Aristobulus500 wrote...
It's not that I don't like Liara any more - I still love her as a character, but truthfully? Bioware let me down, and as much as I love the character of Liara, I feel that what is done with her is a billion missed opportunities and mere glimpses and what could be. You don't even get a proper epilogue with her!
It's just disappointing and frustrating. On the other hand, I adore the character I'm using as an avatar for many of the same reasons I like Liara, except her potential isn't wasted and squandered, and basically..almost everything I wanted to see happen with Liara, happens with this character.
I admit lots of this disappointment comes from ME - especially ME3 - just focusing so much more on the large scale war and leaving little behind to flesh out the characters and especially the romances, but all the same it's what I wanted. But they don't even deliver a glimpse of a stable and happy casual life with Liara in a damn epilogue. But I get that desire fulfilled from this character, how she's used.
And I was hopeful for a while, but Leviathan of Dis doesn't look to offer me anything impressive in regards to more Liara content or especially fixing my complaints, so I'll still be disappointed. And I'll be surprised if anything from there on happens either.
edit - also with the influx of Banshee avatars it didn't seem like liking Liara anymore was the "in" thing around here...
Wholeheartedly agree with Aristobulus.
You can visualize casual scenes with Liara, you can write about them, you can see them made in artwork, but it's not the same as actually
seeing them in the
game itself. You don't get to see this side of Liara, as much as I would have wanted to, and you don't get to see it in actual motion, animated. And that's one of ME3's downfalls, that it fails to deliver on this, to see more of the romance between Liara and Shepard that doesn't have the thought of Reapers looming over their heads.
Even the one scene where they had the opportunity to flesh out this casual side of Liara, and see her relationship with Shepard and how they're like together
without thinking of the war for a change, is a missed opportunity. I'm talking about the Citadel date scene, which could have been even better if you didn't have to 'lock in' your romance with Liara and make it seem more like a gameplay feature to earn an achievement rather than actually be a glimpse of what Liara and Shepard's future life together might be like.
As a result, while I was certainly invested in Liara as a character, I could have been invested even
more had such scenes been included. Luckily the character in my avatar doesn't have the same problem of not been given enough content, and that has left me even more attached to her. Yeah, the genre of the two settings certainly plays a role here, but that can't be helped.
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