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OG Fallout creators wanted the IP when it was up for sale, but Bethesda's $6 million bid was a blowout: "It wouldn't have mattered if they heard our offer or not, because they would have laughed"

"We never even got a chance to make an offer"

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says "realism" complaints are often caused by game worlds breaking their own rules, something his early RPG Arcanum was meticulous about: "Magic and tech don't coexist"

"Realism gets conflated with consistency. A lot"

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains why he's not making more new IPs, and it's partly because he's done "making other people really wealthy with my own creations"

"People who just work on them in a team make more money than I got to even create the IP"

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Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'

Emphasis on "masterpieces."

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'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'

"I'm still making toys and I love them, and they make me happy."

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains why modern games are eating all your storage space, says "the biggest contributor" is art

More than audio, video and optimization

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"Fallout was always seen as a B project": 28 years since the post-apocalyptic RPG launched, its original creators reflect on a long legacy – starting with that very first bomb

On the Radar | Fallout has seen many changes, off-shoots, and failed projects in its time – who knew the end of the world could be so full of life?

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer inconveniently points out that Fallout season 2 is all about New Vegas but 'there's no credit for that, there's no residuals for that'

"In some ways, I think doing narrative in video games is a little akin to doing comic book work."

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Fallout co‑creator leaves retirement to rejoin Xbox's Obsidian Entertainment, fueling speculation about future games — "Don't bother guessing, you're not gonna guess right"

Game designer Tim Cain has rejoined Obsidian Entertainment, leaving retirement to work on a new project.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain rejoins Obsidian, tells everyone to not bother guessing what game he's working on: "You're not gonna guess right"

An RPG legend goes back to a legendary RPG studio

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of 'semi-retirement' and back at Obsidian

Cain? On games?

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Fallout co-creator says fan theories are too often decided by "the most entitled people on the internet" – only IP owners determine what's canon: "They say something, that's canon"

Tim Cain thinks you might be confused

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says canon is 'whatever the owner of the IP says it is' but that's okay because 'the best part of interpretation is you can't be wrong'

Cain used his long-running vlog series to discuss the lines between text, interpretation, and authorial intent.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says "leaving some mystery" and undeveloped lore in games is important so players are keen to play follow-ups and sequels: "If you tell everything, players will want nothing"

"Just leave a little mystery in there. It'll be good for you. People will like it."

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Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn't a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout's co-creator said that isn't either

What's better than a thoughtful analysis of history? How about a vague shrug of the shoulders?

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is behind The Outer Worlds 2's more "mathematical" and "derisive" radio lectures, and it might be because of his YouTube videos: "Wait, why are you asking me to do this?"

Cain also consulted on Obsidian's sequel

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games could learn a lot from '80s games: "They add too many things thinking more of those things make the game better, when really what they do is dilute the game"

Sometimes simple is better

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'

Games are bigger than ever—but are they really better?

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'Do people even go to the main menu anymore in their games?' The Outer Worlds 2's player-roasting main menu was almost sunk by console gamer habits

Power down at night, people.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains the biggest RPG sins, including annoying NPCs, bad exposition, and those terrible escort missions: "'This escort quest will be fun.' They'd be wrong."

Tim Cain has had enough with your boring NPCs

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OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own 'old school Obsidian' evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: 'I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful'

Two big factions, plus endings for siding with one, both, or neither was enough.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's long list of "nitpicky" D&D questions for Wizards of the Coast in 2002 might help explain why Larian wanted to move on from the tabletop license after Baldur's Gate 3

"When anyone ever says, 'Well, this is at DM's discretion,' you have to decide right then what your discretion is"

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices 'have resisted matching inflation' because publishers have been pocketing the 'cost savings' from digital distribution

I always knew it was a capitalist plot.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain remembers buying Super Nintendo games "for $59 in the '90s," but while digital games saved publishers money "those cost savings for digital weren't passed on to consumers"

"That would have been a really expensive game these days"

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Fallout leads debated making the original game 3D like Tomb Raider, but couldn't get "the amount of detail" they wanted – something Bethesda eventually achieved in Fallout 3

It wasn't meant to be for Leonard Boyarsky

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