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[Jayce]

Terraneaux wrote...

Jayce F wrote...

Jalem001 wrote...

All the armor was slim in ME1.  Across the board.  I prefer the bulkier stuff because now they look like soldiers, rather then people in space leotards.

Err... you DO realize that ME2's N7 armor is actually just Onyx MEDIUM armor with a few tweaks and better textures, right...?

It still looks bulkier.  In ME1 some of the characters looked really, really thin even in armor.

Well, it only looks bulkier and that is only because the new textures resemble carbon fiber rather than rubber.

[Sharn01]

I am sure femShep could be a lot closer to what people here like to call feminine when she is not performing duties saving the galaxy as a former Speceal Forces Space Marine turned Spectre.



Of course people did not buy ME2 to see how Shepard act's when not doing her job, since the golden rule of any RPG is that if its not important to the story you do not see it happen. You know, stuff like eating, sleeping, showering, going to the latrine, sitting in your cabin reading a book or exercising while the Normandy takes 5 days to travel to a different star system that has no relay, etc.

[Erode_The_Soul]

This thread makes me giggle because the first time I heard Hale as Femshep I was pleasantly surprised at how feminine she sounded.

[MsKlaussen]

The Angry One wrote...

rolltide123 wrote...

I'm not being sexist I'm a girl.

Sexism of one's own gender is still sexism.

I was just saying that when I first heard the voice (I didn't play ME1) it shocked me and was a lot deeper than I expected. I just don't like it.

Do you expect a miltary commander who just died and came back to sound like a valley girl?

I understand that as a commander (soldier) that you need to be forceful and in charge.
The voice and how her body positioning  just annoyed me.
I was just wondering if anyone thought the same.

I honestly don't get what you expect out of a soldier.

She was a woman before she was a soldier.

I think I saw a thread like this before. I understand what rolltide123 is saying about her mannerisms, and can chalk up a certain amount of that to what I call "The Dizzy Syndrome" after the Starship Troopers character. Had to be better than the boys and tougher too - it looks strange on a woman but depending on choices throughout life most women know what that's like from experience.

But that character also points out the flaw in the whole "what do you expect from a soldier" theory. In private, at the H.S. dance (if you saw the movie), and most revealingly, at Death's door, Dizzy the tougher than guys Space Marine was 100% all woman. The vulnerability, the tenderness, the passion, the eroticism  - all of it.

This is an immense failure in the average man's understanding of women, when portraying them on-screen or in literature. There's far too much tendency to make assertiveness in a woman a complete sacrifice of her femininity. The compromise that is struck is to make her either an ice princess or a temptress with ruthless underpinnings.

There is a middle ground where women are nurturing, confident, loving, sexy, and still iron-willled, determined and capable when the time comes. There are a lot of literary and cinematic examples from writers who are open to this.

Any way it goes though, if they would simply come up with a way to not make my FemShep jog like Grape Ape and walk like something from Dawn of the Dead I would be satisfied!

[Tamyn]

I'm fine with Hale's voice. I just don't like that female Shepard's animations (particularly sitting) are basically the same as male Shepard's. I don't understand why they couldn't have given female Shepard the "female" sitting pose they give to all other women in the game. Especially when she's drinking with Chakwas in her casual wear.