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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
News 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.
New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
news Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.
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?'
news 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.
Indie Fallout wiki joins forces with the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, ensuring a bright future for looking up RPG lore uninterrupted by half-page video ads
news UESP, the Independent Fallout Wiki, and their like are a real breath of fresh air on the 2020s internet.
Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'
News Rebecca Heineman, one of Interplay's founders, kept the receipts.
Fallout creator laments the loss of the game's earliest development materials: 'I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it'
News "The amount of stuff that's been lost about Fallout and its early development saddens me," Tim Cain says.
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
news He has some ideas of how real-time Fallout 1 could theoretically work, but says "I would never do it."
Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone
Off the radar Attention is the creativity-killer.
