Sara Ryder 'SisRyder' (Official Thread)

I'm almost certainly going to play as her first. I'll customise her appearance as I prefer to put my own stamp on the character, though ideally we'll be able to use the default as a base so I can just tweak it a bit.

I think it might be better for the player to select what the character starts off with, rather than the game preselecting it based on gender. Like you get a certain number of points to start and you can allocate it as you see fit. 

Hm...Why not?

It's two different characters and two genders at that. I really doubt they scored the same at "the military academy".  Male Ryder may be better at Soldier and female Ryder may be better at Biotics. ... like Mage and Knight class.

I also don't mind having the option for us to choose our starting path/attributes/skills. But, if Bio really wants to go "organic" the siblings will have different strengths and weaknesses.

What is the default male Ryder face? I can't even recall seeing it now off the top of my head.

Although I much prefer male Shepard in the original trilogy I think I'm going to role with Sara this time. I also am not a big fan of customizing the face of the characters on my main play through so I'll be using the default face on Sara, she looks cute anyways IMO.

I have yet to finish a ME3 trilogy run with a female character. I don't know why...

This time I'll definitely try out Sara on my 2nd playthrough.

She needs more pictures.

I'll start with Sis Ryder, unless it turns out I hate her voice or something. Probably will customise that face.

This would definitely be my preference as well. I'd like the character to be as much of a blank slate as possible.

Anything in general would be a step up honestly XD

Gonna echo the statement I've seen a few people post; I too would like Sara to be a more structured protag like Shep and Hawke. I felt I enjoyed the experience greater when my character showed emotions and stuff without me having to poke them a la "strikes an unhappy grr face for one piece of dialogue out of the blue and keeps that face for the rest of the cutscene" Looking at you Inquisitor. 

It was just more fun I thought. Also I need sibling rivalry and ribbing going on between Scott and Sara. I want them to be total bros x

1. I'm with you. They've been steadily improving, ME3 and onward, but have a ways to go. Failing alternating, I always thought they could simply showcase both protagonists in the same trailer (not in all trailers, mind). The argument against this was that it would confuse players, but I think that's giving them slightly too little credit. Fallout 4 had both protagonists in the same trailer and guess what? The world didn't end.

In fact, I thought there was actually a good chance of Bioware not only showing both protagonists more for ME:A, but also potentially together, since they're siblings who exist at the same time. That's hardly confusing. I'll render final judgement only at launch, when the trailers are all out (though there will also be DLC trailers), but so far it's not even close to even yet again.

2. I actually still haven't listened to any of Fryda's work, which I should since I really want to know how Ryder will sound. Maybe I thought I'd just hear it in a trailer at some point? Hopefully we will soon. What does she sound like? My main concern is that she won't sound... intimidating enough? When that's required. Something I thought Sumalee Montano, Courtenay Taylor, and especially Jennifer Hale all pulled off (interestingly, I played mostly sarcastic or nice Hawke, so that wasn't as much of an issue for Jo either way. On that note, I'd love to have more sarcastic/snarky options for Ryder). It's just weird to have a warrior RPG protagonist who doesn't sound threatening at all.

Other than that, I just hope I like her voice and speaking style in general or am at least neutral about it.

Well, technically they already haven't done that, since there have been 2 in a row now with Scott, and by far the most screen-time as well. So yeah, I'm hoping along with others that she'll be featured in the upcoming gameplay demo, which will hopefully have at least 1 cutscene/conversation, so we can see her face properly and hear her voice. And, you know, to learn more about the conversations and gameplay

Actually, I believe they randomized it in DA:I, if I'm understanding you correctly. My first playthrough, it gave me female as the default choice, and I thought it might have to do with my Worldstate since my Warden and Hawke in it were also female. But on later playthroughs with the same Worldstate, sometimes it was female and sometimes male.

And somewhat related: I'd love to know the stats, not of total playthroughs (which Bioware gives us), but of completed playthroughs (which they do not). I have a feeling the number of male and female characters who finished the game would be more even than those who only started, for various reasons.

OMG Morrigan hair Jealous


Also, what the heck is wrong with her (Ryder's) nose?  And I don't mean that I think it's weird, I'm saying I don't think it's weird and am asking why so many other people think it is