{"id":5831,"date":"2017-11-22T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/310189"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:56:00","slug":"mass-effects-dialog-scenes-were-inspired-by-british-sitcom-extras-says-former-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/mass-effects-dialog-scenes-were-inspired-by-british-sitcom-extras-says-former-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect’s dialog scenes were inspired by British sitcom ‘Extras’, says former dev"},"content":{"rendered":"

BioWare’ original\u00a0Mass Effect\u00a0<\/em>turned 10 this week, and to celebrate the occasion animator Jonathan Cooper took to Twitter<\/a> to share\u00a0some trivia\u00a0about the game’s production\u00a0— including that its iconic over-the-shoulder dialog sequences were directly inspired by the British sitcom ‘Extras’.<\/p>\n

It’s probably the most fun of the “10 fun facts” the animator\u00a0shared, but all are worth a read given that\u00a0Cooper (who now works at Naughty Dog) worked on\u00a0Mass Effect\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Mass Effect 2,\u00a0<\/em>both of which were celebrated for the quality\u00a0of their dialogue-driven narratives\u00a0and the strength of their characters.<\/p>\n

In fact, sometimes it sounds like the characterizations may have been a bit too strong, as Cooper recounts a story about how one actor actually punched another in the jaw while performing (for motion capture) a scene in which the\u00a0Mass Effect\u00a0<\/em>character David Anderson punches the Ambassador Udina character.<\/p>\n

“During this climactic scene of Anderson punching diplomat Udina, cinematic lead Shane Welbourn, (suited up as Anderson), accidentally clocked the Udina actor on the jaw,” wrote Cooper<\/a>.\u00a0“I had to work with the poor chap shortly afterwards and he was less than impressed.”<\/p>\n

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4. The close over-the-shoulder camera style I used for conversations in Mass Effect was inspired primarily by Ricky Gervais’s The Extras. This is not a joke – that entire series was built on awkward, close conversations. pic.twitter.com\/YHHBqnucu7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Cooper (@GameAnim) November 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BioWare’ original\u00a0Mass Effect\u00a0turned 10 this week, and to celebrate the occasion animator Jonathan Cooper took to Twitter to share\u00a0some trivia\u00a0about the game’s production\u00a0— including that its iconic over-the-shoulder dialog sequences were directly inspired by the British sitcom ‘Extras’. It’s probably the most fun of the “10 fun facts” the animator\u00a0shared, but all are worth a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}