Hasphat'sAnts
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Hmm? People make distinction between ManShep/Sheploo and FemShep all the time.
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Mass Effect 4 Main Character called Ryder, FemRy confirmed default. Spring 2017
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Hmm? People make distinction between ManShep/Sheploo and FemShep all the time.
They're saying the name is irrelevant as to whether or not they're a person of colour. IMO she looks like a light skinned indian woman.
Pagusas
Elden Member
That won't be a victory, it'll be a great loss
KeyBladerXIII
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Hopefully Man-Ryder has a decent default look like Shepard. Customizing Shepherd always made him look weird and doughy.
Default female Ryder looks good, and since I do the male option, that increases my chance to not get spoiled on romances, so that's good.
Default female Ryder looks good, and since I do the male option, that increases my chance to not get spoiled on romances, so that's good.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Uhhh, we do call male Shep MaleShep. It doesn't matter if he was canon. Canon characters in Bioware games never mattered other than marketing.
It's a great ride either way. To me, Hale turns in an undeniably superior reading of the same lines though. Her dialog was more varied in delivery and really shines especially in the Renegade options where her voice goes icy and intense in a really cool way.
That comes down to opinion, but it seems like a lot of people share the opinion that Hale did a better job. *shrugs*
Principate
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You'll rarely if ever heard someone use the manshep distinction because that's the one the majority of people played as and is the default. Femshep is normally used when your not referring to male shepard or in a manner that isn't important to both. The fact that even when the female version is the default most people are still adding the fem in front is pretty odd to me.
Look at google as an extremely rudimentary exxample Femshep 478,000 results, manshep, 20,000, maleshep 68,000. It was not a common nickname.
How is this a victory?
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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It's an honor to serve aboard your ship, the Southern Sun.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
If Ryder hails (like Shepard) from Canada, then make have her be of Iranian descent. Plenty of us in Canada 
Man Called Aerodynamics
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I expect the female version of the character will still be known as FemRyder instead of just Ryder, just because that's what fans are already used to from the Shepard trilogy.
People make much too much out of what's "canon" in Mass Effect games. No version of Shepard was canon, and even if there was, it doesn't make any difference to your customized experience.
This is cool though for the marketing (I always thought FemShep was cooler anyway and it was neat to see her all over the marketing materials for ME3), and because we're less likely to get the same crappy male animations again if the female PC is the focus.
People make much too much out of what's "canon" in Mass Effect games. No version of Shepard was canon, and even if there was, it doesn't make any difference to your customized experience.
This is cool though for the marketing (I always thought FemShep was cooler anyway and it was neat to see her all over the marketing materials for ME3), and because we're less likely to get the same crappy male animations again if the female PC is the focus.
Yabberwocky
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Ghost Riders in the Sky, very cute, Bioware. I wonder if the 'multiple Ryders' means it'll be a Hawke family situation?
Very cool to see EA advertising with FemRyder. The belated realisation you could play as FemShep was what got me into ME (and DA after that), so hopefully the same thing ends up happening to others. That being said, I did end up playing MaleShep more, as he had the better romances. No, I'm not still bitter about the unfulfilled UST between FemShep and Miranda. Not. Bitter. At. All.
Very cool to see EA advertising with FemRyder. The belated realisation you could play as FemShep was what got me into ME (and DA after that), so hopefully the same thing ends up happening to others. That being said, I did end up playing MaleShep more, as he had the better romances. No, I'm not still bitter about the unfulfilled UST between FemShep and Miranda. Not. Bitter. At. All.
Falchion
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Yep, Rydbro checking in.
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Guyder works too.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
So how much we betting that N7 guy is a Ryder family member? Brother, perhaps.
ChaosZeroX
Banned
Last leg and they show no gameplay? Weird
AHA-Lambda
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Spring 2017? So is that not Q2 then?
A little gameplay, crumds, but not no gameplay. Some running, some shooting, some Mako, some biotics.
EA financial call said FY Q4 2016 (Jan-March 2017).
Yup, this is a red flag to me too. This game is getting another delay.
Theodoricos
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Is it confirmed that the woman at the end of the trailer is actually Ryder, or some other character?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Well they previously had it in this tax year
Supposedly they want a Fallout 4-style unveiling, so I'm expecting full blowout for N7 day in November, which will be 5 months from release.
March could be considered Spring.
If it can't make March, they might as well push it to Sept-Nov.
shinobi602
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Galactic Barret
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Good, I like female MCs and hopefully the relationship aspect will remain multi-gendered.
I still won't get into the series, though.
I still won't get into the series, though.
MegaSackman
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My opinion is that male Shepard was cool but I can't comment on fem since I really don't know how she was, I saw the art in ME3 back then but I already had my maleShep save from ME2 so it was an obvious choice. Regarless, I wouldn't change the brotherly relationship I had with Garrus though, it was perfect!
But I always play with default character on these games so, FemRyder will be.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Representation.
Dangansona
Member
That would be an interesting twist on ME continuity.
sixteen-bit
Member
RYYYYYDERRRRRR
I'm pretty excited about this. Wish they showed more.
I'm pretty excited about this. Wish they showed more.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Huh. They're still doing scanned faces? That surprises me.
Is SheRyder scanned too? Has to be if she's the face of the game.
formasymphonic
Member
This basically.
ME is a game about creating your own character and playing as them. so this doesn't really mean anything outside of marketing tbh.
would be cool to have seen some that wasn't white. This year is gonna give us a few black protagonists but there is no reason ME portage couldn't have been Continental or East Asian for example, or someone from a Latin territory etc.
Ultimadrago
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Sheploooo!
MaleRyder better have the same Mark Meer level cheese required for a Bioware space trek.
MaleRyder better have the same Mark Meer level cheese required for a Bioware space trek.
RandomSeed
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I'm 100% OK with a female lead of course, but I sure hope they have plenty of options for "real" armor and suits, and not the boob and butt contoured stuff Bioware seems to love.
EVA UNIT 01
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I want to hug you
...religion isn't race?
(Also, does ME have any reference to modern religions? I can't remember any. So it might not even make any sense at all)
IIRC, they went out of their way to mock that style of armor in Inquisition.
They're probably trying to say Arab.
If Ryder hails (like Shepard) from Canada, then make have her be of Iranian descent. Plenty of us in Canada
Was Shep canadian? I remember Vancouver being blown up, and Shep ribbing Kaiden about Canadian cuisine, but don't remember anything of his place of birth, even with a earthborn background.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Since FemShep was the superior, non default option, I'll be going with Guyder this time around.
bluecapsule
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Hope that means we won't get the awkward male animations on the female characters, but fully expect EA to not deliver.
Funny, the new ship is apparently also called tempest.
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