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[SarEnyaDor]

who broke the forum?

[TaliZorah]

SarEnyaDor wrote...

Jennifer Hale is a great voice actor - though when she finds ugdrades the yelling of "This will be useful!" that is 5 times louder than the shooting I was just doing is irksome....

Oh god, please don't remind me of THIS.

Remember the scene where Tali cried because her father died and you hugged her?

A wonderful, sad moment, until....

"THIS WILL BE USEFUL!"


...WAT...? **** YOU, Jennifer Hale, this was worse than laughing on a FUNERAL!

[SarEnyaDor]

At least she's not asking for a ladder so I can get off her back........

[Faerlyte]

SarEnyaDor wrote...

@ Faerlyte - I never said it was wrong, I said I PERSONALLY found it gross, in response to someone asking what we thought of our LI choices.

I found the LIs perfectly suited to keeping me faithful.

I only commented because it was implied in your post that those who asked for Garrus or Tali as romantic options were crazy, . I don't consider myself that crazy. I have my reasons too. 

Nothing wrong with preferring ME1 LIs though. Everyone has their own preferences. 

[Biocrazy]

Don't think many real females play as the maleshep, Mostly they play the femshep, cause of the li.

[SpideyKnight]

Aris Ravenstar wrote...

defenestrated wrote...

But to the OP, is it the shooter aspects you think are more geared towards men? Or maybe the marketing?

Oh definitely the marketing was geared towards men. ManShep smacking people across the face and Miranda's boobs were about the only things you saw. Has there ever been a BioWare game where the canon PC was the female option?

Jade Empire kind of, the woman in purple with a scimitar you could never get and the woman in the red outfit with the long flowing blue sash.  That's about it though.  They always give the choice, however.

[TaliZorah]

Biocrazy wrote...

Don't think many real females play as the maleshep, Mostly they play the femshep, cause of the li.

I play both.

femShep -> main
maleShep -> TALI! 

[SarEnyaDor]

ahhhh I said "crazy loud", as in the bold typing, pages and pages of gushing, not in actually meaning crazy as in not sane LOL

edited to add - I still also say dude with no sarcasm and wicked cool - I hold to my bygone dialects of teenagerdom .. even still have some OP shirts that are faded beyond belief

Modifié par SarEnyaDor, 31 janvier 2010 - 02:06 .

[Faerlyte]

To be honest...I've made a MaleShep before...but I don't like the voice actor for him near as much as Jennifer Hale as FemShep, so I've never gotten far with the MaleShep. It's just not the same for me I guess.

[RPGmom28]

I am female and 34.  And I play a female Shepard.

Modifié par RPGmom28, 31 janvier 2010 - 02:09 .

[monika26]

I'm one! I happen to love gaming. Also one of my friends is really into gaming as well, in fact, she introduced me to ME!

I play just about every gaming genre, except MMOs, I can't stand them. lol I've been gaming for what seems like forever. Ever since the days of Wolfenstein 3D.

Modifié par monika26, 31 janvier 2010 - 02:14 .

[RPGmom28]

As a member of a group of gaming gals that all wear a pink D&D die around our necks on a chain, I can tell you that there are more of us than you think.

[styz111]

MistressMagee wrote...

styz111 wrote...

Biocrazy wrote...

Just wondering.. cause mass effect looks like it might have been made with a more male type of player in mind,
Hence the question.  Im a male player btw.

I am a female... in game HURHURHUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHUHREUHRUHRUHRUHRHURHHRUUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHRUHUHRUHRUHRUHRUHUHRRUHUHRUHRHRUUHRHURRRUHRRURURURURURURHHHHHH

there actually is an interesting bit of research out there on the concept of males playing female roles within virtual worlds - in both single and multi-player platforms. One interesting report was on the fear of discovery (fear of being discovered enjoying playing a woman in a game setting, particularly in the multiplayer realm.) as for females playing males, there was no similar results

What research? It does not bother me at all if I am playing a male or female. People argue starring at a guys arse all day is homosexual, how? When I am playing a reflection of myself (obviously made to look more attractive :C) I do not think "eww gross, guys ass in my face, think about large breasted woman", I do not play females just to set the cheast slider all the way to the right, or strip naked and /dance, I do not find as much "attraction" to pixels and some sonic characters as some other people do.

[PatT2]

Another female gamer here. I play both female and male characters, usually complete each game worth going twice through...as one each. I like Jennifer Hale's voice acting so I played more fem sheps than male. Prob will this time too. Been gaming since, well, remember Sid Meier's Civilization (1)? By that time, I'd been gaming for what, 5 years?

[Wintermist]

I think my next girlfriend has to be a gamer too. Makes a lot of things easier. A shame being a gamer isn't the ONLY condition, I'm too picky for my own good.

[jellobell]

*Raises hand* Hi, I'm a girl and I play videogames. I'm not that revolutionary either judging from this thread, which is comforting.

defenestrated wrote...
 Has there ever been a BioWare game where the canon PC was the female option?

Hmm, all I can think of is Jade Empire maybe. The Jedi Exile in KOTOR 2 was as well, but that was Obsidian (which is why there is no way I'm buying Alpha Protocol, WTH Obsidian!? Women can be superspies as well, you're supposed to be better than this).

[Fhaileas]

Chiming in here as well! Glad to see female rpg players so well represented.

jellobell wrote...

defenestrated wrote...
 Has there ever been a BioWare game where the canon PC was the female option?

Hmm, all I can think of is Jade Empire maybe. The Jedi Exile in KOTOR 2 was as well, but that was Obsidian (which is why there is no way I'm buying Alpha Protocol, WTH Obsidian!? Women can be superspies as well, you're supposed to be better than this).

It depends on how you define canon? Bioware has never explicitly defined a male as a canon protagonist in any of their games either. The Baldur's Gate novelization and the KOTOR travesties lie at the feet of WotC and the Star Wars franchise respectively. 

Alpha Protocol looks promising despite being a monogendered RPG, and Obsidian deserve my support after the splendor of their MotB expansion for NWN 2. The only role playing games I haven't played because of gender restrictions are the Fallout series, Plansecape Torment and The Witcher.

On topic though, is any fan of female Shephard and consequently Jennifer Hale disappointed with her voice work in this game compared to the original? She was still great but I felt she was lacking in contextually appropriate inflections and tonalities in reacting to certain in-game situations. The nuance and passion from the first game just wasn't there.

[Tamyn]

I am female and I love BioWare games. And the majority of my Shepards in ME 2 romance Thane. I find him attractive despite his not looking quite human. He looks mostly human.

[ThatDancingTurian]

I thought JH was better than the first in everything but the romances. Her romance lines come off as really sleazy, like she's going 'Hiiiiiiii there, big boy' with a leering grin.



She's way better than the male, though. It makes it hard to play ManShep when his delivery is so not up to par. I watched the ManShep version of the scene where you get drunk and pass out, and he just ran right through the funniest line.

[spacemonkeymafia]

 Yes, I am a female Mass Effect Player out here. I have played through ME1 about... a trillion times, putting the character together in every possible way.  I generally play as female, but I have a hard time playing Renegade that way, so go over to John for those play throughs... with him, my motto is "Saving the galaxy, one insult at a time."

I am 45 hours into ME2... and am multi-or... oh wait, probably can't use that word here... so let's just say i love it.  I admit to being a big freak so have bawled like one for no fewer than five occasions... mostly being dumped by my boy Kaidan... tragic, until I fell madly in love with Thane... and now I see spoilers everywhere saying he dies... so oh well.

I am also starting to feel incredibly incompetent considering no one else seems to have become hopelessly lost trying to track the politician during Thane's loyalty mission. *sigh*  I am never going to figure out how to get through the stupid catwalks. I don't care though, I will keep doing it over until I succeed.

I will SUCCEED!!!!! mwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

I love this game... just fyi

[Fhaileas]

Aris Ravenstar wrote...

I thought JH was better than the first in everything but the romances.

Yes she was great (and by far still the best VA in the game) but I can't help feeling that there was a certain "je ne sais quoi" missing in her performance this time around. Could be the VA direction that is at fault or perhaps it is likely my dislike of the sequel that is clouding my judgment.

Aris Ravenstar wrote...

Her romance lines come off as really sleazy, like she's going 'Hiiiiiiii there, big boy' with a leering grin.

To Jacob:

"I just want to talk for a bit" (coy smile/leer). 

Ugh! She might as well be giggling and twirling her hair.

Aris Ravenstar wrote...

She's way better than the male, though. It makes it hard to play ManShep when his delivery is so not up to par. I watched the ManShep version of the scene where you get drunk and pass out, and he just ran right through the funniest line.

Completely Agree!  Flat and boring, Meer simply has no panache.

[Tamyn]

Fhaileas wrote...

Aris Ravenstar wrote...

Her romance lines come off as really sleazy, like she's going 'Hiiiiiiii there, big boy' with a leering grin.

To Jacob:

"I just want to talk for a bit" (coy smile/leer). 

Ugh! She might as well be giggling and twirling her hair.

I almost didn't even want to talk to Jacob because Shepard always sounded so flirtatious with that line even though that wasn't my intention.

[yoshibb]

I'm a female whose loved video games since I was like five years old. I'll play shooters as long as I'm given a reason to be shooting people. Telling me they are evil does not work for me.



It's gotten a lot better with females playing video games. I kind of miss the good old days when all the boys would ask me to finish levels in pokemon cause they didn't know what to do. And they would look at me like I was an alien when I did it in like 5 minutes.

[AtreiyaN7]

I'm a female player. Anyway, Thane was attractive enough once I got used to him, and for a mammalian species with reptilian features, he was quite expressive. His story/background finally won me over. Also, Garrus does have a nice voice, and Jacob wasn't a bad guy. I don't mind trying them all eventually (unless I get stuck on Thane permanently).

[Lothial]

Biocrazy wrote...

Just wondering.. cause mass effect looks like it might have been made with a more male type of player in mind,
Hence the question.  Im a male player btw.

My girlfriend loved the first one, and she can't way to play this one when she comes down for spring break. She wants to hook up with Garrus.