The huge gulf between fem Ryder and Male Ryder [quality of acting]

Jaal: STAY STRONG AND CLEAR!

Ryder: Oh my god why are you yelling it's like quieter than death in here.

Jaal: Why does your kind use some disturbing idioms?

Ryder: I don't think that's really an idiom...

Dude. Suvi's vo is from Glasgow. That's the heart of scotland.

Love my male Ryder and love that he sounds a bit like Nolan North's Drake.

I love the male ryder voicing but I think with some of the lines sarcastic can come off douchey. I don't think it is specifically him as much as the fact that some of those lines, women can get away with saying and not sounding like a douche where with a guy, they can't do that. I think also, after playing MET both sexes and both sexes here, I am convinced that due to the nature of the writing for the protags, I think the female VOs will probably always be better because a male is always going to approach it differently. Women tend to have more range and it generally doesn't come off badly. But with guys if they utilize range too much people don't like it. If they don't utilize it enough, people don't like it. Mark Meer kind of had a problem with this. In ME1 he was very flat, but playing it now I can't really see how he could have played it like Jennifer Hale did. And because of that, she became a favorite for many. But really, he was just playing it as classic military I think. Jennifer played it less about classic military and more about how femshep responds to things in general. That changed how so many of her lines came across. Renegade femshep is amazing because of this.

Haha, I see you really don't like Jo Wyatt, since she gave her voice to both Female Agent and Female Hawke. I, on the other hand, absolutely adore this voice and I could never play Male Hawke. Preferences, hehe. But your post reminded me of one thing - Female Sith Warrior. Jesus, this voice was SO GOOD. It's my absolutely favorite female voice in any game. I don't know if the voice actress is so good in other works, but Sith Female Warrior is just The Dream to me. Such a strong voice.

As for the Male Ryder, personally from what I've heard it seems OK to me, though I always play female characters first. However my girlfriend plays as a dude 90% of the time and she actually hated Male Ryder's voice. She started again as a Female Ryder and she likes it a lot more.

Katy Townsend was born in Glasgow, so yes.

I started my play-through as male Ryder and deleted it after about 10 hrs. Just couldn't stand it anymore so I went with Fem Ryder. She was a little more tolerable, but still... I think it's more the writing than anything. Crap in=crap out no matter who is doing the VO.

Yeah, because bad/ill-suited actors have never gotten roles before...

It's funny how opinions differ. I always hated the weird way Liara talked and disliked the character because of it.

As far as protagonists go, F!Ryder has the best voice actor in the mass effect and dragon age series, I think. And I love my Ryder because of it. What I've heard so far of M!Ryder also sounds great.

Can't stand the female voice. Fake American cheerleader selfie omg type.

Funny, I thought Tom Taylorson did a better job myself. Fryda isn't bad at all, but she's not as good as Hale was. Whereas Taylorson is way better than Meer was in ME1, and is easily as good as Meer in ME3.