User blog comment:The Milkman/The Shepard Fan Club/@comment-2249774-20120726012059

I came into this really wanting to disagree but I found I couldn't. You illustrated most of the little things that had been nagging me. And I found myself agreeing with every point in some way. Now, I want to say what I didn't agree with completely. I feel some of the moments you mentioned depended at least on who your Shepard was. I do agree with the LotSB thing definitely, it's one of my favorite parts (could have been fantastic with other squad member comments). But I did find that eventually, by the third game at least, my Shepard had found some humor, some emotion, but that was only when talking with Garrus and usually mostly only talking with him on a romantic level. Then, with him, some uncertainty began to show, some laughs and the exchange in the car with him and on Presidium was nice whether romanced or not.

But it took 3 games to even find this much personality. I don't have a greater attachment to Hawke, but I absolutely loved and couldn't wait to see what the Hawke I was playing had to say. It also added to replay value but just made me feel like my Hawke's were all different people. But, I do kind of think it's effed up that backgrounds were practically useless from games 1 thru 3, culminating only in Liara's project, which while welcome, left me thinking "that's all?" Still though, I have to put in a quip here - I've watched my husband play his ManShep for 3 games and I've watched my FemShep countless times, and I feel like my Shepard has far more personality than ManShep, and I would even like that to be a bit more. Oh well, c'est la vie.