[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
I mention Bioware, because Bioware did top-down TB games like BG, and then heavily modified their engine to do a RT FP RPG. Perhaps Bethesda, seeing what Bioware did, and how successfully, may have gotten the idea to try something like that themselves. I can only hope.

I think you may have severely overestimated Bioware's accomplishments. KoTOR was more or less an adaptation of the same engine NWN used. You can tell this, despite their attempts to deny it, because they shared some of the same bugs.