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BioWare's Ray and Greg on Video Game Romance |
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Posted on Monday, March 10 at 4:50 PM GMT -6
MTV Multiplayer has uploaded a video interview they did with BioWare's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk at this year's GDC about implementing romances into their video games following the ridiculous "SeXbox" controversy. An excerpt from Ray's response:
We’re proud of the mature plots that we build into our games. They’re really appropriate for the type of story we’re trying to convey. And romance is part of that. It’s part of life. It’s part of an interaction — a healthy relationship with other people. But it’s optional, too. You don’t have to have romances in “Mass Effect” or in our prior games, but they’re available to you if you want and if you want to progress that part of the storyline. But they’re very tasteful, very appropriate. And they’re certainly appropriate for the level of rating, which, in “Mass Effect”’s case was mature.
And I think we’re going to continue doing those things. As an artform it’s exciting that people are actually reacting — they’re feeling something as a result of seeing these kinds of mature plots developing in games now as an emerging artform. The same kind of things happened at the start of movies. The same kinds of things happened at the start television and the advent of television and music, even paintings and books going way, way, way back. The same kinds of reactions — people were scandalized by certain things [and saying] “How can they be?” A lot of it is understanding how it can be appropriate and really not gratuitous at all. Just really appropriate and making the gameplay much better. We’re very proud of the work we’ve put in and our teams are amazing.
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