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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'remote work isn't all sunshine and lollipops' and explains why he's happy to be back in the Obsidian office after 5 years of semi-retirement
"Uncle Tim likes a bagel once a week."
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Fallout lead Tim Cain worked 70+ hours a week for 2 years to make the classic RPG: 'I'm glad things have changed, that was unsustainable—but it was also absolutely amazing'
news "I often drove to work in the dark and drove home in the dark."
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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain boils RPGs down into 9 different types of quests, but warns "more of one thing means less of another"
News Developers only have a finite amount of time to code, so more quests can often mean more bugs.
Original Fallout lead Tim Cain reckons vitriol around games has always been around, but it's 'more hostile' these days: 'I see lot of people arguing past each other, even if that means denying that the other group even exists'
news "People have always had different tastes and they wanted different things."
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'
news Emphasis on "masterpieces."
'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'
News "I'm still making toys and I love them, and they make me happy."
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Nobody can agree what an 'immersive sim' is, but OG Fallout lead Tim Cain has his own definition: 'The very elements that make something an immsim are the ones that I also think make good RPGs'
News Lots of games are immersive, lots of games are simulations, but which ones nail both qualities a la Deus Ex?
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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of 'semi-retirement' and back at Obsidian
News Cain? On games?
