Mass Effect

[groovekittie]

Hey there. I'm on my second play through on Mass Effect. My Sheppard is a female, which I suppose is to be expected. If at all possible, I play my characters as women. I was wondering, do those of you who play ME play as male for another perspective, like some men will play through as a woman. Or do you simply play through as women? If so, why?

Personally, I think I'll always play ME as a female. I mean, most games don't offer the option to change the sex of the main character. Thing is with ME, it feels awesome being the hero as a woman. The one person who changes the fate of the galaxy. I kinda love it.

I love ME, and will probably play through a bunch more times. Thanks to the multitude of starter options, I can't imagine this game would ever get boring.

Comments

[jewelfox]

I think the biggest thing I have trouble with is how deep-voiced and confident Femshep sounds. I think the character's awesome but I'm really not either of those things, so yeah. >_>

[groovekittie]

LOL Same here. But it's easier to pretend to be femShep than it is to identify with boyShep. Because boobies. lol

[jewelfox]

boyShep with manboobs!

No. >_>

Srsly though, I don't want to play Fearless Space Captain, I want to play Space Magical Girl. :P I guess it's still not bad, although I've mostly been playing Xcom and FFXIV lately.

[groovekittie]

HAHAHA Moobs!

Yeah, I think FFXIV is probably more in line with magical girl. It's very anime/manga.

I've always been a fan of science fiction, so ME really suits me.

[jewelfox]

Lyrical Nanoha combined magical girls with science fiction. >_>b So did Puella Magi Madoka Magica, although it's not as immediately obvious.

... so does FFXIV, sort of, since the Garleans use so much magitek it looks like freaking Star Wars sometimes. Although I understand it's debatable whether or not Star Wars counts as science fiction.

I grew up with sci-fi too, I've just been having trouble getting through Mass Effect. Partly because of this, and partly because of reformatting and changing character designs and stuff meaning I've played through the start like three times now and have to do so again. >_>;

[groovekittie]

Yeah. To be perfectly honest, I started ME1 and raced through it to get to ME2 and then didn't even carry over my game data. Once I realized what a huge affect my decisions had on the gameplay of the second game, I went back and played it properly. I'm now working on ME2 on my second playthrough, game data carried over from the first.