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[Osena109]

There's somethin called bags my friend.

Indeed 

[Seboist]

What are you talking about? Brown eyes are awesome! Got em myself.

Same, and in fact, they're so dark, they're almost black.

[They call me a SpaceCowboy]

Cora the blonde biotic is probably hot.

 

As long as she doesn't have dimples, amirite?

[SKAR]

As long as she doesn't have dimples, amirite?

Shut up man.

[Loki_344]

Normal minimum requirements:
7/10 facial aesthetics
8/10 body aesthetics
C cup
Hair: Blonde or Brunette
Eyes: Blue or Green
Independent
Humorous
Optimistic
Outgoing
Organized
Intelligent

That's what I meant.

 

Awfully specific for "normal".

[Seboist]

Awfully specific for "normal".

Ravens, Redheads and the brown eyed need to step their game up.

[Loki_344]

The game is rigged...

[Stakrin]

Any real people who open up to me have real emotional baggage. It's just that I learn about it over the course of many conversations and sometimes a couple years instead of one deep conversation.

Which makes sense. everyone has some stuff in their life, and the game doesn't really have long to explain every character to you. At least it isn't the one defining characteristic for most characters.

[ModernAcademic]

"Normal" is whatever makes BSN howl with rage.

 

Hm. I get it. 

 

But perhaps you mean a specific part of the BSN. Look, there may be a pretty loud group here who thinks everybody must share their preference for rainbow-coloured unicorns,  kitten pics and other "cute" stuff on Tumblr, cartoons such as Steven Universe, exaggerated self-affirmation in posts that say "Imma demisexual SJW and I fight evil cis hetero males". And these people are usually spoiled and overall impolite to anyone who says No to them, who doesn't have the same mindset they do or who simply happens to disagree with their opinion. So I get what you're saying. I really do. But I think they hardly speak for the entire forum, y'know.

 

To me, a game being 100% "normal" would be bad, because I'm a woman and that would force me to play as a male heterosexual character. I'd also be forced to see half-naked female NPCs made to look sexually attractive for the PC, something that's unpleasant and that makes me feel very uncomfortable. That's what normal means to the industry, even though at least half of the worldwide players are women. 

 

I don't want to be in the fence about this matter, but normal no longer appeals to people like me. Bioware was the first company that allowed me to play a normal female protagonist. A woman who isn't a sex object for male players. Who is what women are never seen as in video games: a human being. And after that experience, I find myself rejecting any game that doesn't allow the player to choose their PC gender. Or, given the choice, forces me into the role of a sex doll or of a weak, defenseless woman in need of a strong man to defend her.

 

I don't like what has been done to feminism nowadays (the movement has become the opposite of what it was, what with the voluntary alienation, the ignorance about the basic concepts of feminism, the general misinformation, the self-serving attitude which leads to harassment and aggression even against innocent people), so I can't disagree with people wanting a return to more traditional standards (which people refer to as normal, even though there was nothing normal in how the world was for women a few decades ago) because the alternative is...well, gaming companies tending to the childish whims of a part of the fanbase and forcing "trendy" stuff in the games, such as the usual trash culture we find on Tumblr. God forbid from that ever becoming the norm in games.

 

 

So, back to the topic at hand...alien sex is fine by me. Garrus felt a lot more satisfying than Kaidan anyway. I was hoping to try a salarian or a geth like Legion now. If Bioware will be bold enough to do it, that is. So I'd be happy if Bioware would include "normal" options in Andromeda, without removing the already existing alternatives. What's normal for some people just isn't for everyone. And that applies everywhere.

[Teabaggin Krogan]

Normal minimum requirements:
7/10 facial aesthetics
8/10 body aesthetics
C cup
Hair: Blonde or Brunette
Eyes: Blue or Green
Independent
Humorous
Optimistic
Outgoing
Organized
Intelligent

That's what I meant.

 

lol the important question here though is, what are you gonna offer her in return?

 

Also for example, how intelligent do you want her to be? Smart enough to laugh at your jokes or does she have to be a theoretical physicist? Or do all these traits have to be similar to your own levels for compatibility? That is, assuming you have all these traits yourselves for fairness sake. 

[straykat]

lol the important question here though is, what are you gonna offer her in return?

 

Also for example, how intelligent do you want her to be? Smart enough to laugh at your jokes or does she have to be a theoretical physicist? Or do all these traits have to be similar to your own levels for compatibility? That is, assuming you have all these traits yourselves for fairness sake. 

 

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but..."

[MrBSN2017]

lol the important question here though is, what are you gonna offer her in return?

Also for example, how intelligent do you want her to be? Smart enough to laugh at your jokes or does she have to be a theoretical physicist? Or do all these traits have to be similar to your own levels for compatibility? That is, assuming you have all these traits yourselves for fairness sake.

Passionate romance filled with kisses, kind gestures, and the best sex of her life. My Ryder will ensure that she feels like the only girl in the galaxy and offer a life of adventure.

And of course the normal stuff:

7/10 facial aesthetics
9/10 body aesthetics
Brown eyes
Brown hair
Humor
Intelligence
Organized
Optimistic
Outgoing
Artistic
Passionate

Going through this JFF: My hair is dark blue atm, but without dye they're dark brown (is that close enough ?), my eyes are amber so shoo with your common colours, I'm not optimistic nor outgoing, organized but in my own way, ie. it looks like a huge mess but I know where everything is, which imo makes it organized.

On topic: Regardless of being LIs or not, less **** characters like jacob, kasumi, miranda, james, kaidan, ashley, etc would be a huge improvement.

I forgot about Amber as I've only seen it once, list adjusted. You sound like my friend who got me into this game. Let's just say that he was a slob.

You have a problem with humans?

[Sartoz]

Awfully specific for "normal".

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It's a game.

[Jenpants]

Well adjusted characters get bagged on for being boring.

 

See Kaidan for details.

 

(Or to a lesser extent, Josie.)

he wasn't boring, he was just a whiney ******.

[Doominike]

I forgot about Amber as I've only seen it once, list adjusted. You sound like my friend who got me into this game. Let's just say that he was a slob.

You have a problem with humans?

Not with them being human in and of itself, it just so happens that all the ME characters I dislike the most are the human ones. 

[TevinterSupremacist]

Glory to cheesecake, always up for more cheesecake.

[straykat]

Not with them being human in and of itself, it just so happens that all the ME characters I dislike the most are the human ones. 

 

What's wrong with Kasumi? Just curious. She's seems so.. benign.

[Doominike]

What's wrong with Kasumi? Just curious. She's seems so.. benign.

Her heist plan is stupid and forced a dress on my femShep, and also insisted on her playing a honey pot. Both for no good reason because her entire plan is pointless. Also she likes jacob so she clearly has severe cognitive deficits, and probably very bad, uncorrected eyesight too. 

[straykat]

Her heist plan is stupid and forced a dress on my femShep, and also insisted on her playing a honey pot. Both for no good reason because her entire plan is pointless. Also she likes jacob so she clearly has severe cognitive deficits, and probably very bad, uncorrected eyesight too. 

 

I never played Femshep.. I wonder how it's different.

 

I didn't love the mission (didn't hate it either). I like the character more after that. I was just curious because she seemed the most neutral of characters.

[King Darious]

Is it possible to get any hotter than Miranda Lawaon?

[Doominike]

Tbf, I dislike lots of characters.

[Hammerstorm]

Is it possible to get any hotter than Miranda Lawaon?

 

Yes.

[King Darious]

Yes.

How? She was definition of perfection looks wise.

[straykat]

King Darious? Are you related Lord Darius? Didn't I shoot you?

[Xerxes52]

Is it possible to get any hotter than Miranda Lawaon?

 

With the game on EA's Frostbite engine? Probably yes. Face-scanned actors and actresses look quite good in that engine. UE3 had some funky lighting issues that made faces look creepy at the wrong angles.