So andromeda initiative is all about girlpower?

Own group preferance hm?

At least that's what the crazies call that (MGTOWs) and they aren't wrong (women are more likely to help out other women! Unlike men who are more likely to help out women!)...no, I am not one (lucky me!), but some of what they say is actually true! ATM it's women who hold more cards in society than men, look at colleges and universities:

- More female graduates (has been like this for years!) and no support programms for men (in fact: Women are still the ones being supported!)...then again: School treats boys like trash, too in many cases, so no wounder those boys don't go to university or college when they are older!

- gender politics (safe spaces, censorship, women's days are cool, but days for men? Nope!)

- female support groups (none or very few for men)

- etc. etc.

Shouldn't this issue be a thing of the past in the time of ME? I'd hope so! So not all positions should be in female hands (and neither should men dominate!)

greetings LAX

I think you do not live in the real world or at least you never worked in any factories.  

I'm surprised I haven't broken out in hives after reading this pile of wank tbh

I know this is a troll thread but just 6 or 7 years ago people would not have been losing their crap over who was what gender in a video game. I blame extremists on both sides. I blame both the likes of Anita and Gamergate. Having both genders represented in positions of power is nothing new to either video games or science fiction. Guess what Mass Effect is both a video game and a work of science fiction. I care more about biotically charging and incinerating enemies with my shotgun and how it will feel in this game.

I feel like you are doing what you claim to dislike - the elevation of one over the other. I know this is bait but I want to have a reasonable conversation so you, the OP, DON'T feel bad.

So, we also have:

Alec Ryder, All-Around Badass and clearly an authority figure. And a fine, fine example of a conventionally good-looking man. Doesn't matter if he's in the game 50 mins or 50 hours - dude will clearly hang over the proceedings whatever happens. 

Scott Ryder, Another Conventionally Good Looking Man Who is also The Playable Protagonist. And as a lady, I don't think his line is 'like a girl' at all. Someone else said Tony Stark, and that's pretty much how I saw it. And Tony Stark is not a bad dude to emulate.  

Liam Kosta, your f'n Crisis Response Specialist. Crisis. Response. So, basically Space SWAT. 

Kallo Jath, kickass Space Salamander Pilot 

Jarun Tann, Significant Salarian Politician

Jaal - I know nothing about him beyond his Tactical Space Poncho, but the dude is enormous and looks like a brawler. 

Drack.

THEN we also have allll the folks that we haven't yet met:

Gil Brodie, CHIEF Engineer. Can't run those fancy ships without an Engineer. (in this - I would argue that BW could have flipped the trope of "Lady = Head Doctor" and "Man = Chief Engineer" here). 

Mystery Man Reyes, clearly someone of importance and influence.

AND SO MANY MORE. 

Someone else made a point to me offline about how they hope that there would be 'equal opportunity villainy' for men and women in ME:A. You know what I have a hard time remembering in the OT? Bad bad lady villains. We got Brooks in DLC. Benezia was mind-controlled, doesn't count. Helena Blake, but you could convince her to reform her life. Aria was totally redeemable. Even MORINTH was given an 'out' by the fact of her genetics. But the dudes? They were just bad. Fist. That skeezy politician from Thane's loyalty quest. Harkin. Sidonis. Warden Kuril. Jacob's dad (and his officers). Han'Gerrel, that jerk. Creepy f-n Gavin Archer. Donovan Hock. Vido Santiago. The list goes on and on. We don't know anything about Jien, Foster, or Sloane really, except it looks like Sloane went bad. I would like more "gray" or even "morally bankrupt" ladies/other represented in video games because that's how the world really is. We're not all Nef's mother, or Rebecca the young mother Widow, or Khalisah the Punching Bag. There are some ladies that want to watch the world burn, and they want to burn it themselves and not for some dude. I would think that you, as a man, would also get tired of only seeing mostly men filling the "sleazy, evil asshole role". Don't jump to conclusions about characters you know nothing about based on their gender - find out their stories. I think there's something fishy about the whole lot of that AI crew.....

It's Bioware where "PC" is king or is that queen? I'm fine with it.

I think I would rather see nothing but beautiful females than a sausage fest.

This game has romancing and etc, so I will play as a male since I am a hetero male. When there is no romance in a game, I usually make my characters female. You should see my D3 lineup.

I'm bumping you up to 8/10 because you got to 5 pages and people are still replying

that shit works wonders, doesn't it?

Because, as brunobyof pointed out (thanks for that), the language they use in Alec's bio makes it seem like he is.  Like I said, I don't know it for fact.  But the impression I get is that the Hyperion is the Pathfinder's base of operations, with the Tempest and Nomad being tools for further exploration.  But this is not clear.  In fact, I haven't seen anything in the marketing about how the Hyperion plays into things except for initially waking up in Andromeda.  I'm thinking the Hyperion will be more or less stationary at the Nexus, except at certain story points.

Didn't watch it because I don't want spoilers.

Also, apparently quoting someone with a spoiler exposes the spoiler to you.  Fu....