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Mass Effect 3: Vote for FemShep.... again!

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  • VicktorVicktor Infidel Castro Rancho ChupacabraRegistered User regular
    Wynne wrote:
    Vicktor wrote:
    I wonder if Bioware is just fucking with people now... like, the next vote is skin color so their fans can accuse each other of being racists.
    Sit down, my lad, and I will tell you a tale of FemShep: a voting history.

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    For all the people wishing another race had won, I wish they'd made the voting more varied than it was with fewer weak hairstyles and more skin/hair tones than there were, as well as separate votes for those and the face, but it's too late now. At least a vote for Ginger Shepard is a vote against prejudice which blondes don't suffer.

    Come on, Samus Aran, Alexandra Roivas, Aya Brea from Parasite Eve--the smart, badass blonde heroine has been done before. Bloodrayne is not exactly a positive, non-sexualized stereotype of a redheaded protagonist.

    Oh, and now we can vote for ManShep, too. ;)
    http://kotaku.com/5831895/vote-for-brosheps-hair-color-in-kotakus-unofficial-poll
    I didn't really pay as close attention to the first vote. And now I'm putting way too much thought into it.

    As long as there are decent customization options, that's all I really care about. Or I'll just wait for Pancake to make a better one than me and use that.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    I don't understand how one natural hair color looks "more military" than another, as stated by two people already.

    I also don't know what new sniper rifle is being referred to.

    Mystery thread.

    For your first question...I too have no idea.

    For you second...it's from the Squad Leader video. The white gun Shepard was using.

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    It's similar to the Viper, but it looks more like an assault rifle, modded perhaps?

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    I was thinking it might be an AR too.

    Especially since the default model doesn't come with a scope, but that could have just been an early design so who knows.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Hair color is serious bidness, you guys.

    If the culturally significant hair color doesn't win I might just have to go to my room and write sad poems about suicide. You've been warned, Bioware.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote:
    Hair color is serious bidness, you guys.

    If the culturally significant hair color doesn't win I might just have to go to my room and write sad poems about suicide. You've been warned, Bioware.

    That sounds like something a brunette would do!

  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    next do we get to vote for an older face

    because that is about the only thing i care about

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    Vicktor wrote:
    As long as there are decent customization options, that's all I really care about. Or I'll just wait for Pancake to make a better one than me and use that.

    I don't know if you should count on either of those.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Cambiata wrote:
    Hair color is serious bidness, you guys.

    If the culturally significant hair color doesn't win I might just have to go to my room and write sad poems about suicide. You've been warned, Bioware.

    That sounds like something a brunette would do!

    How dare you cast stereotypes upon my people, sir!

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    next do we get to vote for an older face

    because that is about the only thing i care about

    Curly's into that MILF action I see.

  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    If we use Wynne's face as a benchmark for Bioware age, newShep is probably about 45.

    I didn't even notice that was a new rifle, just assumed it was the Viper. If it's actually an assault rifle and not a Viper update/analog, then that would mean you can carry more than one weapon of each type rather than one weapon class per slot, since he's already got the Rev. Three shotgun Vanguard (moon)?

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited August 2011
    I can't say I get the complaints about the face really...she looks like someone in her late-20s to me. And Shepard is only 31 so that's whatever as far as I'm concerned.

    I know Hollywood likes to tell you that people turn to dust once they hit 30, but that isn't really true. Heck, I'm 26 and people think I'm 20-21 if I shave.

    Dragkonias on
  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Some people have 'baby' faces. Doesn't make them less competent.

    I remermber when I was in high school, and getting clarinet lessons from graduate students at the university. I got a new instructor and was dropped off at her house, and the girl who met me at the door looked 12. Luckily as soon as I stepped in the door there was a picture of her in her wedding gown standing next to her husband, so I didn't say anything stupid about 'is your mom at home.'

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I hope we can vote to customize her armor and make it pretty pink

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  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    That Q&A is over.
    The only new thing I got out of it is that they've removed the mission complete screen.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote:
    I hope we can vote to customize her armor and make it pretty pink

    You can already do that in ME2...

  • Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote:
    -Tal wrote:
    I hope we can vote to customize her armor and make it pretty pink

    You can already do that in ME2...

    but she was so butch in Me2
    now we can finally play space barbie
    in space.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Meh...with how plastic she looked I always thought FemShep was barbie.

  • ElixirElixir Saving Your Ass Alchemists and Belts EverywhereRegistered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Meh...with how plastic she looked I always thought FemShep was barbie.

    But she comes with a really sweet Barbie-mobile!

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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote:
    -Tal wrote:
    I hope we can vote to customize her armor and make it pretty pink

    You can already do that in ME2...

    Bright pink femshep on the side of the collectors edition would be great

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Dox the PI wrote:
    Dragkonias wrote:
    -Tal wrote:
    I hope we can vote to customize her armor and make it pretty pink

    You can already do that in ME2...

    but she was so butch in Me2
    now we can finally play space barbie
    in space.

    You can brush my hair
    undress me everywhere

  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
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    Think of how much better this will look with golden tresses.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Huh. Did people not like the mission complete screen? I'm largely indifferent towards it, but having everything totaled up for you was kind of nice.

  • hamdingershamdingers Registered User regular
    Orca wrote:
    Huh. Did people not like the mission complete screen? I'm largely indifferent towards it, but having everything totaled up for you was kind of nice.

    I didn't mind it - but it helped give ME2 that anthology feel by firmly throwing down chapter endings. ME1 felt like one long movie, which I liked a bit more.

  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
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    Think of how much better this will look with golden tresses.

    a golden mullet

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    hamdingers wrote:
    Orca wrote:
    Huh. Did people not like the mission complete screen? I'm largely indifferent towards it, but having everything totaled up for you was kind of nice.

    I didn't mind it - but it helped give ME2 that anthology feel by firmly throwing down chapter endings. ME1 felt like one long movie, which I liked a bit more.

    ME2 went for that pacing but the missions really aren't long enough to have a chapter ending at each one. Even within the plot worlds of ME1 there were clear points to take a break.

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    Orca wrote:
    Huh. Did people not like the mission complete screen? I'm largely indifferent towards it, but having everything totaled up for you was kind of nice.

    It was one of the things some people cited as making ME2 not an RPG.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    that and ME1's greater weapon variety, hundreds of different guns dumbed down into 16

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote:
    that and ME1's greater weapon variety, hundreds of different guns dumbed down into 16

    Bah, those "hundreds of different guns" existed only so you could have omnigel and be a millionaire by the end of the game.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    Most of those hundreds of guns were simply palette swaps and stat increases, not 'different guns'.

  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    If it's not filled with tedious inventory management or 50 different skills with many, many different upgrades that increase things by 1-2%, it's not an RPG.

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  • Blackbird SR-71CBlackbird SR-71C Registered User regular
    If there's one thing I want for Mass Effect 3, it's more side missions. Make it so that you find fewer weapons and armor upgrades on story missions and make the bulk of them purchasable in shops. That way you could always do a side mission, earn credits to buy the upgrade you want or go on a side mission in which you get the upgrade you want. There weren't really any side missions in ME2, and no I don't count Recrutement or Loyalty missions since they are required to trigger story cutscenes and missions

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    ME2 had lots of great side missions, but they were tied to planet scanning which made them too tedious to find.

    I hope loyalty powers get more spotlight in ME3. I'd like to be able to switch out starting ammo powers for unlocked ammo powers, incinerate/cryo for neural shock/energy drain, etc., with the bonus slot able to fit any extra power. Squadmate powers can be switched out too.

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  • MetalMagusMetalMagus Too Serious Registered User regular
    Pancake wrote:
    If it's not filled with tedious inventory management or 50 different skills with many, many different upgrades that increase things by 1-2%, it's not an RPG.

    Don't forget long slogs through barren wastelands with 3-4 mineral deposits, a matriarch's writing in some camp in the ass-end of the map, and a generic supply base filled with nameless, faceless mercenaries to kill. Cut and paste for at least 1 planet in every system, add a unique (admittedly, usually awesome) skybox and call it a day.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    hey that's optional content so you can't complain about it

    now let's talk about how Bioware killed the RPG staple of sidequests

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Pancake wrote:
    If it's not filled with tedious inventory management or 50 different skills with many, many different upgrades that increase things by 1-2%, it's not an RPG.

    :^:

    I recently started playing DA:O. Love the character interactions and the story, hate the old school RPG gaming. Feels too much like work.

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Yeah. That was one of my problems with DA:O. That and an inventory system that won't let me put items back into a container, making it impossible to trade out something shitty for something better you found without throwing it away. Dumb.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Just play an Arcane Warrior and you can sleep through the game

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  • AegeriAegeri Tiny wee bacteriums Plateau of LengRegistered User regular
    Just play a mage anything and you can sleep through the game.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Play with two mages and watch corpses explode.

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