I have to say, THIS is how much of a PR disaster the whole ending thing is.
For a long time us fans have spoken out how much a lot of us adore the FemShep and Bioware listened.
In ME3 thay gave her REAL presence and REAL value to the game. Her face was everywhere!
Posters, game boxes, game trailers. Heck, they even made a FemShep CG trailer too!
Bioware hosted a big event on deciding what she looked like for the final game.
And then like every other incarnation of Shepherd out there, she was snuffed out in a dissatisfying, hollow and quite honestly depressing finale with nothing else said about the state of the rest of the galaxy.
I think my heart goes out to you people that had far much more invested in their Shepherd than those of us
who settled for the traditional form of his.
Not to rub salt into the wound of the FemShep's....but
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:11
Der Estr Bune
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As someone who played FemShep from 1, I don't really think there's any reason to think we're more invested in our characters than Male Shepards. I appreciate the thought, though.I think my heart goes out to you people that had far much more invested in their Shepherd than those of us
who settled for the traditional form of his.
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:11
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It's not really unique to female Shepards, you know.
... and yeah, I do have a lot invested in this character. At least three replays of the first two games with the same character, making minor tweaks, refining how I wanted to present myself, things like that.
... and yeah, I do have a lot invested in this character. At least three replays of the first two games with the same character, making minor tweaks, refining how I wanted to present myself, things like that.
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:12
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Me, being BioWare loyal fan... after this very day... will be just a pure imagination wasted in dark places of my soul...
ME3 is the best game I ever have played. My ultimate goddess hero finally showed her real emotions, her shiny eyes, happy hair and casual hoodie wear all over the place... and no, the hell, Liara with her big, blue, good eyes in which you can see almost the same struggle as in my warrior princess...
I don't know how some people don't want a happy ending for those 2... Liara was always there, my goddess was always there for her, but it just ... died... vanished in the storm.
On the Mars mission, my heroine went to comfort Liara by touching her face so gently with her hand... I cried like... I have no words to explain, maybe I'm too weak to express...
Or the moment when she runs for a forest child for the first time in her dreams and the terror on her face when she finally get to him...
I finally got my real Shepard as it always needed to be in my own eyes and heart... until the very end, until that beginning of ruthless and pointless emptiness, when the real storm came...
My Shepard will never parish, while she walks strong and with a heart in casual wear all over the place preparing her shiny Blood Dragon Armor for the final hit of the storm of emptiness... At least, she deserves to give herself as a true warrior in a whole heroic way...
And now, all of my other 25 courageous female Shepards are gone, 26th made it thru the end...
Acting as a dead, brutally beaten corpse....
Love is the biggest looser of all time, but we were suckers enough to try it... Goodbye Liara, I will always love you....
ME3 is the best game I ever have played. My ultimate goddess hero finally showed her real emotions, her shiny eyes, happy hair and casual hoodie wear all over the place... and no, the hell, Liara with her big, blue, good eyes in which you can see almost the same struggle as in my warrior princess...
I don't know how some people don't want a happy ending for those 2... Liara was always there, my goddess was always there for her, but it just ... died... vanished in the storm.
On the Mars mission, my heroine went to comfort Liara by touching her face so gently with her hand... I cried like... I have no words to explain, maybe I'm too weak to express...
Or the moment when she runs for a forest child for the first time in her dreams and the terror on her face when she finally get to him...
I finally got my real Shepard as it always needed to be in my own eyes and heart... until the very end, until that beginning of ruthless and pointless emptiness, when the real storm came...
My Shepard will never parish, while she walks strong and with a heart in casual wear all over the place preparing her shiny Blood Dragon Armor for the final hit of the storm of emptiness... At least, she deserves to give herself as a true warrior in a whole heroic way...
And now, all of my other 25 courageous female Shepards are gone, 26th made it thru the end...
Acting as a dead, brutally beaten corpse....
Love is the biggest looser of all time, but we were suckers enough to try it... Goodbye Liara, I will always love you....
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:19
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Der Estr Bune wrote...
As someone who played FemShep from 1, I don't really think there's any reason to think we're more invested in our characters than Male Shepards. I appreciate the thought, though.I think my heart goes out to you people that had far much more invested in their Shepherd than those of us
who settled for the traditional form of his.
Well yeah I know, we're all torn up in our own way. I'm only saying this because I was never one to tinker with a decent character model. I always felt that the male Shepherd looked like he did on the front cover, but then I have friends who painstakingly crafted their own design of Shepherd as a labour of love, forming him the way they wanted him as well as those fans who decided what the FemShep should look like. I just feel that they have a slightly bigger reason to be so heartbroken.
I'm sorry if I'm not making so much sense.
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:19
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My FemShep died saving the galaxy so I wasn't that pissed. 
Her LI (Kaidan) will understand. x)
Her LI (Kaidan) will understand. x)
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:28
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I want just one happy end, is that so hard, Bioware?
JUST ONE.......
You can leave this one (3) as they are if you wish, but give me JUST ONE HAPPY END!
And maybe even one more where Reapers destroy everything...
BUT HAPPY END MUST BE ONE OF THE OPTIONS.....
Sorry for caps, but I can't stand this emptiness......
JUST ONE.......
You can leave this one (3) as they are if you wish, but give me JUST ONE HAPPY END!
And maybe even one more where Reapers destroy everything...
BUT HAPPY END MUST BE ONE OF THE OPTIONS.....
Sorry for caps, but I can't stand this emptiness......
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:45
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I remember, the first thing I noticed when I opened ME3 (this is true) was that on the back of the cover slip was...another cover slip. The back side features FemShep coverart the same as the standard front side features Sheploo. I turned it around, as a personal choice; since I play as FemShep it seemed appropriate. That little touch of thoughtful inclusion really warmed my heart. 
I also notice little throw-away lines throughout the game that refer to LotSB--my favorite part of ME2--and other minor moments from past games. Combat and conversations are a blast. How could they get so many things so right and then go so wrong at the end? It fills me with such a conflict of emotions. I love 95% of the game yet fiercely dislike its incomprehensible, dystopian ending. How did that even happen? And why strip me of all player control and doom my crew at the very last moment? It boggles the mind...
I also notice little throw-away lines throughout the game that refer to LotSB--my favorite part of ME2--and other minor moments from past games. Combat and conversations are a blast. How could they get so many things so right and then go so wrong at the end? It fills me with such a conflict of emotions. I love 95% of the game yet fiercely dislike its incomprehensible, dystopian ending. How did that even happen? And why strip me of all player control and doom my crew at the very last moment? It boggles the mind...
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 08:54
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My main prob is the LIs. FemShep gets less LI's than MaleShep. WHICH WOULDN'T BOTHER ME IF they hadn't completely snubbed Thane and Jacob. And I hate Jacob, but he was a legitimate LI in ME2 so there wasn't really much reason to force players to not be able to keep him as a LI when MaleSheps can still have (albeit disappointingly short and unrepresented) romances with Miranda and Jack.
My HUGE HUGE issue? Thane. I absolutely cannot shut up about it. I went back to ME1 to snub Kaidan since all my prepped games had him as a LI just to see if having a Thane-exclusive romance in ME3 would make a difference.
ETA: Before playing ME3 I pretty much expected Thane to die in ME3 SOMEHOW, but so soon and with barely any acknowledgement to a romance? I was pretty mad. They didn't even have the decency to have the option to make Femshep remorseful.
And I won't say FemShep players are more invested than MaleShep players, because I don't think they are. But as someone who hasn't previously complained about the lack of representation for FemShep (like in the trailers, posters, merch etc because I honestly didn't care as long as we could even have a FemShep) I have to say FemShep's lack of meaningful romances really pissed me off.
My HUGE HUGE issue? Thane. I absolutely cannot shut up about it. I went back to ME1 to snub Kaidan since all my prepped games had him as a LI just to see if having a Thane-exclusive romance in ME3 would make a difference.
ETA: Before playing ME3 I pretty much expected Thane to die in ME3 SOMEHOW, but so soon and with barely any acknowledgement to a romance? I was pretty mad. They didn't even have the decency to have the option to make Femshep remorseful.
And I won't say FemShep players are more invested than MaleShep players, because I don't think they are. But as someone who hasn't previously complained about the lack of representation for FemShep (like in the trailers, posters, merch etc because I honestly didn't care as long as we could even have a FemShep) I have to say FemShep's lack of meaningful romances really pissed me off.
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