As for whether another Obsidian Fallout could happen, he won't say.
  • Veraxus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Fallout was created by Tim Cain at Interplay. Herve Caen staged a hostile takeover of the company, forced out Cain and Brian Fargo, and proceeded to run the company into the ground and loot its corpse. Tim Cain was in the process of buying back IP from Interplay when Todd Howard swooped in and bought it for more than Cain could afford. Basically, Tim Cain had his baby - his magnum opus - stolen from him TWICE.

    If not for Bethesda, we would have had multiple BG3 level sequels by now, instead of the looter-shooter garbage that Bethesda turned it into.

    • massive_bereavement@kbin.social
      19·
      1 year ago

      But then, we wouldn’t have VtM: Bloodlines, Pillars of Eternity or The Outer Worlds.

      Tim Cain has been hitting it out of the park since the first Fallout.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes. Outer Wilds was good, although the combat was a bit bullet spongy at times. The writing and direction was on point. Funny to read that the “Spacer’s Choice” edition introduced graphical bugginess - Tim’s got jokes.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t get this. Sounds like Tim Cain is a shit business and you’re blaming the person who had nothing to do with the company going under.

      Another thing I don’t get, you think bathesda fallout is “garbage”? Really? Why is it every game is either a 10/10 or hot garbage? Why is there no in between? Why can’t you admit it’s just not for you? Fallout 1 and 2 weren’t for me, I didn’t like them. But I like bathesda fallout. It doesn’t mean I can 1 and 2 “garbage”. Fallout 3 and 4 gave across the board good reviews and millions of sales, clearly many people don’t think it’s garbage.