If you know me, and likely you have some idea of who and what I am by now, or an assumption thereof, you may be surprised when I say that I never play as femshep. That is, the female version of the main character in the Mass Effect games, Commander Shepard (anyone else have a helluva time remembering the spelling? I'm half convinced the reason the web has shortened his/her name isn't because of usual 'net laziness but rather to short circuit the spelling issue).
My main issue with the character isn't anything that grievous. It's the freakin' voice acting. It isn't that it's *bad* per se, it's that the actress sounds as though she downed a fifth of cheap scotch and force smoked two packs of cigarettes twenty minutes before the recording session. It puts my back up, it's like nails on a chalkboard. I'm not talking an aggressive growly semi-sexy early Eliza Dushku growl, I'm talking that terrifying bus driver that wreaked of despair and was one puff from a tracheotomy growl.
Just sayin'.
I get that Shep is a tough determined character and depending on the past her player chooses she could be anything from a colony brat and experienced soldier to a hardcore street kid from the slums of Earth and a sole survivor who chose to sacrifice her team to hold an objective (this is all pre ME1 background that the player can choose).
She's a bad ass. I get that.
Doesn't mean she has to sound like she gargles with a box of rusty ten penny nails every morning, she also doesn't need to sound like a sex pot honey trap eager to molest your ear drums. Can't she just sound, y'know, 'normal'? Average?
Just sayin'
My main issue with the character isn't anything that grievous. It's the freakin' voice acting. It isn't that it's *bad* per se, it's that the actress sounds as though she downed a fifth of cheap scotch and force smoked two packs of cigarettes twenty minutes before the recording session. It puts my back up, it's like nails on a chalkboard. I'm not talking an aggressive growly semi-sexy early Eliza Dushku growl, I'm talking that terrifying bus driver that wreaked of despair and was one puff from a tracheotomy growl.
Just sayin'.
I get that Shep is a tough determined character and depending on the past her player chooses she could be anything from a colony brat and experienced soldier to a hardcore street kid from the slums of Earth and a sole survivor who chose to sacrifice her team to hold an objective (this is all pre ME1 background that the player can choose).
She's a bad ass. I get that.
Doesn't mean she has to sound like she gargles with a box of rusty ten penny nails every morning, she also doesn't need to sound like a sex pot honey trap eager to molest your ear drums. Can't she just sound, y'know, 'normal'? Average?
Just sayin'
