Ronins radio

I was on this IGN panel, looking at the Microsoft show and what I found incredible about that, being a designer sitting with the press, is that I start to understand how the press think, what they get excited about and what they don’t, and everybody just went for a toilet break when the Battlefield demo came on. I said ‘Where are you going? This is Battlefield for Christ’s sake.’ And they said, ‘There’s nowhere for this to go.’ You know, you’ve already destroyed skyscrapers, destroyed New York, destroyed ships and everything, so what can they do?”

“Hollywood has this problem as well. The most memorable films aren’t the special effects driven films - we’re kind of bored with it - the most memorable films are when they take a character like Batman and make him vulnerable and real and it’s all about his character and why he’s like that. It’s going to be interesting to see what they do with Man of Steel, because it has to be more than special effects. We [the games industry] have to make that leap. I think Hollywood has started to make that leap, especially with television. If Breaking Bad was done 20 years ago it would probably be all about shooting people, but it’s all about the characters and their exploration. We’ve got to make that leap in this industry now,” he continued.