Oh yeah, she totally looks like the way I pictured my female Revan, which wasn't my intention when I started out, but by the time I'd realized what I'd done I decided to keep it anyway. This is probably half due to my subconscious physical preferences for a player character and half due to wanting to avoid the melty face effect. I don't know what it is about the lighting in the kotor games and in Mass Effect, but for some reason the darker skintones look so much better.
But that aside, it definitely says something about what I find aesthetically appealing. Actually, now that I think about it, in other games when given a choice about portraits and skintones, I almost always pick dark skinned player characters (I think I did it in both Baulder's Gate games too), with the only exception being Kotor 2 when I played the blonde exile with a bun. A lot of it's probably due to the fact that I'm short, fair skinned and blonde - so this is my chance to look as different from myself as it gets.
I have no excuse for my ugly ass male!Shep other than I truly suck at making faces. I went through about four different versions that looked even worse than this one (oh god... super blonde nordic male shep with a beard, which is what I really wanted, was a total disaster).
As far as Kaiden goes, I guess I should just be grateful that he wasn't voiced by Cam Clarke (the mess that was Sky still makes me cringe) or even worse, the dude that did Anomen. Still some variety would have been nice. They should have switched Garrus's voice with Kaiden's or made Sbarge the voice of the male!Shep, although I don't know if Sbarge could pull that off considering what a hard ass Shepard is.
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Date: 2008-06-17 06:27 pm (UTC)But that aside, it definitely says something about what I find aesthetically appealing. Actually, now that I think about it, in other games when given a choice about portraits and skintones, I almost always pick dark skinned player characters (I think I did it in both Baulder's Gate games too), with the only exception being Kotor 2 when I played the blonde exile with a bun. A lot of it's probably due to the fact that I'm short, fair skinned and blonde - so this is my chance to look as different from myself as it gets.
I have no excuse for my ugly ass male!Shep other than I truly suck at making faces. I went through about four different versions that looked even worse than this one (oh god... super blonde nordic male shep with a beard, which is what I really wanted, was a total disaster).
As far as Kaiden goes, I guess I should just be grateful that he wasn't voiced by Cam Clarke (the mess that was Sky still makes me cringe) or even worse, the dude that did Anomen. Still some variety would have been nice. They should have switched Garrus's voice with Kaiden's or made Sbarge the voice of the male!Shep, although I don't know if Sbarge could pull that off considering what a hard ass Shepard is.