Anyone disapointed about the role of the sibling?

I'm convinced they'll play a larger role in the future. This time around they needed to establish one main character, instead of splitting their focus.

Now that that's out of the way, twin can shine.

I didn't expect them to be a squadmate for meta-reasons, but if I remember right devs promised "...you'll be able to visit them and build a relationship...". Would you believe me if I said, that it's not exactly like that?
I had more interactions with major of Prodromos.

I'd hoped we'd see more of them (maybe equivalent to the third of the game we had the sibling for in DA2?). I think the emotional impact of the kidnapping at the end was hurt by not getting more time with them. Obviously the character is supposed to care, but we don't really know them.

Was finally glad to see SisRyder at the end - figured she got kidnapped but yeah, more missions with them would have been better. Just to make you develop more of an emotional connection to them as the player.

I knew they were going to be limited, but I expected them to wake up halfway through and then maybe go on a mission and be involved in the finale. I did not like how passive they were but the finale more than made up for it.

That said, god the Kett attack was poorly executed. Every plot development was a contrivance in this game. The worst part about that is the fact that this game just lifted ME1's plot and it had a perfect template to go from in that sense but it made everything completely out of context. Okay, the Archon is on the Hyperion... how and when? Thanks for not showing us or having everyone communicate this to Ryder before it happened from the Nexus. Same thing with when you meet the Archon, same thing with the not-Virmire mission and every "major" choice. This is the moment the Geth and Saren attack the Citadel in ME1 but it just happens without explanation here.

Hell, if you go and talk to Bradley after giving him then not-Anderson role in the ending he just says "It's good to know it's only temporary" so basically they went out of their way this time to ensure no choices are going to carry over. We probably leave the sibling in Andromeda 2 so Mac can make another soft-reboot that has no obligations because I think his issue is much more that as a creator or writer (I know he's not the writer of it) he can never seem to follow up on established developments. Any time he's at risk of having to double-check how a plot ties together with a preceding plot he seems to screw up or he inserts Cerberus or he makes a contrived development on top of it.

Yeah, I liked how hijacking part was just completely skipped. I imagine Tann looking at the window and thinking "Hmm, is there something missing? How many Arks we are supposed to have here?". Archon should have captured entire Nexus, nobody would notice it in first few hours anyway.

One thing i dont get and this happened in DA2 as well. What is the point of a sibling if you are going to bench one for the entire game? why not let the sibling also be part of the squad? and if you do plan on benching the sibling then dont bother having one in the first place. Just make it that there is only one Ryder spawn with gender depending on a binary choice.

I was also disappointed. Kinda wished they'd have been more active.

And the attack on the Hyperion was extremely, horribly done. Were was the rest of the damage to the station? Nothing happened... It would have been better if our twin would have gone out to research Meridian at some site or planet and then get caputred there...

...But then our twin would not have been able to save us from the AI severing caused by the Archon...

Still wished the attack/hijcacking of the Hyperion could have been explained/written/executed better in game.

They also said they had created Ryder in a way so he would "grow as a character over the course of the game" and that does definitely not happen either.

I think the problem is that it wasn't easy enough for BioWare to write. I say "easy" rather than "it would've been too hard" intentionally. Same goes for the other inconsqeuential decisions you make in the game so BioWare could have a clean slate for Andromeda 2 and Mac doesn't have to think too hard.

Sibling companion is a bad idea, a childhood fantasy that would pan out twrribly in a video game.

Have them woven into the plot sure.

Not on the ship.