James Ohlen was lead designer on Baldur’s Gate 2 and worked at role-playing game powerhouse BioWare for over 22 years. He left in 2018 to cofound his own studio, Archetype Entertainment, and work on a new sci-fi RPG Exodus that people can’t help but keep comparing to Mass Effect . But he left his new studio before the game shipped under mysterious circumstances last year. He now says the experience “nearly killed me.” “As a creative you care about everything so much, and then as the head of the studio, you have to be cutting the baby in half all the time, and having people attack your vision constantly,” he said in a new wide-ranging interview with PC Gamer . “I definitely wouldn’t put myself in that situation again; that’s not a healthy place to be.” Exodus is an ambitious RPG shooter where time dilation effects let you see the consequences of your actions play out across different worlds over the course of centuries. It also involves Matthew McConaughey , for some reason.…