Unpopular opinions

Why Kaidan seem to look more "muscular" and "bigger" because folks are used to see him in light armor and the only way to really see Kaidan topless was to play his girlfriend from the start. If you put BroShep in light armor, he'll look the same as Kaidan as well because they share same body mesh. Same goes with Kaidan himself in heavy armor.

which I prefer, since Sentinel should be a tank spec.

A line she had in ME1:

Yeah, well if you want me in a tin foil mini skirt and thigh-high boots, I'm gonna need dinner first

Probably reused and reskinned the model. So, no one painstakingly thought EDI should have cameltoe, but they did think Miranda should. Because "perfect human specimen". Still better than Banshees though.

Oh and for extra in-universe squick- the infiltration platform was designed by TIM, named after his dead girlfriend and modeled to Miranda's... specifications. Let it not be said indoctrination or human supremacy was the man's only vice...

I've wondered about that, myself. For it to happen, you'd think the human-like skin Eva used would be required, but EDI never used it, as far as I can remember. It makes no sense for her metal surface to have it. But it's probably there for the same reason Miranda's cameltoe was, and the same reason some of the female characters appeared to get boob-jobs between the end of ME2 and the beginning of ME3.

You mean the fetish wear?  

I'm pretty sure Ashley is based on a real person and she look fine with minimal makeup.

but later they gave her a costume that amplify her generous bosom, makeup that amplify her generous pale glossy lips, contoured narrow nose, pink flush cheeks, heavy and glossy smokey eyes, flat-ironed straight hair and basically a 'Kardashian' makeover.

The changes in her looks isn't created with the idea that she is a character who dedicated her life into the military, it was to make her look "sexually appealing", which effectively translate into Ashley being turned into a guy's dream blowout doll. As if it wasn't enough, the writer himself have trouble juggling between two characters and decide it was easier for ME3 Ashley to have similar arc with Miranda. 

ME3 Kaidan is appealing to me but it wasn't due to his new look. He wasn't created with the idea that he should be more sexually attractive to ME3 Shepard. As a combat biotic wearing heavy armor, why wouldn't he have more muscular frame? He have more grey and more wrinkles than he used to but he's always been older than Shepard. Its just a testament of how much time passed for him in between the games. 

But even majority of female characters in the game aren't allowed to age and must always look youthful and slender. In the novel, Drew Karpyshyn breathlessly explain that all female look like they're in their 20s because age-defying technology to explain why Kahlee Sanders are still sexually attractive even if she is a middle age woman. Chakwas have grey hair and wrinkles but she have the body of a teenage girl. Asari merely grew cupsizes as they grew older. Miranda's genetic modification meant she age slower even if she's much older than Kaidan. As if anti-ageing technology only applies to women but not men.

I feel the need to point out you enjoy the more mature look the more muscular features of Kaiden. Generally features considered attractive by a large portion of females. Yet at the same time complain when the females get a similar treatment to make them more considered attractive by the larger portion of male population.


As well as given the attitude and personality of each female character they are shown to be extremely bad ass and independent. Which comes across as strong female characters can't be attractive. They have to be plain and frumpy looking to fit every stereotype movies have ever created were attractive ones are generally stupid or self centered and the more plain looking women are the ones who are over all better people who actually can do things.

They are going to pander to groups and while not necessarily completely true men make up a significant portion of video game players. As well game companies like EA are set in their mind that men are the super majority of video game buyers and players.  Hell even Cortana the AI from Halo had her bust size increase from a B to a DD.  But each of them personality wise are not damsels in distress incapable of doing anything unless a man helps them.

Does that mean that I actually have an unpopular opinion? Because as I am starting to replay the Trilogy I find all the joinable female characters to be far too soft and gentle for my male Shepard to romance

No, I won't be romancing Ashley, I don't like her that way, you know, digitally, but thank you for the advice anyway. This is not really on topic though. Heh, I will try to dig a little deeper and try a little harder to find if I am capable of unpopular opinion. But I am a sucker for this game at the moment, and love everything. I can't help it.

Kaidan don't suddenly 'age' from ME1 to ME3 to make him sexually appealing. This is vanilla Kaidan,





Even jaundiced, he's always the same wrinkly with graying hair Kaidan. 

And I've said it earlier, Kaidan didn't 'grew muscular'. In the entire trilogy, he shared the exact same body with male human characters including BroShep.

Nobody botox-ed him or paint him with gloss to make him sexually appealing.

English is already my second language but.... huh?

So you think I was against Ashley's 'beautification' because I want a badass strong female character to keep on looking plain and frumpy? 

plain...

frumpy..

plain...


frumpy..

Attractive...


..... because there's no such thing as makeup remover in the future, or hair that don't stick on glossy lips.... or military regulations on makeup

Kaidan has significantly more gray in ME3 than ME1 and default Shepard (who is older) has none.  The cleft in his chin was deepened between ME1 and ME3, giving him more of a Clint Walker sort of appeal.  Sorry about the age of the actor I'm comparing it too... it reflects my own age; but back in my day, a strong cleft chin was considered to be a very sexy trait in a male - made such by the actors that had them - Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum. Paul Newman to name a few more.  The rendering of skin had improved quite a lot between the two games... which helped both genders appear to be more attractive.  The arms on both Shepard and Kaidan are made more muscular between ME1 and ME2/3 and individual muscle groups are more defined.  If you don't believe me, just look at the bit of bicep that shows just below the t-shirt sleeve in each game.  Just because Kaidan uses the same body mesh as Shepard doesn't mean that mesh wasn't changed between the two games to make it more attractive (by making it more "sculpted").  The addition of James with his overkill body build is pure gratuitous eye candy for women players... and if putting in a vid of Jacob doing sit-ups in ME2 and having both James and Shepard doing chip ups in ME3 isn't about the same level as focusing on Miranda's butt... I don't know what is.

As for a woman's choice in makeup - is that not a free personal choice? or are there regs against lip gloss in the military that I'm not aware of?

Shepard got burned to crisp in 2183 and with the exception of the brain, Shepard is just as engineered as Miranda. Neither physically age normally. Kaidan didn't get Cerberus plastic surgeons to keep him look young.

More than three years have passed between ME1 and ME3. Kaidan get severe migraines from his L2 implant, he suffered a lot of loss and stress. He watched his ship blew up, a lot of his friends were killed, his beloved girlfriend were killed (optional), he watched Reapers bulldoze Vancouver and possible his friends and family too, his father was killed, he left his mother alone on Earth where reapers full-on harvesting mode... and apparently he's sexually objectified because older men with saggy balls are sexually attractive to female gaming audience.. ... .... .. ... no

So you're saying Bioware intentionally make male body more muscular and biceps more bigger and more defined to make male characters appealing to women...

If all these effort to appease female demographic with sexy muscular men, why FemShep have more lesbian options than she does with straight options. Why Thane run toward a sword for a quick death? Why Jacob have a baby with another woman? Why there's only two true-romance choices for a straight female player which is Kaidan and Garrus. Why Citadel hookup was treated like a joke?

Why FemShep get two when BroShep have more than three woman to sleep with in each game? (Sha'ira, Liara and Ashley / Miranda, Jack, Tali and Kelly / Liara, Ashley, Miranda, Jack, Tali and Allers)

This is not a personal choice made by a woman, its the personal choice by a group of men called Bioware's Character Artist team.

I don't make that one up. Their priority was to make a woman look appealing to men than for her to look like a person herself. 

Military woman don't go to work looking like they want to party during the day.