With Fallout again on everybody’s minds after the success of the brand new present, the unique sport’s lead developer Tim Cain has been weighing in on completely different elements of the sequence over on his YouTube channel. Whereas Fallout clearly nonetheless means rather a lot to him, Cain did not appear eager to return to the sequence when responding to his viewers’ frequent queries.
“There’s a variety of completely different questions being requested there,” Cain mentioned. “Would I wish to remake Fallout as a 3D sport? Are you asking if I want to make a Fallout offshoot like Fallout: New Vegas is… Do I wish to make Fallout 5?” No matter he thinks of these respective potentialities, Cain was clear that he isn’t frightened about authority, inventive freedom, and even pay—inside motive, in fact. Cain defined that his main motivator, particularly now that he is semi-retired, is his personal curiosity in a undertaking.
“The ‘TLDW’ is: Each RPG I’ve ever made supplied me one thing new and completely different that acquired me fascinated with making it,” Cain mentioned. “It was the sport itself that supplied me one thing fascinating that made me go ‘Ooh, I wish to try this, I’ve by no means finished that.'”
Whereas there are throughlines between his tasks, it is definitely an eclectic unfold: Fallout, The Temple of Elemental Evil, South Park: The Stick of Reality, and The Outer Worlds, to call just a few. Notably, the one direct sequel that Cain has labored on that left pre-production, Fallout 2, was not a undertaking he’d wished to pursue, and he left growth earlier than it was accomplished.
“If somebody got here to me and mentioned, ‘You wish to make a Fallout sport?’ My reply is: ‘Properly, what’s new?'” Cain mentioned of the hypothetical. “I did not even wish to make Fallout 2, why would I wish to make a brand new Fallout?”
Whereas cash is definitely an object for Cain, he defined that the novelty or pleasure of a undertaking is the factor that will get him by the door, Fallout or in any other case: “The very first query out of my mouth is ‘What’s new about it?'”
However whereas it is likely to be exhausting to impress one of many guys who invented Fallout with a brand new thought for Fallout, it does sound like Cain’s contracting on just a few new sport tasks that excite him—prior to now he is talked about overcoming that aversion to sequels to proceed engaged on The Outer Worlds 2.
