sexta-feira, 22 de março de 2013

As vozes de Comandante Shepard

You know, now that there is an official female Shepard for Mass Effect 3…I want to use this opportunity to complain.  Because this is tumblr, and I don’t want to accidentally give anyone the illusion that I am ever happy with anything, ever. So there it is. I am not happy about female Shepard. Now, to be fair, it doesn’t really matter to me personally….I don’t play as default characters.  I actually take great pleasure in crafting my own unique person for every game that lets me.  Default Shep, male or female will never see my television screen.  But a lot of people do play as the defaults, and these are the characters that are presented in the promotion, and many people, whether they play Mass Effect or not, see these as the faces of the game. And what they see is Shepard; a man whose very face spells out his trials, and his triumphs.  His is the face of a leader…of a hero who has seen war, and will see more yet.  There is a determination, written into his expression, and he is literally roughened by time and experience.  He’s not the clean-shaven politician…he’s out on the front lines, and he’s got the scars to prove it. Female Shepard on the other hand, despite the fact that she is supposed to be the same character, looks totally different.  I mean, I guess she’s got a little of that determination going on….but it’s more the fire of youth.  She has that whole ‘pissed off teenager’ thing going.  I don’t see an experienced leader…I don’t see the same, somewhat haunted look in her eye that male Shep above has.  This isn’t the same Commander Shepard. In female Shepard they strip away all the things that make Shepard who he or she is in the games….a leader, a warhero, a veteran of things that would break most people.  Someone who has likely seem close comrades - friends - die fighting at their side for the greatest stakes in the universe.  I just don’t see that in this female Shepard.  She looks badass, I’ll give her that….she looks like she’s ready to take down a couple dozen Geth with her bare hands….but she doesn’t look like Shepard. I did a google search for some other Shepard’s, to see what other people have done…because the beauty of this game is just how many different options there are in the character creator.  You CAN create a Shepard who looks visually however you want.  As you should be free too. Here’s what the default Shepard in Mass Effect one and two looks like…the one they will be disregarding from here on out. So you’re probably thinking, if I support making your own character look however you want her to, then why am I making a big deal out of this? For two reasons: 1) although you should be allowed, in the privacy of your own home, to make whatever Shep you want VISUALLY, you can’t really make whatever Shep you want in terms of personality.  Oh sure, you can choose paragon or renegade options…but those are just means to an end.  Shepard, whether male or female, red-headed or blonde, bearded or clean-shaven, pretty or haggard, IS a character with a fairly defined personality.  Shepard certainly comes with a very defined role in the story.  2) The official Shepards, as I said in the beginning, are the face of the game.  They are the faces that tell players, and potential buyers what this game is all about.  And the faces they have now say ‘Play as man Shepard and save the galaxy as a rugged hero, a leader amoung leaders….or alternately play as young and sexy female Shepard who is as pretty as she is deadly’.  They are two very different messages considering that we’re talking about one character. And the thing is, there are lots of great female Shepards out there who I think (and many others) are far more representative of both the game, and the character you play. I could show images all day; but the point is, I think there are lots of better Shepards to be the “official” one…and that it IS possible to have a female Shepard who is attractive and pretty, but still has some of that same leadership quality that male Shepard has.  Some of that roughness, and battle-weary quality.  And all while not looking 16….because I don’t know how old Shepard is exactly….but something tells me he’s not 16. I think my personal favourite is this one, whipped up by artist, Rafael Grassetti: Aside from the boob-a-licious armour, which resembles nothing of the armour that she would actually wear in the game, this Shepard’s face is great.  She looks to be the appropriate age for someone in her rank, looks tough, experienced, hardened….but still maintains femininity in her design.  Give her maybe a little scar and a more practical do (any of the ones actually found in the game would fix that) and you’d have a very good female Shep to stand beside Male Shep and not look like such a different being entirely. Of course…..maybe Bioware should have just thought about all this on day one.  it’s a little disappointing that it took them three games to figure out that maybe they should have a solid default (and one they should use in marketing) when they had one for male Shep from day one. But better later than never, and I will certainly give them the points for effort.


Para quem não sabe e para quem ainda não viu e tem uma curiosidade enorme em descobrir, aí estão os donos da vozes do personagem principal de Mass Effect. 

O que faz a voz masculina é Mark Meer:




Que também fez trabalhos de voz no jogo Jade Empire. 

O que faz a voz feminina é a já conhecida Jennifer Hale: 
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Jennifer Hale fala sobre Mass Effect 3, o jogo na sociedade, e Mais



Que também tem outros trabalhos em jogos, onde o mais conhecido é a jedi Bastila de Knights of the Old Republic, onde ela também empresta sua voz. 

Criado por uma das melhores empresas produtoras de jogos estilo RPG a BioWare, Mass Effect foi lançado em maio de 2008 exclusivamente para PC e XBox 360. 

Sendo concebido como uma trilogia, Mass Effect bateu todos os recordes e revoluciono misturando ação, aventura, drama, romance dentre outras coisas em um jogo de RPG sendo seu estilo único em sua categoria.
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