VentureBeat claims we're going to get a MET Remaster "Legendary Edition"

Your last point is really my whole point here. I don't really give a crap about the box art, it would just be be nice to see both genders of the default player character used equally in promotional materials. I've never even owned a physical copy of any of the games so it's not about how eye-catching it is. The point is just to feature them both equally everywhere dudeshep is currently used.

Edit: Wanted to address one more thing. I said she feels like an afterthought because it would have been fairly easy for someone prior to ME3 to not even know she was an option based on the marketing materials. I didn't play the games for YEARS because I assumed it was just another shooter featuring some buzzcut marine dude. Having femshep featured more prominently in the marketing would have changed that!

Maybe when the trilogy is remade, Bioware can scan Hale's face to be the default look for femshep.

We're basically in agreement here. Obviously they did it for marketing reasons. And I was actually a huge fan of KotOR when it came out so I DID know what Bioware games were, I just thought Mass Effect was different because it was marketed so aggressively to the Halo crowd at first. I didn't start playing the trilogy until shortly after Mass Effect 2 came out when my friend made me play the beginning of ME1 and I was like OHHH so it IS just like Dragon Age/KotOR. I honestly hadn't realized it was fully an RPG with a customizable character and romances etc. So marketing does matter!

And also, times were really different when they were marketing the first two games. Gaming was then considered to be just "for boys" and that's not really the case anymore, which is why they updated their marketing approach for ME3. Gaming has become even more inclusive since then, hence why I think if they remaster the trilogy, they should make an effort to feature both characters equally. Once again, we're not disagreeing here!

Also too, I think you're underestimating how alienating the gaming world can be for women. And I say this as someone who used to work in game development. It wasn't until the last 5 years or so that gaming started to actually feel widely and truly inclusive, and not like women gamers were just being thrown an occasional bone here and there. It's also just about not making the assumption that default=male. Little things go a long way, and I think making an effort to showcase that Shepard can be either gender was a good move, and I hope to see more of that if they remaster the trilogy.

I thought they did.

Remasters aren't remakes. Do your research.

Wasn’t it then changed because it wasn’t approved of how people had voted.

It could. But would contradicting character traits, for example, be considered objectively bad writing? I'd like to think that, at least for one game, a character's personality would be consistent in its own game. Peebee and Liam exhibit several such breaks from character, in Andromeda. That is considered, largely, inconsistent and contradicting writing which is, in no way, shape or form, "subjective". Imagine describing someone as being "fiercely loyal to his friends", only to betray them, three scenes later, for no reason. Some things are just objectively bad. That you find it subjectively to your liking or not, per occasion, is irrelevant.


Yes, it was. The blonde femshep won the vote and was later changed to the ginger.


Maybe so. But every time I've came across a girl in an online game, I usually simped. Hard. As well as all my guild member friends. And every other guild's guys. And I've played a lot of games where this happened. As for work places, work places are hard. In general. And bad behaviour exists in workplaces. In general. I've even been harassed by a male co-worker, in my previous job. And don't even get me started on my military service. Never again.

The whole voting thing was pretty dumb. There were two whole games prior with a default FemShep to draw reference from. They should’ve just gone with as close an approximation of that. I’m just thankful customization is a thing. I just don’t like how the default turned out. 

It's a small request that probably won't happen but I'd love if they allowed you to recruit any squad mate you want from the start in Mass Effect 2. I might be misremembering but I do believe this was originally a feature in Mass Effect 2(cut due to disk space?). For instance, I believe dialogue exists in the files for say Thane, if he goes to Mordin's recruitment but it just didn't make the final cut.

Yep:

People voted for the blonde FemShep because she looked closest to the default FemShep in ME1/ME2 but a lot of them commented that they wanted red hair so Bioware had a second vote to determine hair colour

Specific examples would be useful here. I'm not prepared to declare that you're doing that thing (again) where you pretend that your own subjective views are obvious objective truths, because I have no idea what you're talking about.