I have no clue, why Allers should be in the game.
For me, she was the most antisympathic character in the history of ME.
Not in the way of evil guys or the greedy exo-geni-guy from ME1, but for her total lack of depth.
The most interesting part of her was that e-mail right before the Ending.
The only thing where she showed a bit more humanity, than, excuse the metaphor, a media-puppet.
The rest:
She's a reporter, with a research-team behind her to appeal to the watchers of her show.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I would lie if I would say my concern is not partially with the voice-acting.
In my oppinion, it can't compete with the rest of the voice acting in the game.
It's still way better than what I expected from a gaming-journalist, though.
What bothered me most, is, that I never got the feeling of "There's a war out there." from Allers.
Although she mentioned most of the situations that occur.
The voice-acting did an acceptable job in portraying a professional reporter in front of her camera-drone, but for me it failed deeply in presenting the woman behind that.
She never behaved differently, wether she recorded or not.
This could have been easily changed by one simple scenario:
Allers requesting an interview right behind an important story-mission.
Upon calling her up to the cabin, Traynor states that Allers answered, she wouldn't be able to come up.
When visiting her in her quarter, she could sit on her bed or look at that picture-wall, fighting with tears and telling Shepard that she can hardly bear with something.
This something could be: The loss of a family-member, the flood of bad news she has to work through or some terrible pictures.
It's not my intent to lessen the work of anyone who worked on that character.
Nor do I hold any grudges against Miss Chobot.
In fact I didn't even knew anything about Miss Chobot, until she was brought up in these forums.
I'm not really concerned with IGN, neither positive or negative.
Sometimes I watch some of their gameplay-footage on youtube, but I lost the interest in that site a long time ago.
I simply found gaming-sites that had more content which interested me.
As I said: Miss Chobot performed better than I would have expected from a gaming-journalist.
Still, I don't know what we got Diane Allers for.
I would have loved to pick up Emily Wong, or could have lived with Al'Jilani.
Both are well established characters with way more personality.
Emily Wong and Al'Jilani may be stereo-types, with Wong being the idealist and Al'Jilani one of those who like to throw with dirt, but at least they are types.
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That's the only reason why she took Diana with her, other than laughing at her.
Only hope Bioware realizes their mistake and gives you at least an on screen (optional) death in future DLC.
