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Mass Effect - Original Femshep or ME3 Femshep?

Original FemShep or ME3 FemShep?

  • Original

    Votes: 199 43.5%

  • ME3

    Votes: 258 56.5%
  • Total voters
    457
Wrexis

Wrexis

Member
Nov 4, 2017
21,229
ME3's FemShep is now playable in the entire trilogy in the Legendary edition.
Which one will you play as?

Original in 2007
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Original in 2012 ME3 release
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ME3 in Legendary Edition
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ME3 in 2012 ME3 release
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Original all the way for me. ME3's seems a bit too...cartoonish, exaggerated?
 
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Ambient

Ambient

Member
Dec 23, 2017
7,060
I like ME3 femshep in ME3. The pictures I've seen on the model in ME1 look off to me.
 

HockeyBird

Member
Oct 27, 2017
12,585
texhnolyze said:
Original is waaaay more iconic.

ME3 should've been great if it actually resembles the concept art.
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The OG felt like Bioware forgot that they needed a default Fem Shep so they slapped one together at the last minute because they never intended for a Fem Shep design to appear on promotional material or boxarts.
 
Sulik2

Sulik2

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
8,168
Neither, I used a Kate beckinsale look alike for my main playthroughs. I would never use the stock fem shep model. Just doesn't look right to me.
 
stangthang26

stangthang26

Member
Aug 15, 2018
680
ME3 by a long shot. The first one is off putting to say the least. Always got a living doll vibe from it.
 
BoredLemon

BoredLemon

Member
Nov 11, 2017
1,002
I'm not fan of ME3 FemShep's cartoony appearance but at least she looks like a main character and not some random NPC from TES: Oblivion.
HockeyBird said:
The OG felt like Bioware forgot that they needed a default Fem Shep so they slapped one together at the last minute because they never intended for a Fem Shep design to appear on promotional material or boxarts.
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Yep.
 
Khanimus

Khanimus

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
40,173
Greater Vancouver
The ME3 model looks like some kind of weird cat person. They bothered modeling male Shep, Miranda, Jacob, and maybe others off actual people. Why didn't they do it for ME3's FemShep?

Because instead, they did this gross fanvote, and instead modeled this weird-ass face that looks less natural than all the character creator options.
 
defaltoption

defaltoption

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
11,483
Austin
Last time I did a replay on PC I specifically made my FemShep look as close to ME3 as possible for every game.

ME3 all day

My first legendary edition play through of many will be MaleShep though since that's what I first did on my OG play through.
 
Vault Boy

Vault Boy

Member
Nov 2, 2017
2,394
Sorry, neither looks like the Shepard I know, who is quite an attractive man.

Original for my Renegade playthroughs.
 
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Wrexis

Wrexis

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Nov 4, 2017
21,229
I just noticed Bioware were sneaky and the original FemShep pic they posted is from the 2007 version of the game.
I'm hoping the OG FemShep in Legendary Edition has some improvements.
 
SolVanderlyn

SolVanderlyn

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Oct 28, 2017
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ME3 by a country mile. I loosely based my own FemShep off of her for all three games. (I refuse to use default in a character creator but the design was too good)
 
metal

metal

Banned
Nov 26, 2020
1,251
The ME3 default femshep always looked weird to me for some reason and I can't put my finger on why. She looks great on the boxart but terrible in game.
 
kinoki

kinoki

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Oct 28, 2017
1,700
Original. The ME3 femshep is too much. It isn't surprising that a lot of fanboys, emphasis on "boys", voted for her. I like the understated look of the original. Like she actually works in the military.
 
n00bp

n00bp

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Oct 28, 2017
451
Original, if only because I've spent more time with her, by a LARGE margin.
 
sredgrin

sredgrin

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Oct 27, 2017
12,276
Original femshep looks like she's one of those people that tells you that she doesn't need to wash her hair.
 
texhnolyze

texhnolyze

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,155
Indonesia
HockeyBird said:
The OG felt like Bioware forgot that they needed a default Fem Shep so they slapped one together at the last minute because they never intended for a Fem Shep design to appear on promotional material or boxarts.
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Nah, she looks the best in ME2, which is based on ME1. Has a badass lips and much more natural (and human-like) than ME3.

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Van Bur3n

Van Bur3n

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
26,089
Original is better, but you're better off with a custom FemShep. ME3 one has always looked weird to me.
 
chaobreaker

chaobreaker

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Oct 27, 2017
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Every default FemShep always looked like she was hastily cobbled together on the ingame character creator.

Default MaleShep on the other hand always looked good. Helps that he's based on a likeness of a real human being. BioWare should have gotten a female model likeness at some point.
 
Eros

Eros

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Oct 27, 2017
9,658
original in me3 looks the best. something about the me3 version is off for me.

my custom shep was far better than both, though. wish i had a pic.

reeeeeeally hope they buffed the character creator.
 
CliveLH

CliveLH

Member
Jun 22, 2019
2,225
Original and it's not close to me.

The ME3 model is far too young for what I feel is a deep veteran voice performance from Jennifer Hale. My femshep have seen some rough shit before getting in the first trilogy and I feel like the ME3 skin model look like a fresh new soldier.
 
Flandy

Flandy

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Oct 25, 2017
3,445
They both look off to me but I'd go with 3 between the two. Original looks like a generic NPC. Might just customize her though tbh since there's apparently new customization options
 
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