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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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Fallout co-creator has made so many cult favorite RPGs, but he's not turning any of them into franchises for one very good reason: "The problem is the cult part"

Just play Fallout 2 and be grateful

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'

"Sometimes gamers need to put their money where their mouth is."

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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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Dragon Age players think Fallout creator's video about the worst RPG ever made is about The Veilguard, but he says it wasn't targeting anyone unless it "helps you make a better game"

Tim Cain knows what he's talking about

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Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'critique of capitalism was never the point' of the games and if anything they're about how 'war is inevitable given basic human nature'

But he doesn't mind if you take an anti-capitalist message away anyhow.

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Josh Sawyer would head up a new Fallout game if Microsoft asked, but he'd have to do it his way: 'Who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible to explore?'

The head developer of Fallout: New Vegas isn't averse to returning to the series, but he has a few conditions.

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‘Fallout’ Co-Creator Reveals A Peek At RPG Development Players Almost Never Get to See

'The Outer Worlds' director Tim Cain showed off a rare look at the game just one year into development, revealing a little-seen phase of creating a game.

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Fallout creator shares early development footage of The Outer Worlds, says his team managed in 1 year what some devs couldn't do in 4

"Go Team Outer Worlds"

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer is the latest Fallout veteran to outline their specific terms for returning to the iconic RPG series

"With any project, I think it has to do with 'what are we doing?'"

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says Black Isle Studios' stab at Fallout 3 was never going to be made in time: "With the staff we had it would have been at least two years"

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had suggested it would take 18 months

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