BioWare - Games in the Post SeXbox Era

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A bit of a tired subject now but MTV Multiplayer has a video interview with the BioWare doctors on handling romances in the "post SeXbox era". They have a transription of one response, so here we go:
Ray Muzyka, General Manager, BioWare: 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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And honestly ... who cares if it *IS* gratuitous? Mass Effect is a M-rated game, intended for adults. The whole thing is just plain foolish.
 
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First thought: "Romances ->leading to an increasing number of female customers/buyers who have been rather overlooked this far by male-dominarted game development".
 
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And honestly ... who cares if it *IS* gratuitous? Mass Effect is a M-rated game, intended for adults. The whole thing is just plain foolish.

*gasps*

But surely games are for kids?! And absolutely nothing like other mature media that happen to target different demographic groups with each release?

And surely we can all agree that the less we expose kids to the fact that adults like to partake in entirely natural and beneficial activities such as sex, while maximising their exposure to mass murder, the better?
 
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*gasps*

But surely games are for kids?! And absolutely nothing like other mature media that happen to target different demographic groups with each release?

And surely we can all agree that the less we expose kids to the fact that adults like to partake in entirely natural and beneficial activities such as sex, while maximising their exposure to mass murder, the better?

Ah, you do know exactly that sex is bad and that the human race wpuld be better of without it. Really, every sane person accepts that fact.
 
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And surely we can all agree that the less we expose kids to the fact that adults like to partake in entirely natural and beneficial activities such as sex, while maximising their exposure to mass murder, the better?

Or, as I like to say ... you can send them to Iraq to get their limbs blown off, but best not show them any digital nipples!
 
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