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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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Original Fallout lead Tim Cain says the team planned for there to be 1000 Vaults, but he thinks there are actually far fewer in the setting

"The conclusion here is Vault Tec: They didn't build all 1,000 Vaults, they didn't even come close."

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It would take a lot to get OG Fallout lead Tim Cain to return to the series: 'The very first question out of my mouth is 'What's new about it?''

"I'm not even interested unless there's something new and different there."

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Fallout creator Tim Cain says no amount of money or authority would get him to return to the RPG series, but he'd consider it under one condition

"I didn't even want to make Fallout 2"

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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.

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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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After Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Tim Cain worked up a proposal for a Troika RPG based on Conan

If there's anyone I'd trust to helm a Conan game it's Big Daddy Cain.

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Fallout co-creator weighs in on the TV show's lore controversies and says maybe the games are wrong

Overall, Tim Cain says "I liked it and I can't wait for a season 2"

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OG Fallout lead Tim Cain defends the show's lore changes in a glowing full review⁠⁠—'Not that it matters, I'm not in charge of this anymore⁠, and neither are you'

"Lore drift is inevitable in big IPs."

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Original Fallout lead Tim Cain loves the new show, but remains baffled by how 'destructive' fans can act toward 'people who are trying to create things'

"I was just looking at all the props. I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it visually."

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7 big ways the Fallout show adds new lore to the Fallout universe

Spoiler alert: the show has some pretty huge implications for Fallout, both past and future.

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Fallout’s finale may have just answered the centuries-old mystery behind who started the nuclear apocalypse

The Prime Video series offers up its own potential beginning

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Fallout's co-creator picks 5 RPGs everyone should learn from, including Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Skyrim

Tim Cain picks out different reasons every game developer should learn from these five RPGs

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