Rumours of Mass Effect Trilogy Trilogy Remaster: What would you like to see?

The Benefactor is The Illusive Woman. And let's say it's Illusive Man's second in command that he dejected from the company in order to maintain ownership of it, who thusly had a bounty on her head by all Citadel services, and decided she could fulfil her plan in MEA.

I mean, the files specifically refer to her as "a woman" (yes, I know she appears as a fake anonymous female at some point, but this seems pretty specific) and given just how hard MEA1 was crafted from ME1 as a template you can easily assume what they were really doing was plant the seeds for MEA2 to be just as templated off of ME2, and then a final chapter that resolves the Scourge problem in a mirror to the Reapers.

We don't need to sit here and guess. Everything followed a template in that damn game. Everything except the Angara subplot.

I just don't like Liara, which is neither here nor there.  I thought she brought nothing to the table.  Combine that with her subpar voice acting and she was poorly utilized.  Honestly, even TIM would have been a better option because he was fully aware of the Reapers and wanted humanity to live.

Ah yes, the asari called t'soni. Who was the one that recommended her for Alec to get a hold of? What information did she have no one else had that would be of interest to Alec? Why did she send a message to him, after not corresponding with each other for years, telling him the Milky Way won't be the same as when he left? That message means nothing since he will never return. And how did she know his personal terminal number to send the message? Did the qec yellow pages guy in London give it to her? It would make sense since he was able to get a hold of jack for Shepard, without knowing which Jack Shepard was asking for.

What did she add in the trilogy? As far as being a squadmate, nothing. The trilogy proves that. In ME1, Saren is able to find Ilos without the asari. If he can do that, than what reason is there to have t'soni? ME2 she's in the broker dlc. Apparently it's ok to steal armor from dead bodies and display it like it's some trophy/prize? She made no attempt to inform anyone Shepard's body is in the hands of Cerberus yet she calls Shepard a friend. I would be curious what her answers would be if Shepard was given the option to ask her about those things. If I had to guess, the reason was because Bioware didn't want any friction between Shepard and the alien. Anyways, here's my thoughts on the broker dlc.

ME3 she's on Mars. If she discovered plans, then why didn't she download them and send a copy to Hackett? It's because she never discovered them. She only found clues that led her to Mars. Why can't she be sent to Hackett to help with the device/crucible? One thing that doesn't make sense is the player can send A/K to Hackett. What could they do that the asari couldn't do? She shows up after the first two dreams for no reason. Apparently she isn't the prothean expert she thinks she is after Javik told her she didn't study enough. Nice one Javik the Great. Overall the character would have been better as an advisor offering any information about the protheans, at least in ME1. Since Shepard has the cipher, there would be no reason to have t'soni show up in ME2/3. Or at least have t'soni take the role of Shiala. 

A wise man, this one.

I am not sure what you are arguing here. Every point you are bringing up is about how the game is making her seem like she would be useless in combat, not actually how she performs as a squadmate when you are in a combat encounter.

If I was being pretentious, I would call this "ludonarrative dissonance" or something like that, but I do not actually care.

When I am actually playing the game and in combat, Liara is one of the best squadmates to have in ME1 and ME3.

In all games in the trilogy, you as Shepard will be killing most things yourself. ME1 especially since your squadmates like to shoot everything except enemies (boxes, walls, Shepard's back, and other types of cover), so Squadmates are better used for their utility.

ME1 Liara: her biotics work on most enemies:
- Lift, Throw, and Singularity for crowd control (I never use Stasis on her)
- Warp for debuff

Only Kaiden comes close with Lift and Throw, plus Neural Shock for organic-only enemies (plus unlocking).

ME3 Liara has Singularity for crowd-control and priming, and Warp for detonation/priming, and both have rapid cooldowns for a squadmate. Liara + Javik is incredible for non-Tech Shepards.


Again, if you want to argue that in-universe Liara is a bad squadmate and should never be in combat, go right ahead. I will not argue that point. I might even agree with you on some level.

If you want to argue that Liara is an actual bad squadmate when it comes to actual gameplay, I will vehemently disagree. Liara is simply one of the most useful squadmates in ME1 (with Kaiden) and ME3 when it comes to actual gameplay because of her power set and passive bonuses.

Simple answer: Liara is Bioware's Pet, and it shows. You have to go through 3 games in order to lock yourself out of her friendship/romance arc. Not to mention that you have to fail very hard in order to kill her off with a low score in your war assets.

Was that before or after Shep was knocked unconscious? I think your memory of this DLC is fuzzy. All she did was run after that bitch the whole time. 

When was Shepard knocked unconscious during the car chase?

Don't know about that, but what I do know is that this👇

Is me whenever Liara says that she is a good information broker.

I mean, I will agree that from ME2 onwards, her character is done very few favors, and her flip from being a doe eyed archeologist to suddenly 2 years later being some "hard ass" super spy is hilariously dumb. But honestly I can't even be mad about that in particular because she is simply indicative of how ME2 is really where the franchise jumped off the rails in many ways, it simply took time for the trains momentum to slow down. Liara's 180 character flip is simply a symptom of the greater problems that the series suffered from.

If you read my post on this page, you would have noticed I mentioned other things as well, not just the scene in the dlc. As far as me screaming, no. Why? Because I realize Shepard is doing what is possible to stop Vasir from getting away. 

I doubt it. After all everything he knew she knew since she got all of his information. Even Tevos, the Asari Councilor, didn’t know about the beacon until the Matriarchs told her to tell Shepard.