This, in itself is a bit off-putting to female Shepard players, but isn’t alone a huge cause for contention. An exclusive-to-FemShep male option would also have been nice.” “But really, Female Shepard needs more male romance options – if we take Mass Effect 3 as it is with no imports, a Female Shepard has a single male romance option compared to the harem of women (and men!) who are after Male Shepard. Samara was removed as a romantic interest from Shepard, regardless of gender, so she’s a bit of a “wash” in that sense. Now, let’s take it a step further and delve a bit more into the implications of some of these inequalities.Įxamining the numbers and graphic above, we see immediately that in contrast to the equal numbers of LIs offered in ME1 and ME2, players of female Shepard have 3 fewer options in ME3. Paramour - 5 Kaidan, Garrus, Sam, Liara, Kelly.# of LIs - 6 Kaidan, Garrus, Kelly, Liara, Sam, Diana.Paramour - 8 Liara, Ashley, Tali, Miranda, Jack, Kelly, Kaidan, Steve.Straight - 7 Liara, Ashley, Tali, Miranda, Jack, Kelly, Diana.# of LIs - 9 Liara, Ashley, Tali, Miranda, Jack, Kelly, Diana, Kaidan, Steve.

To start out, let’s take another look at our summary of last week’s results: NOTE: The contents of this post have been updated to make a correction regarding Kelly Chambers’ status granting “Paramour” in ME3. In addition, we discovered that for the first time, FemShep and MaleShep differed substantially in the amount and quality of Love Interests available, and it was FemShep that generally received… the short end of the stick. Last week we saw that the romance mechanics in Mass Effect 3 were significantly different than those in the remainder of the series. This Focus Friday we conclude our discussion on the evolution of Love Interest dynamics in Mass Effect.

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