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'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation

Cain said he wasn't allowed to save the original Fallout's source code for his own archive, and some of its assets may be lost for good.

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After revealing he was ordered to destroy his copy of Fallout's source code, OG lead Tim Cain says we're losing game history because companies "take authority but not responsibility" for preservation

"I think more companies need to step up and take that responsibility more seriously"

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"I want to give players something new": The Outer Worlds 2 game director says the sequel will have a "darker tone," and I'm all for it

During an interview at SGF 2025, The Outer Worlds 2 game director explained that this sci-fi sequel will have a more serious and somber tone than the original game and I can't wait for it.

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The Outer Worlds 2 game director says its writing has a 'less silly, darker tone' than the first game

People aren't always bad in silly ways. Sometimes they're just bad.

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"The longer the game is, the less likely people are to finish": Fallout creator Tim Cain says 100+ hour RPGs are "deep" and all, but they're also intimidating money pits

"Some people go, 'Why are games costing 150 million, 500 million, a billion?' That's why"

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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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Tim Cain talks about the challenges facing a Fallout remaster: 'How much are we now changing the original Fallout? Is this a quality of life thing or are you making a new game?'

Remastering one of the greatest RPGs of all time sounds like a pretty straightforward proposition, but Cain is here to remind us all that it's not.

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28 years later, Fallout creator wonders if all the effort he put in to scrubbing a minor graphics issue was actually worth it, especially because Diablo "had it in droves and no-one cared"

"I wonder what was lost in Fallout"

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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 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 1 lead Tim Cain says the marketing department wanted him to make it real-time 'because of Diablo,' but he got them to back off when he told them how much it would cost

He has some ideas of how real-time Fallout 1 could theoretically work, but says "I would never do 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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The New Vegas remake of the Fallout 3 that never was just got its first demo, not to be confused with the straight-up remake of the cancelled Fallout 3 or, indeed, Fallout 3

Will the real Fallout 3 please step forward?

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Original Fallout creator says he "pushed" for a happy ending with "cake and balloons" instead of the RPG's downbeat finale

"At the time I was like 'I don't know if people are going to buy this'"

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Fallout lead Tim Cain wonders if "gamers know what they like" and reckons feedback is much better when it's specific and focuses on what you want

Feedback like "stop giving us dumb enemies" doesn't help, Cain argues

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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 co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: 'Companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell'

"Companies make games—and in general, products—that people will buy."

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Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals two playthroughs key to the RPG's history: his low-Int hero named Potato, and a mass-murderer who made them check "the entire game" again

Fallout wouldn't be the same without Potato

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"Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em

Better stock up on Animal Crossing DLC

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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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Fallout's Tim Cain spent 6 years working on defunct MMO WildStar, twice as long as any other game, and thinks that might have something to do with why it failed

"Games had shifted."

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