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[agdghsrhjsetstjsrj]

 Sorry if anyone's posted about this, I couldn't find the search box anywhere!

Anyway, after reading a thread about what gender you play as, it seems like it's pretty evenly balanced between male and female Shepard, yet all marketing material that I've seen seems to use only the default maleShep. I'd love to see a nicely rendered version of the default femShep too on one or two things in last ME game. 

I guess it could be seen as being confusing throwing in a female version on say, the cover of the box or the front page of the website since maleShep has always been used, but something on the back of the box or on wallpapers would be great to see.

Anyone else wish to see femShep get some more love?

[neoxus299]

Yes I do, the male Shepard voice is so lame... thats why I play as femShepard

[RyuKazuha]

Actually I like it the way it is, since FemShep isn't loaded with an image other than what i imagine her.

[mmmu]

As soon as Jennifer Hale would open her mouth in any of the ME commercials half the galaxy would be sold and go pre-order the game!

Jennifer Hale is the definition of excellent voice-acting. 

But let's not forget, it's our Shepard, male or female! But I really understand their marketing strategy with the "face of Mass Effect", and I think they will and probably should keep it that way. But maybe one commercial for the FemSheps atleast tho, or showing the customization possibilties with the "Shepard's story is your story" tagline. 

Modifié par mmmu, 03 février 2010 - 11:46 .

[JamesMoriarty123]

Male Shepherd's voice is cool as **** tbh...I don't need no woman traipsing around the galaxy...



Eomer : "War is the province of men, Eowyn."

[vhatever]

Huh? I like male shep just fine. He does less emotion than female shep, but it always seems like he is thinking about something else. Just like me, even if I was trying to get person X, Z, Y pn my team, the back of my mind is thnking "wtf am I gonna do about the reapers".

[Jebel Krong]

no.



default shep is a man - john shep. he serves his purpose, and well.

[SirGladiator]

I agree they should use FemShep more, its so strange that they don't since she's vastly superior to MaleShep (especially in terms of the voice). Its pretty clear they don't care about FemShep though, which is sad considering it is about half the players (possibly more than half once more folks give FemShep a try, once you try FemShep you tend to not be able to go back to MaleShep due to the incredible voice acting, its certainly true in my case anyway). Hopefully they'll wise up, and give FemShep the attention she deserves!

[indyracing]

Well I agree on the female Shepard thing. I do have a male Shepard (finished ME 1 once with him - he's my Paragon character), but my "default" Shepard is female, mostly for the superior voice acting. I think I completed 7 total ME 1 games mostly for different achievements, and 6 were with a female Shepard (two I did once, and the 3rd I did 4 times as my "main" which was imported into ME2 with max everything).



I do plan on carrying over my male Shepard to ME 3 mostly to see how Ashley reacts that I cheated on her (no cheating on Liara with my female), but my female Shepard will always be my canon Shepard.



And like a said above, it's mostly due to the superior voice acting. Female Shepard just seems a lot more badass and believable in the role of saving the universe, especially as renegade (which is the way that seems to fit best in the story through the 1st two games so far). Male Shepard comes across too wimpy to me (like both Carth and Kaiden) to actually fulfill the role that Shepard does in the story.

[Louis deGuerre]

indyracing wrote...

And like a said above, it's mostly due to the superior voice acting. Female Shepard just seems a lot more badass and believable in the role of saving the universe, especially as renegade (which is the way that seems to fit best in the story through the 1st two games so far). Male Shepard comes across too wimpy to me (like both Carth and Kaiden) to actually fulfill the role that Shepard does in the story.

This !

I only cry a bit as I will have to play as heShep as I cannot bear not to have a romance with Tali, my second favourite character after femShep.
Also, why do my heSheps always turn out as Paragorns and my femSheps as Renegades ? What's up with that ? 

[RighteousRage]

I think Jennifer Hale is good, but the female Shepard has to be the most forced sounding thing she's ever done, including all the kids in the cartoons she's been in, haha. Male Shepard sounds like he's aware he's in a video game, which works sometimes and is just hilariously narmy other times ("beaches, beautiful women, this emotion called love").

Also the female Shepard doesn't sound badass, she just sounds like some obese female cop trying to sound tough and/or take a dump whereas male Shepard delivers the renegade lines like he's doing standup or something.

Modifié par RighteousRage, 03 février 2010 - 01:00 .

[Lightice_av]

Also the female Shepard doesn't sound badass, she just sounds like some obese female cop trying to sound tough and/or take a dump whereas male Shepard delivers the renegade lines like he's doing standup or something.

Do excuse me while I disagree 100%. FemShep sounds far more convincing than MShep most of the time. When I first bought ME1 I played Eden Prime both as male and female, and after that made my main Shepard a woman, even though I'm a guy. She is not only extremely badass, but also a slightly less clichéd a character than her male counterpart - the closest movie equivalent I can think of is Ellen Ripley from the first Alien, which is probably because both of the characters were written with gender neutrality in mind.



I would very much like to see both of the Shepards used in marketing, and the use of the "default" faces ought to be minimized; a poster that I see in my mind would have the default faces of both Shepards in the middle, stretching into dozens of variations on both sides with a catchphrase about making the character your own beneath.

[Kyero]

RighteousRage wrote...

I think Jennifer Hale is good, but the female Shepard has to be the most forced sounding thing she's ever done, including all the kids in the cartoons she's been in, haha. Male Shepard sounds like he's aware he's in a video game, which works sometimes and is just hilariously narmy other times ("beaches, beautiful women, this emotion called love").

Also the female Shepard doesn't sound badass, she just sounds like some obese female cop trying to sound tough and/or take a dump whereas male Shepard delivers the renegade lines like he's doing standup or something.

^ this,

and why would they change it after 2 games already? that would be stupid. Male shepards voice acting is more beliveable, specialy his speech in the launch trailers.

using both male and female in marketing would cause confusion, Bioware has already said this.

Modifié par Kyero, 03 février 2010 - 01:23 .

[Phnx]

Want more FemShepMaterial!!!

[Bootsykk]

I love my FemShep a thousand times more than VanderShep, but.... no.

I think  it's because she's not advertised as much that partially gives her such popularity amoung actual players of the game.

[Tasker]

To be honest, having any Shepard in the marketing is a bad thing for me.



Other games like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age have managed to not have the main character in the marketing and they managed ok.



Having a fixed face can trick people into thinking that it is the only one available. Take ME1 for example, as soon as you go to create a character the first things you see are John Shepard, custom appearance and import previous ID, it's only when you click on custom appearance that you even find out that you can make a FemShep.



No game in my opinion, no matter which genre it is, that has a custom character generator, should use the main character in it's advertising.

[TheDove]

Not happening.

[Satanicfirewraith]

agdghsrhjsetstjsrj wrote...

 Sorry if anyone's posted about this, I couldn't find the search box anywhere!

Anyway, after reading a thread about what gender you play as, it seems like it's pretty evenly balanced between male and female Shepard, yet all marketing material that I've seen seems to use only the default maleShep. I'd love to see a nicely rendered version of the default femShep too on one or two things in last ME game. 

I guess it could be seen as being confusing throwing in a female version on say, the cover of the box or the front page of the website since maleShep has always been used, but something on the back of the box or on wallpapers would be great to see.

Anyone else wish to see femShep get some more love?

Oh I would love to see them use femshep more...
Whats even funnier is that the people who made the Prima game guide all the ingame pics use a femshep!

[Lmaoboat]

Personally, I can't stand her voice. She sounds even manlier than maleShep.

Modifié par Lmaoboat, 03 février 2010 - 02:31 .

[ParasiteX]

Would love to see a FemShep action figure

[Lmaoboat]

ParasiteX wrote...

Would love to see a FemShep action figure

Comes complete with gym teacher outfit and 9 "Men are pigs" action phrases.

[1Parmenides]

Femshep is awesome... but I don't care about what marketing does. Let them do what they want. Personally I'd like to see some money from marketing being invested in an expansion pack. But hey, it's not my company.

[SethSteiner]

FemShep is far superior to the MaleShep, he is just a cliche hero. He looks like a cliche and sounds like a cliche. It`s a roleplaying game, BioWare should have shown this from the beginning, now there are real people out there who didn`t even know you can make your own Shepard. The marketing with a DefaultShep was a failure and to hold back the FemShep is really annoying.

[MBirkhofer]

I think bioware made a real mistake not making female Shepard the default.

Male shepard is the default bald space marine seen in literally hundreds of games.



Jennifer Hale did an amazing job with the voice of fem shep. Slightly better in the first one, imo. A bit gruff at times in 2.

I find it fairly interesting a specific fem shep appears very frequently in screenshots as well. The black haired side parted, with similar facial structure.



Male Shepard is lost in a sea of lookalikes. A female Shepard could have been incredibly iconic. The next Samus Aran.