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[Altair_ShepardN7]

Maleshep. Femshep's voice seems too... bitchy. I just can't stand it, it makes want to punch a kitty or something. The renegade roll fits much better to her than Maleshep imo, but other than that I prefer Mark Meer. 

[aoibhealfae]

oh.. Jennifer Hale can sound extremely bitchy when she wanted to. But not so much like Bastila Shan in KotOR. Maybe because she used Received Pronunciation for Bastila that hit all my b*tch-alert sensors (and I grew up with her voicing as Mandy in Totally Spies. Trust me, her irritating laugh haunts me to this day). Though she do sound classy as Lutece.

 

I still haven't grown used to Mark Meer's delivery. I started SWTOR recently and I noticed that it was common for characters intended for RP to be blank as possible. Meer did that really well and so as Brian Bloom as Trooper and other voiced-RP characters like DAI's Inquisitor. Even Hale matched Meer's flat tone as FemTrooper. It made feel like someone took the soul out of FemShep and replace it with a hollow out doll. Meer portrayed Shepard as an avatar of the gamer's conscience and he is a gamer too so that resonates to a lot of people. But doing so, he made Shepard as a canonical Marty Sue. Not a bad thing since a lot of successful characters are Mary/Marty Sues.

 

That's why a lot of us have different perception of who Shepard was and to this day still arguing which one is 'better'. BroShep and FemShep is two very different creature with the same name. At the end of the day, all that's matter was you enjoying the game as you're suppose to. 

[Daemul]

Ok, I'm just going to lay all my cards out on the table here. I prefer playing as Maleshep since I'm a guy and so playing as a dude is a no brainer, but I also play as Femshep for the girl on girl action, I'm not even going to attempt to lie about that.

I could go the same route as other guys who play as Femshep and spout the usual "I like to play as a strong woman", "Hales voice acting is awesome(It was only good in ME1 btw, it massively deteriorated from there)" or "I'm man enough to feel comfortable in my own skin and play as a woman", but nope, like most of those guys I would just be spouting bulls***, so I'll come out and admit what they weren't brave enough to do and say I play as Femshep for the lesbian action.

So to round up, I mainly play as Maleshep due to being a guy myself, but I also play as Femshep for lesbians.

[Batarian Master Race]

Honestly, I played Femshep for Garrus.

 

If Bioware had seen fit to make Gayrrus, I'd never have gone Femshep in the first place.

[Gambit458]

For me..It'll probably sound bad but I just find male heroes to be better than female. Sure there's heroines like Samus Aran, Bayonetta, and such..but Master Chief, Gabriel Belmont/Dracula(ok not totally a hero but more the tragic hero), Dante, Scorpion(anti-hero) and Sub-Zero, Jim Raynor, Tyrael, and so on..Male shep just feels like he fits in with them. He even looks better than Femshep does and the male Shep is more fitting with the storyline, kind of like the male Vault Dweller was for Fallout 3

[RINNZ]

MShepard, because I'm a dude, feel that Mark Meer gave a better performance (that response to Joker about Thessia? 10/10) and because Tali.

[CathyMe]

Fem!Shep, because I'm a woman, and my no.1 rule for me to get a game is: let me play as a female. Also I think it's awesome seeing a woman doing everything that is attributed to men, in video-games(military shooters specifically)

[Mineko]

Female Shepard all the way. Not only because I'm a woman, but because for some reason femShep seems much more badass to me. And I have a weakness for redheads with green eyes. I also like more the voice acting.

 

And then, there's Kaidan. Motherfudging Kaidan.

 

Buuut I'll do a playthrough as male Shepard at some point, for science.

[Ambivalent]

Fem Shep. Jennifer Hale.

 

If only Simon Templeman or David Hayter was voice of male character then it might be a tie. 

 

I like Mark Meers, he's a likable person with a nice voice work. No offense meant but other people i mentioned are in different league so to speak.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 ^ That a nice profile-pic you got there!

[Gambit458]

Meer's voice fitted fine with Male Shep imo. He sounded just like Shepard should have..calm most of the time, got angry in situations that he'd be frustrated in, and pretty much sounded like what I'd expect of a commander. It's not like he was like Master Chief who speaks in only one tone every time he talks rofl

[Han Shot First]

Speaking of voice acting, I'm glad Bioware didn't go the gravelly-voiced route with male Shep. That gets so overused in the video game industry. Nearly every male video game protagonist sounds like he gargles gravel after polishing off a fifth of Jim Beam and two packs of Marlboros.

[shodiswe]

I liked Male Shep more I think, Fem shep isn't bad though. Just a preference.

Some say he didn't put in enough emotion some times, but most of the time I think was good and balanced. I don't like it if characters get too far overboard on emotions.

I Think male Shep was good, the nightmares in ME3 were somewhat over the top though, I can see why you would get nightmares from going through what Shepard went through, but seems to be letting it get to him too easily, especially around others who needs Shepard to stay strong.

The problem in the games wasn't the main protagonist, but rather some story parts and level design and a few other characters that seemed to go out of character.

[aoibhealfae]

Personally, the nightmare kid scenes fit more with a FemShep than a BroShep. Like Miranda, FemShep also wishes that she could have a normal life, get married and have a family. Somehow she project her inner desire for normality to a phantom child and then every night she would repetitively watch the child go up in flames like taunting her with the things she could never have. If you restored Anderson's final dialogues, they'll have a talk about starting a family and FemShep would start to doubt that she'll ever be a good mother because not all the things she did was good. So that made sense to me. 
 

You could flip that and make it applicable to BroShep but people don't usually appreciate their badass character to suddenly want a kid out of the blue. But I could imagine the child being a representation of Shepard's own alter ego or innocence who kept dying over and over again. 

 

Sorry, psychoanalyzing Shepard is one of my fav past time.

[TheJester000]

I think Broshep has a much better voice. I'm half way through ME1 playing as Femshep right now and so far she is way overhyped. Her voice acting isn't that bad but it's also not very good.

[KaiserShep]

Personally, the nightmare kid scenes fit more with a FemShep than a BroShep. Like Miranda, FemShep also wishes that she could have a normal life, get married and have a family. Somehow she project her inner desire for normality to a phantom child and then every night she would repetitively watch the child go up in flames like taunting her with the things she could never have. If you restored Anderson's final dialogues, they'll have a talk about starting a family and FemShep would start to doubt that she'll ever be a good mother because not all the things she did was good. So that made sense to me. 
 

You could flip that and make it applicable to BroShep but people don't usually appreciate their badass character to suddenly want a kid out of the blue. But I could imagine the child being a representation of Shepard's own alter ego or innocence who kept dying over and over again. 

 

Sorry, psychoanalyzing Shepard is one of my fav past time.

 

Not bad, but I'm glad that the game doesn't force this sort of idea through dialogue, particularly that cut dialogue with Anderson, because it'd probably grate my nerves something fierce. I always envisioned Shepard wanting to go back to the old days of having immense sums of disposable income and freedom to traipse around the galaxy unburdened XD

[aoibhealfae]

Not bad, but I'm glad that the game doesn't force this sort of idea through dialogue, particularly that cut dialogue with Anderson, because it'd probably grate my nerves something fierce. I always envisioned Shepard wanting to go back to the old days of having immense sums of disposable income and freedom to traipse around the galaxy unburdened XD

That's a problem with these dual-narratives, the writers can't do much with the character as they tried to keep it PC for both Sheps. Everyone have a different idea of how they like to see their characters. Which made sense why a show of Shepard's vulnerability through these nightmare scene and Thessia isn't appealing to folks who wanted their Shepard to be the cliche bad ass without conscience and it was stuff like these that broke immersion among hardcore RPs. This is the sole reason why I refuse to self-insert myself as Shepard or create too much headcanons that it contradicts itself while playing. 

[aoibhealfae]

The annoyance with Thessia is more that they're doing it for Liara fans. Every world falling is worth feeling bad for. Not just that one.

ah, you shan't make me want to go all liara-is-speshul rage again.

[fraggle]

The annoyance with Thessia is more that they're doing it for Liara fans. Every world falling is worth feeling bad for. Not just that one.

 

I always try to see it in a way that Shepard is more infuriated and frustrated with Kai Leng beating him. He's not used to it and his pride is hurt It just happened to be on Thessia and the destruction factors in, as well as not being able to finish the Crucible. It's a big emotional explosion formed from everything surrounding Shepard at that point imo.