Mass Effect 3 Mods

[CommanderCullen]

Hello,

 

First, i would like to thank many modders for their hard work to create mods for us to enjoy.

 

Just to be clear: I didn't intend to make this discussion to criticize or impolite to any modders.

 

I love few mods for both femshep & maleshep. However, I realized that femshep has many variety of mods to choose from. Unlike maleshep. I understand that it is difficult to mod for mass effect games. Yet to repeat again, femshep has satisfying amount of mods. So i can't understand the difference between "male" & "female" template. I'm not a modder. Is it easy? or not many modders consider the option to make for maleshep. I apologize, i'm not trying to be rude. I am just trying to understand.

 

I would greatly appreciate some mod for maleshep. For example, tight, sexy leather/latex similar to edi femshep ( i'm not stating that it has to be the same. i'm just showing an example) maybe some 18+ rated outfits :smile:.

 

I use both male & female XD

 

Hugs,

sasuke

Edited March 20, 2018 by Sasukexx

[Thandal]

@Sasukewxx; You weren't at all rude, and your question is simply a question.

 

The answer is the modders make the mods they want to make. It just so happens that the people who know how to mod Mass Effect wanted to make more FemShep mods than MaleShep. It's that simple.

[CommanderCullen]

Thank you for replaying faithful kobold. that makes sense.

[DeadMeat357]

Frankly, as a gamer I care a lot more about what female characters look like than males. I play male Shepard 99% of the time in these games. I use the default BroShep and get on with my life. FemShep on the other hand takes me a crap ton of time to create in the character creator. I dislike the default FemShep.

 

As a modder, I typically did armors and weapons that I liked and wanted to use. I never modded guns or armors I hated and wouldn't ever use.

[Kajana]

<<<The answer is the modders make the mods they want to make. It just so happens that the people who know how to mod Mass Effect wanted to make more FemShep mods than MaleShep. It's that simple.>>>

 

That rather states the obvious but doesn't answer the question as to why that is, which I would guess is what they're asking.

 

Modders do mod what interests them and what they care about. Most female gamers play as female characters and most of the people who make games are male. The games are designed for male players playing as a male character. Not trying to be sexist those are just facts. Heck the promotional material for ME and ME2 didn't even show a female Shepard as a possibility. The male version is given the priority so the female version's appearance, outfits, armors, dialogue and/or romances aren't given the same time and attention and so modders try to make up the difference.

 

Men and women care about different things with regards to their characters... like hair. Guys generally don't care, or at least the ones making the games aren't that interested in the female character's hair, so the hair in games for female characters is generally horrible (I mean there are like 7 hairstyles and 3 of them are buns and one's a ponytail!). The best female hairstyles get given to the love interests of the male character. Female gamers/modders care about the hair for their character so they mod in lots of different hair.

 

Same is true for different outfits and armors. The guys who make the games generally design outfits they want to wear and for the female outfits they want women to wear, which is the only explanation as to why the male shepard gets jeans and a cool leather jacket for a casual outfit and the female that ugly, skin tight, pleather dress. All the female gamers hate it, so it gets modded and/or new ones get added and so do versions of the cool leather jacket.

In addition, most of the armor is designed for the male character and some of them don't have a female version, i.e. it looks the same on both. If I wanted to look like a guy I'd play as a guy. Again the best looking female armor in the game gets given to the (potential) love interests of the male character.

 

Speaking of wish fulfillment, the guys all are buff and the females all tiny. So if someone wants their female character to look like she is an actual marine, well they have to mod the game.

 

Also the female's dialogue, relationships and romances are not given the same level of quality assurance and have many more bugs, inconsistencies and other problems that modders try to fix.

 

So in short if someone playing as a female character wants their character to look as good, dress as well and have the game be as bug free and consistent as the male version of the game, they have to mod it.

 

I do realize that this game was made before the study came out that said that half the gamers are female (okay it was like 48% close enough) and I'm not even disputing that the male version of the game gets played more, but to answer the question as to why there are more femshep centered mods, the fact that female version needs them, is a big reason.

[Thandal]

@Kajana;

 

First, the OP posited that "female" modding might be more difficult somehow. My response addressed that.

 

Second, while sexism in game design is definitely a huge problem, the ME-series is not the one I'd pick as an exemplar. Sure, out of the box everybody, male or female, has exaggerated gender characteristics (these are fantasy games, after all). But to imply that my FemSheps are somehow not treated equally within the game (quality of appearance, equipment, "bugs", and decision options, not to mention the voice actor!) compared to their male counterparts seems disingenuous at best.

 

As for the female versions "needing" mods, that's truly in the eye of the beholder. And so we're right back to; "Modders make the mods they want to make."

 

 

I'll close by saying that I only wish I could get my FemShep to look this bad-ass in-game!

 

[bioWare's Jane Shepard promo image for ME3]