It will take rather a lot to get OG Fallout lead Tim Cain to return to the collection: ‘The very first query out of my mouth is ‘What’s new about it?”

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 elements of the collection over on his YouTube channel. Whereas Fallout clearly nonetheless means rather a lot to him, Cain did not appear eager to return to the collection when responding to his viewers’ frequent queries.

“There’s a number of totally 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 is not nervous about authority, inventive freedom, and even pay⁠—inside motive, after all. Cain defined that his main motivator, particularly now that he is semi-retired, is his personal curiosity in a challenge.

“The ‘TLDW’ is: Each RPG I’ve ever made supplied me one thing new and totally different that obtained me concerned about making it,” Cain mentioned. “It was the sport itself that supplied me one thing attention-grabbing that made me go ‘Ooh, I wish to do this, I’ve by no means achieved that.'”

Whereas there are throughlines between his tasks, it is actually an eclectic unfold: Fallout, The Temple of Elemental Evil, South Park: The Stick of Reality, 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 challenge he’d wished to pursue, and he left improvement 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 actually an object for Cain, he defined that the novelty or pleasure of a challenge 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 is likely to be onerous 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 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.