Playing the Third Ryder Sibling

She is my sister that got the same assignment, but not the same person. She is my sweet sister Sara, who stayed to work on Mars, I am the adventuresome Protagonist who left for Andromeda with Scott and dad.

That's pretty depressive way to think about it since the one left in milky way in your scenario would be dead for 500 years by the time you wake up

The thing is, that makes no sense, since we're still allowed latitude when it comes to decisions and dialogue options. Which is basically the whole reason I don't understand/hate the move to lower roleplay options in favour of semi-set protagonists. If we can choose some of their personality, they're clearly not totally predetermined. If they're not totally predetermined, why have anything be predetermined? It's completely arbitrary.

So yeah, what the OP is saying makes sense. There really are sort of 3 siblings, but only 2 exist at once. Confusing.

Also, pet peeve: It's Sara, not Sarah

Tell that to Bioware. They keep changing their minds about names! So annoying.



Edit: Vall is faster than me.

You say your good buys, and you take your chances with cryo and new galaxy. Everyone makes their own choices, and has their own risk tolerances, and they might have had a very good reason not to jump at the offer of leaving the MW behind.

In all likelihood they died horribly to the Reapers and got turned into Reaper goo.

So maybe the OP is right? There is Sara and then there is Sarah.

I don't see the issue here. It's not like there's continuity between playthroughs and if there was I think there'd be bigger problems to worry about than why one sibling is suddenly sarcasting or something. Like "holy shit, how did we go back in time and why am I crippled and you're healthy now?"

Besides, since we fully expect or should expect ME3 levels of apparent choice (or lack of it), this likely won't have much of a practical effect anyway. For example our sibling will be sarcastic and when we play as them we'll have the option of sarcastic quip (top) or meaner sarcastic quip (bottom). So it'll probably work out.

No, but seriously I know. It's just I just have real life friends who are siblings named Scott and Sarah who both play Mass Effect so that's why I use Sarah instead of Sara.

Realistically, they probably never made it past the Cerberus raid on Mars or got blown p on Arcturus.

I'm really struggling to decipher what you just said, but the way they did it in DAII is, for all intents and purposes, how it will be handled here. Whichever Ryder you don't play as will be your sibling.

Your character does not have a forced personality. The sibling character does, because you cannot pick his/her dialogue options for him/her.