ME1 Liara behave like a teenage girl who have her first crush who is obsessed about being properly laid for the first time by this person she come to worship. And Shepard does sound unusually predatory by repetitively urging her that she is ready for her special time. Does this sound like you're trying to have sex with a person who have the emotional maturity of a 107 years old adult woman? Who also constantly being referred to as "girl" in the trilogy.
I'm not digging at this because she's a hundred years old virgin but she display so many personality traits that was infantile. And what kind of 'romance' that basically have you taking advantage of an Asari who have the emotional capacity way less mature than all Asari in the game who are emotionally vulnerable and just lost a parent and yet very eager to sleep with a complete stranger that she have to do quick extranet research just to get to know you better.
Although maybe because it was godawful cringe-y because I did romance her with him. *shivers*
Jack's romance was the only straight BroShep romance that I enjoyed playing. The focus was on gaining her trust and getting to know her better and having Terminator Shepard at least showing some empathy. Even if she cried while cuddling him... which I think is really sweet since she finally let her guard down and allow herself to love someone. Their romance was even briefer in ME3 which is a bummer.
Most sex scenes in ME3 are fade outs; Garrus Tali, Miranda, Jack, Cortez and Allers. The only one who did it nude was Liara while Ashley, Kaidan and Traynor (just shower scene) were all in their underwear. I only tolerate Kaidan's because my FemShep is smoking hot in her lacy lingerie but the rest.. meh.
I think Bioware are going to stick with some hint of nudity but fade out sex scenes in ME Andromeda. I think the animators died out in embarrassment,
In regards to Liara: I find it interesting how far Liara falls outside of the stated social norms of her people, yet the game does little-to-nothing to acknowledge this fact and touch on it. To the best of my knowledge there isn't that moment in ME1 were Liara reflects on how she doesn't seem to see eye to eye with the rest of her species, most of whom are incredibly social creatures. Strikes me as a lost opportunity.
Maybe this is just me, but I prefer the romance scenes to end at making out as the camera fades to black. Not that I'm inherently adverse to sexual content but sex in ME or DA doesn't serve any kind of narrative purpose, it's there because fans. Having the scene end with a 'first kiss' is cliche'd because it's efficient and all you need to establish the relationship before moving on, back to the meat of the plot. Ultimately I don't like feeling as though I'm being pandered to, it makes me uneasy. That may just be me though.
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