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She does remind me of some people in real life, which compels me to ridicule it all the more.

And the thing is, Drew (her original creator) knew that. He wrote responses that pointed to that in ME1. He was able to see both sides. You had the option of calling her just that: obsessed. It's only after ME1 that suddenly her behavior is forced to be acceptable, for all players.

I guess we're getting off the point though.

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There's no way to skip the hug, period. Even spacebar doesn't work.

I did like the multiple-routes thing in ME1. There's a lot of that in New Vegas (and even DA:O), entire quests being available (or not) depending on who you choose to side with.

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DeinonSlayer wrote...

There's no way to skip the hug, period. Even spacebar doesn't work.

I did like the multiple-routes thing in ME1. There's a lot of that in New Vegas (and even DA:O), entire quests being available (or not) depending on who you choose to side with.


D: I thought it did. OMG WTF. BW really wanted us to see Blueberry's tru wub in action didn't they? You can skip gretting everyone else overly friendly but woe betide you do that to Liara. The game might explode.

Yeah it was especially fun on Noveria.

There were three different ways of getting the pass. Snitch on Parsini to Anoelis, Give the evidence to Lorik, give it to Parisini.

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Ryzaki wrote...

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There's no way to skip the hug, period. Even spacebar doesn't work.

I did like the multiple-routes thing in ME1. There's a lot of that in New Vegas (and even DA:O), entire quests being available (or not) depending on who you choose to side with.


D: I thought it did. OMG WTF. BW really wanted us to see Blueberry's tru wub in action didn't they? You can skip gretting everyone else overly friendly but woe betide you do that to Liara. The game might explode.

Yeah it was especially fun on Noveria.

There were three different ways of getting the pass. Snitch on Parsini to Anoelis, Give the evidence to Lorik, give it to Parisini.

You could also give Opold's package to Anoleis, and avoid the shootout in Lorik's office entirely.

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Not to mention screw over Opold and give it to the Krogan. Schemes within schemes!

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Not to mention screw over Opold and give it to the Krogan. Schemes within schemes!

And there was something like six different ways to handle the corporate espionage sidequest. Turn down her offer, reveal that you're spying for her, etc. It was great.

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Yeah, that was classic Bioware. I think the whole "save import" deal is responsible for changing their MO a bit. Too much to handle across multiple games. They wrote more choices in self-contained games. Both have their advantages though. Not sure what I prefer in the end.

edit: OTOH, Tuchanka is pretty multi-layered like that too.

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DeinonSlayer wrote...
You could also give Opold's package to Anoleis, and avoid the shootout in Lorik's office entirely.


D: 

I didn't realize this. Well I know what I'm doing my next playthrough of ME1. :innocent: See I love that I can still find new things in DAO/ME1.


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Not
to mention screw over Opold and give it to the Krogan. Schemes within
schemes!

And there was something like six different ways to
handle the corporate espionage sidequest. Turn down her offer, reveal
that you're spying for her, etc. It was great.


It was. Also I loved being able to get to Benezia without having to kill any of the guards (or brute forcing my way through and killing all the guards).

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How liara is written actually makes sense in all 3 games if your going for her as a LI from the start. Bit obsessive but there's people being like that in IRL as well, its not unusual per say.

The thing is she is written to be like that even when you do not have her as a LI which is kind of where things went south.


This is the problem confining Liara's character development to comics and DLC...not everyone will read/play them. For example, Liara is rather sceptical of the Lazarus project. She says it herself (at the end of Redemption, when Miranda tells her about Cerberus's true motives)..."I really think you should let the dead rest..."

And Liara isn't the only one who was looking for Shepard. She was just the one who was successful because she received an anonymous tip from cerberus. Yes, she could have just ignored the tip...but why should she? Shepard is her lover, her friend, and/or the person who saved her life on Therum. Her decisions in the comic were pragmatic, but the game summarized the entire arc of ME:Redemption as "I couldn't let you go" (which doesn't make much sense for some Shepards, I agree).

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Ryzaki wrote...

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Not to mention screw over Opold and give it to the Krogan. Schemes within schemes!

And there was something like six different ways to handle the corporate espionage sidequest. Turn down her offer, reveal that you're spying for her, etc. It was great.

It was. Also I loved being able to get to Benezia without having to kill any of the guards (or brute forcing my way through and killing all the guards).

It was great for RP too. One of my Shepards I RP'd as secretly working for Cerberus from the beginning. It was only after discovering the Rachni Queen that she went back and cleaned out the guards - no witnesses, and all (a policy which extended to Wrex and Ashley). She released the Queen, made no report to the Council, and (I headcanon) tipped off Cerberus to pick her up, leading to the situation she had to clean up later. The queen had no idea she was complicit in her capture, of course, so Shep played along through the sequels before picking her up as a legitimate ally in ME3.

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Wait...I thought you couldn't go back up to the guards once you encountered Benezia? You can?

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Her decisions in the comic were pragmatic, but the game summarized the entire arc of ME:Redemption as "I couldn't let you go" (which doesn't make much sense for some Shepards, I agree).




What came first anyways? I don't mind the way she was in Redemption actually. A little badass compared to ME1, but she didn't quite come off as obsessed. Just determined, for larger reasons.

I think the whole way she was written in Illium was weird. I know Hillis said she was confused at the whole direction of the time, so I wonder if this was the very earliest stages of that story.

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Wait...I thought you couldn't go back up to the guards once you encountered Benezia? You can?

Yep, just go back through the door you came through and take a right - it'll take you through the security station from the rear. Going out the other way back to the tram station will get you locked out.

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Wait...I thought you couldn't go back up to the guards once you encountered Benezia? You can?

Yep, just go back through the door you came through. Going out the other way back to the tram station will get you locked out.


WHY DO I MISS SO MANY THINGS.

Do they say anything special if you do that?

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Ryzaki wrote...

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Ryzaki wrote...

Wait...I thought you couldn't go back up to the guards once you encountered Benezia? You can?

Yep, just go back through the door you came through. Going out the other way back to the tram station will get you locked out.


Do they say anything special if you do that?

No, not that I remember - you just set off an alarm and they shoot on sight. I think you do run across that Volus as a sole survivor and he says something new.

That was a fun Shepard to roleplay. She never tipped her hand. Later on she intentionally failed Thane's loyalty mission to see the racist Turian politician eliminated while keeping her hands clean.

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No, not that I remember - you just set off an alarm and they shoot on sight. I think you do run across that Volus as a sole survivor and he says something new.


Awesome.

Why shoot on sight if you helped them out though? Jerks. <_<

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Barquiel wrote...

rashie wrote...

How liara is written actually makes sense in all 3 games if your going for her as a LI from the start. Bit obsessive but there's people being like that in IRL as well, its not unusual per say.

The thing is she is written to be like that even when you do not have her as a LI which is kind of where things went south.


This is the problem confining Liara's character development to comics and DLC...not everyone will read/play them. For example, Liara is rather sceptical of the Lazarus project. She says it herself (at the end of Redemption, when Miranda tells her about Cerberus's true motives)..."I really think you should let the dead rest..."

And Liara isn't the only one who was looking for Shepard. She was just the one who was successful because she received an anonymous tip from cerberus. Yes, she could have just ignored the tip...but why should she? Shepard is her lover, her friend, and/or the person who saved her life on Therum. Her decisions in the comic were pragmatic, but the game summarized the entire arc of ME:Redemption as "I couldn't let you go" (which doesn't make much sense for some Shepards, I agree).



I did read Redemption. That still do not excuse her behavior with a non romance shepard, fact is the only difference in that entire conversation between a non romance and a romanced shepard plays out the same to 100% except how she greets you.

With a shepard who expressed he did not wish to have a relationship ( or outright said she is creepy ) her motivations for Redemption should have been explained on a more professional and less emotional level in ME2, i.e only did it because the collectors wanted the body.

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Yeah, there was always a kind of pseudo sandbox way to how they used to approach storytelling.

As much as I like how Walters writes characters, I think he's more concerned with imitating mediums like movies and TV shows.

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Ryzaki wrote...

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No, not that I remember - you just set off an alarm and they shoot on sight. I think you do run across that Volus as a sole survivor and he says something new.


Awesome.

Why shoot on sight if you helped them out though? Jerks. <_<

They're all working for Benezia. The guards massacre the scientists if I remember right in the event that they find out you were poking about. I think that's what the volus says - there were no scientists to be found when I got back upstairs.

All witnesses sterilized. Green-light for Cerberus to extract the queen. :devil:

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DeinonSlayer wrote...

Ryzaki wrote...

DeinonSlayer wrote...
No, not that I remember - you just set off an alarm and they shoot on sight. I think you do run across that Volus as a sole survivor and he says something new.


Awesome.

Why shoot on sight if you helped them out though? Jerks. <_<

They're all working for Benezia. The guards massacre the scientists if I remember right in the event that they find out you were poking about. I think that's what the volus says - there were no scientists to be found when I got back upstairs.

All witnesses sterilized. Green-light for Cerberus to extract the queen. :devil:


Ooooh. Wow and any sympathy I had for them went down the toilet.

LOL


That was a fun Shepard to roleplay. She never tipped her hand. Later
on she intentionally failed Thane's loyalty mission to see the racist
Turian politician eliminated while keeping her hands clean.


You can just kill him yourself and still succed at Thane's LM though...

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Yeah, but it's better for Shepard to keep her hands clean. Let them blame the Drell.

:devil:

I might have actually gone to the Hot Labs before Benezia in that playthrough to get the guards to kill the scientists. I went back through the barracks to clean up after dealing with her.

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rashie wrote...

Barquiel wrote...

rashie wrote...

How liara is written actually makes sense in all 3 games if your going for her as a LI from the start. Bit obsessive but there's people being like that in IRL as well, its not unusual per say.

The thing is she is written to be like that even when you do not have her as a LI which is kind of where things went south.


This is the problem confining Liara's character development to comics and DLC...not everyone will read/play them. For example, Liara is rather sceptical of the Lazarus project. She says it herself (at the end of Redemption, when Miranda tells her about Cerberus's true motives)..."I really think you should let the dead rest..."

And Liara isn't the only one who was looking for Shepard. She was just the one who was successful because she received an anonymous tip from cerberus. Yes, she could have just ignored the tip...but why should she? Shepard is her lover, her friend, and/or the person who saved her life on Therum. Her decisions in the comic were pragmatic, but the game summarized the entire arc of ME:Redemption as "I couldn't let you go" (which doesn't make much sense for some Shepards, I agree).



I did read Redemption. That still do not excuse her behavior with a non romance shepard, fact is the only difference in that entire conversation between a non romance and a romanced shepard plays out the same to 100% except how she greets you.

With a shepard who expressed he did not wish to have a relationship ( or outright said she is creepy ) her motivations for Redemption should have been explained on a more professional and less emotional level in ME2, i.e only did it because the collectors wanted the body.


That's why I said the problem is ME2, and not Redemption. Mac Walters made it clear in Redemption that Liara just agreed to  recover Shepards body because TIM mentioned the involvement of the collectors. But ME2 gave us "I couldn't let you go" (which never seemed a declaration of love but an admission of failure on her part).

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Yeah, but it's better for Shepard to keep her hands clean. Let them blame the Drell.

:devil:

I might have actually gone to the Hot Labs before Benezia in that playthrough to get the guards to kill the scientists. I went back through the barracks to clean up after dealing with her.


Ice cold! D:

But yeah that's what my renedouche is gonna do from now on. They work with the enemy they pay the price. :devil:

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Another thing I think they handled badly in the games is Feron. He was cool in the comic, and there was potential for romance between them later. It would have been a good pathway for people who don't romance Liara, but still want to work with her. She's written in a way though where she doesn't have much of a life outside of Shepard. I'm hoping that maybe Javik can take up the slack now. If a Prothean can't get her off Shepard's back, nothing will. :\\

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Yvonne is better as a blonde. But yes to More Miranda


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