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[Eleonora]

Also, no need to get rude about something like this. I prefer playing as femshep but the differences are pretty small. You're still the same Commander Shepard who can do the same things and have exactly the same personality, you're just one with a different gender. Being a male doesn't automatically make you boring or heroic, just as being a woman doesn't automatically make you beautiful, elegant and efficient.

No need to call someone blind or deaf just because you disagree.

[BatarianBob]

THERE ARE huge differences, in the movements of the body (because male body and female one are different, they can't move the same and the actor and the actress the character copies are different personns), in the voice, in the tones, in the words (there are differences in the lines), the armors are not the same too...

If you haven't noticed that yet, so you are blind and deaf (I am so sorry for you)

"Huge differences" you say. Then you list a bunch of trivial bullshit. The autism is strong with this one.

[ShadyKat]

82% of the people who played the original trilogy played as male Shepard. I honestly see no reason why that would change in the next game.

[von uber]

82% of the people who played the original trilogy on XBox at the time the stats were taken played as male Shepard. I honestly see no reason why that would change in the next game.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

I wish people would stop bandying about that misleading statistic.

[Panda]

THERE ARE huge differences, in the movements of the body (because male body and female one are different, they can't move the same and the actor and the actress the character copies are different personns), in the voice, in the tones, in the words (there are differences in the lines), the armors are not the same too...

 

If you haven't noticed that yet, so you are blind and deaf (I am so sorry for you)

 

Well differences are mostly in voice actors and their delivery (like with Shepard, some thought Hale had more persona, some preferred Meer), movement depends on what Bioware will do with animations, will they make separate one's or not. Lines won't likely be that different though NPC's might react you differently (like  there was catcalling towards fem!Shep). Armors have been pretty similar, only differences come from differences of female and male body.

 

Biggest difference game-wise is probably romances available for your gender. Though player wise playing different gender can be different kind of experience than playing as other gender, that depends on players though.

[Abelas Forever!]

Does anyone know the accurate statistics how many people have chosen female and how many have chosen male Shepard at this point?

[9TailsFox]

Does anyone know the accurate statistics how many people have chosen female and how many have chosen male Shepard at this point?

Yes. 82% male 18% female. And more info 64% players not meet Wrex   Most favourite companion Kaidan 1.5% poor Paidan 

http://kotaku.com/59...tly-as-soldiers

[Kalas Magnus]

more people saved the geth than the quarians. interesting.

[chem light]

Female, because I am one.  I tend to make instictual choices when it comes to RPGs.  I also picked Spacer because I as a military brat.  Depending on how much I enjoy the game and how many play throughs it gets, there may be a male character developed.  After that it will really depend on the VA and how the story reacts to my gender.

[stop_him]

Female.

[Seboist]

"Huge differences" you say. Then you list a bunch of trivial bullshit. The autism is strong with this one.

 

No kidding, next i'll be told that there's a huge difference between playing a red headed shepard vs a black haired one, or a white shepard vs a black one.

[Nonoru]

Both, of course. 

[Nattfare]

Will have no problem with playing as either.

[Satele-Shan87]

Always play a female protagonist, it won't change

[Hunter23]

Both,

 

I'll probably like one better than the other based on gameplay   DA for some reason I prefer Female characters, and ME I prefer Male although the preference is less - maybe it was just an attatchment to my renegade Shep.  He was awesome. 

[Sartoz]

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Lines won't likely be that different though NPC's might react you differently (like  there was catcalling towards fem!Shep). 

 

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Glad you brought that up.

Fem protag should deliver a different dialogue... say 20% different from the male. And, for replayability.... have some different missions for the Fem as well.  Add a different outcome too..... or a twist.

[Panda]

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Glad you brought that up.

Fem protag should deliver a different dialogue... say 20% different from the male. And, for replayability.... have some different missions for the Fem as well.  Add a different outcome too..... or a twist.

 

For what purpose? The different reactions and lines have mostly been when someone is interested about you in sexual/romantic way so in the end the differences have been small. To me there doesn't seem to be any reason to go further than that based on gender.

[9TailsFox]

For what purpose? The different reactions and lines have mostly been when someone is interested about you in sexual/romantic way so in the end the differences have been small. To me there doesn't seem to be any reason to go further than that based on gender.

Special quest for female feed the baby.

[animedreamer]

I think i have another reason why I generally prefer to play a female over a guy, despite being a guy myself. One problem with male protagonist is that they are never anything like me. They don't ever look anything like me, (almost 6ft tall black guy), they never seem to have problems that I have (love triangles? too much ****** to choose from? I don't even understand how that happens.)  Sure with things like character creation you can make the character look similar to you, in my case relating with a character goes more than just skin deep or maybe I should say top skin?(hand waving racism for good or bad is just ignoring it and that doesn't help anyone, best way to combat it is to let people deal with it and make their own choice, my opinion of course.) *shrug* Now before people chime in with, "It's supposed to be escapism.", or "The male power fantasy" but for which males? Can't possibly generalize all guys into this group, im actually perfectly comfortable with my capabilities, I don't fantasize about being able to take down anything and everything that comes my way, maybe it's because im older and realize life just doesn't work that way. We have a finite limit to our capabilities as humans and more directly as men, ie I don't relate to the power fantasy when it depicts things that I can see are far beyond any normal man's capabilities, or empathize when said male is in situations that just seems to good to be true. "yes awesome man, I get it your life is more awesome than mine, and I am destined to only live vicariously through you."

 

on the other hand, I was born a guy and will die one, though unless something changes between now and then it's not as mysterious to me. This doesn't change the fact that in most of the games I have that allow you to pick a sex, that I haven't played a male character a good number of times for whatever reason, but that im equally as likely to play a female character simply because it's less familiar and more surprising to me. Especially to see how game developers differentiate between to the genders in their games, (just making it a physical appearance swap is boring by the way if any future or present coders/developers are seeing this.) Also the suspension of disbelief is heavily already at work when I do play a female character because it's already outside my zone expectation? Might as well go to the extreme and make this woman cut dragons in half, fly on the backs of phoenix's, blow up giant robot space crustaceans and everything else in between because at that point where I've decided to do the unexpected.

 

Yeah so just some more thoughts on the matter.

[Panda]

Special quest for female feed the baby.

 

Let's keep babies out of shooters and scifi thanks ^^

[shodiswe]

Probably Male.... Voiceactor and other considerations might come into play though. An Epic female voice actor or the right story might convince me to choose differently... Or I might play as both if it's a good game.

Or a bad or not to my liking male actor

[straykat]

I think i have another reason why I generally prefer to play a female over a guy, despite being a guy myself. One problem with male protagonist is that they are never anything like me. They don't ever look anything like me, (almost 6ft tall black guy), they never seem to have problems that I have (love triangles? too much ****** to choose from? I don't even understand how that happens.)  Sure with things like character creation you can make the character look similar to you, in my case relating with a character goes more than just skin deep or maybe I should say top skin?(hand waving racism for good or bad is just ignoring it and that doesn't help anyone, best way to combat it is to let people deal with it and make their own choice, my opinion of course.) *shrug* Now before people chime in with, "It's supposed to be escapism.", or "The male power fantasy" but for which males? Can't possibly generalize all guys into this group, im actually perfectly comfortable with my capabilities, I don't fantasize about being able to take down anything and everything that comes my way, maybe it's because im older and realize life just doesn't work that way. We have a finite limit to our capabilities as humans and more directly as men, ie I don't relate to the power fantasy when it depicts things that I can see are far beyond any normal man's capabilities, or empathize when said male is in situations that just seems to good to be true. "yes awesome man, I get it your life is more awesome than mine, and I am destined to only live vicariously through you."

 

on the other hand, I was born a guy and will die one, though unless something changes between now and then it's not as mysterious to me. This doesn't change the fact that in most of the games I have that allow you to pick a sex, that I haven't played a male character a good number of times for whatever reason, but that im equally as likely to play a female character simply because it's less familiar and more surprising to me. Especially to see how game developers differentiate between to the genders in their games, (just making it a physical appearance swap is boring by the way if any future or present coders/developers are seeing this.) Also the suspension of disbelief is heavily already at work when I do play a female character because it's already outside my zone expectation? Might as well go to the extreme and make this woman cut dragons in half, fly on the backs of phoenix's, blow up giant robot space crustaceans and everything else in between because at that point where I've decided to do the unexpected.

 

Yeah so just some more thoughts on the matter.

 

Funnily, I could probably make a Shep look like me, since I'm half Asian. Seems like a lot of choices there. But I just hate it because the character creator sucks. I gave up and went with Sheploo. Works for me.

 

Seems like I self-insert in sports games more. With RPGs, it's truly just roleplaying, I guess.

 

The males just had too many cool options, romance wise too (not that that's too important).

[Helios969]

Yes. 82% male 18% female. And more info 64% players not meet Wrex   Most favourite companion Kaidan 1.5% poor Paidan 

http://kotaku.com/59...tly-as-soldiers

As I recall that only tracks initial playthroughs...so it may be somewhat skewed.

[straykat]

As I recall that only tracks initial playthroughs...so it may be somewhat skewed.

 

The fact that 64% didn't meet Wrex, but for an ME3 stat, is already kind of sad.

 

Probably because many never even played ME1.

[SnakeCode]

Characters that look like the player/s are one thing, but a character with the same personality, problems and capabilities would make for a very boring game. I'd hate for a game's protagonist to represent me, I can't do any of the stuff most lead characters can do, i'd die in the opening sequence in most games. There's a reason protagonists are basically superhuman, videogames are supposed to be fun to play.