Ryder Confirmed to be Brother/Sister

Sept 9, 2016 16:06:00 GMT Heimdall said:

I kinda suspect that the father will be missing and searching for him might be part of the initial impetus of the plot.

Here's more or less what I'm hoping for: we'll have time with the dad both on-duty and off-duty so we'll have time to from an impresson and relationship with.

The dad will disappear for a time and make the occasional reappearance or silent cameo possibly alongside a krogan. Maybe he'll help us out, maybe he'll sabotage us, hopefully both to show that he cares about us but can't let us get too close to him or what he's on about .

 It'll turn out the dad went rogue and he's become an antagonist (but not a villain). I'm hoping his motivation will be necessity and not villainy or some anti-alien or pro-human agenda.

Whether the dad lives or dies will depend on us either directly or indirectly through our choices.

Sept 9, 2016 16:06:00 GMT Heimdall said:

I kinda suspect that the father will be missing and searching for him might be part of the initial impetus of the plot.

Here's more or less what I'm hoping for: we'll have time with the dad both on-duty and off-duty so we'll have time to from an impresson and relationship with.

The dad will disappear for a time and make the occasional reappearance or silent cameo possibly alongside a krogan. Maybe he'll help us out, maybe he'll sabotage us, hopefully both to show that he cares about us but can't let us get too close to him or what he's on about .

 It'll turn out the dad went rogue and he's become an antagonist (but not a villain). I'm hoping his motivation will be necessity and not villainy or some anti-alien or pro-human agenda.

Whether the dad lives or dies will depend on us either directly or indirectly through our choices.

Sept 9, 2016 16:50:38 GMT Heimdall said:

I'm expecting a bit more. I expect they'll be a recurring NPC, not a member of the crew but involved with the plot on and off. I don't think they'd bother even making the sibling a thing otherwise. They would just make it Ryder and the Dad.

It's more what I expect they'll do as oppose to what I'd like for them to do. At best, I can see them giving Ryder a call once in a while but mostly, I can only see them getting mentioned by other characters. Basically, they'll exist but they won't be a character.

It's why I'd have preferred that they simply made Ryder an only child because I don't think they intend to do anything with the sibling character that'll make their existence worthwhile. This might also sound a bit harsher than I intend for it to but I don't have all the confidence that they can write a family dynamic that goes beyond two people well when it concerns the player character. I admit that may be that I felt the Spacer background (and for that matter, the other backgrounds) got a disappointing treatment.   

Now I'm not saying that it is not a possibility that they might decide to go in the direction of Dragon Age II, it's just that personally, I don't expect them to even if I genuinely want them to.