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[Halfdan The Menace]

Playing as FemShep make me feel like a girly man, more girly than Clay Aiken. As ManShep; paragon is fine but as renegade I feel like a dick who likes screwing others. IMO.

Heheh! quite an experience eh? 

[What a Succulent Ass]

jreezy wrote...

Not me. 

I admit - I do, but not in a sexual way, and only when s/he's wearing N7 armour, and only to wonder "why did they put those horrid buttplates there?" I noticed them in the ME2 cutscene where Shepard is admiring the SR-2 with Joker.

Haven't been able to un-notice them since.

[shepisavanguardgetoverit]

Deaddude56 wrote...

I like to play both. For some reason though, I decided to make my man-Shep a paragon and my fem-Shep a renegade. I think that Hale's voice suits a mean Shepard.

Same here, I did this both in ME1 and ME2.  When Manshep goes the renegade path, I just think what an ass, but when femshep does it I think wow she just threatened to shoot me, and no, she is not joking.  She WILL shoot me!

[Kakita Tatsumaru]

Being a little homophobic, I only play straight males in games where romance is involved. Through in games with third person view and no romance involved I often plays women just because seeing their ass moving for hours is better than seeing a man's ass moving for hours.

[Icinix]

Weird and un-natural?

Yeah - because playing as a futuristic space marine in a universe filled with aliens and having a sex-bot AI is totally not weird at all.

Games are an opportunity to involve / experience something outside of what we would normally be exposed or have the opportunity to do in real life.

Its a way of entertaining us in ways that go against what we would only ever normally be able to comprehend. Heck, its even a way of understanding things from a totally different outlook.

Personally this style of commentary is about as intelligent as;

You are captain of *insert local sports team*, you must be a meat head.
You play *insert computer game* you must have no friends, have no social skills and smell bad.

Its just dumb.

Although companies like EA do nothing to break those barriers, dare say they reinforce them, with their god awful marketing practices and general encouragement on style of games.

[tetrisblock4x1]

111987 wrote...

StElmo wrote...

I was reading in the Starwars vs ME forum that some guys think playing as femshep is wierd and unnatural.

Why is this?

Personally I like playing as female shepard because of:

a) better actor
more interesting context having a female hero
c) I like seeing blindness to sexism in a game (mostly femshep is treated like maleshep - refreshing)
d) I prefer to play as a slightly more sensitive looking character then some mug alpha male who I would feel intimidated by if I met in real life.
e) I wanna be friends with femshep in real life, cos she seems nicer then stupid angry male shepard
f) I get that ellen ripley vibe.

a). Subjective. Plenty of people don't like Hale's more emotional style (I personally think both VA's are very good)

Bull****. You think that just anyone can win oscar awards for acting? You don't think that acting school has logical and time tested rating systems in place? You wouldn't call these things subjective if you had a better than low level understanding of what makes good actors good.

[111987]

tetrisblock4x1 wrote...

111987 wrote...

StElmo wrote...

I was reading in the Starwars vs ME forum that some guys think playing as femshep is wierd and unnatural.

Why is this?

Personally I like playing as female shepard because of:

a) better actor
more interesting context having a female hero
c) I like seeing blindness to sexism in a game (mostly femshep is treated like maleshep - refreshing)
d) I prefer to play as a slightly more sensitive looking character then some mug alpha male who I would feel intimidated by if I met in real life.
e) I wanna be friends with femshep in real life, cos she seems nicer then stupid angry male shepard
f) I get that ellen ripley vibe.

a). Subjective. Plenty of people don't like Hale's more emotional style (I personally think both VA's are very good)

Bull****. You think that just anyone can win oscar awards for acting? You don't think that acting school has logical and time tested rating systems in place? You wouldn't call these things subjective if you had a better than low level understanding of what makes good actors good.

So you're telling me it's not subjective whether a person thinks Meer or Hale is a better VA for Mass Effect?

[RPGamer13]

I can't really describe why I play female characters. I mean, I could give a number of reasons why, but they'd just be an attempt in trying to hide the truth. I could say it's because Jennifer Hale voices the character, but even if she wasn't the voice for femshep, I'd still choose to play her above maleshep.

I've been playing female characters in video games when given the choice for as long as I can remember. I used to tell people it's because I'd rather look at a female's butt than a male's, but that was just a cover because I wasn't able to figure out why.

Anyway, it boils down to it is far easier for me to look at females in general. .

[Brownfinger]

They're both great actors, you can't go wrong either way. I typically play male characters, but there are exceptions. The female Shepard loyalists I know are creepily defensive and viciously protective of their character, seeing her as the "one true Shepard".

It's disturbing.

[kaymarierose]

I'm a girl who plays M!Shep. Why? I like Meer's voice acting better. As an added bonus, M!Shep is sexy. I usually play as the male characters, the exception is Hawke in DA2. Again, it was because of the voice acting. I prefer Hale's voice acting as Bastila, and the same would probably apply to my decision to save Ashley instead of Kaidan because I preferred his voice as Carth.

[G3rman]

RPGamer13 wrote...

I can't really describe why I play female characters. I mean, I could give a number of reasons why, but they'd just be an attempt in trying to hide the truth. I could say it's because Jennifer Hale voices the character, but even if she wasn't the voice for femshep, I'd still choose to play her above maleshep.

I've been playing female characters in video games when given the choice for as long as I can remember. I used to tell people it's because I'd rather look at a female's butt than a male's, but that was just a cover because I wasn't able to figure out why.

Anyway, it boils down to it is far easier for me to look at females in general. .

So becoming a female and looking at yourself all day would be..appealing to you?

[Virginian]

Male that plays Femshep.

One reason and one reason only, I do not like looking at male asses.

[Osena109]

FFWarQueen wrote...

G3rman wrote...

Dave Exclamation Mark Yognaut wrote...

StElmo wrote...
then some mug alpha male who I would feel intimidated by if I met in real life.

The implication here is that FemShep is anything other than alpha as f*ck. That confuses me.

Agreed, Hale makes her sound like one bad*** alpha female.

Also agree! I can't imagine anyone else as Femsheps voice.

Id love to hear Claudia Black give it a shot that woman's voice is Sex and she ruled as Morriagan

[Omilophile]

AlexXIV wrote...

I don't know why this topic always comes up again and again. Obviously because every season new boys reach puberty. Funny enough girls don't have these kind of issues.

Anyway, people have no problem to play as a robot, or hedgehog, alien, etc., but female characters? Oh no the outrage! So there is not much common sense necessary to figure that one out. People need to grow up. But obviously playing video games doesn't help much with that.

Get off your feminist high-horse. The topic was about people playing as a different gender than they actually are; it had nothing to do with female characters being inferior or whatever perceived insult you took from it. Most of the people on here (myself included) play as both. The main reason I personally prefer male Shepard is because I'm male.

In a roleplaying game you are meant to feel as if you're the one performing all those courageous feats, and it's a bit hard for me to feel that if I'm playing as a female, because I'm not one. No other reason.

[SnakeStrike8]

I've always said that you haven't seen a Bioware game in its entirety until you've played both genders. They do really put a lot of effort into making the two game styles different enough to be distinct and at the same time stay within the overall story.
In this specific instance, I always play male first, even if there's an equal number of male and female runs at the end of it. I'm male in real life, and I relate better to male characters.

[AlanC9]

tetrisblock4x1 wrote...

111987 wrote...
a). Subjective. Plenty of people don't like Hale's more emotional style (I personally think both VA's are very good)

Bull****. You think that just anyone can win oscar awards for acting? You don't think that acting school has logical and time tested rating systems in place? You wouldn't call these things subjective if you had a better than low level understanding of what makes good actors good.

True. The people who don't like Hale's performance are just wrong.

[Darth_Ravor]

Boobs.

[SnakeStrike8]

tetrisblock4x1 wrote...

Bull****. You think that just anyone can win oscar awards for acting? You don't think that acting school has logical and time tested rating systems in place? You wouldn't call these things subjective if you had a better than low level understanding of what makes good actors good.

How clever. You know what else, my self-righteous mate?
Oscar awards are voted on. People with subjective opinions on what makes actors good decide on who the best actor is. You'd know that if you had a better than low level understanding of how the world works.

[MrChowderClam]

Boobs.

No but seriously, the first time I saw mass effect was from a playthrough on YouTube. I got used to the character. Playing as manshep seems.... strange to me - like it's non-cannon. Plus, it's nice to play as a female game character who hast been hypersexualized to hell and back. Afaik this game and mirrors edge are the only games in recent history to do this.

Modifié par MrChowderClam, 29 janvier 2012 - 04:08 .

[Flashflame58]

AlanC9 wrote...

tetrisblock4x1 wrote...

111987 wrote...
a). Subjective. Plenty of people don't like Hale's more emotional style (I personally think both VA's are very good)

Bull****. You think that just anyone can win oscar awards for acting? You don't think that acting school has logical and time tested rating systems in place? You wouldn't call these things subjective if you had a better than low level understanding of what makes good actors good.

True. The people who don't like Hale's performance are just wrong.

I like Meer's performance better than Hale's. Problem?

Modifié par Flashflame58, 29 janvier 2012 - 04:05 .