Fallout co-creator wants to make one last game before he retires 'for the second time'
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Tim Cain's considering dipping back into the industry for one last go.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, who is known for… well, co-creating Fallout, has been a font of videogame wisdom on his own personal YouTube channel for the past three years: That time is fast approaching its end, though, as Cain feels like he's coming to the end of both the stories he wanted to share when he began the endeavour.
"I do seem to be winding down on my list of topics," says Cain in his latest. "I wanted to point out, the channel is probably nearing the point where I see it being done. I think I've explained [to] you the game industry as much as I can, I've told all my stories, the fun ones and the not-so-fun ones, and you've heard it all."
Those stories include how he got hired at Interplay because of his mastery of THAC0, the ill-fated Interplay version of Fallout 3, and the company in-fighting that plagued Wildstar. But he's also shared plenty of his own personal developer wisdom: How to follow the adage 'less is more' and, most importantly, actually changing my opinion on RPG respecs a little.
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The thing that raises my eyebrows, though, is the revelation that Tim Cain might be going in for one last hurrah before he retires properly: "I think I am gonna make one more game before I retire again for the second time, but who knows."
As for what that is? Probably not another Fallout game, or any other of Cain's classic RPGs, for that matter. Back in January, Cain described himself as being "over making other people really wealthy with my own creations". He also doesn't seem all that enthused about creating a whole new IP, either.
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Chances are he'll keep doing what he's been doing since he came out of semi-retirement, lending a hand at Obsidian. Previously, Cain had been offering more limited aid to games like The Outer Worlds 2.
While I'm a little sad for the list of very good games his aversion to treading old ground crosses off the list—Cain's worked on not just Fallout, but also Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines and Pillars of Eternity (though if he's still at Obsidian, some Pillars-adjacent thing is still in the running). I'm sure whatever he lends his hand to next is bound to be just as solid.
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In regards to his channel? "I think the chance of there being a 4th anniversary video is small." He doesn't write it off as a possibility, but there might be a day in which he passes the torch on to other developers-turned-YouTube sages before this time next year.
