BioWare Adding Female Shepard to Mass Effect 3 Marketing

[CleverCover]

All I can say is about freaking time.
This should have been done when ME1 came out, but better late than never.

Can't wait for the trailer! OMG Ms. Hale is gonna be in a trailer! 'squeeee'

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Firstly, that seemed a bit uncalled for here.

Given Dragon Age 2's boobs of doom...

Secondly, flatter chests are in these days unless your game begins with "S" and ends with "oul Caliber".

Or "M" "Ortal Kombat" or "B" "Ayonetta" or "D""C Universe Online" or "B""Ulletstorm"...

Hell they even made a big deal about mentioning that the new Lara Croft is deliberately less chestacular and more frumpy.

After inflating her chest continuously since her creation...

I'm not saying FemShep should be like that...I'm just saying watch what the marketers will do to her. And if it's not coquettish look, enhanced mammaries/glutes and post-coital skin, then I'll be amazed.

 

[Icehearted]

Firstly, that seemed a bit uncalled for here.

Given Dragon Age 2's boobs of doom...

Never played DA2.... that bad huh? I get ya. I think in this case it's unlikely, since Asari are the galaxy's tarts, but still.

 

[mjc0961]

Oh good. Now we get a trailer ruined by FemShep's monotone robot voice. Beep boop.

Granted, Male Shepard isn't MUCH better... But even a tiny bit better is still better. Less FemShep in trailers please.

Also, neither gender is Canon. Mass Effect's narrative allows for either or at the player's choice to equal measure (although FemShep will always be my personal Canon-gender, in the end).

Over two games worth of boxart, trailers, previews, and other such things by Bioware say that male Shepard with the default face is absolutely canon.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Firstly, that seemed a bit uncalled for here.

Given Dragon Age 2's boobs of doom...

Never played DA2.... that bad huh? I get ya. I think in this case it's unlikely, since Asari are the galaxy's tarts, but still.

Take a look for yourself:

 

[Fortesque]

Never heard her called "FemShep" before. I perfer the much better "She-Pard".

Mass Effect is the best when you play through as total ***** She-Pard.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Cool. It's nice to see a bit of two-way recognition.

Now, I'm gonna bail before this thread gets nasty.

But before I do, I'll just leave this here:

(Huge spoilers within.)

Wow Femshep really stands out as the better VA when it comes to range, especially on the renegade choices. My shepard kind of looks like the one on the video, same hair but prettier face. I cant stand male Shepard or playing as male characters period so I'm glad they are putting Femshep on the cover.

I will give him this...his voice fits a by the book military man well, but I dont play a by the book character. I play a bad ass renegade woman who saved the galaxy twice and is going back for thirds.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

(snip) - something the studio has shied away from before with the Mass Effect games - (snip)

Source: GamePro [http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220454/femshep-mass-effect-3-salutes-you/]


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Well... what about our good Dr. T'Soni?
In the very first game Liara could be romanced by a female Cmd. Shepard.
...perhaps because she is an Alien she does not count? Or were you referring strictly to male homosexuality ? ...in which case I would see why the game's writers would have a hard time plotting all the *ehm* details.

Well, to be pedantic, Liara is from a single gender species, meaning that she isn't strictly female. That's splitting hairs though.

That is pretty much the only non-heterosexual relationship in the game. There have been a few small exceptions to this, but only ever for FemShep. For male Commander Shepards, it's been women or nothing.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Firstly, that seemed a bit uncalled for here.

Given Dragon Age 2's boobs of doom...

Never played DA2.... that bad huh? I get ya. I think in this case it's unlikely, since Asari are the galaxy's tarts, but still.

Take a look for yourself:

If that's a screen from the very beginning of the game, then the large titties are deliberate exaggerations by Varric aren't they?

During Varric's bullshitting:

After he's told to tell the story properly:

Isabela was designed to be the 'super sexy' archetype, nothing wrong with that. Merrill is nothing I would call busty, and Aveline, well, that lass may have a fair sized chest, but she's an Amazon of a woman, and mean that as a compliment. Donnic you lucky bastard.

 

[ckam]

Wooh. Go womyn representation, I guess.

 

[Alar]

Wonderful! I quite enjoy playing as FemShep. She is far superior to MaleShep, in my opinion.

 

[Icehearted]

Firstly, that seemed a bit uncalled for here.

Given Dragon Age 2's boobs of doom...

Never played DA2.... that bad huh? I get ya. I think in this case it's unlikely, since Asari are the galaxy's tarts, but still.

Take a look for yourself:

Well, I don't recall seeing that featured in advertising, but I'm hardly goig to complain about buxom women in or outside of a video game. For Shep that still seems far-fetched. Femshep/Maleshep strike me as being more like hardened soldiers than sex objects.

Actually, they didn't really broadcast Benezia or Samara and their ample bosom (and now that I think about it this fits my Asari tart comment too). Sex does sell, and everybody loves boobs.... except for a lot of contemporary non-Japanese game developers apparently, though your example sort of invalidates that theory too.

(snip) - something the studio has shied away from before with the Mass Effect games - (snip)

Source: GamePro [http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220454/femshep-mass-effect-3-salutes-you/]


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Well... what about our good Dr. T'Soni?
In the very first game Liara could be romanced by a female Cmd. Shepard.
...perhaps because she is an Alien she does not count? Or were you referring strictly to male homosexuality ? ...in which case I would see why the game's writers would have a hard time plotting all the *ehm* details.

Well, to be pedantic, Liara is from a single gender species, meaning that she isn't strictly female. That's splitting hairs though.

That is pretty much the only non-heterosexual relationship in the game. There have been a few small exceptions to this, but only ever for FemShep. For male Commander Shepards, it's been women or nothing.

Confirmed for "never going to happen" according to a piece on the gaygamer blog, but this was before the EA aquisition, so I guess EA is either more progressive or heavy-handed about the subject.

I also recall more than once Liara saying she's "technically not female".

 

[ZeroMachine]

Mass Effect has a canon now? When the hell did that happen?

I mean, I can see why KotOR has to have a canonical ending, but Mass Effect is a stand alone universe. The books are vague enough to fit any events in the games (at least from what I've heard).

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Good on ya guys. This makes me very happy.

 

[JediMB]

Well, to be pedantic, Liara is from a single gender species, meaning that she isn't strictly female. That's splitting hairs though.

The Asari are a monogendered species, much like the New Mexico Whiptail. They have one gender (sex), and it is female.

Something Liara isn't, though, is a woman. A woman is a human female.

 

[MasterChief892039]

The female Shepard might not be canonical

Canonically, Commander Shepard is male

BioWare hasn't decided what the canonical appearance - if you can have such a thing for a non-canon character - for the female Shepard will be

Where do people keep getting the idea that maleshep is canon? There is no canon Shepard, only the default Shep they use on the box art (which understandably ticked off the people for whom the box art didn't match their own personal idea of the Commander). Even in the Mass Effect comic they released they avoided giving Shep a sex by saying that the Commander's body had been burned beyond being recognizably male or female, and they avoided referring to Shepard as a "he" or "she".

Just because the default player character is a white male does not make it canon. Commander Shepard is a blank slate in terms of gender, race, sexuality[footnote]Within the confines of the game's heterosexual-leaning romance options, of course.[/footnote], and moral orientation.

 

[Gamer_152]

I'd argue that with all the branching paths in the game there's really no such thing as Commander Shepard canon, but this story does give me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Fans found an unexpected source of great joy in the Mass Effect games, and Bioware have listened and are once again keeping the fans happy.

 

[punipunipyo]

um... my shep had always been a female...never knew default would turn out to be "canon"... I know not anything about the third one switch sex for ad campaign is going to be call swapping canon... but I have only played the first game... never dare try the second, for it's too long... and after "sleep-age: origin", I can't put my self up for another mid night ride of long dialog lectures of "so and so's life story...", no offense, LOVE the story,(REALLY) but can't keep my head up at night, that's all... can only stay with action titles for now... but it seems that 3 is going action frenzy, so... who knew... perhaps after WarHammer40K space marine this summer... I'll give 2 a try, maybe after my third run of fallout 3 (the bad ass run) I need to try Mass 2 somehow... to ready 3 I think...does it make THAT much different? if i have pre saved games? perks? level advantages? or just the "shaped world"?

 

[Saelune]

"It may have taken three games to do it, but BioWare is finally featuring the female Shepard in Mass Effect marketing. Canonically, Commander Shepard is male, but BioWare has acknowledged that the female version - often referred to as "FemShep" - has plenty of fans too, and will feature her in a new trailer."

Eh, excuse me but neither is canonical. A game about choices and character creation has no canon. To even say there is a canon is to make the whole point of the game moot.