Share Your Shepard! ME1, ME2 & ME3

My Male Shepard had the Sheploo face. No matter how many times I made a custom face for him, it didn't work out. The faces never looked right. They were not "Shepard." The voice didn't seem to fit the other faces either, and in my opinion, that goes for every custom male face (Sorry to those who created custom male faces). But now Male Shepard, default or not, is a thing of the past for me.

FemShep is the other way around. Almost every custom face works perfectly, and not the default.

Picture for the day:

I guess so. When I first played the series back in 2010, it was with ME2. Most of the videos I've seen was with the default, and I was in a rush when I started the game. That was a long time ago. It's in the past. It's just my FemShep now. Who would have thought that I would have a much better time playing the Trilogy with a FemShep, than with my first Shepard?

Story Time!

Well, it wasn't easy at first. I created Quorra twice. The first time started out well (even though I didn't start her with ME1 cuz I was too damn lazy), then it all went crashing down. In the panic, I deleted her, because I only want one Shepard (I still do), and like an idiot I kept the first. After switching to the PS3, then back to PC, it was 3 years since I last played Mass Effect with my first Shepard. I really didn't want to go back and do the same thing. So I tried to do some changes, like a different class, and love interest. Then something hit me like a Krogan headbutt! I watched a video for the Citadel DLC involving a romantic moment between FemShep and Garrus (the tango). I wanted that! It made sense. That Romance subplot is so genuine! So, I restarted ME1, recreated Quorra's face (I did this by looking at very low-res pictures of the first Quorra, a MIRACLE!), and continued from there. Then I got rid of the other Shepard, name Quorra my official "Canon," and the rest is what you see now(and was just last year). I've come a long way since 2010.

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Granted, I never created my FemShep in ME1, until last year, and I was using old pictures of her from ME2 and 3 to create her face again, this time in an much older game. At first, I was worried that some of the features (like the nose, mouth, eyes, jaw, etc.) didn't look right, but in the end it turned out better. The Quorra 2.0 look was as close as i could get to the original, and it grew on me somewhat quickly, and I can't find it in my heart to change any features. If I changed her nose, eyes, makeup, mouth, facial structure, etc., it wouldn't really be her face anymore. The only thing I changed was her hair style for ME3. Not only did I do because of the fact that her original hair didn't look right in ME3, but i wanted to give her a hairstyle for story purposes (some characters have a hairstyle change in a series of movies, like Star Wars, or Harry Potter), as if she cut her hair sometime before the events of ME3. Her look is her own, in all three games. I even created that image of her in all three in a previous post, like so:



I even went as far as backing up her character profile for each game. She's an Earthborn, War Hero, and a Vanguard. She's mostly Paragon, mostly... 

I take it you hate the CC in Mass Effect? She doesn't even look bad, though.

theskymoves You seriously need to stop putting yourself down. Your Shepard is gorgeous, through all the games. And your Wardens are amazing too.

Also, Aida is a cutie.

Nah, she looks fine! The thing about ME3 is that the game's graphics engine seems so different that I think one has to accept that one's Shepard will not look exactly the same. It's just a matter of convincing oneself that "different" does not mean "bad".

To be fair, Sheploo is a supermodel.  Underwear model, even, which is also true of Scott Ryder's face model.  Kaidan?  Model.  Still, it's odd that Ash and Liara got face models but not FemShep.

That said, I have always been terrible at character creation.  It's one of the major reasons I tend to go with default looks so I always pray they're easy on the eyes.  lol

I've never used default faces for any game you can customize your character, but mainly because I love messing around in CCs, even the not so great ones lol
I do like the default faces for Shepard (even if femshep didn't get a facemodel).

I don't have any pictures of my Shepard from the first two games because I played them on the ps3, but here's a couple from me3 (obviously some modding happened, couldn't resist):



I might tweak her some more in future PTs but I do like how she looks.

Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to re-invent my canon femShep, looking online for inspiration and trying crazy face shapes. I want her to look significantly different to Amy (that I shared in the OP) but sheesh it's difficult.

'Hey sis, I made a femshep that looks just like you!'