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[LordSwagley]

Reminds me of Fallout 4 where you choose either the husband or wife in the intro and the other dies shortly after. Watching your Bro/Sis die in the intro could be interesting. Maybe you play N7 guy and choose which one to save.

[In Exile]

I'd rather not see this happen either, since I cringe a bit even at Hawke levels of 'pre-set PC'. 

 

But, to play Devil's Advocate, I think that it could be done and still give us the ability to customize the PCs.  Imagine if you could customize two PCs and there were separate, yet interacting plot lines.  The hitch would have to be making sure that the two PCs don't ever actually meet and interact, because then you'd run into issues with immersion breaking since the game would control one of those characters and his/her decisions in the scene. 

 

I'm thinking:  Take Telltale Games GoT.  There are numerous protagonists having completely separate, yet related, storylines.  You switch between them and the decisions that you make with one character can influence the story for the other characters.  Now, granted, those are pretty well-defined characters.  But I'm thinking  a little different.

 

What if Bioware had a story that was the same size and scope, but split between two different customizable PCs:  one taking place in one location and the other taking place in a different one.  You can customize both of the PCs and the game would have you switch from PC to PC as it progressed.  Then the decisions that you make in one plot can influence how things play out in the other.  That might an interesting twist to the Bioware model.  Haven't thought through all of the reasons why it wouldn't work (and I'm sure there are a bunch).  Just trying to be open to the OP.

 

Really, if Bioware was going to go this way, they could just do a returning protagonist. People love to bring up DA:I in this context, but given the lose plot ends, you could easily just have two customizable protagonists. There's really nothing that turns on them being of one gender or another, because unless you create an absurdly sexist society lore-wise, gender won't really influence most content. 

[csmokey]

really what makes someone want to play a 2nd playthrough like that, different gender but the same story, give me a story where they set out on there own journey and interact with one another at certain points, best example is kingdom hearts birth by sleep