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[Catastrophy]

It was me who made them special. With a little help from Bioware.

[Mr Plow]

he has a really big.....personality

[shodiswe]

Shepard was our window into the Mass Effect universe in the Trilogy.

[Feybrad]

Must...resist...applying...Chuck-Norris-Jokes...to Shepard...

[Eelectrica]

Shep has the Save/re-load button making whatever bad thing just happened, not happen thus making him/her immortal.

Shep also has the power to turn the difficulty down to narrative if the nasty aliens get too tough.

That's what makes Shep special.

 

I wonder if anyone has done a 1 life to live playthrough, on insanity for the series. Only using load to start a new gameplay session.

[Catastrophy]

Shepard was our window into the Mass Effect universe in the Trilogy.

Not sure if trolling with that avatar...

[Br3admax]

It's crap like this that really annoys me you do realise that Shepherd could be female to but no male shepherds obviously superior because Jesus was a man second coming my ass.

Besidess the fact that vast, and I mean vaaaaaaassst, majority of Shepards are male, that wasn't even the point. Shepard ended a centuries long war by saying, "Stop." Shepard can talk to long lost technology using power only s/he, and one other person that is conveniently killed, can interpret. Shepard heals his/her face with the power of good vibes, and literally nothing else if need be. Shepard dies for our sins and bring us all to the point of the pinnacle of evolution. Shepard units an entire galaxy and spreads love to everyone, and there's literally a little bit of Shepard in all of us in one ending. Shepard is officially more Jesus than Jesus currently is. 

[Aren]

what makes shepard so special?

The fact that Mass Effect is not developed under the new game=new protagonist 

policy.

[xsas7]

Um... let's see...
 

[Tex]

Besidess the fact that vast, and I mean vaaaaaaassst, majority of Shepards are male, that wasn't even the point. Shepard ended a centuries long war by saying, "Stop." Shepard can talk to long lost technology using power only s/he, and one other person that is conveniently killed, can interpret. Shepard heals his/her face with the power of good vibes, and literally nothing else if need be. Shepard dies for our sins and bring us all to the point of the pinnacle of evolution. Shepard units an entire galaxy and spreads love to everyone, and there's literally a little bit of Shepard in all of us in one ending. Shepard is officially more Jesus than Jesus currently is.

I would have agreed completely if you hadn't gone with the everyone plays Males approach "sigh" oh well I give you bonus points for your shepherd is more Jesus then Jesus which did give me a good laugh.

[mickey111]

Helena Blake

 

who?

[The Elder King]

Shep has the Save/re-load button making whatever bad thing just happened, not happen thus making him/her immortal.
Shep also has the power to turn the difficulty down to narrative if the nasty aliens get too tough.
That's what makes Shep special.
 
I wonder if anyone has done a 1 life to live playthrough, on insanity for the series. Only using load to start a new gameplay session.

The maximum challenge is doing so with ME2 Vanguard.

[Arppis]

Nothing really, but I suppose people like his "character" and that they can be him/her for a awhile. So they grow attached to it.

[Orthiad]

Shepard was an excellent solider and a great leader and knew how to inspire and make people follow him. "The best humanity has to offer"

[shodiswe]

Not sure if trolling with that avatar...

Good one Not eactly what I was going for, But some would certainly agree that Shepard can be a plothole and a weakness to the structural integrity of the story. Some would agree with that for sure.

The space messiah thing and all that, never mind all those other crazy theories around here that has people Reading coffestains on virtual walls and reused pixels...

[NuclearTech76]

Garrus fought off half of Omegas criminal underworld (read: half of the stations population) by himself. Had a bit of help, and all the help died, but that's no less hostile than the omega 4 suicide mission. Wasn't a mere hit and run assault either, he actually stood his ground for a really long time.

Samara, is a biotic goddess honing the art for thousands of years.

Jack is just a natural born biotic prodigy honed by a rough a childhood raised by cerberus.

Liara is basically the Mass Effect equivalent of the NSA.

Joker is the best frigate pilot in the alliance

EDI is a self aware AI, able to do everything perfectly, and by the end of Mass Effect 3 even has some ability to think creatively

 

 

My take? Illusive man didn't need shepard at all.

Did the Illusive Man need the person known as Shepard or the persona known as Shepard? You can unite behind an idea moreso than you can one particular individual. 

 

I think that's a lot of what almost made ME such a great series(I only dismiss calling it great due to the fumble on the ending). Humanity and other races are somewhat unified behind the perception of Shepard while the weight of the decisions and repercussions threaten to crush the man that actually is Shepard.  

[BioWareM0d13]

Heroism.

 

Shhhhh.....

 

You'll summon it.

[AresKeith]

I actually like a pure paragon Shep playthrough for the absurdity.

I do wish some of the decisions had freaking blown in his face though. Just for damn consistency.

Well if you spared the Reaper Rachni it blows up in your face

[Eelectrica]

The maximum challenge is doing so with ME2 Vanguard.

yeah, I've done ME2 on insane as a VG. Brutal at the start in particular. lots of reloads.

[Agent69]

Galactic events made Shepard special. He was in command of the ground team on Eden Prime and the one who encoutered the Prothean beacon. The rest is history.

[Red Panda]

Shepard is the only one in the story that can exploit right hand advantage.

[Little Princess Peach]

they died and became space Jesus?

[PaixaoPlayer]

Shepard is basically Space Jesus who is the messiah of our cycle.

 

Everyone follows and puts their faith in him. He came back from the death (it just took him slightly longer than 3 days and about 40 billion credits).

 

He can talk-jutsu anyone into submission (as long as you're a pure-paragon goody-two-shoes with enough paragon points) and he can solve all problems with blind idealism with no negative repercussions whatsoever (again, if you're playing as a pure paragon angel that is).

 

Like Jesus, Shepard has 12 disciples (in ME2) and like Jesus, Shepard is betrayed by one of his disciples (the Virmire survivor, who is the Judas of this story).

 

I fully believe Shepard is the second coming of Jesus, or at least paragon Shepard is.

 

Edit: Hell, Shepard is even called "the Shepherd" at the end of the series, just like Jesus.

 

Good point, never have tought that way.

[dreamgazer]

who?

This social worker on Omega.

[The Heretic of Time]

It's crap like this that really annoys me you do realise that Shepherd could be female to but no male shepherds obviously superior because Jesus was a man second coming my ass.

 

Then in your game Shepard would be the female incarnation of Jesus. My comparison still applies. There are just too many similarities between Shepard and Jesus for me not to notice.