ME: male or female?

[Zoma]

Liara, the Asari: Your Psychic team member (The blue girl with a squid like head)

 

Ashley, the Soldier poet: Thread softly and carry a big gun member (The girl in white armor in the ME promotion poster)

 

Wrex, the mercenary: Throttle on loudly and carry a bigger gun member (Big hunchback alien)

 

Garrus, the Agent: Your team's sniper and electronic support unit (The reptile alien with a targetting visor over his left eye)

 

Tali, the walking suit: Your team's electronic engineer genius. (An alien female who always wear an environmental suit. You cannot see her face clearly)

 

Kaidan, the whiny Carth wannabe: Your team's support unit in using a mix of electronic and psychic warfare. (Your typical crybaby Carth)

Edited June 8, 2008 by Zoma

[Xard]

Liara, the Asari: Your Psychic team member (The blue girl with a squid like head)

 

Aka blue alien lesbian sex

[Sand]

Kaiden is not a crybaby, he just sounds like one because of his voice actor's connection to Carth.

[Moatilliatta]

Wrex, the mercenary: Throttle on loudly and carry a bigger gun member (Big hunchback alien)

Canderous with a twist member

 

Kaiden is not a crybaby, he just sounds like one because of his voice actor's connection to Carth.

Or rather people think so because of Carth. I've never made the connection before (Carth = Whiny) so I don't make it now.

 

Edit: What I'm trying to say is that Carth was whiny and it has affected peoples view of the voice-actor's voice.

Edited June 8, 2008 by Moatilliatta

[Rosbjerg]

Jennifer Hale is a better voice actor, Mark really sounds robotic as Zoma mentioned - lacking emontional depth, but I still prefer playing male.

 

Finished as a Paragon Male Soldier and now trying as a Renegade Sentinel Female. I'm glad I unlocked the Asssault rifle achivement in the previous game.

[Sand]

Hmmm... Male character with Jennifer Hale's voice...

 

[Rosbjerg]

that would be.. disturbing..

 

But it should be a simple matter, I think, of modding it so a male body is available even though you pick female.. of course the in game dialouge would refer to you as "she" even though you look like a "he".

 

and the sex scene with Kaidan would be somewhat wierd.. unless you fancy that kind of thing.

[Moatilliatta]

Finished as a Paragon Male Soldier and now trying as a Renegade Sentinel Female. I'm glad I unlocked the Asssault rifle achivement in the previous game.

Good choice. Meer is horrible as a renegade.

 

I've already mentioned it in another thread but I'm playing female. I'm not even sure that I'll ever play as a male as Meer is just so horrible.

[Zoma]

Edit: What I'm trying to say is that Carth was whiny and it has affected peoples view of the voice-actor's voice.

 

That's true that Kaidan isn't a cry-baby, but unfortunately the VA's first impression embedded into me will remain as such for a long time.

 

Guess making a good first impression is very important huh.

 

Regardless, I still find Kaidan annoying(Maybe because I am a male playing a female PC) for hitting my char with his dongles communicating instead of his heart or head. The only NPC I do not mind hitting on any of my female chica would be Atton Rand. Perhaps I enjoy Atton's wry and wittiness in communicating as well as using subtlety to convey his emotions unlike an overly blunt Kaidan.

[Moatilliatta]

Now I'll freely admit that the biggest reason for why I'm desperately sexxxing up Liara is that I want to avoid ending up in bed with Kaidan. I'd never in a million years talk of Atton rand(y) as better though, worst Obsidian character ever. I guess that could be because I missed some dialogue somewhere (the most likely reason for why so many males find Carth whiny) but I like to think of him as just plain sucky, because then I won't have to go back to KOTOR 2 and see if I'm right or wrong.

[Jorian Drake]

Now I'll freely admit that the biggest reason for why I'm desperately sexxxing up Liara is that I want to avoid ending up in bed with Kaidan. I'd never in a million years talk of Atton rand(y) as better though, worst Obsidian character ever.

this poll disagrees with you

 

http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=49590

 

 

 

and i agree with the poll, and Carth wasn't that bad neither, he was just too trusting to tell his tale to everyone so soon

[Sand]

I lost all respect for Kaiden when he

turned down a threesome with femShepherd and Liara.

 

 

[Moatilliatta]

this poll disagrees with you

The poll is bull since all it really shows is that people like the characters that has a lot of dialogue. ¹ And that people are crappy enough not to like Go-To or Bao-Dur properly.

 

¹Why are there no good shrug smileys on the internet?

 

@Sand

I got a little turned off when she describe procreation as getting into the deepest recesses of my mind or something equaly freaky.

 

Personally I think she is just scared of the huge member that my female Shepard doesn't have.

[Jorian Drake]

this poll disagrees with you

The poll is bull since all it really shows is that people like the characters that has a lot of dialogue. ¹ And that people are crappy enough not to like Go-To or Bao-Dur properly.

a. don't insult the forumites, and dialogue is a good thing

 

b. Goto was crappy

Edited June 8, 2008 by Jorian Drake

[Xard]

Atton was great but G0-T0 was awesome

[Tale]

Usually male, but for Hale, probably female.

 

It'll be a while before I play it, though. Still using some ****ty 64MB memory bandwidth card. With MGS4 coming out Thursday, it could be next month before I make time for Mass Effect.

[Enoch]

Heh. I just installed this last night, and made a female Infiltrator character. I asked my financee for advice as to whether I should play as a dude or a chick, and she emphatically preferred the latter. The VO has been acceptable so far.

[Hurlshort]

Why does your financee make your gaming decisions? And how much money are you giving them, anyways?

[Kaftan Barlast]

Its impossible to create a custom male head that looks decent in ME, so I play as a chick. I always play the prettiest choice available, whatver the sex or race is.

[Enoch]

Why does your financee make your gaming decisions? And how much money are you giving them, anyways?

I couldn't decide, and the decision didn't require any in-depth gaming knowledge that she lacks, so I asked her.

 

I have no idea what your second sentence means.

[Pidesco]

Isn't your financee someone who gives you money? Or is it someone who gets your money?

[Enoch]

Isn't your financee someone who gives you money? Or is it someone who gets your money?

O I C. Typo joke. Gottit.

 

Occupational hazard of working with lots of accountants, I suppose-- my fingers are just way too used to slipping that "n" in between the "i" and the "a."

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

In other news: the female shepards all have terrible plastic hairdo's.

[Moatilliatta]

In other news: the female shepards all have terrible plastic hairdo's.

My female Shepard had a horrible plastic face whenever she talked to Kaidan, I think it had something to do with the lighting.

 

Edit: Either that or she was very a lot of makeup.

Edited June 9, 2008 by Moatilliatta

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

In other news: the female shepards all have terrible plastic hairdo's.

My female Shepard had a horrible plastic face whenever she talked to Kaidan, I think it had something to do with the lighting.

 

Edit: Either that or she was very a lot of makeup.

 

I've found the Normandy's lighting can either make your character look a lot better (mine looked like Vin Diesel for once) or completely ruin him/her (like every other char I've made).

 

In any case the shadows on some of the female shepard hairdos are a bit screwed up.