Greg Zeschuk Interview

CD Projekt’s Tom Ohle has published an interview he did with BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk (his former boss) on the GOG website, and while they primarily discuss MDK2, they do venture into some RPG-related territory.

10. The company has yet to return to a pure action game, despite the fact that MDK2 was very well received by fans and critics. Has BioWare learned any lessons from MDK2?

[GZ] We’ve spent the last few years adding increasing levels of action into our RPGs. Jade Empire had a pretty solid action-based combat system and Mass Effect was a great shooter, as well as a great RPG. We learned a ton from MDK2 and are super proud of the work the team did.

11. As you noted, BioWare has steadily been working on combat in its games Jade Empire and Mass Effect featured real-time combat that has evolved from one product to the next. Have you guys thought about going back to a pure action game?

[GZ] We certainly have been adding more action to our games, but our main focus remains delivering great stories to our fans. If we move back into the action space it will be from a position of delivering a great story from within the context of an action game. This is something we’re extremely passionate about.