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 totally different facets 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 quite a lot of totally different questions being requested there,” Cain stated. “Would I need 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 need to make Fallout 5?” No matter he thinks of these respective prospects, Cain was clear that he is not frightened about authority, inventive freedom, and even pay—inside cause, after all. Cain defined that his major motivator, particularly now that he is semi-retired, is his personal curiosity in a mission.
“The ‘TLDW’ is: Each RPG I’ve ever made supplied me one thing new and totally different that obtained me keen on making it,” Cain stated. “It was the sport itself that supplied me one thing attention-grabbing that made me go ‘Ooh, I need to do this, I’ve by no means carried out 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 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 mission he’d needed to pursue, and he left growth earlier than it was accomplished.
“If somebody got here to me and stated, ‘You need to make a Fallout sport?’ My reply is: ‘Properly, what’s new?'” Cain stated of the hypothetical. “I did not even need to make Fallout 2, why would I need to make a brand new Fallout?”
Whereas cash is actually an object for Cain, he defined that the novelty or pleasure of a mission is the factor that will get him by way 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 may 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 just a few new sport initiatives that excite him—up to now he is talked about overcoming that aversion to sequels to proceed engaged on The Outer Worlds 2.