Sara Ryder 'SisRyder' (Official Thread)

This irked me because if we can use purple hair in the vanilla game, why not any other unnatural colour, like this maroon?


But it can also make some nice natural shades you can't otherwise make, like this slightly lighter brown which matches her eyes (I know I mentioned this somewhere, so sorry if you already saw):

Just in case anyone needed reminding, here are all the "styles" in Inquisition. There are 28 of them. 13 are bald or nearly bald. 10 either have male-pattern-baldness, sideburns, or both. That's 10 out of 28 that can instantly be considered masculine and not feminine, despite supposedly having gender-neutral options. 4 of the remaining ones have sideburns or facial hair. That doesn't give much room for anything generally considered "feminine". Not that male characters have much variety either, of course.

In addition, they couldn't think that maybe, just maybe, they should have things like sideburns in the Facial Hair section, something that already exists, and keep it off hairstyles. That we don't have to groan at our Lady Inquisitors having them (or lowering the number of usable options even further), and our Lord Inquisitors can choose whether to have them, instead of being forced to with some styles and forced not to with others. Dumb. And none of that even addresses the quality of the styles! I'll leave that out since it's subjective, but I only like two styles and refuse to use one because sideburns. If I'm being generous, there are about 7 styles I'd consider "feminine", and I'm not only talking about long hair here. That's a quarter of the options when logically it should be half. Which is half of a half and therefore half of what it ought to be

DA2 brought back all (or nearly all) of DA:O's styles, then added more. This is exactly what every series needs to do. And yes, they ported some over to the new Frostbite engine, along with other assets, so it's possible. If ME:A ported over all of DA:I's hair (which is on the same engine), they could spend the extra time they just saved making a bunch of new, good hairs, and end up with a large variety and (if done right) decent quality.

The whole hair thing was not an attempt to be progressive by any stretch. It was just laziness. They should have focused on styles for each gender then, after that, made them available to both, because Options Are Good™. It's pretty clear that the only reason they did it the way they did was because they realized they had so few styles by the time the game was wrapping up, so they made them "gender-neutral" as a way to appear as though they had variety, and appear "progressive". I'm totally in favour of making each style available to everyone, but not how they did it, because it was at the expense of variety, especially for female characters (shocking!). So I hope ME:A has all options for Scott and Sara, but done better.

The other problem with this laziness is that it affects all of the NPCs (who aren't lucky main characters and have their own styles) and makes a world of NPCs who look not only similar (even more than most RPGs) but also extremely different from anything established in the previous games in terms of looks. Yes, that's right: In addition to lack of good hair being annoying for my character, it's effectively a retcon While I'm somewhat joking, the consistency of art-style in a franchise is not something to overlook. Anyway, that's probably enough from me for a while

What a BIG, STOOPID... Hat And by "human hat", do we mean like a baseball cap, beanie, or top-hat? ...Or a human human hat?