velleekwitay The FemShep trailer is identical to the one with male Shepard, they only swapped one character model. My guess is it would be too expensive to render Kaidan as a replacement for Ash as the cinematic trailers are costly and usually made by third parties, he's also a biotic, which would require some extra animation for his powers (unless they'd just have him stand there with a gun), Ash is far less complicated to work with in this sense. Also, having two leading ladies in the trailer tickles the fancy of the feminist audience out there and enforces the message of "Girls can play video games too." But Kaidan's been on a whole lot of other promotional content (screenshots, wallpapers etc.) and in gameplay trailers both with FemShep and male Shepard. All in all, I think he's been featured in more ME3 promos than Ash was, she, on the other hand, was heavily featured in ME1 promos.

This is supposed to be ash? She looks so different since the time she set of that nuke. Never saw her again after that

Kaidan is a more boring character than Ashley by far to keep alive..

Bioware turned Ashley into a bimbo in ME3

A hot one.

Commander Shepard If you have a problem with minorities, fuck you.

The only problem with this trailer is that who the fuck tries to melee a brute?

6 years later and still :D

@@musacan00747 6,5 years

7 years in spring of 2019.

She is also the voice actor for Female Trooper in Swtor!

@@hawkwood9257 and Bastila Shan in KOTOR and Satele Shan in SWTOR too. :)

@@hawkwood9257 And RIVET in Ratchet and Clank PS5 which is also science fiction and alternate version character.

@@hawkwood9257 and Sylvari Female and Queen Jennah in guild wars 2 :P

Jennifer Hale is awesome 👌 😎

I get goosebumps; i love the idea of Joker leading the bombing run. I think it's cos Mass Effect so perfectly makes it seem like a team effort; Sheperd has the best squad in the galaxy and everyone is indespensible

If only a 4th one came out...

nothin ever came close to Mass Effect

3 wasn't a very good game

This game blew compared to the second

@@candlestyx8517 I think you got that backwards. 2 blew compared to 3; ME3 is still the best of the trilogy, followed by the first one.

FemShep works so well because they never bring up bullshit like "uuhuhu female power", "strong female character", they never made femShep Mary Sue and never made other characters act like idiots. Instead we saw that Shepard is super competent and badass while also take advices from rest of the team and rest of the team is also super competent but all of them including Shepard also have flaws and are no perfect. On top of that Jennifer Hale did great job especially with renegade lines she sounds amazing and even scary at some times.

@@Extreme96PL The first reason i played as FemShep was because of Jennifer Hale, She is probably the best voice "actor" alive, Secondly when i played as FemShep i found her the perfect balance of being capable of compassion and total malice, Thirdly i never got past Eden Prime playing as MaleShep because he just does not sound sincere(No disrespect to Mark Meer because he is very good, Just hear all the Hanar an Vorcha in the games), Lastly, For me FemShep is cannon Shep but i know i am in a minority. BTW is that the Mattock our girl is holding? Or the Cerberus Harrier?

@@Extreme96PL I get a kick out of how offensive people find women that flaunt their gender but don't have a single problem with how casually men do it in literally everything. It's sad that a male character can be iconic just be being a dude, but it takes a female character shedding any identity as a woman for people to accept them as a badass. For some reason, a man can just be a man/warrior at the same time, because they're perceived as synonymous in most context of a game. But a woman has to be either a woman OR a warrior, or it's heresy.

@@Warrior_Culture this is not true or if someone thinks that way he/she is idiot flaunting gender is totally unecessary. Good written character will be good written character, bad written character will be bad written character no matter if character is man or woman.

@@Extreme96PL That's like saying water is wet. Of course a well written character is a well written character. But writing a good male and a good female character is NOT done the same way. Any good writer knows this. And it's not about what's "necessary". If you want to take that route then a ton of characterization isn't "necessary". But writing a good character with any depth and completely ignoring any differences in gender isn't good writing. It's safe writing, intended to please sensitive masses that get triggered by politics. Shepards entire script is written ambiguously to fit a character that's either a man or a women and people like you call it good writing because you think expressing masculinity is fine but expressing femininity isn't. You have a double standard that you justify as just keeping out what isn't "necessary". But a woman behaving like a man for an entire game just so everyone thinks she's a badass, and because society accepts masculine women more than it accepts feminine men, is only a "well" written character in the sense that most people won't care. But read any real book with deep characters and gender plays a huge role, and it doesn't have to be in an over-the-top "look I have tits" or in a marry-sue sort of way. But they don't need to be tomboys or tough or devoid of a gender identity either. Femshep is literally an exact copy of male shep, but with tits. Shepard as a character in general is well written, but femshep is not a well written female character.

+Jordan Hargraves or Liara

Or Tali.

or Miranda

Or Blasto

you know were he is... calibrating the Normandy weapons systems before combat

Now its 6

@@pascalheinrich3990 now its 8. Lotta time has passed lol

Personally, i think this game is the best in the trilogy, a beautiful game , a good gameplay and an unsinkable story

I've played the shit out of it. still have it.

in my time line mass effect is going to have a remaster for ps4 generation, and there is a teaser of a new mass effect game aparently

+Eddy Gonna buy and play them for the first time next week. cant wait :)

+Eddy I refuse to play as male Shepard. Hearing Jennifer Hale's amazing acting skills, makes the story so much better to me. Femshep all the way!! :)

After finishing ME2 a few weeks ago (once on Normal and once on Insanity), and starting y first play through of 3, I have to agree. I think it's because you see the dumb default Shepard everywhere and it gets boring even this long after initial release.

Rikimaru LDR Well even though the default Jane Shepard is seen a lot too, she's still better than the default male one. With all respect to Mark Meer, he just can't pull it off like Jennifer Hale can. I'll be playing as a female character in the new game too when it eventually comes out on PS4.

i have played played yhe mass effect games several times but always with femshep. I think her voice actor is better then maleshep

That's exactly what I was thinking! That sound still sends shivers down my spine.

+Riza Hawkeye Ash and Miranda both have long hair covering there faces and it bugs the hell out of me. I'm totally fine with them having long hair but tie it back for the love of god

+Riza Hawkeye LOOOOOL SOO TRUEEEE

Dude, I have super long hair like, down to my waist and let me tell you it is a bitch and a half when I do anything even remotely active when it's down. I cant even fathom fighting reapers and collectors like that.

+Riza Hawkeye hahah nice

+Riza Hawkeye I love Kaidan! :D

Turian ships and human ships look very similar, so maybe it was a mistake in editing.

@@garyg9815 Maybe but Turians come to human aid before anyone else after Shepard helps on the Palaven moon and rescues Victus. Plus, Garrus pretty much made them a fan-favorite species in the trilogy with Saren being a good villain. So I wouldn't be surprised if those were purposeful Turian fighter ships.

I didn't know mark meer was an "actress" like jeniffer hale. But anyway, constantly speaking in a low pitch dramatic whisper wouldn't make it very far in real life. At least people can hear what monotone maleshep is saying.

Bullshit. If you can't hear what Femshep is saying, maybe you should buy yourself a hearing aid.

Nope it was perfect

Selina Hazel There is no such thing as a real life female hero like that portrayed in mass effect. It's unbelievable and ridiculous. And the constant low pitch deep voice isn't talent, it's what any voice actress can do believe it or not. If you think I'm deaf maybe you should get a neurological check up.

"There is no such thing as a real life female hero like that portrayed in mass effect." Ah yes, of course, I forgot about the /male/ real life hero that was able to save the whole galaxy from a synthetic-organic race that threatened to harvest all sentient life! Seriously, just shut the fuck up. I can't even take you serious. Besides, you were the one saying you couldn't hear what female Shepard was saying while no one else seems to have that problem, so I think you should get hearing checked.

Hey I love playing as the female Shepard, she is much more better and badass, the voice acting is also better in my opinion. She manages to give that hard bitch attitude more convincingly.

Evil Tigz Femshep has more depth and life to her character, regardless of Paragon or Renegade gameplay. Broshep is just kinda bad. His dialogue is flat and his entire demeanor is that of the muscle jock at the gym, just without the yelling. If I play broshep, it feels like I'm just here to shoot things and blow stuff up. Femshep gives off an attitude field that makes you feel like you're doing it for a reason.

Yeah I agree, I played the male shep like twice and both times found his voice very bland. The female is more fun to play with and I felt story wise I felt the character progression with the female just felt more grounded experience. I do not care what people think, the female shep rocks.

I agree totally with the other comments. Fem Shepard is the better. Just romance Liara or/and your crew and there will only be up-sides :)

Both are boring and badly written its just that Jennifer Hale is a better voice actor

hell yeah

I'm a dude, and I refuse to play the male character in pretty much every game were I get a choice!

Gavin MacDierney Agreed :)

I play as both

Gavin MacDierney Why? I'm sorry, i don't judge. But i can't understand such things, explain it to me. If i play it and go through every part of the game experiencing so many things, that i'm actually feeling like the character because i was him, because i experienced what he experienced. Then why shouldn't i feel as he was my representant, why should i be represented by a female, i just can't understand it. I'm sorry again, nothing about you, I just can't understand this.

morale boost + 1000

me too man

hahaha so true

Welcome to the club of us ME lovers! Bioware did exactly what it set out to do if you have that deep connection with the characters in the game. You my friend, cherished the journey and appreciated the end sacrifice. :)

It's not a game, it's an experience. That's something I get from a game with really good storytelling like the Mass Effect series and Wing Commander which I don't get from books or movies. The ability to shape a character with my actions creates that attachment to what's really a sprite on the screen. And yes, not everything has to have a happy ending. After all the snarky renegade dialog and fun but pointless side quests, Mass Effect was about self-sacrifice for the greater good. I loved how there was no real black and white morality in the end, just shades of gray.

Blessed be your words good ser !

***** on that I do agree with you. When I played the final scene it did feel rush, my Shepard actually shot the kid, but because I didn't have the extended version nothing happened and I ended up taking the one from the right. However if you ask me how was the ending to your Shepard story, easy, she's a hot headed person who wants to save everyone. Therefore she got impatient and shot the kid ghost, not agreeing to him. He gets mad then said, have it your way the cycle continues. Her stubbornness cost the extinction to a lot of species. It's said and I was a bit sad but when in life do we always get what we want. Just sharing my ending.

+bcount1 Or anyone alien, (no human)... Like Garrus, Tali...

She was on Mars doing research on the Crucible.

InnerFire6213 i hear it was intially because the male characters were supposed to implement their voices into the game ,which is why the mals voice is so monotone and complete shit. i could be wrong

I love Mark Meer’s acting, always gives Maleshep a stoic hero personality who stays strong for his crew. Hale’s voice acting is great as well as she perfectly captures the emotion in a lot of impactful situations that would really take a serious toll on someone.

@@huhtorro I agree. I play MaleShep as paragon because of the whole hero vibe while I play FemShep as renegade (but not the genocidal maniac Mordin murderer kind of renegade) because FemShep as renegade is hilarious and witty with her roast like when she was threatening the batarian "Drink it... or I will blind you one eye at a time."

I feel the same, I just can't play male for more than an hour or 2 because the male shepard sounds so stiff and unhuman, female shepard has way more emotion

The Overlord Feminism is a hate mob. There, I invited the lash out. That said, I agree with you entirely. War is ugly, even more so when it's a losing war for survival. But people can look nice just by nature.

***** Last I checked, there wasn't a definitive "default" Femshep until ME3. (In ME 1 & 2, the closest you could get was just choosing the first pre-existing configuration that showed up, which isn't the same.)

+ScattySafari I don't remember where exactly i saw it, but there's a moded version of the default femshep without makeup and it looks pretty good, looking badass but still attractive

ScattySafari well she did save the galaxy twice so she has an excuse to look a bit taxed in the 3rd game but they still made the default female Shepard look pretty good not bad for 2012 graphics

😂😂

Least ch squadmate in trilogy among gaming community at 1.5%

Flamey Bree Kaidan was kind of a weak character, imo. I chose Ashely. She's a better soldier...and in Mass Effect...you need good soldiers for backup. And since I have never been able to save Wrex from getting killed off in ME1, Ashley fills the gap; as Garrus isn't strong enough in the first game. Liarra and Ash are my focus squad, I keep them well armed and armored.

I can see why people would work with her, I always found Kaidan's biotics more helpful than Ashley though. I had a good shooter already, Garrus. XD I didn't feel like I really needed her.

Flamey Bree I prefered the sexual tension between my femshep and her.

Flamey Bree I don't doubt your need for biotics, but Liarra is hands down the most powerful Biotic that you have on your crew. With Shep's biotics and Liarra's biotics, it leaves room for a tank. Wrex was the best, because he could deal lots of damage AND use biotics; however, if you are unable to retain him during the game...Ash has the highest combat experience. I like Garrus in ME2 and 3, but in ME1 he gets killed way too easy. I guess that's why I don't choose him.

Keep up the hope, a remaster has been rumored!

@@og-cryoman1842 Don't do that. Don't give me hope

Your positivity paid off !

and xbox...

@@spartans7694 yes and Xbox too (ᗒᗨᗕ)

I didn't mind the ending. the only thing I didn't like is no matter how you played all the endings where the same, BUT no other developer attempted this on a scale spanning 3 games so credit goes to them.

Dimitri Soto Yeah, I guess so.

What I didnt like was the confusion that they left us with. ...Thanks god they fixed it later with a free dlc thing

I think their are actually four endings You can choose the three different crucible endings or you can shoot the catalyst

Well, as long as they give us a complete game and not a ton of DLC's i'm happy :/

Skavoc I remember thinking mass effect was just gonna be another cheap halo/ cod knock off. How wrong I was

Ahaha I was absolutely blown away by this. Took me two years before I finally got to this installment but I'm glad I did.

+Nguyen Duong Now that I'm seeing this I totally remember getting the feeling that would happen as he watched the Normandy fly away. Who knows how he'd live but hey, Shepard did suffocate in space and get burned being pulled into a planet's atmosphere. In my eyes, Illusive Man having this up his sleeve would've been cool.

+Nguyen Duong That would have been an amazing plot twist.

+Shadows82 Agreed.

+Nguyen Duong You know how if you don't rescue Jack in time, Cerberus brainwashes her and you have to fight her when you assault Cerberus HQ? What if Cerberus dropped by the collector base after you blew it up/irradiated it and snatched up the bodies of your squadmates who died and resurrected them like they did with Shepard, but with a control chip to make them mindless slaves. Then when you assault Cerberus HQ, all your fallen comrades confront you with your failure! Because in the second game, you _could_ save them all, but you DIDN'T!

+ZachValkyrie Tell me if I'm wrong but... if you blew it up, all the bodys were destroyed, right? :/

One of the best games I have ever played. The trailer is simply amazing. But it also says that kaiden wasn't supposed to live 😂😂

@@sabinoalves8034 welp. My femshep couldn't be gay I'm ME1 so that's that out the window

Reaper production has been upped here in mainland Europe already

yes REAPER ATTACK WOOHOO

You just have to make everything political, don't you?

No, that's London after the Islamic Caliphate has been established.

no, thats europe's future, brexit saved themselves from that shit

Yes ! 🙅🙆🙇👧👭👸👰👯👱👼💁💇

i think one emoji is enough

Turkish Spaghettie sorry, 😆

warren byrne it's ok

Oh good .conveniently enough I got a notification off Jennifer hale (female commander Shepard voice actress ) twitter acount because she retweeted something when you replied to me

Good joke! Actually made me laugh.

Grimmon Luetterforst Like they worked on me3, right? Sure, unless it's the original team from Montreal i doubt anything within the franchise will ever be good. As is, it's a failure from the start. It's an ego jerk for that shithead Casey.

it will come close I bet...I mean infamous second son looks extremely good and mass effect will undoubtly look better

And good world building

i agree this was the last of the really good game series, everything that came after was just meh

@@Wazujimoip yes lore is incredibly important as this series showed

Maybe get a PS4? Thats what I'm gonna do :)

oh honey...

Have you guys seen the trailer? It will look even better!

This one didn't age well :P

Alamandorious little did they know lmao

yeah feels weird watching custom sheps on here

This why a ME movie cannot be done...never!

nah fuck you and your shepard

Yaranaika Hatsune love u too

convoy81 Well even if they made an ME movie it wouldn't be possible to have Shepard in it.. and could have nothing to do with Shepard's story either.. Why? Cause they'd only be able to please half of their fans, while the other half would be furious cause it wasn't their Shepard's gender..^^

It's a bad idea

+James Roper ofc male..actully there is a talk going abt a mass effect movie, with the male voice actor for sheperd being the actor for it..but..to me fem shepard looks more badass & cooler..kinda fits the scene more then male sheperd..

Flux Lore I prefer female Sheperd over the male one. Her actions and personality feels more convincing.

Flux Lore Which actress do you think could play the role of Commander Sheperd? I think Milla Jovovich, Scarlett Johansson or Kate Beckinsale would be perfect.

+James Roper damn, if you imagine shephard's make up on kate beckinsale, she'd be pretty good

Oni-Ray What about Michelle Rodriguez?

both of them are

I know it, it was better. necro reply :D

I disagree with your second point.

I like to play with a renegade female shepard...She is savage as fuck.

Macho Nacho It's spelt "Shepard".

she seems more into it then the male voice actor

Male Shepard has his lines where he's significantly better than the FemShep. As you're trying to close the door during the ME2 "suicide mission" Meer really barks out in a way that is actually good, commanding voice acting. That's one example of maybe 10 in the whole franchise, though. As a whole Hale did much better.