Personally, play a Hetero Male Shepard because it helps get me into the story since I am a hetero male and that my decisions and choices are genuine.
That sounds like you have completely missed the point of the "role playing" part of an Role Playing Game.
but pretending to be something your not is conflicting.
Yes, I agree that it must be hard if you can't tell the difference between yourself and a fictional character.
In most games with a choice I usually play as a female character with no particular orientation, but in Mass Effect I prefer playing as a male Shep. No real idea why though but it's probably just simply down to the romance choices.
With leadership I've never given it much thought. Never considered gender to play any factor in that.
That sounds like you have completely missed the point of the "role playing" part of an Role Playing Game.
He's projecting himself into the game, using Shepard as his avatar. I think he knows that point rather well.
Now I think you need to review your notes on what the RP in RPG is.
Play as what you want. I play only as femShep because in most games I have to play as a male character. But regarding Shepard, I prefer to keep things grounded in reality. I am a galactic space marine. Commander Shepard and I went to different schools together. I have been to Omega, and I can tell you for a fact that the pole dancers there are the best in the entire galaxy.
Being that this is the internet.... that was a joke.
Same here, however I have a Shepard for each class with different backgrounds and emotions. For example my soldier is Sheploo paragon, my vanguard is a pale skinned red eyed, red haired colonist/ruthles renegon.Do you prefer playing Female or Male? An what sexual preference? An lastly do you prefer a man or woman in charge? I'm taking a class similar to this issue an wanted to know your thoughts on this.
Personally, play a Hetero Male Shepard because it helps get me into the story since I am a hetero male and that my decisions and choices are genuine. For example, if I were to play a Fem Shepard all my choices and decisions would bias, cheating an lying to myself. I get it is a role playing game but pretending to be something your not is conflicting. There has to be some rl aspects taken into your own character that portray how you react to certain situations an the choices made in ME. As for who I prefer in charge its hard to say. I'd rather be in charge instead but if I have to chose I plea Nolo Contendere until otherwise.
Straight femShep, gay FemShep, bi FemShep (Cause Kelly needs hugs and Kaidan's off being a grouch)... Straight dudeShep, gay dudeShep (eeeeeee, Steve I mean what), bi dudeShep (Liara, you're a sweet gal and all but KAIDAN'S AVAILABLE NOW)...
I try to do something different with each Shepard. Choices, romances, and class. They wind up with different people.
I am a fairly (not entirely, if I'm honest) straight woman. And my favorite is a female Shepard who is all Garrus, all the time. She also has black hair and is a crabby vanguard.
I have yet to do a 'KatrinaShepard'. Someday, maybe. I prefer to have Shepard be characters separate from myself, as I am not a spacefuture soldier with extensive gene therapy.
Two female, one male. All women love interests. If they're competent, their gender doesn't matter in a leadership position.
LisbethShep is a noble, yet reactionary paragade vanguard who felt drawn to Liara from the start.
MelisandreShep is a chaotic renegon adept who skips out on the crew in ME1, gets attached to Kelly in ME2, and settles down with Sam in ME3. Originally started as my "no romance" playthrough, but changed during second and third runs.
CidShep is close to a true neutral combat engineer, leaning slightly renegade, who ditches Ashley for Jack and never looks back. Cid is close to a proxy of myself, but not entirely.
Male shep.
Femshep sounds asleep, tired, and bored during 90% of her dialogue
Male shep.
Femshep sounds asleep, tired, and bored during 90% of her dialogue
Femshep would be better if she had an accent (or, from my anthropocentric American perspective, an Australian accent being preferable, or an English accent. Not a Midwestern/Californian accent. Of course, this goes along with my idea for ME implementing the DA:O function of different voices for the protagonist (which would be hard to do considering the voice budget).
It would be great to be able to choose voice acting for a character.
But that's expensive. Of course, if they spent money on putting Chobot into the game....
It would be great to be able to choose voice acting for a character.
But that's expensive. Of course, if they spent money on putting Chobot into the game....
Despite her seemingly small word budget, Chobot was the most expensive of all the voice actors, and she has the most lines of unused dialogue included on the disc of every character in the game, save Shepard. At her behest, her body model was scanned and rescanned, and tweaked until it was to her liking.*
*none of this is true, but it'd be funny if it was.
What femshep really needed was a northern English accent, like mine (for inspiration see half the cast of games of thrones).
"Yer reet garrus? Tell you sommit fer nowt, that there sovereign aint 'alf gonna get a reet good kickin'. Now, get yer bloody arse in gear, put t' mako in reverse and hand me t' chuffin barm cake. I'm bloody starvin."
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper come to mind from Doctor Who:
Rose: "Wait, if you're an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?"
Ninth Doctor: "Lot's of planets have a North!"
Granted, I'm a Californian (by birth) and have grown up in a military environment my entire life, but also abroad in other countries; I picked up a great number of accents along the way, but my natural one is my Midwest/California accent expanded with tinges of different dialects and accents. People always ask me if I'm from somewhere else since I always say certain words funny. For instance, sometimes, I can have a slight Southern drawl, while using the English pronunciation of another word and using an Australian term or euphemism.
I've always played as male Shepard, but never his default appearance. In fact, I've never changed my shep's appearance in all of my playthroughs. I'm around ten, I think.
I've played through the game six times, one for each class:
Nicolas Shepard (Headcanon playthrough): M!Shep, Vanguard, None-Tali-Tali
Kenny Shepard: M!Shep, Adept, None-None-Steve
Shannon Shepard: F!Shep, Infiltrator, Kaidan-Kaidan-Kaidan
Alexander Shepard: M!Shep, Sentinel, Ashley-Ashley-Ashley
Rosemary Shepard: F!Shep, Engineer, None-Thane-Samantha
Timothy Shepard: M!Shep, Soldier, None-Miranda-Miranda
I tried Garrus's romance once, and didn't care for it. Also did one when there was no romance at all
I think M!Shep has better dialogue, both in the romances (the prime difference between the sexes) and the expressiveness. F!Shep always sounds vaguely pissed off, which is good when Shep is pissed off, but not when she isn't. When Hale did good, however, she did real good. F!Shep had some pretty crappy romances (Jacob I had no interest in, Thane's was okay, but short until Citadel, Samantha lacked content, and Garrus's was wholly unbelievable)
As for who belongs in charge, the person who belongs in charge deserves to be in the charge, the one with proven experience, vision, and charisma to make those under him follow him. (I'm aware I used a masculine pronoun, it's proper English to do it that way, it's not a qualifier)
Being the dudebro that I am 
I usually mostly play straight ManShep because I prefer it that way but I do evenly play femshep to see the subtle differences
It would be great to be able to choose voice acting for a character.
But that's expensive. Of course, if they spent money on putting Chobot into the game....
If technology ever gets to the point where you could tweak the voice in the same way as you can everything else in character creation that would be great. Recording all the character's dialogue in every possible combination wouldn't be feasible; it would probably require being able to synthesise the voices entirely convincingly. But then we wouldn't need VAs any more, which makes me uneasy for some reason (although I can't put my finger on why the physical appearence being entirely synthesised is fine but not the voice).
I prefer male Shepard by virtue of preferring the voice-actor (Hale is very hit-or-miss for me, while Meer is solid). All things being equal, though, I would prefer to play females because I find that more interesting (if I must be human, anyway).
I find that role-playing the hero as a unique character with his/her own motives generally makes for cooler stories, IMO, but I also hear the OP about self-inserted characters feeling more interactive with the game. When going into the game fresh, I think it makes sense to play as "yourself" first and get a feel for what your personal opinion on story events before creating original-character heroes.
When going into the game fresh, I think it makes sense to play as "yourself" first and get a feel for what your personal opinion on story events before creating original-character heroes.
Well, yourself up to a point. Me plus two others vs. hoardes of bad guys would have me running away pretty quickly, although not too far because I'd also get too out of breath pretty quickly. But I get the point and agree with it. For me roleplaying is about putting a (stupidl idealised) version of myself into the game. That way I connect with it so much better and the story has so much more impact. Other playthroughs with different characters become more of an exercise in seeing what the variations are, and I don't find them anywhere near as fun (although less dull than repeatedly doing identical playthroughs would be). Straying into playing a total arsehole to everyone, particularly towards characters I like, isn't fun at all.
Anyway, means I usually play male Shepard (he feels more like a professional to me anyway, the downside being he's a plank of wood in personal scenes). I rather dislike FemShep but think I biased myself against her by combining my first FemShep playthrough with my first 100% Renegade one.
Well, yourself up to a point. Me plus two others vs. hoardes of bad guys would have me running away pretty quickly, although not too far because I'd also get too out of breath pretty quickly. But I get the point and agree with it. For me roleplaying is about putting a (stupidl idealised) version of myself into the game. That way I connect with it so much better and the story has so much more impact. Other playthroughs with different characters become more of an exercise in seeing what the variations are, and I don't find them anywhere near as fun (although less dull than repeatedly doing identical playthroughs would be). Straying into playing a total arsehole to everyone, particularly towards characters I like, isn't fun at all.
Anyway, means I usually play male Shepard (he feels more like a professional to me anyway, the downside being he's a plank of wood in personal scenes). I rather dislike FemShep but think I biased myself against her by combining my first FemShep playthrough with my first 100% Renegade one.
She's much better with the paragon version than a renegade player and very good with Kaiden and the Garrus romance. Though, she has a lot more glitchy moments with body moments. Within ME2 you can tell I play this game to much to notice those things lol.
I can believe it for the romances, that really is the area male Shep fails in.
BroShep does have an advantage in body shape. FemShep looks so skinny that she shouldn't be able to hold a gun, especially not something like a Widow.
BroShep does have an advantage in body shape. FemShep looks so skinny that she shouldn't be able to hold a gun, especially not something like a Widow.
I think someone's done a mod for that (not sure if there's only one for ME3 or whether 1 and 2 have them too).
BroShep does have an advantage in body shape. FemShep looks so skinny that she shouldn't be able to hold a gun, especially not something like a Widow.
That kind of thing would only be a problem in ME1, considering FemShep's an upgraded half-cyborg in ME2 and ME3.
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