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43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland knew Baldur's Gate "could be huge" decades before Larian's RPG threequel: "You're sitting on something that's going to at least do $50 million"

Brian Fargo foresaw the Dungeons & Dragons adaptation's success

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Fallout "was a sequel" to Wasteland, says Interplay co-founder, and "we did everything we could not to be sued by Electronic Arts" after the devs "had to pivot out" of the follow-up

Brian Fargo says "people don't know the story behind that"

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Fallout's creator went so scorched earth when he was ordered to delete the RPG's source code that he even broke his "personal toy projects" forever because he deleted the Fallout libraries they referenced

"I went so far to destroy it that I destroyed early prototypes and libraries"

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Sorry, 'Fallout' Fans: Remaster Is Unlikely to Happen, According to Creator—Here's Why

Fallout creator, Tim Cain, has revealed his reason why a remaster of the original game is unlikely.

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Legendary programmer credited with saving "lost" Fallout source code confirms it was never lost in the first place: "If I do get permission from Bethesda to release the source code, I will do so"

"There's at least five people that have it"

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Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'

Rebecca Heineman, one of Interplay's founders, kept the receipts.

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Fallout creator laments the loss of the game's earliest development materials: 'I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it'

"The amount of stuff that's been lost about Fallout and its early development saddens me," Tim Cain says.

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Fallout creator Tim Cain says he was "ordered to destroy" his personal archive of the RPG's development: "Individuals and organizations actively work against preservation"

"There's a lot of organizations out there that demand to be the archive keeper, and then they do a terrible job at it"

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Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone

Attention is the creativity-killer.

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30 Years Later, A Legendary RPG Maker Stands At A Dangerous Crossroads

Founded in 1995, BioWare created some of the best RPGs ever before falling on hard times. Here's where the legendary studio stands 30 years on.

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OG Fallout lead Tim Cain dusts off a trove of old development photos dating back to 1994 to show 'what development looked like in the '90s'

We've got team photos, candids, and even the physical 3D models used to make Fallout's "talking heads."

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Fallout's original designer is fine with the direction of the modern games: 'They're both what they are, and a ton of people like it'

"I'm the last person to want to yuck other people's yums."

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Years before Fallout 76, the RPG's co-creator had doubts about making a Fallout MMO because it "wasn't designed to have other players"

There can't be 1,000 Lone Wanderers

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'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO

Long before Fallout 76, we almost had Fallout Online, but Cain had serious doubts.

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OG Fallout lead Tim Cain explains just how much thought went into the timeline, and why canned beans were key: 'Post-apocalypse, but not so far post- that everything's collapsed and everyone's dead'

"We wanted it to be blank slate tabula rasa, the player and the character don't know what they're getting into."

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The developers of the final 2D Fallout game had no idea their publisher was gasping for air: 'We weren't told anything about Interplay's financial problems'

Fallout Tactics was made at a make-or-break moment for Interplay, a publisher with its fair share of make-or-break moments.

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'God it was gutting' to see the Fallout fanbase response, says Fallout Tactics lead: 'fervent and passionate and often horribly toxic'

"We should have just never looked."

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Iconic Dungeons & Dragons RPG Planescape: Torment was a 'B-Team' project that started life as 3 different games⁠—including a 3D dungeon crawler

Planescape: Torment is a beloved classic of PC gaming, but its beginnings were surprisingly inauspicious.

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The making of Fallout Tactics: 'I sound like I'm down on it now, but I still love what we made'

A green team with huge ambitions—what could possibly go wrong?

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A deep South Fallout sequel with a 'guerilla warfare' vibe was planned, but then Interplay bit the dust

Rasslin' them radscorpions.

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After 20 years of patience and negotiations, RPG veteran Brian Fargo managed to buy back a lost haul of memorabilia from Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and more: 'It was like a very exciting version of Storage Wars'

I would also like a six foot-tall Sarevok poster in my office

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Tim Cain reveals his involvement in the cancellation of Interplay's Fallout 3: 'I don't think it would have been a game you would have liked playing'

All aboard the Cain train for a tale of what might have been.

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Fallout's co-creator was "convinced" the cancelled OG Fallout 3 could've shipped and been "a really good game" in 18 months, but money troubles got in Interplay's way

Fallout Van Buren was coming along cleanly

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How to win friends and irradiate people: The secret Fallout MMO you never knew you needed

We've all got a little Uranium Fever after the Fallout TV show, and I've been satisfying my gaming itch for more in a little-known Fallout MMO. Here's how it went.

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If you want more Fallout in these trying times, have you considered playing Wasteland 3?

It's a short hop from one irradiated hellscape RPG to the other.

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