Spectre and the only assignments she had before she got lucky and joined up with Shepard were "crap assignments".

If anyone, I think Kaidan and Garrus were the only two qualified to become Spectres.

yeah, absolutely NOTHING happened when shepard was dead for two years.

[mranderson25]

Clonedzero wrote...

i like colonist because i like a tragic backround in my heroes. the spacer one seems too happy and all around hunky-doory. earthborn because its not so much tragic as just crappy. so colonist is the best. plus it easily explains being exposed to eezo for biotics.

I can agree with the tragic background, that's kinda why i choose the Sole Survivor psych profile. Should go the full route and be colonist/sole survivor and have your Shep be Forever Alone. Might as well just kill everyone on the Suicide Mission too, just for good measure haha.

[TheKillerAngel]

I don't like the Ruthless profile because good officers do not get large numbers of their men killed.

[Sisterofshane]

Depends on my playthrough.

For a strictly paragon Shep, I use spacer/war hero. Mostly for the bonus, but also because it makes sense that someone who has managed to beat the odds before and didn't have to sacrifice ethics to do it would continue to maintain a moral standard (also my Femshep, btw)

For a renegade, I play either colonist/ruthless or earthborn/ruthless. Someone with a colorful past that gets the job done.(MShep all the way)

I never use sole survivor, It has it's merits (I can see how being so unwilling to lay down and die despite circumstances could possibly translate into a successful military career, but it still feels more like they should have ended up like Toombs), but I just can't imagine either of my Shep's with such a traumatizing history (especially since some people like to pair this with the colonist background-- poor shep can't get a break!)

[LilyasAvalon]

My favourite combination for a renegade Shepard is a Colonist/Ruthless. Family/Friends get kidnapped/brutually murdered by batarians... Shepard brutually murders batarians later.

Everybody wins. =D ... Wait...

[Rogue Unit]

Clonedzero wrote...

Rogue Unit wrote...

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

Well, they made Ashley a Spectre and the only assignments she had before she got lucky and joined up with Shepard were "crap assignments".

If anyone, I think Kaidan and Garrus were the only two qualified to become Spectres.

yeah, absolutely NOTHING happened when shepard was dead for two years.

We know she got promoted, that's it. We'll have to wait until ME3 to see if there is actually justification for her being made a Spectre or if was just to please the fans.

[LilyasAvalon]

Rogue Unit wrote...

Clonedzero wrote...

Rogue Unit wrote...

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

Well, they made Ashley a Spectre and the only assignments she had before she got lucky and joined up with Shepard were "crap assignments".

If anyone, I think Kaidan and Garrus were the only two qualified to become Spectres.

yeah, absolutely NOTHING happened when shepard was dead for two years.

We know she got promoted, that's it. We'll have to wait until ME3 to see if there is actually justification for her being made a Spectre or if was just to please the fans.

Ashley would make a c$%# Spectre in my opinion, she's racist for one thing. You really can't afford to be racist when you are a defender for the ENTIRE galaxy.

[Clonedzero]

LilyasAvalon wrote...


Ashley would make a c$%# Spectre in my opinion, she's racist for one thing. You really can't afford to be racist when you are a defender for the ENTIRE galaxy.

yeah, no way a racist would ever become a spectre. its not like we ever had one named saren before right? right? oh...

[leggywillow]

Colonist is definitely my favorite background, followed by Spacer.  My favorite combination is Colonist/War Hero or Colonist/Ruthless.  My main Shepard is a Colonist/War Hero.  She's a Paragon, but she has some legitimate racist feelings towards batarians, so it's fun to role-play her trying to wrestle with those feelings when it comes to situations like Bring Down the Sky.

After those two, I'd have to go with Spacer/Sole Survivor, though I agree with the second poster that it's hard to imagine why "not dying" qualifies Shepard for the Spectres.  Maybe Shepard managed to take down a thresher maw?

[LilyasAvalon]

Clonedzero wrote...

LilyasAvalon wrote...


Ashley would make a c$%# Spectre in my opinion, she's racist for one thing. You really can't afford to be racist when you are a defender for the ENTIRE galaxy.

yeah, no way a racist would ever become a spectre. its not like we ever had one named saren before right? right? oh...

He was more racist to JUST humans though and being how young we were as a spacefaring species, it's acceptable. Ashley is racist to everything that ISN'T human.

...Plus, you know, Saren ended up going insane.

Modifié par LilyasAvalon, 14 août 2011 - 04:44 .

[Clonedzero]

mranderson25 wrote...

Clonedzero wrote...

i like colonist because i like a tragic backround in my heroes. the spacer one seems too happy and all around hunky-doory. earthborn because its not so much tragic as just crappy. so colonist is the best. plus it easily explains being exposed to eezo for biotics.

I can agree with the tragic background, that's kinda why i choose the Sole Survivor psych profile. Should go the full route and be colonist/sole survivor and have your Shep be Forever Alone. Might as well just kill everyone on the Suicide Mission too, just for good measure haha.

oh yeah, i used to be all about the colonist / sole survivor backround, but the whole cerberus being behind the thresher maw attack and being part of that, and then working with them wihtout ever being givene the chance to confront them about it, bugged the hell out of me.

[Clonedzero]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Clonedzero wrote...

LilyasAvalon wrote...


Ashley would make a c$%# Spectre in my opinion, she's racist for one thing. You really can't afford to be racist when you are a defender for the ENTIRE galaxy.

yeah, no way a racist would ever become a spectre. its not like we ever had one named saren before right? right? oh...

He was more racist to JUST humans though and being how young we were as a spacefaring species, it's acceptable. Ashley is racist to everything that ISN'T human.

really like who?
basing that off the "i cant tell the aliens from the animals" line? really? if you didnt know the elcor were a intelligent alien race and you saw one, would you honestly think it was an intelligent race and not some sort of space cow or horse?

or her not trusting the council races? she has plenty of reason to not trust the council races outside of them being aliens.

[The Big Nothing]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Rogue Unit wrote...

Clonedzero wrote...

Rogue Unit wrote...

In Exile wrote...

You know, I never understood why Sole Survivor even qualifies Shepard for the Spectres. It's awesome that Shepard didn't get killed.. but that doesn't even speak to Shepard's ability to get the job done.

Well, they made Ashley a Spectre and the only assignments she had before she got lucky and joined up with Shepard were "crap assignments".

If anyone, I think Kaidan and Garrus were the only two qualified to become Spectres.

yeah, absolutely NOTHING happened when shepard was dead for two years.

We know she got promoted, that's it. We'll have to wait until ME3 to see if there is actually justification for her being made a Spectre or if was just to please the fans.

Ashley would make a c$%# Spectre in my opinion, she's racist for one thing. You really can't afford to be racist when you are a defender for the ENTIRE galaxy.

She says on multiple occasions that people look out for their own, and that it isn't a bad thing. She trusts humans more than aliens because they share common interests. Not to mention she insults the Terra Firma group.

Ashley isn't racist/xenophobic. 

[RPGamer13]

Earthborn Ruthless

The others didn't seem Renegade-like at all.

[marshalleck]

They should have written the Spacer background blurb differently. As it reads now, it's essentially saying "this is the most boring, unremarkable Shepard in every way. Nothing interesting happened for 18 years and then you joined the Navy."

Modifié par marshalleck, 14 août 2011 - 04:48 .

[Seboist]

Colonist and Ruthless are my personal favorite combo. I roleplay my Shepards as having a few scews loose and having an anger problem from those past experiences.

[breakdown71289]

Spacer/War Hero for me.....hopefully the folks at Bioware Edmonton can explore this a bit further in ME3.

Modifié par breakdown71289, 14 août 2011 - 04:50 .