Rip504 wrote...
OP without Liara there would be no Shepard and No Mass Effect. She is one of the most important characters in ME. She is also not my fav,etc. But I do recognize the very important role she plays within Mass Effect.
ME1-Mind Melds find Beacons etc,her help is essential to completing ME1.= ME1 is unbeatable without Liara.
ME2- Recovers Shepard,the sole reason Cerberus can rebuild Shepard.=No ME2 without Liara. She also helps on Illium slightly,and LotSB is a beast.
ME3-She & Hackett find the Crucible plans,our best chance at defeating the Reapers. Glyph upgrades my tech.
Her role is important,as she has done a great deal for Shepard,potentially more then any other in the entire galaxy.
I feel it necessary to point out that aside from ME1 Liara being crucial was the devs decision. Let me explain in ME1 Liara was the Prothean expert, she was the only one who could make sense of the vision, it
had to be her. That's fine, almost everybody got one of those. After that though there's never any justification for why it has to be Liara.
Anybody could have gone searching for Shepard's body and gotten caught up with Cerberus and the Shadow Broker. We could have gone to any old info broker on Illium to find our recruits and we're in regular contact with 2 people who could have told us how Cerberus got Shep's body.
As for the Shadow Broker DLC again there's no reason it had to be Liara other than the writer's wanted it to be Liara. Miranda could have taken over the job, we could have given it to TIM, really anyone of sufficient intellect could have taken over the job, it didn't have to be Liara (though she does qualify).
Now ME3 actually could have been another moment where it
had to be Liara and she could have really shined. Let's say they'd dropped the Redemption/ME2 plot and Liara just couldn't join the squad because she was wrapped up in work (we're not told what just that it's important and she can't come with). We start up ME3 get to Mars and we run into Liara, and we find out this is what she's been working on. Liara had spent the time pouring through the Archives to find information on the Reapers, and it had to be her because nobody else but Shepard has seen the vision, she was the only one who knew what to look for.
That would have been awesome, I would have been thrilled to have her back on the team. Instead Bioware went with the forced importance of ME2 and just ran with it.
You're list also brings up my big problem with Liara. It's not that she's an important character, it's that she's
the important character. As you point out it's always Liara that keeps the wheels spinning; can't it be someone else just once? Can't somebody else have the spotlight? ME1 was done well, almost every character had their moment to be important, but after that it's just Liara, Liara, Liara. It get's dull and after so many playthroughs it gets irritating.
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