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I'm not sure any other game before or since has done as good a job making your character feel like your personal fanfiction Mary Sue in all the best ways. Not even really later Bioware, although Hawke is a pretty good attempt.

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Shepards of all genders occupy this really narrow sweet spot of being just defined enough as a character to not feel like a blank slate and just customizable enough that your Shepard really feels like YOURS.

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Now that I work with VAs regularly I am constantly listening to female action protagonist voice work in a new game and thinking "the casting call said Jennifer Hale's Shepard as the comp" 

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Not like other games hadn't done the "default male protag but you can make them female if you want ig" thing, though, it's really Hale's voice work that sells it.

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