Do you like Ryder as a character?

Sara laughs quite a bit and it's cute and dorky. Love it.

Surprisingly yes. Better than Shepard imo. I can relate to Sara in ways I couldn't with female Shepard.

Not a big fan of Ryder but that's on BioWare deciding to limit dialogue options. Now we have four flavors of Paragon, it doesn't work. If they aren't going to go back to Origins and give us actual dialogue. Then use Dragon Age II.

#GiveRyderSomeBalls

This is what's selling me on the character as well. It's a refreshing change, I think.

Quirky, funny, and tough when need be. That's how I see Scott. Surprisingly, looking forward to a run with Sara. That pretty much never happened with the OT (playing FemShep, that is).

yeah I'm no tdone yet I've only just got up t othe point where I've picked up Jaal but I love the story. I don't know too much about Scott Ryder but I'm definitely loving playing as Sara.

Yes, I love Sara. At first I wasn't sure if i will like her, but I totally love her.

Ryder is quickly becoming one of my favorite Bioware Protagonists.

I think Ryder's personality is perfect and I love it.

Ryder is 22 years old and was unexpectedly thrown the title and responsibility of Pathfinder. It's realistic that she comes off as "noobish" and not ready for the job, she wouldn't be. Then there's her quirky personality and sense of humor which is great when we are coming from a stern and professional character such as Shepard with the immediate threat of the Reapers on their mind 24/7.

It would be great to see Bioware slowly make Ryder more mature in future games if we continue with her. Based off certain events that happen to her, she starts to harden a bit more and become a better leader/Pathfinder.

The constantly sarcasm and jokes are a bit to much for me.

Yes.

But I think he (talking Bro) was underserved. Whether it was voice direction, animations, character creation/modeling, general disorganization of the writing, whatever, he was made weaker by the factors around him. This is almost opposite to Shepard, who was bland and weak but bolstered by a fascinating new story setting that encouraged him to open up (or for renegades, blow more shit up).

While it currently isn't my first choice to want Ryder in another game (I'm waiting to see DLC or especially epilogue/bridging DLC for that), I already consider it interesting to see the Ryder character without MEA's pitfalls.

One reason I like playing Ryder more is that I feel more like I'm in Trek, more comfortable to have quality convos with others and episodic adventures. Sure ME2 also had an element of that but not as strongly. That's not to say I just want TV schlock, but that I enjoy more sense of 'living' in a world of Mass Effect compared to 'experiencing' a more central story of it (ME1's main story, ME3's 'movie' design).

I hope that if we play as them again, Bioware gets to break away from the family importance (while still keeping it), letting Ryder have more variance. They could even keep the tone icons (albeit with a better understanding than before), but understand how much people want to at least OPTIONALLY explore more extremes in actions and effects. Over MEA we do seem to go from 'Ryder sibling thrust into a position they're not ready for' to 'experienced Pathfinder who is forging a new world and legacy', but this journey does not seem complete and I doubt that'd *truly* happen in DLC (just as I don't think even ALL of Hawke's story ended with DA2 and theoretically DAI).
I'd like Bioware to treat this character better and LET them surpass Shepard. Without all the flaws of a game getting in their way.



I was open to the idea of Ryder and Ryder himself is delivering. Its just too bad that they have a hazy barrier of the rest of the game (save for combat especially) jarring me out of the experience. 

THAT ALL SAID, I'm still not one that wants Shepard to fade away to nothing in Mass Effect. I think there's great things that can be done regarding him, without making a game itself a 'Shepard story' at all, nor JUST inserting them in for cameo attention (see SWTOR Revan). When I hear 'one more story', I wouldn't at all mind Bioware taking up that, even if the game we end up playing isn't only 'Shepard's one more story', but including it as part of the journey. How? I'm not going to get into that here goddamn it.

But Ryder? No problems with them as a character concept and much of portrayal. I see others' complaints but its still stuff I'm personally into. I do especially agree with the complaint that Ryder should be more than 'shades of agreeing' and 'forced grey chocies'.

(Sara) Ryder is generally likable enough, but lacks the amount of edge and ruthlessness that I would've liked that Renegade Shepard exhibited throughout the trilogy(particularly in 1 and 2). I guess this is balanced out by Ryder not saying the kind of absurdly moronic things Shepard (of either alignment) would say, such as comparing the genophage to the FCW or being surprised that Asari can reproduce with each other.