Ryder Confirmed to be Brother/Sister

Same, actually looking forward to it 

I'm not sure how are they going to pull it off.
First, the appearance. DA2 had that dynamic 'family generator', but it was mediocre at best. And it worked with CC presets, which is easier than DAI-like grid\sliders-based morphing. 'Hawke looks like daddy Mal' was barely an excuse, and it was especially bad for non-white characters. Dynamic modeling is way too risky and complex to deal with. Manual editing in CC would be an option, but it would double (or tripple even) the amount of time spent in CC. I can't say that being forced to spend extra hour(s) before start playing makes me exited. I hate DAI second *spoiler CC*, as much as I love the story. Tere's always a 'Forced Helmet' option, but I don't see how would any kind of story work like that. 'Tali's face' trick won't work.

Story-wise it all depends on how they present it. I love what they did with Malcolm Hawke, and I also like how the Inquisitor is not forced in any kind of family affairs. They were very headcanon-friendly. One of the biggest issues with DA2 family for me was the death of the first sibling - it happens like 5 minutes into the game, and it's impossible to actually feel anything about it on the first PT. Same reason I could never sympathize for the Couslands, I guess. Leandra's death was much more meaningful (and that LI comforting scene had much to do with it), but I'd rather not have any forced family dramma in MEA, really. There are better ways to trigger the players' emotions.

if that leak from a year ago about strike missions and strike teams that you send on missions is anything to go by then your sibling might be the leader of that strike team that you send on AI controlled missions. and they would report to you on results of said missions, as well as become involved in some story missions from time to time. this is how i imagine it could work, and your Ryder would be able to interact with his sibling more frequently then your Hawke did with his sibling in DA2.

If those are defaults, it doesn't seem much better than what the DAI CC is capable of (barring different hair and textures). Facescans in ME2 and 3 were better. Facescans in Frostbite even moreso.

Not just default Sheps. Many squad and main characters too.

I'll grant you that the old CC was worse though.. boy is that true. But I hate the DAI look anyhow, just in isolation.

i like the DAIs CC a lot. only thing that was missing was an option to customize the body type. considering that they wont have to make a CC for four races this time but just one i imagine we'll get a lot more options and attention to detail in MEA CC. Facescans are fine for NPCs and squad members but would limit the CC to much for me. i don't want the base for my character to be some rando underwear model. i'll take custom built faces like the characters from Paragon and Lawbreakers any day of the week instead of facescans.

DAI had a decent CC but I felt it was difficult to use and limiting (the difference between the opposite sides of the boxes was too small). I did like being able to pick colours of a colour wheel - though I wish they'd let us do the same with hair and eyebrows.The biggest issue with the CC, as with all previous ones as well, was that the PC didn't look the same in the game due to different lighting etc.

It isn't about underwear models. I'm just talking quality of textures and skull shapes.

Those ME ones are all blockheads btw.. with thick necks. Like Conrad Verner and Donavan Hock really symbolize the typical male look. It especially jarring though when squaddies look better. Not to mention the noses suck. Either the bridges are crooked or they're really sunk in on the bridge section. Hardly any real people have noses like that, yet I'm limited to these options in their game. Only Sheploo has a normal curve.

This and DAI is better at least. But now they've screwed up the bodies... where they a subtle bobblehead proportion.


The whole idea of creating faces is cool, but it isn't cool when the tools suck. It isn't like working with a 3d program. But I've said enough.

Like the male human on DAI? Those one of the worst skull shapes.. where it bunches all the facial features closer together and gives monkey ears.

Default Hawke uses it too... and manages to look worse than DA2 Hawke. And that's not even face scan.