Sara Ryder 'SisRyder' (Official Thread)

Which type would you have liked to see?

Yeah, she's definitely not lithe. Body build selections would be great, but I haven't seen anything to give me hope that they'll be a feature in this game. Sara's compact build has been the same in all of the images we've seen, and Scott has appeared consistent, too. Then, Sloane popped up with Sara's build...

Now I'm just hoping we have a good variety of builds in the game, rather than worrying about the character creator.

It was really chopped to bits. All we got was the first line, an answer, and a "get out" line. It's too little for me to judge. I did like Frydda's voice, though, which is the primary thing on which I was focused in that scene, in terms of audio.

I don't like her default appearance for that reason either.  She looks like she's not even old enough to vote. It's hard to take an action hero seriously if they look like a teenager.

Hopefully in the CC you can age her up a bit. I haven't seen enough of Scott Ryder yet to judge whether or not he has the same issue, but I hope not. I get that the protagonist is supposed to be younger than Shepard, but I think they may have overdone it a bit.

I really loved Fryda's voice.

It is exactly way I wanted. Especially that sarcastic inflexion with "A hothead? Great". I percieve her charisma
She sounds younger than Shepard but within her voice range.

As someone half way to 50 who gets ID'd to buy things you have to be 16 for....I'm down for baby face XD

Minor fact check:

Only three years pass during the trilogy. It takes place between 2183 and 2186.

Shepard spends two of those years dead.

So, technically, Shephard barely ages during the trilogy.

That out of the way, I think I like the change to a youthful protagonist. It makes the entire tone of the adventure feel a bit different. I'll need to see how it's executed, obviously, but I like the concept.

I don't think 'having a job' would have quite the same connotation in Thedas. Myself, I pictured Trevelyan as somewhere between his late thirties and early forties and headcanonned my way around the issue by figuring that he had been away from home for years, and the moment he got back they started pestering him about that Chantry job.

Fair enough, but Wrex, among others, refers to Shepard as "old" during the game. Even the Clone calls her "Old Woman". If she is not physically older, ME3 treats her mentally older, weathered and hardened from the physical and emotional turmoil no doubt. There's even a mod to cut down on the wrinkles.

I just watched the gameplay again. I like to hear more of Sara's voice in another trailer or gameplay video

Her look is ok. The bouncing when moving was funny to watch. Wonder if that will get fixed? Her smiling was...funny. I'm sure that will get fixed. Curious what other hairstyles will be available for her.

 I had a platoon sergeant who looked like he was in his 70's, but was only 37. People age differently.  Some look older, some look younger than their age. Look at Chakwas. She didn't look her age. If I was to shave off my goatee, I would look 10 years younger. The only way you would notice I'm older is the gray hairs in my goatee.

I fully agree! More life experience = more interesting to me. Of course it makes sense to send young people on the voyage so I guess it's fine. They could do time jumps like in DA2 to simulate maturing. I'd like that a lot.

I love Shepard exactly for the reasons you stated. There is nothing interesting about a bright-eyed sheltered young protagonist who's not experienced any hardships in life yet. It's fine if these things happen in-game as the story progresses. I mean, the shit that happened to Hawke and their family was bad. And they were refugees. If this sort of narrative was a blueprint for MEA, I'd be all for it.

Yet I look at that snippet of Sara and I see a naive child and it's not appealing at all to me personally. Of course that first impression might not be accurate. And we don't know the background of the siblings. But everything about Sara screams joyful and optimistic, that bounce in her step... Tt's part of my issue with the inquisitor as well. Apart from the scary situation with the anchor (and the consequence in Trespasser), nothing too bad happens to the hero personally. Sure, Haven burned down and people died. But they were not family members or friends. Subjecting the inquisitor to the Solas romance and having her entire world turned upside down regarding her own people is the closest thing to a profound experience I can think of. But at no point did the inquisitor have it particularly rough unless you specifically roleplay such a background. But then the whole overly pleasant schoolteacher demeanor wouldn't make sense. Which brings me back to my point I made elsewhere that the roleplaying opportunities were actually severely restricted compared to Hawke ironically.
Aggressive Hawke is an unpleasant person. And I roleplayed her as somebody who was extremely angry at the world for the shit card she and her family was dealt. I could do that because these three personalities were actually very different from each other.

Both the setting and the dialogue choices made the inquisitor hard to roleplay for me as somebody other than a clueless idiot. I HOPE Andromeda gives us far greater ropelaying opportunities from diplomatic to downright rude and ruthless as time goes by and things don't go as planned. If Ryder doesn't have intriguing backgrounds to choose from that are being referenced throughout the game, I want to see some character development as I play. These things take time though, people don't change over night, so time jumps are still my personal preference. It would also be a handy tool to show how colonization progresses. If Ryder actually aged visibly, that would be the icing on the cake.