Yeled wrote...
I see from the past few pages that we are back to our pessimistic ways on this thread. Honestly I'm not sure that's a bad thing, though. No offense to forumites like Stubbs and Les, who I like very much and hope are right about everything, but I'm afraid we're expecting far too much of BioWare at this point in expecting them to do right by Liara's character. I've gotten to the point that I think we Liara fans, and maybe fans of BioWare's classic story driven games in general, should be hoping for the best while assuming the worst about anything BioWare does from here on out.
As far as I'm concerned, everything BioWare has done since ME2 came out--from dlc to Dragon Age's expansion--has been pretty much worthless. They are like a former star player who has batted .000 since the season began, and I'm wondering if their time in the big leagues is coming to an end. They clearly want to play in the Halo and Gears of War realm, and I guess from their pocket book's point of view they succeeded with ME2. But I'm not sure they can sustain it if they are going to sacrifice their heart and soul: The stories and roleplaying elements that they've done better than anyone for the better part of a decade.
How many brands go under because they move away from their core strengths? We've seen it time and again. Companies that sacrifice long-term quality for short-term gain inevitably damage their brand, alienate their core audience/consumer, and die a slow, inglorious death.
BioWare stands on the precipice. Maybe they've already gone over. I'm not sure yet. But either way they are dangerously close to falling. I didn't think, before ME2 came out, that this could happen. I held no company in higher regard. I thought they could do no wrong. They walked on water as far as I was concerned.
ME2 was the most disappointing game I've ever played. Its as simple as that. It certainly wasn't the worst game, but for all its qualities I feel it utterly failed because my expectations were so high. Its not just Liara, though I felt emotionally disconnected because of what they did with her and other ME1 connections. But for me it was the entire experience. And nothing BioWare has done since has changed that.
It would be nice if someone from BioWare would come into this thread and speak with us. I know its highly unlikely, but I really want to have some hope again and I think that's the only way that could happen at this point. I think we could all be civil, and I'd expect people to shout down those who weren't.
Anyway, yeah, I realize I'm now totally ranting. I'm just frustrated by what I see as the loss of the single best company in the videogame industry. I feel very strongly, as many of us do. To be honest, with the way the industry is headed, I might be inclined to abandon the industry altogether, and not just BioWare. If no one is going to make great, story-driven games...I'm not sure I have a lot of interest. Everything I played of late was just filler between BioWare games. It seems that's won't be true anymore.
I see where you are coming from, I try not to be positive just for the sake of it (although, I am an optimistic person as some of you know from the music I listen to and I never get depressed from it, lol), but do not forget that pessimism means you will immediately give up on your problems.
Optimism means no matter how much the world breaks you down, you still keep going and looking for answers to your problems. You don't have to be happy about it, but the fact is you will keep going.
I know it may seem as though we are grasping at straws sometimes, but everything we are talking about makes sense logically. Liara's emotions and the comics fit together.
Remember that EA doesn't want BioWare to go "full shooter" we are still a pretty big part of the market share for them, obviously not as big as the shooter market, but we still count for a large amount of money. Video games don't generally make a massive net profit for the companies, so they need all of the money they can get. They cannot afford to lose any fans.
Also, even if BioWare doesn't make the games they used to, there will always be other companies out there who want to take a stab at RPGs, some of them will fail, some of them will make some of the greatest games ever.
I don't even own any shooter games myself (because of the fact that all of the storylines in them all suck and they are extremely repetitive), so I know what you mean by feeling disappointed that a lot of companies are leaning towards the shooter genre.
ME2 was definitely a major disappointment for me as well (my expectations where massive, lol), I tried to prepare myself when they started pumping the "Suicide Mission" but I didn't think they were going to completely dismiss ME1 in the way that they did.
I have a theory that the amount of plot holes in ME2 might have been due to EA wanting to get as much money as they can out of us. That is also where the Liara reunion comes into play, she could be a major character in an expansion that will fix some of the plot holes.
We all know that it would be
extremely hard to write ME3 without fixing the plot holes, logically, it would be easier to create at least one major expansion to bridge ME2 to ME3.
BioWare may not be able to speak with us because of legalities, usually that is the problem in most situations like this.
That could also mean that Liara DLC is on the way if they are completely ignoring us, they couldn't say anything at all if the DLC is coming out.
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