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Post by amehzing on Mar 17, 2017 22:36:13 GMT
I'm only asking because I'm a bit confused.
92% of people played as a male Shepard and all official merchandise and trailers had him; they said if there was an ME movie about Shepard he would be male, and they didn't even have a model for femsheo (or a default design) until ME3
Casey Hudson even mentioned money lost on rendering Shepard a second time for females and hiring a VA, said they reakktcould have kept it male only like Witcher (or horizon did but female)
Yet when I almost forgot to change the gender, it was going to assume I wanted female Shepard.
It wasn't a big issue I just quickly switched it to make. So I'm not trying to complain.
I'm just wondering why the sudden huge backtrack? Is canon Shepard a girl now? I always thought he was supposed to be analogous for Jesus TBH
I won't delete what I said because I don't think I was completely wrong (and I won't edit it because then people will be confused about some of the responses I got)
But I did want to apologize front and center in the OP. After clearing my head a bit and re reading I realize this probably came off as pretty sexist or misogynistic. I did say some of this stuff to spark further conversation and I wanted opinions, see if people agree or disagree.
I phrased it poorly, and it isn't a discussion people other than me care for much. So sorry for that. Thanks for the answers I got!
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Post by Croatsky on Mar 17, 2017 22:46:25 GMT
Quickstart gives you male Shepard as default.
Also you absolutely did not need to post anything else but the title question, OP. You're just baiting for inflammatory responses.
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Post by jediguardian on Mar 18, 2017 1:18:00 GMT
I have a bad feeling from the OP.
After I read them (too much information if i must say), I fee like you will be mad if quick start give you Female Shepard.
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Post by jasonpogo on Mar 18, 2017 1:24:27 GMT
I feel like you should only be allowed to play as Sara. It will do you good.
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Post by zarrokhai on Mar 18, 2017 1:26:52 GMT
You are trying to sound confused but I can sense your deceit, friend. Btw I consider both Shepards canon. Idgaf how lore breaking that is, they are both awesome.
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Post by amehzing on Mar 18, 2017 2:09:12 GMT
I feel like you should only be allowed to play as Sara. It will do you good. Haha I may have came off wrong I liked the story more as male Shepard, and I thought he was default based off what I said. I was only confused why female Shepard was default. Similarly, so far I'm more into the story of Sara Ryder. I am playing as Scott because I'm male and want my first olaythtough to be as similar to me as I can. But I like the story more with Sara. I don't feel bad about admitting either of those points. Sorry if I came off aggressive or Sexist
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Post by laxian on Mar 18, 2017 2:32:34 GMT
Ok, a question from the "ignorant" German: Where is this from? (What movie or TV-Show?) Also yeah, I agree with the fact that the OP might be fishing for inflamatory remarks, but I also think he's not wrong to ask! Because when you do not quickstart and don't change it you probably get female Shepard (she's the first entry if I remember this right!)...I am NOT saying that this is wrong (I frankly don't really care because for me Shepard only gains a gender once I decide who to play, so for all I care Shepard is genderless till you select it in the game...sure they said they'd make it a male if they'd make a movie, but so far? Nope, the books don't mention the gender as far as I know (don't know about the comics, but I believe they don't)) greetings LAX ps: Might this have been done deliberate by say Manveer Heir? Maybe! But even that dickwad doesn't have the influence to totally strike male Shepard - thank god! I'll select who I want in every run (at first I'll keep the gender the same as my chosen Ryder's gender - so male for Scott (I'll stick with the names for now, I want the voice acting to mention his/her name, instead of always saying "Ryder") and female for Sara...later on I'll switch it around probably (female for Scott and male for Sara...if I do 4 runs that is...if it's anywhere near as good as ME2, well I'll play the shit out of it
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Post by Mihura on Mar 18, 2017 2:35:14 GMT
Ok, a question from the "ignorant" German: Where is this from? (What movie or TV-Show?) Also yeah, I agree with the fact that the OP might be fishing for inflamatory remarks, but I also think he's not wrong to ask! Because when you do not quickstart and don't change it you probably get female Shepard (she's the first entry if I remember this right!)...I am NOT saying that this is wrong (I frankly don't really care because for me Shepard only gains a gender once I decide who to play, so for all I care Shepard is genderless till you select it in the game...sure they said they'd make it a male if they'd make a movie, but so far? Nope, the books don't mention the gender as far as I know (don't know about the comics, but I believe they don't)) greetings LAX ps: Might this have been done deliberate by say Manveer Heir? Maybe! But even that dickwad doesn't have the influence to totally strike male Shepard - thank god! I'll select who I want in every run (at first I'll keep the gender the same as my chosen Ryder's gender - so male for Scott (I'll stick with the names for now, I want the voice acting to mention his/her name, instead of always saying "Ryder") and female for Sara...later on I'll switch it around probably (female for Scott and male for Sara...if I do 4 runs that is...if it's anywhere near as good as ME2, well I'll play the shit out of it
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Post by Adaiah on Mar 18, 2017 7:34:45 GMT
ps: Might this have been done deliberate by say Manveer Heir? Maybe! No.
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Post by ammonite on Mar 18, 2017 7:38:55 GMT
Quickstart: Maleshep. Custom start: Maleshep (also, m!Ryder as default). Imagine how long this thread could have gotten and the kind of posts there would have been had the opposite been true tho
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Post by tmjfin on Mar 18, 2017 10:33:29 GMT
I've made two custom starts and in both them the defauldt was FemShep.
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Post by sil on Mar 18, 2017 11:37:11 GMT
I don't play as femShep at all, but she looks exactly as I would expect a live action version of her to look.
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Post by amehzing on Mar 18, 2017 17:45:56 GMT
Quickstart: Maleshep. Custom start: Maleshep (also, m!Ryder as default). Imagine how long this thread could have gotten and the kind of posts there would have been had the opposite been true tho my custom was femryder and femshep default so I guess it randomized it to avoid picking a solid canon pretty cool. The thread would have gone the same way. It would include me asking, people answering while insinuating I'm sexist, causing me to read it back and agree that I phrased my points poorly.
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Post by Rannik on Mar 18, 2017 19:49:53 GMT
It's gives you male Shepard, the canon one.
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Post by projectpatdc on Mar 18, 2017 20:44:06 GMT
I blame SJWs! Fem Shep was retconned to have never saved the galaxy because she doing her job in the kitchen, making sandwiches.
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Post by projectpatdc on Mar 18, 2017 20:47:01 GMT
Who is this gorgeous woman?
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Post by glitch89 on Mar 18, 2017 21:18:29 GMT
FemShep, I played a custom Sara.
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Post by Croatsky on Mar 18, 2017 22:11:37 GMT
ps: Might this have been done deliberate by say Manveer Heir? Maybe! No. Manveer Heir hasn't even been part of Bioware for a long while.
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Post by amehzing on Mar 18, 2017 22:47:36 GMT
Manveer Heir hasn't even been part of Bioware for a long while. He is still working there and still be racist to this day I though?
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Post by NRieh on Mar 18, 2017 23:14:06 GMT
Just an assumption, but long time ago, in a galaxy far-far Neverwinter Nights addon, long before any imports, the OC PC gender had been assumed as = current PC gender. Which makes some sense - people normally have some preferences.
We don't have much statistics yet, but I've had femShep as default (starting as custom sisRyder).
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Post by sil on Mar 19, 2017 0:18:37 GMT
...I didn't notice an option to pick a gender for Shep...
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Post by dmc1001 on Mar 19, 2017 0:46:33 GMT
I think the quick start was female Shepard. I didn't go for quick start (but looked at it) so it wasn't an issue for me. I switched to male Shepard. But I'm not sure it matters a whole lot.
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