#bioware is deader than dead

[sundogsandrainbows]

I mean, that Bioware in a whole did not value good writing and engaging stories any longer was pretty obvious ever since ME: Andromeda, which was mid at best and already riddled with the marvel-eque "broad appeal" tone plaguing VG a hundredfold. ME:A pretty much foretold the steady decline of their games' quality in hindsight too and the less there is said about Anthem the better. But yeah, looking back on the past decade, Veilguard being written as ass as it is, kinda was to be expected as Bioware's priorities toward good, coherent storytelling got shortchanged for utter mediocrity and chasing after the coattail of the attention-span challenged mass-audience instead. Shallow, pretty appearance over substance and depth, that is the state of Bioware in 2025, and it will only get worse. Good on Gaider that he recognized it early enough to leave this sinking ship, tbh.

Now that Veilguard is out, this feels like he was trying to warn us.

[sugarbubbleslove]

Bioware didn't think it through.

I swear to god, this game kills me

This game really doesn't like it if you don't like Liara, it's so pathetic.

You can't call out Liara on handing your body over to Cerberus (because, you know, she can't let you go which is so beyond creepy if you weren't friends with her in ME1 - since I left her until after Virmire so no friendship and my Shepard was cordial but nothing else with Liara).

And dear god, the DLC really wanted you to hit that paragon button. I just ignored it and it came up about three, THREE!! times - like, fuck off Bioware, Shepard not comforting the person who handed her body over to Cerberus, has a part of her Armor locked up in a glass cage for display (Like why?!) and didn't even care about the fact that Shepard took a fucking tumble out of the window to stop Liara's hit-man.

Not to mention, if you invited Liara over to the ship and you talk about how you're upset that Kaidan/Ashley doesn't trust you (Which you know, is valid), she says they are short-sighted.

I honestly wanted an option to turn it around on her and remind her that SHE is the one who didn't tell ANYONE about handing Shepard's body to Cerberus.

She didn't tell Tali - considering Tali was shocked that Shepard was still alive and later says that she thought Shepard was undercover the whole time (I'm assuming Shepard gave her the bare bones later and made it clear, nope, she was deader than a doornail. 'Meat and tubes' as Jacob, so wonderfully, put it.)

Even Shepard's MOTHER believed Shepard was undercover and got called out for letting her think Shepard was Dead.

Wrex was just Wrex. He thought Shepard was that much of a badass that she basically had systems that allowed her to be spaced until she pointed out that humans don't exactly have the same system as Wrex therefore, you know, she died.

I'm sorry Liara - but you don't get to call Kaidan shortsighted when YOU were the one who left him out of the loop. YOU don't get to bad mouth Kaidan because YOU didn't tell him anything.

And the funny thing is - I'm pretty sure Liara STILL didn't tell Kaidan during the whatever time (Depending on when you did the DLC - I did it just before I hit Omega 4 Relay then did Arrival after Omega 4 so I'm gonna go with roughly 7 months) between you telling Shepard you handed her body over to Cerberus and her being on house arrest. YOU had plenty of fucking time to open your stupid mouth and TELL Kaidan the truth.

The whole thing reeks, to be honest. I actually felt like Liara and TIM were working together to keep Shepard away from Kaidan.

TIM admits that he lured the Collectors to Horizon, while informing the Alliance that Shepard was going to be on Horizon, knowing Kaidan was on it, spreading rumours that Shepard was working with Cerberus (in order to keep them from getting the Alliance) then proceeds to ask Shepard if she has put her personal business behind her.

Fuck off TIM, Shepard's business is no one but her own.

Then you find out that Liara never bothered to inform Kaidan regarding Shepard and still to this day (As far as I can tell) never told Kaidan the truth about Shepard.

Goddamnit - I seriously want the option to tell Liara to get the fuck off Shepard's ship and get her ass on the Crucible where she won't take up space and she can actually do something useful instead of sitting around in the room.

Miranda's room - BTW, which was actually Shepard's captain quarters on the Normandy SR1. She really wants to destroy all the good memories about that room, doesn't she?

Fuck.

This is the only reason why I keep Garrus alive for ME3, so I can boot Liara out of the party when we hit Palavan moon.

Bioware - you really did not think this series through, that's for sure.