You can thank FF7 scaring Baldur’s Gate 2’s director ‘S***less’ for every RPG since

But BG2 didn’t emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged thatwhile we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs sincewe have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That’d be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game’s structure and companions, per Trent Osterwho worked on the original Baldur’s Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.