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[PwrdOff]

RECON64BIT7 wrote...

I personally could not take femshep seriously. I lol @ romancing Garrus. Garrus is supposed to be shepard's brother in arms not some bird on a monkey.

How is romancing Garrus any different from romancing Liara?

[Hazegurl]

RECON64BIT7 wrote...

I personally could not take femshep seriously. I lol @ romancing Garrus. Garrus is supposed to be shepard's brother in arms not some bird on a monkey.

Yet romancing Garrus would probably be my only reason for ever wanting to play Femshep.

[fluttersnipe]

It's the percentage of people who played Soldier that scares me. That might make Bioware think the player base is made up of dudebros and create a Mass Effect call of duty hybrid for the next game, that freaks me the hell out.

I generally play as a female in games, but I never did like Femshep, something about her always felt off to me.

I'm not big on playing the straight up adept class, but I do love me some vanguard! Having the tech armor and a few biotics tossed in for good measure makes fora fun class to play. Plus dat lift grenade is great.

[Demigod]

Im glad they did a fem Shep. It gave people the choice but im glad fem shep was optional. I know a lot of people like the Voice actress but to me she just didn't fit. I tried to play a fem sheo with every game but the way her actress played the character just didn't work for me. For me male shep had a lot more nuance in his performance.

[lady_v23]

Female Vanguard. Never tried the other ones, because we vanguards are that awesome..

[Solmanian]

It's natural for male gamers to play male charecters. It just feels unatural playing a female charecter and romancing male or lesbien charecters. How can you roleplay something so diffeent than who you are?

I'm not saying there aren't alot of female gamers, I saw some surveys that claimed there are more female gamers than males. That said, last time I talked witha girl that claimed to be a "gamer", I was talking ME and DA and she was talking about the sims. I think the majority of "hardcore" gamers are indeed man 18-34.

[Solmanian]

fluttersnipe wrote...

It's the percentage of people who played Soldier that scares me. That might make Bioware think the player base is made up of dudebros and create a Mass Effect call of duty hybrid for the next game, that freaks me the hell out.

I generally play as a female in games, but I never did like Femshep, something about her always felt off to me.

I'm not big on playing the straight up adept class, but I do love me some vanguard! Having the tech armor and a few biotics tossed in for good measure makes fora fun class to play. Plus dat lift grenade is great.

I play mostly soldier becasue they have cooldowns, they just have cool. I'd love to have a charecter that can dip from all three trees (combat, tech, and biotic). Like a soldier with tech armor that can cluster his enemies with a singularity and than throw a grenade in.

[KotorEffect3]

I am a dude that is currently doing a trilogy run with a femshep adept. Some people just don't know what they are missing out on.

[Fezha]

I'm male and I played as female shepard. Call me weirdo, but I feel more comfy playing with female characters in most games. i guess it's just in my psyche.

But I will say though, FemShep's voice acting is 10 times better than MaleShep's.

[Eamon696]

Fezha wrote...

I'm male and I played as female shepard. Call me weirdo, but I feel more comfy playing with female characters in most games. i guess it's just in my psyche.

But I will say though, FemShep's voice acting is 10 times better than MaleShep's.

Maybe in ME1 and ME2, but in ME3 Mark Meer surpassed Jennifer Hale in voice acting.

In my opinion, of course.

[Makaveli The Don]

i dont understand why people are taking these stats seriously. im willing to bet a decent amount of people didnt transfer their me2 file or me3 was there first me game(since its the best place to start). i dont remember but did they show how many people actually completed the game?

Modifié par Makaveli The Don, 05 avril 2013 - 02:00 .

[mereck7980]

I was a little surprised by the 18% Femshep stat. It just goes to show that the vocal support anything gets on the BSN is in no way indicative of the larger fanbase.

The Solider stat is a little saddening. I have a solider playthrough (ironically it is my main Femshep character), but it seems a little Vanilla compared to the other classes. My absolute favorite is the Vanguard, my sig pretty much gives that away. In ME1 you get lift, warp, throw, medium armor, shotguns, and your bonus power can be sniper or assault rifles. It was pretty damn potent. In ME2 you get Charge and inferno ammo, which is just damn awesome. And in ME3 this class just gets ridiculous. The MP team might have nerfed the the Novaguard, but in SP the charge/nova/charge combo still kills EVERYTHING.

It is really crazy that only 5% of players used the Engineer. It is definitely my second favorite class.

[Ananka]

Vanguard femshep is the only Shepard for me. I've tried the Adept, though, and it was pretty nice. Just not as fun as being able to do a biotic charge right into a horde of enemies. I've played the soldier class in ME1, but didn't like it. Also tried MShep a couple of times, but never kept him long enough to finish the game.

Anyway, I don't really trust those statistics very much.

Modifié par Annaka, 31 mars 2013 - 09:10 .

[Rompa87-2]

Solmanian wrote...

It's natural for male gamers to play male charecters. It just feels unatural playing a female charecter and romancing male or lesbien charecters. How can you roleplay something so diffeent than who you are?

Exactly! I could never have roleplayed a resurrected cyborg pushing people out of windows or shooting people in the foot and saving the galaxy from an ancient machine race if I didn't do that in real life as well...

[Bleachrude]

Rompa87-2 wrote...

Solmanian wrote...

It's natural for male gamers to play male charecters. It just feels unatural playing a female charecter and romancing male or lesbien charecters. How can you roleplay something so diffeent than who you are?

Exactly! I could never have roleplayed a resurrected cyborg pushing people out of windows or shooting people in the foot and saving the galaxy from an ancient machine race if I didn't do that in real life as well...

Laugh, but frankly, most young men can see thmselves as the big damn hero and dream about "saving the day". Going "dirty harry" on somebody? Yep...I can see most men being able to envision themselves in such a scenario..

Seeing themselves as FEMALE and worse, in a relationship with a male character?

Nope...that'll freak them the hell out..

[Jebel Krong]

JediBear wrote...

It's pretty clear that FemShep has been more successful than Bioware actually expected, and the praise they've gotten because of her has to be a motivation, numbers aside.

And honestly, 20% is a chunk of your fans worth keeping. No female PC would mean a lot of lost sales, starting with mine. 

leaving aside praise, which is debateable anyway, the fact that there was no increase in percentage of people playing the femshep option despite all the extra attention, advertising, trailers, special box-art, competitions etc. has got to be both disappointing and indicative of the major audience for the series - had that effort actually been expended into advertising aimed at all players then the game may have been even more successful. dividing attention, particularly in advertising, has always been detrimental.

the thing is BW knew this back with ME - it's why default john shep was created in the first place, but by listening to mintorities here on this forum and elsewhere has consistently diluted the brand and experience for all, particularly for ME3. The stupid thing is - the people that like the complexity don't need it shoved down their throats - they can find it for themselves - femsheps, other classes, alignment choices etc. it doesn't have to be highlighted all the time and then lost in the noise.

Fan-service will kill the franchise (and bad ancillary tie-ins), nothing else.

[Muddle]

I think the advertising started too late. Besides a couple of videos on Facebook and Youtube what other advertising was there?

[Getorex]

Male Shep for me. I simply don't get into playing something I am totally unable to imagine at all. I cannot imagine being a female...and the only upside is hot lesbian sex which all red-blooded males get off on (for some reason). That said, I played MOST of my games as soldier after trying brief, abortive games as some other adept or vanguard (no interest in engineer). Finally, since MEHEM has saved the day, ME3, the franchise (version 0.4 is close to being available and adds more dialog!) I have found I really like infiltrator. Infiltrator with a sniper rifle is a fine play. Get Garrus, Ash, and infiltrator Shep going and you quickly take down all comers.

[cerberus1701]

Solmanian wrote...

It's natural for male gamers to play male charecters. It just feels unatural playing a female charecter and romancing male or lesbien charecters. How can you roleplay something so diffeent than who you are?

It doesn't feel unnatural to me as a straight male gamer who has been gaming since the advent  of the Atari 2600.

I can RP someone different because it's...different. First, it's a matter of being comfortable in your own skin. If you are, then it's easy to explore something different about yourself via the game (Men are not 100% "masculine" anymore than women are 100% "feminine.")

What is that, anyway? Who decides, much less decides for EVERYONE.

Second, it's content in the game that I paid for. Why not experience it?

I play almost entirely as Femshep, simply because Meer's voice acting bored me to death in ME and it's been pretty impossible to take him seriously since, though he is massively better in ME3 and the Shep/Tali stuff is some of the best in the trilogy

 Also, I actually like the idea of a female protagonist in this type of game because it goes pleasantly against type.

Master Chiefs are a dime a dozen.

Finally, why miss out on the Garrus /FS romance when it's one of the best written points in the game?

Modifié par cerberus1701, 01 avril 2013 - 02:20 .

[cerberus1701]

As to the class point I play as anything but Soldier generally.

Tedious as hell.

[jaytm1]

Mr. Lumpy want eat Me nargS ehh?

[caspertjuhh2]

very surprised, I always played as an Adept.

[TheImmortalBeaver]

I started a full trilogy playthrough recently (also, to actually beat ME1 on Insanity for once) and decided to give Soldier a whirl after previously only playing Infiltrator, Engineer and Adept. Adept is still my favorite in all three ME games, hands down, to the point where I was almost shocked to see how few people actually play it.

As far as gender goes, I'm not surprised. Hardcore FemShep supporters have always been a vocal minority, and far fewer women play games like Mass Effect then men. It's a shame, as the gender option is basically how I got my sister into KoTOR1 and then Mass Effect, but I don't exactly know how they could market a Mass Effect game to women without alienating a bunch of testosterone-ridden freakbags who flip out at the very mention of playing a female character.

Final thought: I wonder if that mindset is what keeps marketing departments from marketing games a little bit more towards women? I mean, I've never heard data specifically contradicting the whole "testosterone ridden-freakbags" thing, but I've also not particularly heard much supporting it, beyond certain big-budget games like CoD selling so well as to imply that that's what a large percentage of the gaming market wants. How much is this idea a cold, hard fact , and how much is it a misunderstanding of the gaming demographic?

[aphelion4]

Most exclusively female Shepard (I have one male Shepard I took through to romance Jack 'cause she had the best female romance). I wouldn't have picked up ME if I couldn't play as a female (spoiled by MMOs I guess). I wasn't a fan of Hale's voice acting though; she sounded far too butch and try-hard at the whole I'M TOUGH LOOK AT ME thing. At least in ME2 and 3.

My main two classes were Adept and Vanguard--Soldier is far too one dimensional for my liking, again, slightly spoiled by MMOs (I lean toward support/healy classes--straight up dps was never my thing). I liked that the Adept was a ranged "caster" class and required help from squad-mates to fully shine. The absolute best time I had playing one was in ME2, going through the collector ship with Thane and Samara.

And Vanguard..was incredibly entertaining in ME2 and 3, to say the least. Soldier is just PEW PEW PEW to me. If I wanted to play a shooter I'd pick up a 1st person one. When you have tech/biotic options why go for a boring Soldier class?

Anyway, my thoughts on the matter.

[Abraham_uk]

JediHealerCosmin wrote...

We are few but proud. Adepts forever!!!

I love all 6 classes!
However Adept is my favorite.


I love both genders.
But female Shepard is my favorite!

Hell yeah!