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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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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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The developers of the final 2D Fallout game had no idea their publisher was gasping for air: 'We weren't told anything about Interplay's financial problems'

Fallout Tactics was made at a make-or-break moment for Interplay, a publisher with its fair share of make-or-break moments.

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'God it was gutting' to see the Fallout fanbase response, says Fallout Tactics lead: 'fervent and passionate and often horribly toxic'

"We should have just never looked."

PC Gamer

Iconic Dungeons & Dragons RPG Planescape: Torment was a 'B-Team' project that started life as 3 different games⁠—including a 3D dungeon crawler

Planescape: Torment is a beloved classic of PC gaming, but its beginnings were surprisingly inauspicious.

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The making of Fallout Tactics: 'I sound like I'm down on it now, but I still love what we made'

A green team with huge ambitions—what could possibly go wrong?

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A deep South Fallout sequel with a 'guerilla warfare' vibe was planned, but then Interplay bit the dust

Rasslin' them radscorpions.

PC Gamer

After 20 years of patience and negotiations, RPG veteran Brian Fargo managed to buy back a lost haul of memorabilia from Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and more: 'It was like a very exciting version of Storage Wars'

I would also like a six foot-tall Sarevok poster in my office

PC Gamer

Tim Cain reveals his involvement in the cancellation of Interplay's Fallout 3: 'I don't think it would have been a game you would have liked playing'

All aboard the Cain train for a tale of what might have been.

PC Gamer

Fallout's co-creator was "convinced" the cancelled OG Fallout 3 could've shipped and been "a really good game" in 18 months, but money troubles got in Interplay's way

Fallout Van Buren was coming along cleanly

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How to win friends and irradiate people: The secret Fallout MMO you never knew you needed

We've all got a little Uranium Fever after the Fallout TV show, and I've been satisfying my gaming itch for more in a little-known Fallout MMO. Here's how it went.

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If you want more Fallout in these trying times, have you considered playing Wasteland 3?

It's a short hop from one irradiated hellscape RPG to the other.

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Fallout 5 FAQ: Xbox Game Pass, news, and everything you need to know

Bethesda Game Studios is confirmed to be working on another Fallout, even if it's a long ways away. Here's everything you need to know about Fallout 5.

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Every Fallout game ranked worst to best in 2024

As the Fallout TV show kicks off a renaissance for the series, we rank all the RPGs from Interplay, Bethesda, and Obsidian.

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Ride: Interplay review – perpetual teenage kicks, now with added anger

Forays into psychedelia and world affairs serve the reformed British shoegaze pioneers well on their seventh album

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Fallout creator says the team was unsure about adding one gameplay system that's now a key strategy in all your favorite RPGs

You've got to reverse-pick a pocket or two, but Interplay nearly didn't

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Before Baldur's Gate 3, these games made D&D's Forgotten Realms a fixture on PlayStation

Play Magazine exhumes the best PlayStation games that incorporated one iconic D&D setting over the years

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25 Years Ago, Dungeons and Dragons Video Games Were Saved From Themselves

'Baldur's Gate 3' is the game of the year. That never would have happened if its predecessor hadn't saved a dying genre.

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'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

Creative forces behind series like Fallout, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, and Pillars of Eternity react to Baldur's Gate 3.

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The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3

Defeated the Absolute already? Here are some options for your next adventure.

PC Gamer

Original Fallout co-creator finally explains what made him leave the sequel: 'I made an IP from scratch that nobody believed in except the team, and my reward for that was more crunch'

In his latest vlog, Fallout co-creator Tim Cain sheds some light on his departure from Interplay.

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Fallout was nearly called 'Warriors of the Apocalypse', 'Radstorm', 'Moribund World' and so many other terrible names

"It was a bad name. I said we really need to come up with something better."

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Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals how the legendary RPG got its name

Tim Cain, the creator of Fallout, has detailed how Interplay Entertainment chose a name for the RPG.

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