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Post by BloodOfShiagur on Feb 5, 2017 22:23:38 GMT
Sorry for the drama, but I think one of the Ryders has to be a bad guy: if it's not your father, maybe your sibling  It could still be mum Ryder.... Has anyone heard a word of her yet? There is still the dark Ryder family mystery to solve... Perhaps she was transferred to Andromeda sealed in a special container for purposes unknown, and then during the game breaks out and wreaks havoc all over the place? (Leaving it, of course, to the more heroic -and conveniently conflicted- rest of Ryders to put her back in th box?) |
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Post by dalinne on Feb 5, 2017 23:16:33 GMT
Sorry for the drama, but I think one of the Ryders has to be a bad guy: if it's not your father, maybe your sibling It could still be mum Ryder.... Has anyone heard a word of her yet? There is still the dark Ryder family mystery to solve... Perhaps she was transferred to Andromeda sealed in a special container for purposes unknown, and then during the game breaks out and wreaks havoc all over the place? (Leaving it, of course, to the more heroic -and conveniently conflicted- rest of Ryders to put her back in th box?) The Pandora Ellen Ryder's box!  I wouldn't mind to have an alive momma Ryder as the main mystery but only if we don't end up killing her (I HATE that merciful killing trope with beloved ones, specially wives and mothers) |
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Post by BloodOfShiagur on Feb 5, 2017 23:31:57 GMT
It could still be mum Ryder.... Has anyone heard a word of her yet? There is still the dark Ryder family mystery to solve... Perhaps she was transferred to Andromeda sealed in a special container for purposes unknown, and then during the game breaks out and wreaks havoc all over the place? (Leaving it, of course, to the more heroic -and conveniently conflicted- rest of Ryders to put her back in th box?) The Pandora Ellen Ryder's box! I wouldn't mind to have an alive momma Ryder as the main mystery but only if we don't end up killing her (I HATE that merciful killing trope with beloved ones, specially wives and mothers) Hmm... put like that, it makes me wonder who would open it.. and why. That would be one interesting greek reference to explore...  Mercykilling is almost as bad as swooping... and a wasted opportunity to take the quest somewhere more interesting. After all, who can say WHY she is in the box in the first place? I'm thinking more of Mrs. Rochester rather than suffering vegetable/lab rat... Or, to stay in the genre: |
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Post by BansheeOwnage on Feb 6, 2017 4:11:12 GMT
So... 1) I don't mind our those first assignments are predefined. You don't choose where the brass sends you (although, for my Sara I would have prefered to be sent to Arcturus and being all bored about that) 2) But I agree with you it sucks to have a sort of predefined reaction to our first assignments. As BansheeOwnage says: it establishes Scott wanted something more from Arcturus (some kind of glory mission) and Sara is a nerd. If those descriptions were more "neutral", I could roleplay as a nerdy Scott traped in Arcturus and a hotheaded not very keen in science Sara traped among Prothean ruins. Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about those specific backgrounds and I have a theory: maybe it doesn't affect you as much as it affects your NPC sibling's narrative arc.
For example: if you play as Scott, we know Sara can't join us in the team for some complications (some people, me included, we thought about physical problems, but what if the problems are related to the implants?). So maybe NPC Sara decides to focus in research and the scientific branch of Andromeda Initiave. At some point of the story, we have to help (or stop) NPC Sara from some scientific discovering of Remnant ruins or a conflict she provokes regarding her experiments.
However, if you play as Sara, NPC Scott will focus in a diplomatic branch of Andromeda Initiative. So, at some point of the story, we have to help him (or stop him) in some kind of mission regarding the Kett or the Angara.
I bet NPCs Sara and Scott will have some kind of dark conflict in their character's arc. Taking the examples I put, I guess we start thinking Sara has discovered something regarding the Remnants and that's why X is trying to eliminate her and then during that mission we find out Sara was experimenting with Kett prisioners or something like that. With Politician Scott, we thought he was acting very paragon and then we find out he was more like a maquiavelic politician and maybe he used other's Milky Way's races as leverage for other Arc's diplomats or something like that.
Sorry for the drama, but I think one of the Ryders has to be a bad guy: if it's not your father, maybe your sibling See? Because devs could make us suffer without killing family members  1. No, I get that. Here are my problems with it: A. That we can't choose between the two posts as our background for each Ryder - the sibling would get the other one as it currently is, but we could choose. B. That it's not just the assignment, but personality, as you say. If it was just like choosing Shepard's background, I'd be fine with it. 2. To be honest, it would be a nice change of pace to get a family who ends up both alive and happy/gets along with the protagonist I'm wondering what happened to Ellen, though. Is she on board? Is she even alive? We could at least mix it up and have some mommy issues instead of daddy issues  |
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