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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had a "10-year period where I didn't do anything but make games," to the point where he asked a co-worker if Britney Spears was a "new weapon" in their RPG

"Dude, get out more"

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What does OG Fallout's co-creator want to see in the series? An 'actual good faction, like 100% good'

Check out ol' goody four-shoes over here (he's mutated by radiation).

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says the one thing he'd like to see from the series moving forward is an "actual good faction": "Fallout trains you that everything's gray"

"Almost every other faction we've seen in Fallout has either been a mix – which I like, I like gray factions – or just pure evil"

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain acknowledges Bethesda made the franchise bigger, but he would have done things differently: "Did they expand it the way I would have? No, not at all, that's OK"

Bigger isn't always better

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"I don't think there's such a thing as a good game": Fallout's Tim Cain says "the same people will complain" about a game with bad reviews while praising a game with good reviews even if they have the "exact same problem"

It happens

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Obsidian is not screwing around with The Outer Worlds 2's Fallout New Vegas comparisons: "The critical path is maybe 10 or 15% of the total content"

With the first game, Obsidian was quick to stress "this isn't New Vegas in space"

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Fallout creator Tim Cain does the impossible, makes me shift my opinion on respecs just a little bit, because fine, I guess it does sometimes turn bad design 'into a player problem'

Darnit.

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The Outer Worlds 2 was helped along by Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, but Obsidian is switching up RPG history by going "much bigger and deeper" with its sequel

"The Outer Worlds 2 delivers on the fantasy we had when we started the first game"

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It sounds like all the pieces are in place for one of the most underrated RPG greats—from the creators of Fallout⁠, no less—to get the remaster it deserves, but good luck getting someone to make it happen

Manifesting Arcanum Enhanced Edition.

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Fallout creator Tim Cain says players misunderstand the series' signature "gray morality" and he'd love to make a sequel that truly explores the main theme: "Power corrupts"

"There's people who think there's a solution. There isn't."

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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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