Tim Cain creating "Cain on Games" videos

[Vergil]

Can't help but notice how much more love he has for Arcanum than Fallout. Just a bit of armchair psychology, but I'm going to guess it's because he feels like Fallout was ripped away from him & taken in a much different direction, and he either owns the Arcanum IP or it's completely dead so it doesn't matter.

Pretty sure he doesn't own Arcanum. He made a video about how he updated Arcanum as a Windows 10 app (idk what this means) but he can't release it due to ownership issues.

[rusty_shackleford]

Can't help but notice how much more love he has for Arcanum than Fallout. Just a bit of armchair psychology, but I'm going to guess it's because he feels like Fallout was ripped away from him & taken in a much different direction, and he either owns the Arcanum IP or it's completely dead so it doesn't matter.

Pretty sure he doesn't own Arcanum. He made a video about how he updated Arcanum as a Windows 10 app (idk what this means) but he can't release it due to ownership issues.

Apparently Microsoft owns it after acquiring Acti-Blizz.
I default to my second part of it being a dead series therefore it hasn't been trampled on.

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God I hope they don't make a new Arcanum game.

[Vergil]

I think he probably doesn't focus on Fallout due to fatigue with it honestly. He's been the "creator of Fallout" for decades now. It probably gets a little old answering questions about it. The fact it is a series that became highly popular long after he stopped having anything to do with it probably does help his antipathy towards it though.

[rusty_shackleford]

Also get the feeling that the only reason he holds a lot of his viewpoints is because he's a butt pirate. Strikes me as someone who would be a moderate/centrist if he had a wife.
e.g.,

[traxtan]

Can't help but notice how much more love he has for Arcanum than Fallout. Just a bit of armchair psychology, but I'm going to guess it's because he feels like Fallout was ripped away from him & taken in a much different direction, and he either owns the Arcanum IP or it's completely dead so it doesn't matter.

Pretty sure he doesn't own Arcanum. He made a video about how he updated Arcanum as a Windows 10 app (idk what this means) but he can't release it due to ownership issues.

Probably has the original compilation tools and the source code at home to patch it. But he can't release it because he doesn't own the code or the IP.

[Humbaba]

The requirement that players must see all the content because it took time/money to develop it is why so many RPGs suck now. Larian not doing this is why so many people enjoyed their games. The more unique you make someone's playthru, the more the character feels like them rather than just playing the same story as everyone else with different skills.

BG3 has no replayability.

If it's a skill 99% of the playerbase would beeline, it's a **** idea.

Exactly. Companions mean more content, more damage in combat etc. It would've been a no brainer skill to take, limiting build variety outside of challenge or gimmick builds.

A lot of players don't like playing with companions

So don't take any. Not like automatic companion eligibility forces you to bring em along.

[rusty_shackleford]

Weird, I got a notification but all I see is a white square.

[Humbaba]

I do love my custom tag btw, it clearly marks me as someone important, if not the single most important, influential and prolific poster on this site

[NotAI]

"BG3 has no replayability."

Depends how much of a min maxer of a player you are...I did pretty much everything interesting first time through.

Gothic 2 is probably the standard on replayable because you cannot be both warrior and mage once through.

[Humbaba]

Depends how much of a min maxer of a player you are...I did pretty much everything interesting first time through.

It's more about there not being any meaningful branching paths. You cannot side with the droods in the grove for example and while you can side with the goblins (for whatever reason, no good one is ever presented), that branch very quickly converges at the beginning of act 2. There are no meaningful choices in the underdark and act 3 has a lot to do but the only differences you get is who joins you in the final battle, which I think isn't really that impactful. I guess we shouldn't expect too much from a game that's unfinished crowdfund slop.

[rusty_shackleford]

the fact that humbaba didn't even think why the NPCs in the tower would have names if you kill them is funny

[Humbaba]

the fact that humbaba didn't even think why the NPCs in the tower would have names if you kill them is funny

Strawman Andy over here making things up like the lob he is.

[rusty_shackleford]

his video about being upset people don't want to hear he's a butt pirate — obviously after he had a girly meltdown crying — reminded me of a very good post made by a person I like very much!

Please understand,
It is your choice to be openly gay. My disgust and anger at it is involuntary. You are the one being insensitive.
:weeb:

[rusty_shackleford]

@Roguey what was the original video about

[rusty_shackleford]

now convinced he's one of those annoying manipulative people tbh

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

his video about being upset people don't want to hear he's a butt pirate — obviously after he had a girly meltdown crying — reminded me of a very good post made by a person I like very much!

Please understand,
It is your choice to be openly gay. My disgust and anger at it is involuntary. You are the one being insensitive.
:weeb:

I don’t understand why he gets upset that people don’t want to hear about his butt pirate when it’s a channel focused on game development for RPG’s. Like no **** people are going to get annoyed by such an off topic subjects .

Also I didn’t even know that Tim Cain was gay.

[maidenhaver]

now convinced he's one of those annoying manipulative people tbh

All homos are scummy people. The temp first mate on this boat is one of them. Yep, **** should be rounded up and stuffed in a woodchipper.

[rusty_shackleford]

his video about being upset people don't want to hear he's a butt pirate — obviously after he had a girly meltdown crying — reminded me of a very good post made by a person I like very much!

Please understand,
It is your choice to be openly gay. My disgust and anger at it is involuntary. You are the one being insensitive.
:weeb:

I don’t understand why he gets upset that people don’t want to hear about his butt pirate when it’s a channel focused on game development for RPG’s. Like no **** people are going to get annoyed by such an off topic subjects .

Also I didn’t even know that Tim Cain was gay.

sexual deviants go five minutes without telling everyone about their sexual proclivities challenge (impossible)

[Humbaba]

Haha Tim Cain is gay

[Roguey]

I found "what it's like to be a gay game developer" to be rather informative.

@Roguey what was the original video about

He goes into it in the video itself, he never actually posted it. It was one about all the lies other game developers have told about him and he decided not to post it because it was too negative. Timbo's one of those gay guys who wants everyone to like him, this is why he gets so huffy when people tell him to stop talking about being gay.

[maidenhaver]

Time Gayn

[rusty_shackleford]

Listening to a couple more videos and I can't help but think about Underrail anytime he mentions all the various positions for making a game. There are plenty of very good indie games made by one person or a very small team.

He talks about how Arcanum was made by such a "small team", yet it is undeniably the best game he actually worked on from start to finish. No, I won't accept your Fallout cope.
Arcanum was made with a fraction of the budget, manpower(OK, well, maybe the same manpower), time, etc., as Outer Turds. Arcanum was also a moonshot project, whereas Outer Kurds was purposely kept ""limited"" in scope.

Don't even give me the "it sold way more copies!", If Outer Nerds didn't have Obsidian's name attached to it, "Made by the creator of Fallout", etc., it would have sold maybe 1/5th as many copies as it did. And that's not even accounting for how different the market was.


Game development seems to have extreme diminishing returns past ~15 people, and heck it might be closer to ~10 now, that number will keep shrinking as tooling, asset store, AI, etc., improve.
Yet we have big publishers paying ******* to make AA games on AAA budgets, all subsidized by slop pass

[Vergil]

Don't even give me the "it sold way more copies!", If Outer Nerds didn't have Obsidian's name attached to it, "Made by the creator of Fallout", etc., it would have sold maybe 1/5th as many copies as it did. And that's not even accounting for how different the market was.

There's also just a huge difference in the eras they were made too. Outer Worlds sold more technically but it's like comparing how much money movies have made without considering things like inflation.

[rusty_shackleford]

I don't think he actually understands nobody liked outer hurls. Maybe the setting was OK as a premise before it was taken further, but the writing, the worldbuilding, etc., is just across the board awful.
He described the pitch as "Fallout meets Firefly". Huh?

It's Rick and Morty meets Fallout 4.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

@rusty_shackleford If he is a libtard, why do you care so much about what he has to say?

[rusty_shackleford]

@rusty_shackleford If he is a libtard, why do you care so much about what he has to say?

bored

[Vergil]

He described the pitch as "Fallout meets Firefly". Huh?

Everything I've heard about firefly and everything that's been openly influenced by it makes me think it's gotta be the biggest pile of reddit dogshit on the planet. Ground zero AIDs patient zero type stuff.

[rusty_shackleford]

He described the pitch as "Fallout meets Firefly". Huh?

Everything I've heard about firefly and everything that's been openly influenced by it makes me think it's gotta be the biggest pile of reddit dogshit on the planet. Ground zero AIDs patient zero type stuff.

I saw it praised repeatedly so I watched it, it was just …meh?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

It is grossly overrated, but I did like the aesthetic of their rusty spaceships landing in the wilderness of space California and then cowboys step out to get into gunfights with cool retro guns. It is one of the very few pieces of fantasy visual media with a traditional American aesthetic (in this case, the American frontier). But I remember the story being meh. I did not like the prostitute. The wandering preacher was an appealing idea, but he was written by nonbelievers so the character doesn't stick with the convictions he ostensibly believes. I think part of the reason why the show is overrated is because it did not run long enough for people to become jaded with its flaws, unlike with the other sci fi shows of the time where after 3 or 4 seasons the fans are able to identify flaws and come to a consensus.

[Humbaba]

whereas Outer Kurds was purposely kept ""limited"" in scope.

Why did he pull the kurds into this?