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Mass Effect 2: Won’t ‘Shy Away’ From Controversy

By Kemuel Stewart ⋅ April 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

masseffect Mass Effect 2: Wont Shy Away From ControversyWell, I did some small title editing there so… it’s really ‘controversial moments’ not controversy, just so that people don’t get it mixed up. Anyway, it seems that Mass Effect 2 is going to retain the ‘dirty boy’ attitude from within the first game.

When being interview by VG247 at GDC, it was revealed that one of BioWare’s co-founders, Ray Muzyka, that they’re promising more “emotionally engaging moments” in Mass Effect 2, which means alot more ‘alien sex’.

“We don’t shy away from emotionally engaging moments. We try to make them contextually appropriate. They’re not gratuitous for the sake of gratuity. We put them in to actually drive an emotional response, but the journey you’ve gone through to get to that point in the game, it has to feel like that is a real point, a real outcome that makes sense to the player to get that point. They’re not there for shock value,” he told VG247.

“If there’s surprise and delight in the emotionally engaging moment then that’s great too, but they have to feel contextually appropriate. We just make games with great stories and characters and, just like in real life, some of the interactions are emotionally charged between some of the characters. There could be all types of different emotions. And even the experience itself, we strive for emotion… We’re not shying away from it.”

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  • kenbeavers
    First of all, the game is rated "M" for a reason. When parents let their kids play these games and then get mad when they see the content, they have no one to be mad at but themselves. I mean it even says on the back why it's rated "M" in the first place. BioWare can't be held responsible for the stupidity of your average parent. Second, sometimes underage kids are being permitted by the cashier to buy these games rated "M" because some jackasses don't bother to ID or ask for a parent's permission to sell to said child. However, that doesn't mean that BioWare should completely filter out the little things that make their games great. No, sex scenes are not necessary, but they ARE realistic. In real life, Shepard just MIGHT pursue a sexual relationship with someone like Miranda Lawson. Why wouldn't he? Anyway, BioWare prides itself in being able to bring emotion to the experience. Developing relationships is not something the player HAS to do, but if they do choose that path, you get sex. Besides, they don't show anything really bad. Kelly dances in some stripper clothing....big deal.....so Miranda straddles Shepard and takes off her top...so what? She was wearing a bra. That's just like the stuff they show on TV these days.... and movies are much much worse. So I think people can ease off of BioWare. It's just a damn video game.
  • joeyjuviyanigmailcom
    The recently released Mass Effect 2 is already gathering huge momentum among gamers all around. This new action role-playing game is the second in the series of Mass Effect. The graphics is really very well applied. I got all the latest updates on this with videos at:
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  • Steve Shepard
    Mass Effect was only "controversial" because somone who had never played the game had heard from someone else who had never played the game that according to someone else who had never played the game's uncle's brother's son the game contained "almost pornographic" sex scenes involving aliens...

    In truth, the few "sex scenes" in the game are hardly anything worth fussing about.
    They are fairly tame at most, and nothing worse than anything commonly seen in movies...
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