"It was a chance to [put right] everything I'd said that we'd messed up."

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Former BioWare lead designer James Ohlen has revealed there was once a plan to reboot the studio's massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic , and it would have made it more like 2003's single-player RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , had the project been allowed to go ahead.

Speaking to PC Gamer in a wide-ranging interview , Ohlen, who was lead designer on KOTOR as well as Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 and Dragon Age: Origins , said he spent six months in 2015 - four years after Star Wars: The Old Republic was released - compiling a design he referred to as The New Republic.…