BioWare Exec "Blown Away" By Support for Mass Effect's FemShep

[JediMB]

The Dead or Alive series spoiled me for animation. No, not for the obvious, their clothing moved and deformed around the bodies of the girls. They didn't use the cheap method of rigging half the dress to one leg and the other half to the other (looking at you Mass Effect). I bet if they put just a teensy bit more work in to it, they could have had the same deformable meshes.

I know the lack of long/animated hair is supposedly a limitation of Unreal Engine 3, so I assume that the lack of nice-looking cloth might be as well.

Regardless, I do wish that the Mass Effect series could have used an in-house engine like most other BioWare games. Going back to previously mentioned hair, it looks terrible in Mass Effect 1/2, but much better in Dragon Age II.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I know the lack of long/animated hair is supposedly a limitation of Unreal Engine 3, so I assume that the lack of nice-looking cloth might be as well.

Regardless, I do wish that the Mass Effect series could have used an in-house engine like most other BioWare games. Going back to previously mentioned hair, it looks terrible in Mass Effect 1/2, but much better in Dragon Age II.

The Unreal engine is capable of pretty amazing feats, the modding community along have shown what it is capable of. Didn't think much of the long hair ingame, just figured it was military regs; keep your hair short and easily manageable.

Never played DA2, DA1 seemed pretty boring to me so I skipped it.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Heartening, but man oh man is Bioware bad at giving reasons for these things. Gamers would be somehow "confused" by the presence of a female player character? Because the concept of choosing the main character's gender in an RPG is so profoundly foreign?

Their constant excuses just get worse and worse. First there was the whole "we haven't done that because Shepard is canonically straight", which was apparently bullshit since they've gone and done it anyway, and now we're being told that the reason they didn't advertise with FemShep is that gamers are too dumb to comprehend the notion of selecting a player character's gender?

Bioware really needs some new people in PR.

 

[silver1881]

This guy is the only one who is surprised. What a bunch of marketing wank.