New ME3 Screenshot Shows Ashley in Actual Armor

[Woodsey]

Don't really care about the armour (Thane wore a shirt to all his fights in Mass Effect 2).

I don't like the redesign of the face; she looks like a porn star, when we've already had her look as she was for two games.

 

[iRevanchist]

I think that the armor is fine, it just looks like miranda's catsuit from the screenshot because it is so metallic. my problem is that her face has changed. I also don't think of ash as the type of girl to go around with her shotgun only after half an hour with a curling iron and volumizing spray.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well atleast it's not a bikini
Though it isn't far from a simple latex pain job and the boobies seem to be growing with every game, then again that doesn't look like the old Ashley so maybe it's just her huge boob cousin.

 

[William Ossiss]

OK! Who wants to shoot stuff, take on a galactic threat as the first human specter?!
OHH! ME!
ME2!!
...ME3!!!
...See what I did there?

OT: I like her new look. The armor is a bit form fitting, but she has always been a good soldier when i needed her. It's good she finally let her hair down... as well as getting over the fact that I(we) was(were) working for Cerberus. Unless you blew her up for being the mouthy little tart that she is.

Kidding!

Though, MY eyes are set on my blue beauty. I wish to have blue children that will outlast me by hundreds of years, not to mention not having a gender according to the Asari...

 

[kinapuffar]

It is rather...tight fitting.

Can't see her boobs if it's not tight fitting.
12 year old sexually repressed boys won't buy the game if there aren't any boobs.

You do the maths.

 

[Erttheking]

"GASP" A woman that is actually attractive!? It musy be the work of eleven year old boys! It's not like they're not hitting us over the head with it, they clearly turned her into a barbie doll. My oh my, I am glad to see that people are so intelligent that they were able to see this, just like when they saw that the rejected default Femshep model was portaying her as a barbie too, what were they thinking?! They made her blonde. BLONDE! We can't have that now can we? Yes, the bright people of the internet have discovered that no blonde women should be in video games, as they are all mindless ditzes, as are all women who are attractive. Everyone knows that if a woman is remotley attracive, with anything longer than cropped hair and a size B bust is a mindless barbie doll, even if they have a strong personality and in depth backstory. Also, a woman's character model should be exactly the same throughout all the games that she is, it's not like the change in her apperance is a sign that her personality has changed or that they have grown as a person, that's silly.

....BTW, I was being sarcastic. Didn't think that I would have to tell you but you people are being rather thick today, so just making sure...wow you people get worked up over nothing...and your reasoning is crap.

 

[Loop Stricken]

My armor was cooler... hot pink and powder blue \o/

Not so much the colour as the design; none of this molded breasts nonsense.

Everything, from the let out hair and the face makeover to the sexualised amour is to make her more attractive.

Which is exactly the problem.

"We let her hair down and gave her sex appeal."

They changed her for the express purpose of making her 'sexy'. I do wish Matt Rhodes and not Derek Watts was the art lead for that series...

See, I quite like the look of the artwork on the right, I just think they fell quite short when it came to making the ingame model.
Ash and Kaiden look like Jordan and Peter Andre. This is not a good thing.

 

[Erttheking]

She's still fugly. And why would you need armor in the age of plasma weapons? Pussies. They only need red shirts for protection in Star Trek.

Yeah, how well did that stuff work again? I seem to recall a lot of people dying.

 

[shado_temple]

Wait. Wasn't Williams black? Or at least black-ish?

When did she start looking so caucasian?

I always thought she was more Hispanic than anything else. That view might be caused, however, by my mental connection between her and any role ever played by Michelle Rodriguez [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0735442/]. Unfortunately for Ash, that means I usually follow the trope that follows that typecast [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VasquezAlwaysDies].

 

[Daniel Ferguson]

and choices meaning nothing.

Except the time when you decide who lives and who dies, Ashley or Kaiden. And the one where you have to be persuasive/intimidating enough or Wrex dies. Nope, no effect on the Krogan DMZ in 2. And the one where you can skip fighting Saren by persuading him he's wrong, that has nothing to do with anything. Certainly not resources like ammo to use against Sovereign.

And loyalty clearly means squat in the Collector showdown. Those four dead because they weren't loyal or right for the job, resulting in several instances of final words, didn't mean anything and couldn't possibly affect ME3.

Waking Grunt couldn't possibly give you a heavy weapons user and Krogan upgrades. Not having enhanced ship speed surely couldn't mean you're stuck. Not having enhanced armour couldn't possibly affect whether or not you all die in a horrific fireball. Advanced weapons surely count for nothing.

And going to x star system couldn't possibly deplete fuel or resources.

And choosing to collect a Reaper couldn't *possibly* affect the outcome of the war. No way, nosiree.
[/sarcasm]

Granted, saving the council, or not, seems to have had little or no effect on 2's narrative since you don't have much to do with the council. Voting for Udina seems to be a purely dialogue decision too. So I can see how *that* is inconsequential.

 

[surg3n]

She looks like some haggered old ***** from Desperate Housewives.

Do people really care a lot about what armour she has on?

Why! - I'm not understand the relevance of this munter, or why it's important to cover her tits, or why she's not allowed hot armour, or why people care about realism when they're having conversations with giant frog-bollock aliens about space politics.

Sexy armour = sexy character.
Realistic armour = Man hating dyke.

Surely option A is best?

 

[Durgiun]

OK, now I'm positive. In the first game, I never romanced Ashley 'cause I thought she was a *****. But now! Now I will never even THINK about her in ANY sexual way.

Why?

Because she reminds me of my mother in the ME3 screenshot. Thank you, Bioware. Thank you for creeping me the fuck out.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Yes, current body armor is unisex.

As someone who's wandered around with females who have worn real life body armor, and heard females complain how it squashes parts of their anatomy uncomfortably...I think we can safely say that the reason body armor is unisex is because it's really male body armor because most people who wear it are male and it's ludicrously expensive to develop, test, and manufacture.

I know for a fact a lot of women in uniform celebrated when they read this story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42721218/ns/us_news-life/t/army-tests-new-body-armor-women/

I imagine we could see a chest compartment bump in the near future with as many female women who are active in military service these days in comparison to historic context.

That's actually really interesting! But yeah,

However, it would not look remotely sexy.

...this should be the take-away re: ME armor.

to the best of our historical knowledge always has been [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20090406/joan_of_arc.jpg].

some proof huh? Not only does the painting show that the amour is clearly designed for females but it's a painting...Often exaggerated like how we use Photoshop.

I don't remember any females back in the ye olde days who actually wore the same shape of plate and personally I would feel sorry for any females who had to because there is a general difference in body shape.

Please re-read my post above - the picture was making a rhetorical point. The actual evidence for this comes from burial sites for female soldiers. Re: plate, the traditional shape of the cuirass has less to do with the shape of the body underneath and more to do with deflecting pointy things. That was a special case, though, and had a lot to do with the materials being used for armor and weapons armor was designed to protect against. See above for example of modern armor that is built specifically for women in ways considerably less silly than the Mass Effect-style armor.

 

[RagTagBand]

Ashley accepted the role of a spectre eh? Not in my universe she didn't. My ashley accepted a nuke to the face.

After not talking to either kaiden or Ashley in my original play through (And saving Ashley as I, like a lot of players I imagine, thought "I might get to bone her at some point") I recently went back and played ME1 again, this time talking to both of them as much as I could.

I can't believe I saved that xenophobic, patriotic, whiny, deluded *****. Kaiden should have had more air time - His character is pretty subtle (but quite interesting) so I find it unsurprising that short-attention-span gamers killed him off for not being immediately interesting or "in your face".

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Yay boobies!

Though I've found solace in Tali's boobs for now.

 

[Substitute Troll]

Well, she looks like my aunt so that kind of adds more creepyness on top of, you know, the christianity thing?

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Does anyone else think that she looks like Judge Dread era Sandra Bullock? Anyone at all?