BioWare Interview

[GameBanshee News]

The Guardian offers an interview with Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, talking about BioWare in general and Mass Effect.

Last year, however, the developer's interest in portraying the true emotional lives of its characters got it into one of the most depressing videogame scandals of recent times. A Fox News report on Mass Effects's brief, rather prim love scenes (accessible only after developing relationships with key characters), accused the game of providing full-frontal nudity and interactive sex - neither of which are actually possible.

It was a poorly researched hatchet job playing on the muddled fears of an older, technologically uncertain generation.

"More than anything, it was hurtful to the team," says Muzyka. "We're talking about games as art, we're portraying mature relationships with characters you feel a connection to. I mean that's a good thing, isn't it? And to hear these blatantly untrue allegations from people who haven't even played the game… yeah, it was hurtful.

"What we decided was that we'd let the community respond for us. Millions of people are passionate about the game, we let them comment."

[fable]

Oh, my heart bleeds for their suffering! And all Bioware was trying to do was portray "the true emotional lives of its characters" through simple, accurate reporting. They made up nothing, themselves. Those evil moneygrubbing hatchet-job-writing reporters, eager to make a fast buck out of attacking our moneygrubbing, teen-tittilating game elem...I mean, our prim prayer sessions! Yeah!

It's morning, and the smell of hypocrisy from both Bioware and the papers rises above the moors like a fine mist of manure.

[Tricky]

How can anyone write with a hatchet?