So What's Your Story?: BioWare's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

4/21/2009 9:33 PM | 2 Comments | Page 7 of 7

Zeschuk: I would say it's better...

[Laughter]

Muzyka: I'm sure, as an artist who was painting a scene, he didn't want people to focus on one thing. I'm sure they did, because they attacked his work.

Mastrapa: Even centuries later, they attacked the sculpture of David, right? Because of one thing...

Muzyka: He had to paint over some of the stuff in the Sistine Chapel, as well. When I visited the Sistine Chapel, I learned that, after one of the popes who persecuted Michelangelo died, he painted him with some very unflattering features in the lowest reaches of the lower planes. That was an artist who was frustrated at the time with the persecution of the mass media, and the mass media at the time was the Vatican, say, for him.

Mastrapa: So will there be a town crier with a very small package in Dragon Age?

[Laughter]

Zeschuk: "I'm Sean Hannity!"

Muzyka: That would be funny, wouldn't it?

Zeschuk: But, again, I honestly think we're moving past it. There's a Wii in the White House. Curt Schilling retires and he proudly comments on the fact that he's a gamer.

Muzyka: Wouldn't have seen that 10, 20 years ago ... and he's the kind of gamer in genres you wouldn't necessarily expect, MMOs and RPGs.

Zeschuk: With all that, I don't know that there's going to be a follow-up story.

Muzyka: I think that the answer we have is simply to quietly, confidently execute, again, the same kinds of themes that we always have in our games. We'll continue to push the quality in them, and people will want to talk about them again. And I'd hope that they look at the whole picture so that they understand in context how it all fits. Will they? You can't make people do things, but we had a lot of supporters come up and advocate [for us]. I think that's a sign of the times, as well, that more and more people...

Zeschuk: People aren't afraid to take a stand.