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[robarcool]

I think that female shepard is better in Mass Effect 1, but in ME2, the acting seems a bit forced at times. Not that male Shepard is perfect, but he sounds more daunting and sincere in a natural tone. I am playing as a fem shep after doing 10 male sheps and Hale's voice acting seems kind of artificial. I have heard the suicide mission speeches of both Shepards and I find Veer's voice acting better. Also, I think that they should give a detailed model for the default female Shepard like they have been giving Vanderloo's face for default male Shep. I think that Olivia Wilde will look nice Shepard. Any thoughts?

[Sarah_SR2]

As a lady I've gone for the default male shep on my playthroughs because I think he looks drop dead gorgeous to be honest And I think the voice acting is good too although without hearing Jennifer Hale's renditions it would be unfair of me to comment really.

[Sarah_SR2]

Yeah, I could picture Olivia Wilde as Shepard.

[78stonewobble]

Landline wrote...

Personally I simply can not play female characters in video games.<br />
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It just feels to weird, and I didn't think malesheps voice was that bad.

Same here... I wouldn't say it feels "weird" per say but in an RPG I need to be drawn into the game moreso than eg. an FPS or what not. Theres just a disconnect there if I pick a female character.

Funnily enough I don't really notice shephards voice?!?! I actually think I say them myself (not out loud) but then again I play with subtitles on. Maybe I've just gotten used to reading them instead.

Modifié par 78stonewobble, 12 juin 2011 - 04:24 .

[Mr. Gogeta34]

Male Shepard wins in my book. And the voice fits my Shepard perfectly.

[ArawnNox]

Epic thread necromancy

I've said this in the DA2 forums about Lady Hawke so I'll repeat it here: Strong female leads are sexy as hell. So, given the option, I usually play a female protagonist. Also, I find I enjoy Hale's voice acting over Meer's (who, at the time of ME1, had nothing to his credit). At least in 1. I haven't heard his delivery in 2, and probably never will. Shepard has become female to me, and I have trouble picturing the character as anything else.

But hey, if you like Male!Shep, good for you. We both get something to enjoy out of the game. Neither point of view is superior to the other.

[Sister Helen]

For me, it depends on the character generator and the voice acting. I found the maleshep's voice meh, but I liked femshep's voice.

I could not for the life of me get a good looking maleshep. I got some passable ones, but never one I truly was satisfied with the look of, so I kept redoing it over and over and over again. Finally made one that I could sort of tolerate, who romanced Jack.

I found it easy to make good looking femsheps, so I made a bunch of them. One for Garrus, one for Thane, and one for Liara (once the Shadowbroker DLC went live).

Modifié par Sister Helen, 12 juin 2011 - 08:24 .

[78stonewobble]

A quick offtopic comment on the shep looks.

The head view is finicky regarding view angles. I thought I ended with a decent looking male shepard only to discover he had weird inflated uhm... lower forward chins. In someway he looks a bit like a chipmonk. Grrr... We can't rotate to any angle we want?

A little less offtopic...

The ability to do record your own voice as shepards? WIN and first for any game.

[Senior Cinco]

Landline wrote...

Personally I simply can not play female characters in video games.

Ever play Tomb Raider? I put myself in the shoes of my Himshep. I play the Femsheps more for eye candy, kind of like watching a movie. ( yes, I'm a sick perv, thank you very much. ) Although, I do have a prob with the romance opts. It's Liaria or nothing. That said, I do wish they would take a page from DA2 and bust her out, put some junk in her trunk and a swag in her step.

[Coekie92]

Modifié par Coekie92, 24 mars 2013 - 04:21 .

[Coekie92]

 I played with the female shep through out the trilogy, and i am a dude xD

[harrison mason]

i just finished my first playthrough of femshep for ME 1 and i have to say no offense but she just sounds so dry like she woke up and just read it where as the male shepard has such passion i feel like i can believe in every line there is rage sorrow happiness he just ROCKS

[Possessed Turian]

Harrison mason I agree she felt the same way to me. Male Shepard was full spirit in every line while female Shepard was always like I don't give a damn from what I've seen in a YouTube video that compared both of the with the same dialogue.

I've played all 3 games and male Shepard just owns it withthe way he speaks

Modifié par Possessed Turian, 29 octobre 2013 - 09:19 .

[Brickyracer8655]

Late to this thread, but oh well.

 

I've played the ME trilogy many times, both as male and female Shepard. The first time I ever played ME was as a femShep. The second time I played as manShep. I thought Jennifer Hale's performance was vastly superior to Mark Meer's. Over time, Mark Meer grew on me. Jennifer Hale was consistent throughout the trilogy, while Mark Meer improved with each game. I felt that in ME1 and ME2, femShep had more emotion and anger in situations where it was necessary (Normandy speeches, Collector Base speeches, etc). In ME3, I preferred Mark over Jennifer. ManShep appeared more tired and drained; He really sounded like someone who had an enormous weight on his shoulders, a leader struggling to keep it all together - which IMO suited the tone of ME3.

 

ME1 - Jennifer Hale

ME2 - Jennifer Hale

ME3 - Mark Meer

 

If I have to choose one as the best, then I go with Jennifer Hale

[Vazgen]

Male Shepard for me. While Mark's performance falls short at times in ME1, I can't help but think that Jennifer overacts quite a lot. She puts emotions into almost every line and it doesn't fit with a hardened soldier like Shepard in my opinion. It's easier for me to RP Mark's low emotion levels than Jennifer's highly emotional lines. And the fact that Mark improves through the trilogy also adds to the change of Shepard's character. 

[themikefest]

femshep

[ME_Fan]

Maleshep, easily. Many lines are delivered very differently between the two, but more often I found Meer to be more animated and have a greater range, whereas Hale was more monotone and had more poor deliveries of lines.

[KaiserShep]

Easily FemShep for me.

[joe6pak]

I liked Hale's VA better overall.  It's just tough to put the same voice on so many different Sheps and have them do an adequate job.  In essence the voices are vanilla since no really thinks of vanilla as their favorite flavor, but then again no one hates it either.  I know it maybe a bit to ask, but I would like to see multiple voices for the protagonist similar to something like in Saints Row.  Volition put just a ton of effort into the voice acting and it is one the reasons why it stands out in my mind as a good game.  It also made the multiple playthroughs a bit more unique as each PC could have a unique voice and it would flow through to the character themselves.

[DuskWanderer]

I thought Hale did a better job in 1, but Meer did better in 2 and 3. FemShep always sounds vaguely pissed off whenever she speaks, and the romance dialogue (the prime difference between the sexes) wasn't very tender. 

[Voragoras]

I think Hale is the better overall, mostly because I prefer slight overacting to a bland disinterest. At least she attempts to affect a personality - I can only ever see ManShep acting like you put his line in Google Translate and pressed "listen". It kind of takes me out of the game if my character doesn't even sound phased by anything that's happening.

[Larry-3]

I think the voice should have changed based on what class you are. Remember Star Wars: The old Republic?

[Kuseikos]

The Femshep voice acting is by all means superior to the male Shepard's, not counting the fact that while man characters are ubiquitous in videogames, and all look pretty much the same (male Shep being no exception), in this case Bioware has created a woman that is not, simply, a male with breasts - or worse, just two breasts moving on screen . She's a thouroughly complete human being, dealing with problems as a human and not as a "woman", that is "a man plus something" or "a man minus something" depending on your view. Normally, videogame heroines are made supersexy, improbable and shallow. Over here, we have a woman who can lead, who can take the responsibility of the Galaxy on her shoulders, and whose character matters more than her looks.

And there's the voice acting, anyway, which is superb.

[sjsharp2011]

None of the voice acting is bad at all. People who want femshep to sound like Tinkerbell....



The fact that we are denied a view of bewbies or thespian secks is the real controversy here, I mean... WTF BIOWARE?

I agree I think both voice actors did a great job. In fact I'd go as far as to say there wasn't any bad acting at all from any of the VA's in any of the trilogy. When I first got the games I did mostly male playthroughs but in more recent times I'd say I've done more female ones. But I think both Jen and Mark did a great job in the role of Shepard. IMO it's pretty clear hey both know what they're doing.