With Fallout again on everybody’s minds after the success of the brand new present, the unique recreation’s lead developer Tim Cain has been weighing in on totally different points of the sequence over on his YouTube channel. Whereas Fallout clearly nonetheless means quite a bit to him, Cain did not appear eager to return to the sequence when responding to his viewers’ frequent queries.
“There’s quite a lot of totally different questions being requested there,” Cain stated. “Would I wish to remake Fallout as a 3D recreation? 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 apprehensive about authority, inventive freedom, and even pay—inside motive, after all. Cain defined that his major 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 totally different that acquired me excited about making it,” Cain stated. “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 achieved that.'”
Whereas there are throughlines between his initiatives, it is actually an eclectic unfold: Fallout, The Temple of Elemental Evil, South Park: The Stick of Fact, and The Outer Worlds, to call a number of. Notably, the one direct sequel that Cain has labored on that left pre-production, Fallout 2, was not a undertaking he’d needed to pursue, and he left growth earlier than it was accomplished.
“If somebody got here to me and stated, ‘You wish to make a Fallout recreation?’ My reply is: ‘Properly, what’s new?'” Cain stated 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 actually an object for Cain, he defined that the novelty or pleasure of a undertaking is the factor that will get him by means of 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 laborious to impress one of many guys who invented Fallout with a brand new thought for Fallout, it does sound like Cain’s contracting on a number of new recreation initiatives that excite him—previously he is talked about overcoming that aversion to sequels to proceed engaged on The Outer Worlds 2.