Sara Ryder 'SisRyder' (Official Thread)

Remember N7 being the designation for "special forces"? Maybe C8 stands for "recon" - in the skills menu on the right it did say "Recon Specialist Level 56". I'm curious to see what the other alphabets stand for.

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Gorgeous.

Few grabs from the intro:

Ugh, that armor. 

I think she's average. And it's good, most people don't want to play as tank-woman.

Woaaah she is little!!! I don't see the different size before lol

I don't think she is that short, to be honest. It looks as if she is sitting down, because in the beginning of that clip, Sara leans back and you can see her leg move a little in the video.

Sorry the image is so small, I have no idea how to post bigger ones!

Here's a side-shot of the previously talked-about bob, since people (including me) were thinking about using it on their Ryders.

Not that it's a super helpful shot, but at least it's another angle. Oh, and it's parted to the left. Still looks pretty good for Sabine, KirkyX

3. You are, sadly, probably right about who'd get the protag role. But yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of them alternating within the trailer, like the Fallout (launch?) trailer did. It worked there, it can work here. Obviously I think they should actually alternate between trailers, but I'd still like to see them both once. Not only is it not too much to ask (how can "can we have the same amount of X?" possibly be too much to ask?), but it would be smart for marketing. I mean, isn't that obvious? You get effective marketing out to more kinds of people, getting them interested. I can tell you it works both personally and otherwise.

First, I saw stuff for ME2 on the old Xbox 360 dashboard back in the day. The cover looked like a scifi shooter with another generic 30-year-old white guy with short dark hair. Didn't draw me in to know more. Years later, the ME3 demo was out and I decided to give it a try - I like scifi, after all! I've never seen a description of a game that said whether you could play male or female and this was no exception, so I didn't know I could until launching it. Holy crap, what's this?! The hero can be a woman? Keep in mind, I hadn't played any RPGs at this point, so this was both the first time I could choose as well as the first game I played to have a female protagonist (both because they were even more rare back then and because my game library was small). And ME3 had a whopping one trailer featuring female Shepard*. Congratulations Bioware, you missed out on some potential customers and fans who did the same thing to ME3 that I did to ME2 by having poor marketing. I didn't play Skyrim until four years after it was released because I didn't know you could play as anyone but that Nord guy seen in 100% of the marketing - and I did see the marketing. Knowing I could actually mix things up a little and play as a female (or any other race) would have been very helpful, and I know I'm not the only one. Bethesda very nearly didn't have an additional customer.

Second: Don't believe me? Well, my girlfriend told me about a small game developer asking on Reddit (if I remember correctly) why Bioware games have an even split for gender among fans, because they wanted to succeed. The answer is simple: You can play as a woman. So obviously actually letting people know you can do that in your game is paramount if you want to tap into 50% of the market. Therefore, market it accordingly. Bethesda is improving (Fallout 4), but it and Bioware still have a ways to go. DA:I was an improvement over ME3, but it's not hard to improve on garbage (try it again). My eye will be on the next TES as well.

*And they didn't just call the trailer "ME3: Reinstated" (Just another trailer, normal, like all the others). No, they had to call it "ME3: Reinstated (Femshep trailer)", emphasizing the problem you mentioned above: That even according to Bioware themselves (at the time), the female variant of the protagonist isn't default - she's some "other", "alternate" protagonist. Come on. If this wasn't the case, proper marketing would occur without effort.

So that unintentionally-long rant brings me back to ME:A and the fact that, quite frustratingly in multiple ways, Bioware still can't even live up to their own promise of equal marketing. So I don't find it at all hard to believe that some people didn't realize you could play as a woman.

8 shouldn't be being used. The lore states that that designation system only uses numbers 1-7. 

maybe that's just for the specia lforces division we don't know about the others do we? At least I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere.

I beg to differ (taller than 85% men around me)

edit: maybe more...how many men are above 190cm?