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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 22, 2012 12:22:47 GMT 1
Now I know Eurogamer isn't terribly popular around these parts and especially among the local Canadian chef community, but check this out. I agree with every word, which is very rare for me! A nice article about the female Commander Shepard as a 'strong female character' by accident: www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-21-ms-effect-the-rise-of-femshep
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 22, 2012 13:09:08 GMT 1
I agree with this article, and for the msot part i always consider default Shepard by name as a woman. No offense to Mark Meer, i really like the guy...but hale is one of my favourite voice actresses and eventually got me playing a female shepard myself.
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Post by lieden on Mar 22, 2012 13:16:26 GMT 1
My partner always plays a male Shepard, and I never neglect to pop in and comment unfavourably on how the voice acting compares to Hale's. Then again, I'm such a troll. I agree with them, too. If Bioware paid attention to FemShep from the beginning, we'd have another tart on our hands. I mean, just look at the new default FemShep. :/
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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 22, 2012 20:37:31 GMT 1
Eurogamer don't know shit about Alan Wake video games! Honestly, why did they give Mass Effect 3 a 10/10, which implies perfection, despite the terrible ending and other problems?
The new default FemShep, with her blue eyeshadow and duck face, is just so categorically wack, though.
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Post by jklinders on Mar 22, 2012 21:26:23 GMT 1
I'm a community now!
Really I think it was just that one wanker who snarked more than reviewed The Witcher 5 years ago that got them blacklisted for a bit. I'm over that now. Not a bad article. Not the first or best that I saw. I found one last year that mentioned in painful detail how much of an afterthought that femShep was. It was made painfully obvious from the characteristically male body language that she used because they made no effort to change it for the female character. No idea where it was or I would link it.
I've always played maleShep. Nothing against Jennifer Hale who is one of the all time great VAs but for some reason Mark Meer always seeded to click for me.
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 22, 2012 21:32:03 GMT 1
I have to agree that Eurogamer were bang out of order giving Mass Effect 3 (or indeed any game) a perfect score.
But I'll tell you something. They were dead on about Alan Wake.
If anything they were too generous.
*runs*
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