I enjoyed this interview quite a bit, guys. Would love to see more of this kind of thing -- really insightful, personal interviews outside of the PR cycle.

very interesting, thanks a lot!

@Agnitio:

Thanks for reading. We have to take what we can get, Agnitio. The only way the talk with Haden was ever going to happen was if Adam Kahn was present. Otherwise, no talk. My guess is this will be status quo for future dinners. Most publishers/developers keep their people on short leashes, in the name of never divulging too much.

I can promise you this: If we do ever find ourselves in a situation where the leash is too short, and we're getting nothing but the bullshit party line, we'll wave off the dinner and go home.

Are there a few more things that I wish Haden would have addressed? Of course. But I think Victor and Narcisse would agree: We got far, far more than we ever thought we would.

This is a really great feature series, because the interview format really allows the kind of insights into the process that the usual dev diaries and even some blog interviews can't quite match. About the only thing that really compares might be those in-game "commentary levels" that they've been including with the Valve games. Those are great.

Why are hard-core gamers always so harsh on the prequels? To say that TFU was better than all three prequels combined is ridiculous and shows that many, many subtleties were ignored in that assessment. TFU is as great as any other canonical property, which says a lot for a game being held up to classic film standards.

One aside: Why do people never get that the "sand line" in Episode II refers back to Anakin's having grown up on Tatooine? That's the blanket of the whole conversation as he tries to broach romance. It's meant to be awkward, but as illustrated in this article, people seem to gloss over and not connect it to the character's background.

All that said, great interview! I loved TFU, and reading this conversational-style discussion with Blackman really drives home how much work and passion went into this amazing project! Thank you so much!