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[jtav]

ME Liara grated on my nerves. She came off as almost too sweet and a bit weak (Did she have to nearly faint after EVERY mission?) But her newfound Shadow Broker obsession excites me.  There's a lot the writers can do with it. I can definitely see a subplot where Liara is forced to choose between vengance and Shepard/saving the galaxy. The callback to Benezia was very deliberate. Will she become her mother or can she pull herself back from the abyss? I think it has the potetial for some of the most emotionally wrenching storytelling since TOB. And it would be impossible if Liara was still a sweet, naive kid.

[Nightwriter]

Meh.



I approve of the new direction of her character but it didn't seem genuine.



I really don't know what I mean by that.

[The Angry One]

My renegade needs somebody innocent to anchor her.

If Liara isn't that innocent girl anymore, what will Shep do? I bet you didn't think about that!

[marshalleck]

I think her new mannerisms are...overwrought, to say the least. But then I never liked her to begin with so I guess we're still at square one going into ME3.

[Kordras]

Not really sure yet... she doesn't give you enough background info about what happened to judge, IMO. I'm waiting for the comic series to finish before I decide if it feels 'right' for her to have changed so drastically.

[InvaderErl]

I will say that playing a Shep who didn't romance her, I found that conversation to be terribly awkward. I was suddenly relieved I had decided not to go that course with her.

Modifié par InvaderErl, 21 février 2010 - 02:18 .

[Garlador]

Liara is... different.

And I'm still not a fan of EITHER of her personalities. She bored me to pieces as a fainting, doe-eyed Mary Sue alien in ME1 and she bores me as an OCD, self-serving information broker too. She's too inconsistent to get close to ANY of her personalities and the schism between them makes feeling anything for her rather difficult, at least in my case. My Shepard is full of instability and Liara is just another destabilizing element now.

[Nigawatts]

I was fine with it. Most people are put off by how different she acts, and think that Bioware forgot how her character was in the first game, but she acts the same in the opening cinematic and she does break from her cold personality if you get in the right dialogue tree.



Honestly the main issue is that people seem to wish that she was just back at another dig site to be rescued again, and fail to recognize the fact that Liara's interactions with Shepard in the first game changed her. And it HAD to change her, because in the first game, she was too naive, too trusting, and too introverted, to be an equal partner to Shepard. It always felt like Cradle Robbing in ME1 but hopefully when Liara and Shepard reunite in ME3 it'll be the adult version of their romance.

[Biotic_Warlock]

SHe sounded like Benezia in ME2.

Modifié par Biotic_Warlock, 21 février 2010 - 02:18 .

[InvaderErl]

Garlador wrote...

Liara is... different.
And I'm still not a fan of EITHER of her personalities. She bored me to pieces as a fainting, doe-eyed Mary Sue alien in ME1 and she bores me as an OCD, self-serving information broker too. She's too inconsistent to get close to ANY of her personalities and the schism between them makes feeling anything for her rather difficult, at least in my case. My Shepard is full of instability and Liara is just another destabilizing element now.

Pretty well-put.

[Gavinthelocust]

When I made love to her she was an innocent bright girl, now she is revengeful and serious. I am glad I cheated on her.

[Vendrac]

I did like her in the first game, and I don't mind that she has a dark edge to her now. It's just that the interaction with her seemed unusually limited. Specially for those that had her as their LI before.

You'd think that after going through hell and back to recover Shepard's body for a hope at bringing him back, she'd be a little bit happier to see that she succeeded. It felt too far out of character for her, even considering what she's gone through.

Modifié par Vendrac, 21 février 2010 - 02:20 .

[ChampDude]

She wasn't my romance from the first and I honestly found her to be boring in ME1. Now however, I find the direction Bioware is taking with the character to be extremely interesting. I could see how people who loved her character in the first being pissed that the Asari Shepard fell in love with isn't there anymore, but that wasn't how I viewed her so it didn't matter to me. Now I see her as a reflection of the paths her mother went down and am awaiting how her arc will end in Mass Effect 3. Could be one hell of an end for Liara

[Nightwriter]

I didn't buy the change in her character.

[FredegarKadere]

I found Liara far more compelling in ME2 than I did with her in ME1, but this mostly has to do with how comical her 'tough-gal' acting was. Her squinting eyes, clenched fist, and single-minded obsession gave me the chuckles. She is Conrad-lite right now.

I have hope that she will acquire a quad soon.

[ladyshara]

I was thrilled with her attitude change. Dangerous!Liara= hot. Less thrilled with the "Hey Shepard, be my errand girl" thing.



Meh.

[epoch_]

FredegarKadere wrote...

I found Liara far more compelling in ME2 than I did with her in ME1, but this mostly has to do with how comical her 'tough-gal' acting was. Her squinting eyes, clenched fist, and single-minded obsession gave me the chuckles. She is Conrad-lite right now.
I have hope that she will acquire a quad soon.

You win 5 internets for that avatar.

[SuperVaderMan]

She reminded me of any other teenager that's recently gone through "tough life experience" and loses faith in humanity. Maybe that's the point? I still don't like it.

[babylonfreak]

I like that she's grown up from the innocent "kid" who stayed too far from civilization. She knows the Galaxy is a dark, unfriendly place and that she has to act tough to be respected. My Renegade femshep approves, though she thinks her act isn't quite there yet. She's only had two years to practice being tough and she's still a little wooden, but we'll make her into a genuine hard-bitten information broker yet.

[alickar]

i liked her kinda physo tho

[alickar]

physco

[Nozybidaj]

The general direction is an okay idea. Not a great one, but okay. They just went so over board with the "dark and edgy" that it is hard to take it seriously as genuine character development instead of just bad writing.

[Cascadus]

Hell yeah, Her 'oh Shepard, you're so wo/manly' grated on me severely. I'm one of the few people who apparently did not like Liara in ME1 at all. It's only an obvious character progression that she would go from that so very annoying innocence into the cynical, hard-bitten new version she is now.

I'm glad this isn't 2007, I believe then speaking against Liara was a crime punishable by internet death.

[Mobile-Platform-928]

In terms of as a character? I disliked her. Intensely. But that's because I/my Shepard skew towards Paragon, and found her new unrepentant mafioso personality to be at odds with my own morals.

In terms of a story direction, thought? I find it very interesting, and I really wish they would have made her...well...worse. She's shaping up to be a really unlikeable antagonist-NPC or a VERY effective villain in the continuation of the series. The sweet girl all the Liarafans THOUGHT they knew went back to her people, dove into the asari race's shallow, nasty little pool, and found she was very much at home.

I do wish they'd gone over the tie-in comic more in game for those of us playing at home, but...eh. I can roll with what I was given.

[marshalleck]

Nozybidaj wrote...

The general direction is an okay idea. Not a great one, but okay. They just went so over board with the "dark and edgy" that it is hard to take it seriously as genuine character development instead of just bad writing.

Oh come on, you didn't think the coffee cup line was like, totally awesome!?

Modifié par marshalleck, 21 février 2010 - 03:59 .