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Ashley Bardhan

"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

Elden Ring knight fighting Bayle the dragon.

Violent video games don't create neck spasms and murderers the way so many people seem to assume, but they are undeniably prevalent in the gaming industry. According to Fallout creator Tim Cain, there's an obvious reason for that.  

"If you look at, like, the Steam top 50 or top 100 [most played games]," Cain says in a new YouTube video dissecting the topic of violent RPGs, "you see an awful lot of action, violent-oriented games. The companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell." 

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