Alec Ryder 'DadRyder' (Official Thread)

Woah. My Alec Ryder looks like Morgan Freeman after I created a white girl Sara, lolwut. I guess it doesn't matter but that's gonna trigger some white racists out there pretty bad if that happens to them and that amuses me, lololol.

I think most know where this is at. Grabbed it last night. Grabbed a few screen shots prior that I think were pretty cool. Great detail and lighting.

The more I think it about it, the more Alec's sacrifice seemed poorly executed to me. Seriously, why couldn't he and Sarah/Scott simply take turns using his helm's breather?

While I thought Alec's death scene was well-executed, it was such a waste of an interesting character. It would have also been nice to have some sort of funeral. It all happened so fast. I suppose the execution was at least better than DAII with Carver/Bethany.

It was pinned, until Alec died within the first twenty minutes of the game... Not really much point in having a thread for a character that isn't going to see more development in the future.

I'll agree there was not enough emotional weight to the scene or the aftermath of what happened, and that it's strange they didn't have some kind of backup breather in case of critical equipment failure, but the idea of them passing the helmet back and forth was never going to work. The air was too toxic and from what it seems, the only reason Ryder survived was because SAM was transferred over.

It was always going to be that outcome for us to become Pathfinder. I just really, really wish they had done better with the writing to let us feel it, especially since we as the player have very little emotional connection to "dad" to start with. :/

I think the second is more likely. Cora was always meant to be a placeholder until the sibs was qualified to succeed him, but if it was the first one... good luck explaining it to Cora when a Ryder Jr takes over when she herself is still fit to work. Of course it would always be the case, but it would be harder if she already had the position fore some time. To be fair, seeing how Alec was notorious for not being a people person, I wouldn't be surprised.

Oh. Maker. Please let Alec be dead. At least I hope they take his body with them, because the SAM should not be left behind. To dangerous this is why I Rescue the Salarian Pathfinder. SAM is to important and Scott is the big brother of him. He has to care about him.

I did miss one of them unfortunately. I forgot to complete the quest before I went to Meridian. I went back this morning and completed the triggers quest and.... wow. That was unexpectedly awesome. You were right Tarkus , we did get to hear his last words on Habitat 7. At least we could potentially get one Ryder back. Not quite Alec but still interesting for ME:A2.

After doing at least one playthrough with each sibling, I found it amusing that they both got a different version of how Alec and Ellen met. Either Alec embellished things when he shared his version with Scott, or Ellen never actually told him that she saw through his bad boy act.

does anyone know what preset 10 Alec looks like. Just wanting to know.

I have a theory!

I have a lot of those... I thought of something that's pretty cool that I would love to share!

Basically, Alec likes artificial intelligence and Jien Garson is apparently fairly eccentric. Which got me thinking about something...

What if on the Quarian Arc (or on another (smaller) sleeping pod vessel that shirked by protocol by following the arcs into dark space), Alec and Jien brought along depowered geth? It sounds crazy, especially before the introduction to Legion. However, I could see Alec looking into the history of the Quarian and Geth conflict and getting hints of the Geth Collective and how it works. What if Alec had plans to have the Geth powered by a variation of SAM?

This would lead to a lot of conflict due to Milky Way hostilities toward Geth programming. However, Efra could attempt to utilize them to battle the Kett without Resistance casualties. Would Ryder refuse to lose them, underutilizing them? Or would you have to talk down Efra from throwing the Geth into quasi-servitude by a new species. There were some hints about a conflict like this in game- with the quest in Podromos.