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[Justicar]

Jennifer Hale

[sheppard7]

Sigh_Blaise wrote...

I never related to my first playthroughs of ME1 with male shep, probably because i thought the voice acting was a bit flat. I thought my femshep sounded better, acted better and i was always happier with the choice i made (because that was my second play through), so she became my favourite.

But my second playthrough ME3 will this time be with maleshep and I'm really looking forward to seeing Ashley again. I've missed her because my femshep had to chose Kaiden.

P.S. i also think if you're going to spend 30 hours looking at a someones rear end it's better to be a woman!

Now that you mention it, in ME1, my first play was male shep. Even second play was another male shep. It was the third play I first did a femshep and I thought "Wow. Better voice work." In ME2, she became my first. So maybe the OP saying first play might actually count for the entire series and then in that case, I'm not one of those he's talking to as he said he had no issue with later play throughs.

[Aipex8]

When playing an RPG, I'm not fantasizing that the character is me, but instead I want to create a character that I will really care for. And that happens to be a female character for me. I love my femshep! When I play broshep I don't feel for the character as much.

[slimgrin]

Aipex8 wrote...

When playing an RPG, I'm not fantasizing that the character is me, but instead I want to create a character that I will really care for.

This. I'll add that I've always been fascinated with strong female types, and RPG's are a great medium to experience that.

And having a nice bum to look at doesn't hurt.

Modifié par slimgrin, 16 mars 2012 - 05:30 .

[Toxic Alien]

slimgrin wrote...

Aipex8 wrote...

When playing an RPG, I'm not fantasizing that the character is me, but instead I want to create a character that I will really care for.

This. I add that I've always been fascinated with strong female types, and RPG's are a great medium to experience that.

And having a nice bum to look at doesn't hurt.

Same as above 2 qoutes for me.

Also my first playthrough was with male Shep, then I played as female, different experience to a game...

[Vilegrim]

far better voice acting imho.

[Olive Oomph]

well, I am not a guy, but I don't blame them. I know I like her



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[Stardusk]

Variation, no other reason. Just that...

[NoxJuked]

Jack: Why the **** not

[Fontfillmore]

Just because you are male then you must play as a male character? What confining logic is that?

Modifié par Fontfillmore, 16 mars 2012 - 05:50 .

[Ottemis]

Because they can.

@Punk4Real's OP. Not sure if serious. And your edits don't help, at all.
If you can't come up with a better reason why someone would want to then you have, without calling them gay or stupid, I wouldn't expect to get a single serious answer in return. You have though, it's miraculous.

Modifié par Ottemis, 16 mars 2012 - 05:59 .

[streamlock]

In the 1st two games at least-better Paragon VA
I get to have a females hind end fill my stupidly reduced POV screen for a bit.
See if there are any major plot/story differences (I don't know with ME3)

Not my 1st or 2nd playthrough choice. But chose to for other reasons as well. I will admit it has always felt awkward perusing relationships as a female character as a male player. Guess that's why I had mine hook up with Liara and have that weired moment with the secretary in ME2.

[Parmida]

I'm a girl and I play Sheploo cause I like watching him "Taking an arrow in the knee"...LOL nevermind.

[Devbo22]

Mostly because of Jennifer Hale.

[cinderburster]

Toxic Alien wrote...

slimgrin wrote...

Aipex8 wrote...

When playing an RPG, I'm not fantasizing that the character is me, but instead I want to create a character that I will really care for.

This. I add that I've always been fascinated with strong female types, and RPG's are a great medium to experience that.

And having a nice bum to look at doesn't hurt.

Same as above 2 qoutes for me.

Also my first playthrough was with male Shep, then I played as female, different experience to a game...

All three of these, pretty much.  My first Shepard back in ME1 was male, but I lost the save before I got ME2 and made a female Shepard instead.

This had absolutely nothing to do with wanting to romance a certain Turian.

EDIT because I just now read OP: agreeing with another poster, that's EXTREMELY confining logic.  That's like saying an author can't write a woman if they're male, or vice versa.  Which has been proven again and again that it's simply not true.

For some people, their own gender has absolutely nothing to do with their choice to play men or women, to write men or women, to draw men or women (or both, or neither).  Their sexuality has nothing to do with what they're interested in playing.  Maybe a gay man wants to play a fem!Shep and have a romance with Liara just for fun?  Or an asexual person still enjoys seeing the romances play out?

The world isn't two sides of a coin.  It's very rarely a case of either/or.

Does that mean it's wrong to want to play your own gender and sexuality in the games?  Absolutely not.  But the reverse is true, too.

Modifié par cinderburster, 16 mars 2012 - 06:12 .

[FROST4584]

XxTaLoNxX wrote...

Because I am a straight male and I like to watch strong, beautiful women kick galactic ass...

I feel the same.

[Darth Malignus]

Why do I play female characters? Well, I could say "BECAUSEOFTITS!", but instead I like to think back to the days in WoW. We had a fun little discussion about it in the guild chat. Apparently some people in the guild were "shocked and awed", seeing that I'm a man and had a female character. Some of them even wanted to kick me from the guild because they thought it was unheard of, and that I was being dishonest. Guess I ruined some hopes for steaming webcam-chats there, I suppose.

I was kind of relaxed about it, so I just said "Well, first of all, you never really asked me if I was a guy, so technically I wasn't really dishonest about anything. Second, why the Hell do you people care about my gender in real life? Third, as a straight guy I like to look at women. I'm totally cool with it if you guys have an opposite stance to that." Followed by approx. 20 seconds of radio silence, until the guild master wrote "Hehehehehehe..." And that was sort of the end of it.

I suppose the same thing applies in ME. I like looking at women. There's no bigger mystery or philosophical explanation there. Hell, if that makes me some kind of freak, so be it.

[Ottemis]

@Darth Malignus: Funny that, we always assumed 95% of female WoW characters to actually be played by males, weren't surprised at all when that ended up being true (which really is the case more often then not).

From an esthetic standpoint the choice is easy.
Honestly males so adamently against the idea of playing a female character strike me as overly macho, buttcheek clenchingly afraid of being labelled something other then a heterosexual. Completely nonsensical, but hey, wouldn't be the first time.

Modifié par Ottemis, 16 mars 2012 - 06:10 .

[earl of the north]

I played as Male Shep on my first playthrough of ME1, then I played Fem Shep on my second playthrough and I've stuck with Fem Shep ever since....much better VA performance.

I flipped my cover of ME3 to Fem Shep since to me, she is Shepard.

Modifié par earl of the north, 16 mars 2012 - 06:32 .

[sheppard7]

Darth Malignus wrote...

Why do I play female characters? Well, I could say "BECAUSEOFTITS!", but instead I like to think back to the days in WoW. We had a fun little discussion about it in the guild chat. Apparently some people in the guild were "shocked and awed", seeing that I'm a man and had a female character. Some of them even wanted to kick me from the guild because they thought it was unheard of, and that I was being dishonest. Guess I ruined some hopes for steaming webcam-chats there, I suppose.

I was kind of relaxed about it, so I just said "Well, first of all, you never really asked me if I was a guy, so technically I wasn't really dishonest about anything. Second, why the Hell do you people care about my gender in real life? Third, as a straight guy I like to look at women. I'm totally cool with it if you guys have an opposite stance to that." Followed by approx. 20 seconds of radio silence, until the guild master wrote "Hehehehehehe..." And that was sort of the end of it.

I suppose the same thing applies in ME. I like looking at women. There's no bigger mystery or philosophical explanation there. Hell, if that makes me some kind of freak, so be it.

This brings in an interesting point for the OP. Simple question of why does he care what other people do that he won't even see virtually online like in an MMO?

Seems like he got burned by trying to hotchat that hot Blood Elf that replied back to him, "I'm a dude so stop trying to hotchat me!" over general chat. Yes I have seen that flash across WoW before and it was followed by a lot of "LOL"s.

[JamieCOTC]

Siansonea II wrote...

Not everyone plays as a self-insert character. Other people play from a totally different perspective. Is this really a topic?

This.

To be honest, I don't see any difference in playing femshep and watching Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the Alien movies.  Movies and games work on the same principles of any story. The audience must relate to the protagonist or it doesn't work. I related to Ripley in the Alien saga as a character and I can relate to femshep for the same reasons.

That and Jennifer Hale. 

[sheppard7]

Fontfillmore wrote...

Just because you are male then you must play as a male character? What confining logic is that?

I actually like the game called Wet. It had issues like PoV and other things but they give you no choice as the main character is female. I guess OP won't touch it. Nor any of the Tomb Raider games.

[Pacifien]

Punk4Real, from one of your edits, you seem to think it is stupid for a man to roleplay as a woman because they are incapable of relating to the character as a woman would. Which is why men are forbidden from playing Lara Croft or Metroid series, while women are equally at a loss for understanding the intricacies behind the characters in the Assassin's Creed or Halo series.

No, I kid, perhaps it's simply because in Mass Effect the player is given the choice, and so why would someone choose the opposite gender? You cannot comprehend this. And based on your edits, you don't actually want to.

Roleplaying to you seems to equal an actual manifestation of yourself as Commander Shepard. That's not what roleplaying is to others; sometimes they're playing someone who acts and think entirely unlike how they would in real life.