Sara Ryder 'SisRyder' (Official Thread)

*snip* (Don't need the self-quote ^^)

Got two - minor - complaints (about characters in general, but it applies to her, too

So here they are:

1. What's it with you guys and always needing names like "BroRyder" (sounds kind of stupid, you know?) or "SisRyder"?...they have names! (and even when they did not: Why not call them "female Ryder" and "male Ryder")...it's just like with fanfiction shipping (H/G - as in Harry/Ginny in Harry Potter fanfictions for example and that's TAME, there's stuff like "Drarry" (Draco/Harry) and not just because I hate that particular pairing (wouldn't care for the name if I loved that pairing...I mean one my Harry Potter fanfiction favorites is called HONKS for fuck's sake (it's Harry/Nymphadora Tonks btw.)...what's it with those names, is that some kind of obsession you guys have?)

2. (For the DEVS!) Why are the models for the characters always pretty boys and girls? Why not use true soldiers (hell, even green ones who have just passed basic training (for our twin protagonists) - he/she can be beautiful, that's not the problem, but why used people who are payed for modeling who would NEVER pick up a weapon to join a battle if they can help it? (not to mention that people such as that would probably be way cheaper to hire for some work (including motion capture if needed!))

3. (another one - this one again directed at the DEVS!): Why did you not use the chance to make more of the twins (meaning that the second twin, the one you don't play as, gets his/her own team and separate missions (some of them might be joint missions, where you hop between the twins (you run the show on both sides of the mission...would make the game seem more dynamic (like in movies when the POV shifts!))? Too expensive? Too much dialogue to write? I'd really like to know, because that would IMHO be a neat feature (hell, you could do this with companions, too - the ones you don't pick to go with you are designated as Team 2 and are either also inserted (so that two teams attack an objective etc. - hell, you might be directing Team 2 via the radio or even with light signals or something if you have to keep radio silence and the POV only shifts for truly important stuff!) or stand by to extract Team 1 (protagonist and his/her two companions (like in Mass Effect 2 at the end, when a second team under who ever you chose (in my case? Garrus, he knows small unit tactics and he cares for his people) defends that door and somebody escorts the Normandy survivors (if there are any!) back to the ship!)...might make the game more realistic, too (you don't have a whole "army" of companions just sit there doing nothing when they could be doing something useful - not everybody is Mordin who will do science stuff when he's not needed or Garrus who loves to tinker with the ship's main guns (the Tempest doesn't even have a main gun -.-))

Well, three instead of two...well, just thought of that last one so sue me

greetings LAX

1. Who are you calling "you guys"? And no, it's not like fanfiction shipping, which often uses Portmanteau names. "BroRyder/SisRyder" are not Portmanteau names. I'm not much of a "shipper", but I don't see what's so annoying about that kind of naming system. While male Ryder and female Ryder may be accurate, it implies they're variations of the same character, like male Shepard and female Shepard - but they're not, so people use sibling prefixes instead.

"But they have names!" Yes and no. Since we can still give them (the one we play as) custom names, it doesn't make sense to simply call them all Scott or Sara. It gets even more confusing since we might be talking about their NPC versions, who are always called Scott and Sara.

2. As far as bodies go, I've been a strong advocate for both protagonists being realistically fit, as a soldier would be, since forever, so yeah, that would be nice. As far as faces go, we can customize them, so it's not nearly as big of a deal. Plus, I actually thought Scott and Sara were a bit more average-looking than the Shepards (I didn't think ME3 default female Shepard looked great, but I could tell she was intended to, and she was heavily made-up). Compare than with Sara, who isn't even wearing much (any) makeup and looks fairly normal.

If they're allowed to look beautiful as soldiers, why do we need real soldiers to be their face-models?

3. I'd definitely not like to swap between the two twins constantly - Not in a Bioware RPG. It might be find in random game #1337, but I want as much time to develop my character and her relationships as possible. Alternating would reduce that character growth by half for everyone and I'd be left unsatisfied with either protagonist. Quality over quantity.