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Thats because we all always wanted Geth allies, I loved Legion

 Lynata wrote:
On a sidenote ... damn, I'm really not used to not shooting Collectors; keep giving off "reflex shots" whenever I turn and face one of these guys in the middle of a fight. For some reason I had an easier time getting used to allied geth.

Imagine how my team mates feel when I run my Phantom look-a-like N7 Shadow Always make me grateful there isn't any friendly fire

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Control is my second preference actually. No one seems to think its good but it's essentially Shepard's ascension to Godhood. I think that's pretty cool. Sure she starts to sound a little megalomaniacal there....like maybe lot megalomaniacal. Ok, she's one step away from going "MWA HA HA HA!!!!" but I'm sure it'll be fine. I know Shepard and I trust him.

While the destroy is my personal favourite I did sorta like the control option. If my Shepard hadn't had any sort of romance I might have chosen that option for him, I might do it yet for FemShep

I'm just about to start a new game too. Third play through and might try a femshep this time - not done before.

It's better, I think. Jennifer Hale is a far better voice actress than Mark DeMeer. More emotion and vocal range and all that other stuff that I don't know about.

 Compel wrote:
It's better, I think. Jennifer Hale is a far better voice actress than Mark DeMeer. More emotion and vocal range and all that other stuff that I don't know about.

I have to agree. My Renegade playthrough was a FemShep and I thought Jennifer Hale's voice acting was so much better.

I think Femshep is the only real Shep.

Yeah, I can't help but refer to Shepard as she.

Jennifer Hale did such a great job that I can't think of Shepard as anyone else's voice.

I played as male Shepard but have played as both and Femshep was a much better actress.

Meer isn't bad, but ... yeah, it's really hard to beat Hale - she lends much more personality to the voice, I think. More fierce.

I have to admit I'm somewhat biased, though. The default Maleshep just looks so incredibly bland and default that by now I've started to cringe whenever I see his face (which means in just about every friggin' trailer). Might well have influenced my perception of the character as a whole, even when you can customise him/her.
BioWare did a much better job with the male Hawke from DA2; at least that guy doesn't look like "generic bald space marine #247", though it's obvious they were thinking of "300" when designing him.

I don't like how they had a contest to determine how "default Femshep" looked and she got on the cover. There already was a default FemShep before that, guess she got retconned.

There was a default Femshep in ME1 and ME2, but she wasn't in any way "canon". Back then, according to BioWare Marketing director David Silverman, there was no canon Shepard at all. Obviously, they've since backpedaled on this as the franchise grew so large that it began to spawn comics and action figures.

So they canonised the default Maleshep and held a contest for Femshep - which was actually only default in that this was the first result you got when customising Shep at all. According to BioWare data, 18% of the players didn't bother at all and just went with what the game offered them first, which is the (now canon) Maleshep we all know.

All in all, I like the result. Hell, I've got a friggin' huge poster of her in my room.



That facial expression beats anything I've seen from Maleshep every day. Reapers go like "aww gak" when they see this.

All I said is that there was a default Shepard for 1 & 2 which was changed in 3.

Anyway that is a cool poster but I don't think she actually looks like the one in the game. The Shepard that won the contest doesn't look much like the one in the game.

 Lynata wrote:


That facial expression beats anything I've seen from Maleshep every day. Reapers go like "aww gak" when they see this.

Red headed temperament at its finest

I thought the default femshep for 2 was very different than 1. All random scarring / tattooos.

Incidently, ME3's default male shepard annoys the heck out of me with his stupid bald spot at the top left of his hair.

I thought I couldn't make anything worse than my attempt in ME2. I was wrong.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:The Shepard that won the contest doesn't look much like the one in the game.

I think that may be due to the engine, or rather limitations of character customisation.
The one in the game still looks cool enough, fortunately.

Compel wrote:I thought the default femshep for 2 was very different than 1. All random scarring / tattooos.

Tattoos?
The random scarring is just the side-effects from the reconstruction thingy, I think - you can upgrade the Normandy's sickbay to get rid of it later on. Maleshep should have those scars too, though.

Ya, pretty sure you just had an evil Shepard. Evil shepard's face actually cracks apart with her evilness.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Ya, pretty sure you just had an evil Shepard. Evil shepard's face actually cracks apart with her evilness.

I think Shepard still has some scars once you start ME2 after the into sequence

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Ya, pretty sure you just had an evil Shepard. Evil shepard's face actually cracks apart with her evilness.

I think Shepard still has some scars once you start ME2 after the into sequence

I don't know. Mine had a scar anyway and then picked up some more. Renegade actions makes some of your cybernetics show through as fine red lines. Looks pretty cool actually.

It's explained to you via an email in-game, but it's easy to miss.

I imagine it's because people like having their character look "good" or "evil" depending on their choices just like in KOTOR 1 and 2, and Bioware just came up with a clever way to do it in Mass Effect as well.

Obviously, in KOTOR, your appearance is based on whether you're dark side or light side of the force. In Mass Effect, it's because Cerberus didn't get to finish putting you together and such.

I thought it was a clever touch.

Trying a FemShep for the first time, she is definitely a better actress, and im still only in the beginning

 whitedragon wrote:
I imagine it's because people like having their character look "good" or "evil" depending on their choices just like in KOTOR 1 and 2, and Bioware just came up with a clever way to do it in Mass Effect as well.

Obviously, in KOTOR, your appearance is based on whether you're dark side or light side of the force. In Mass Effect, it's because Cerberus didn't get to finish putting you together and such.

I thought it was a clever touch.

It would have been nice if they also kept in the scars from character creation, or had a store on the Citadel were you could tweak your appearance.

Anyone seen the Happy Ending mod yet?

It's still rough around the edges, but it's a pretty good effort. I, however, prefer Shepherd dying or rather "dying" in the end, makes him much more human...him surviving it all kinda makes him too "superman"-ish imo.

"Reignite" by Malukah, however, should have been the official ending song for Shepherd...it perfectly fits him.

I categorically refuse to use ending mods. It feels lame and cheap.

Well, my insanity run is going on...

Hardest fight so far, Grissom Academy atrium. I remember this being a pain on my 'normal' playthrough. I died so so many times...

One issue I'm having is, I can't work out good team mates for my 'insanity' biotic.

So far I've worked out that James seems pretty helpful, due to Fire Explosions being triggered by my biotic throws.

Liara was pretty useless due to the total lack of any anti shieldness. Javik seems kinda pants as well, though it is fun combo-ing his 'double pull' with my 'double throw' - Lots of explosions!

Garrus seemed... Ok, though I used him and Liara in my last playthrough. I haven't tried EDI yet, but I'm thinking there might be a lack of firepower problem there.

Currently, I'm running around with a:

Hurricane V
Eagle Pistol (Will be replaced with carnifex then paladin when it unlocks)

Level 39: Maxed Throw, maxed Warp, maxed fitness. Rank 4 in Energy Drain, which I'll be focussing on upgrading. A few points in Pull and the combat tree

I'm ignoring singularity, cause it's always seemed pants and shockwave, cause it was horrible in ME2.

The game in general, aside from the *really* hard parts, isn't too bad. Atlas's can be a bit annoying, but it's more the guys around them that are the problem. Brutes die to biotic explosions really easily, though I haven't come up against banshees yet.

By the time I fight Geth, I can imagine energy drain will be fully upgraded, so I won't be worried.

Singularity is insanely good as a way to set up massive amounts of biotic explosions. Singularity + double throw is basically a biotic Michael Bay movie, if I remember correctly.

But even if you don't take it, you can always just use Liara's singularity, which is utterly insane in its power when maxed out.

 Compel wrote:
Hardest fight so far, Grissom Academy atrium.

Yeah, I HAAAAATE that level. There's no good cover-- enemies come from all over, non-stop, in a way that makes even platinum runs on multiplayer look tame.

I had less trouble in my first multiplayer Gold run than I had playing the Atrium on easy.

Meh, they give you a giant Mech. The hardest fight is the last one imo.

The thing I have with Singularity is, it doesn't seem to affect shields, or at least, affect shields quickly enough that the centurions and the like just haven't ran past it.

Oh, and the other really annoying thing about that section. My squaddies getting themselves locked behind the doors, so the only use they are is when I trigger their abilities manually. Or suicidally run forward until they respawn to catch up.

I don't seem to remember any other 'really hard' parts until I get to Earth. Except maybe the Banshee spam on Samara's mission and all the Brutes in the Tuchanka finale.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Meh, they give you a giant Mech. The hardest fight is the last one imo.

Oh no, wrong part. This is before before that.

The last fight in the game was pretty easy to me. I mean it's just a bunch of brutes and banshees, it's not like it's something actually dangerous.

 Melissia wrote:

 Compel wrote:
Hardest fight so far, Grissom Academy atrium.

Yeah, I HAAAAATE that level. There's no good cover-- enemies come from all over, non-stop, in a way that makes even platinum runs on multiplayer look tame.

I had less trouble in my first multiplayer Gold run than I had playing the Atrium on easy.

I hated that level with a passion on Insanity! I kept getting shot by two guys who would come through a door just as my shields dropped. One shot everytime. I used a Soldier, Garrus and Liara and didn't enter cover. I found that tackling the engineers and shield generators first helped a lot.

For the shielded enemies I'd use Garrus's overload and then Singularity. That usually did the trick.