The Difference Between Ryder and Ryder

OP, what you're suggesting is basically "gender-locked classes". Please no. Many people have been raging at the asian game devs to stop with this nonsense in games for a very long time, and it is working, albeit very slowly lol.

If we want super duper realism, then what you say makes sense, of course. But even the hardcore realism players often skip this one. It's just an unnecessary hussle. Painstakingly move around Fallout 4 map without fast travel, with almost no heal, having to eat food and whatever else (I never tried survival mode lol and I don't care too, but those are a few of the things you need to do I think) will make your game x times longer than it should be. And some people like that. That "realism". However, put a gender-lock on the protagonist for various classes/professions/whatever, and I'm sure most people will only be pissed of by it. It just adds restrictions based on the devs' preconceptions or stereotypes with no positive impact on the player whatsoever.

Anywho, like I said, I get where you're coming from, but, if you want to rp those varieties, isn't it better to do it on your own, instead of asking for arbitrary restrictions that may or may not even be to your liking in the end?

It'd be great if our male player character can say "I'm gay."

Remember how in the Dreamfalls Chapters, after various eps of fans not understanding that Kian is gay, he finally says he's gay? Like that, except with the characters in ME:A. Like it doesn't have to be a "thing" where they angst about being gay. Just, if you get hit on, you can be like "Sorry, I'm gay" or if you hit on a gay person as the opposite gender, they go "Nah I'm gay." 

I like that, but I can't really imagine it ever being actually implemented. The way I proposed my idea was a way that I felt was something Bioware may have actually done, but even then I have no idea. They may have just made both Ryders gender swapped clones of one another, haha.

That isn't really "subtle". That's blatantly stating it for no reason.



In fact, that's literally the opposite of subtle.

That's what I suggested earlier, it just seems to have been ugnored because I made a jab at Sheploo being emotionless

Yeah that was great! And probably the ONLY time ever I heard that in a game 

Almost, ALMOST made me forgive them for the FORCED kiss Kian had to endure from that woman 

PS: And yes, the Kian name is not a coincidence 

I'm afraid Bioware implements the differences as something like this: Sara opens a closed door with her tech skills while Scott shoots the door open. Or she uses her science knowledge in order to make a defective machine working, while Scott puts randomly any buttons till it works.... I don't want to be the stupid or less intelligent sibling. Hopefully, they avoid differences like this.

I really think there are some differences based on their background...otherwise it wouldn't be difficult to give us the possibility to choose our background and give our sibling the other background that we didn't chose... but I guess it would be too much work to record each different line for each sibling twice, and that's why it's based on our gender which background (and knowledge) our character has. That's why I think there will be differences based on their knowledge...and since Sara had worked with scientists it's likely that she'll have more science based knowledge than Scott.

"Science geek" might've been a bit of an exaggeration on my part, if I did actually say that, though I remember hearing something about her being involved in Prothean ruins. According to you, though, she was just a security guard. If that's the case, the twins are less different than I had thought, lol.

But again, I'd like everyone to move away from the idea of classes. I never said anything about locked in classes. I feel like people are focusing way too heavily on that, and I'm not sure why.

Think simpler, more basic traits. I want each Ryder sibling to have very simple defining traits that separates them from one another. Nothing as major as classes or personalities, but just... little things. Like Shepard had. Shepard, while being player defined, also had some things the player couldn't choose. I would like Sara and Scott to have traits like this, but have those traits be different from one another.

Like, again, the example of Scott being able to cook, and Sara being bad at it. Just little bits of character flavor that keeps them from being too similar. 

If the game isn't going to give me a choice as to the characters sporting preference they should stay silent and leave it to the player.
Neither do i think locking the player into a fixed relationship history serves any benefit.

"whose gender is not made clear in-game for reasons"....That wouldn't even work in my language (which would finally lead to a translation of a heterosexual ex-girlfriend of Scott if I don't wanna play the game in original language)... no thanks

And yes, I think they should really leave this to the player. There are people after all who don't want Scott to have an ex girl/boyfriend or who don't want him to play soccer/basketball...