Katherine wrote...
Shajar wrote...
Im male and i play male Shep. I never can play Fem Shep and then top of that try LI with guy? No way for me. Also, it just feel unreal for me that fem Shep could lead whole galaxy, maybe Hackett could lead and then i could try play diplomat femshep.
Also i dont like heavily armored womans/girls, and military type of womans/girls. Squadmember girls are cool because they arent military type of girls, they are bookworms, nerds etc...
I play heavy story based games always with male characters.
But Fallout and MMOs where character does not really matter in game then i play both male and female.
I know I shouldn't be surprised to find this sort of thinking on a gaming forum, but really. REALLY?
This always makes me laugh. Ok, we have a game where
there is space travel, a race of biped lizards who live for generations who
nearly nuked themselves out of existence, a biped amphibian race of super
geniuses, biped insects whose culture is basically a mirror of Roman culture,
the asari who live for a thousand years, and all manner of alien species
wandering around. And the fact that there can be (you never even have to
play female Shepard if you don't want to!!) a women in a significant position
of power is what is feeling unreal to you. Huh. We are not starting
in a realistic world here, all the rules have been thrown out the window, so
maybe in this universe women are just as strong, smart, and capable as men.
Crazy, right?
Honestly, male gamers have 99.9% of all games to
see them represented. There is no lack of strong, capable, smart,
handsome, ugly or annoying, male characters out there saving the world, their
woman, doing whatever, moving the plot forward. There is a distinct lack
of female characters with agency in video games. I rarely see myself represented,
and when I do its with huge boobs, a sculpted butt, and fabulous hair. That’s
just the way it is, men are the default normal character. Why is choosing
to play a women the weird choice always?
The thing I like about the Mass Effect series is
that female Shepard does all the things a male Shepard does and no one in the
game treats it as weird, amazing, or out of the ordinary. That’s what I
like, it is just normal and accepted that femshep can kick ass and takes names.
When I play femshep, no one is commenting on how unique/strange it is to
see a woman leading a galaxy, headbutting a krogan, taking down wave after wave
of husk, or even boxing, yes, a man. It just is. Femshep wears
armor, carries guns, has the loyalty of her squad and saves the galaxy and that
is treated as a perfectly normal occurrence. No male in the game comments
on how horrible it is to be lead by a woman or take orders from one. So
that is for me, why I am "obsessed" with my femshep. We are in
space in an alternate universe, why are you insisting on holding onto current
gender norms? I'm genuinely asking, what is so offensive about her to
you? If you never want to see Femshep, just don't click on the female gender
option, her existence does not take away from your exciting experiance playing Maleshep.
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