BioWare aiming to broaden RPG genre

Critically acclaimed developer, BioWare, has stated they are looking to broaden the role-playing game genre.

While discussing the future of the genre for the company, Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk told SG:

The vision for us is a broadening of the genre. We see a lot of other genres incorporating features of RPGs and in turn RPGs are incorporating features of other genres. There are more action elements, there’s different ways to tell a story, there’s different ways to have characters interact for adventure games, action games, shooters, and that’s exciting to us.

They continued:

It’s actually making a lot of other games more engaging in the same way we could make RPGs more engaging and successful … by incorporating features that are popular in different genres. But we want to bring our core fans along with us on that journey too, so it’s not always easy to get a balance that does both, but we’re striving to do that. We innovate sometimes in new directions that work really well and other times maybe not as well but we’re always open to the feedback and I think that’s the key: be humble and open and truthful with yourself in what things are working. [You have to] recognise that you’re only as good as your next game.

BioWare’s next role-playing game comes in the form of Mass Effect 3, which is currently scheduled for a release on March 6th, 2012.