26 Years Later, BioWare’s Most Influential RPG Is Still Shaping My Life

The year is 2000, and the Millennium Bug panic has just waned. A 13-year-old kid sits in a McDonald’s with a bunch of friends. One of them is wearing a peculiar T-shirt with a logo that, to the kid’s eye, resembles a Native American war bonnet. He asks the friend about it, and the answer will change the rest of his life: “It’s a game. You don’t know about it?” The game was Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn .