Did anyone read this by chance? It was one of those rare examples of pretty decent game Journalism, you know like probably cause it's an interview! Hehe...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/if...en-james-ohlen-is-correcting-the-balance

I think the title might get missed unless you know who the dude is in BG terms, or have thoughts on SWTOR, or recognized the Irenicus art in the thumbnail. But he offers reflections on the challenges of writing story and it's kinda relevant/topical. Also again, just rare, in a sea of BG3 articles summarizing reddit threads to find a diamond in the rough there. Also ran that campaign where Minsc was introduced before being introduced, so seemed apropos there. Since he gave us the first Boo even, and then how Cam ran with it and then now it's a whole thing! Gotta love that stuff!

It took another article to summarize the first article with a tagline and spicy quote hehe...

"If open-world is the enemy of storytelling, multiplayer is the arch-villain"

https://www.gamesradar.com/star-war...telling-multiplayer-is-the-arch-villain/

But again the second article is just rehashing and summarizing the first, so better to read the actual than that one, though it reminded of how threads work sometimes with their titles and what catches eyes.

Not that I totally agree with some those takes, just thought it was curious. Current Bioware is one of the big bads these days by most reckonings, but hearing from the old timers is always insightful.

To the discussion ongoing, I find on these boards (and on most boards) that its easy to fall in the trap of being dismissive or to wolf pack it into factions. Like this is a place for the most ardent of BG and BG3 fans to come express and debate the finer details, so it can definitely get salty sometimes, but it's still better than steam so we kinda make do as best we can.

Last edited by Black_Elk; 11/10/23 09:38 AM.