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Recent content by StrongBelwas
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Has seen a lot of complaints online about lore changing/lore drifting. Obviously Fallout, but also things like Star Trek, Dune, for Cain personally it was Conan. Cain doesn't know where he got the term, but he's been using it for years. Cain defines lore drift as any change in established lore...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,735
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
A department missing at most if not all game companies is Research & Development . Very important. It is the 'skunkworks' group that good ideas come out of. Feels like it is how Fallout was created accidentally given the first group was impromptu and thrown together on their own time. R&D is...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,724
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Delegation is unavoidable unless you plan to make the whole game yourself. Some parts are going to have to be done by some other people and you or someone else will have to decide this. Cain has noticed a tendency (which has always been around) for some people to want the authority to make...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,696
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Spoilers, obviously. Cain spitballing as he goes. Cain knows he has said he wouldn't review things multiple times, but a lot of people keep asking, and he's going to link someone else's review in the description he considers better. and agreed a lot with it. Tl;DR, no rambling: He likes it...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,652
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Previous crunch video generated a lot of commentary, people are still commentating it, which reminds Cain of a Crunch related story in college. This story is Cain's first serious experience with crunch. Engineering school, fourth year, Software Engineering class that all the Computer Science...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,644
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
The only thing I can say with confidence without going through the archives is that he thought the humanlike Synth plot in Fallout 4 went over the line of what is acceptable in the setting and it's depiction of robotics, and an overuse of 1950s props that gives the impression of the world ending...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,639
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Huge Mythbusters fan, has been watching Adam Savage's Tested, recommends it. Making this video after watching a video titled Quit Taking It Personally about career advice Savage gave to people who were sending in questions. As Cain watched it, he was noticing things from his own career. First...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,634
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,622
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Todd Howard e-mailed Cain asking if he wanted to go to the premiere, James Altman got Cain connected with the agency providing tickets, Linda Carter's son, really nice guy, met him at the after party. Got a flight and hotel, went down the morning of April 9th. To make things easy on himself he...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,600
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Cain's previous video on XP generated a lot of discussion. Made him decide to do a video just on Skill XP progression. What Cain talks about applies to any kind of progression, could be background based, perk based, skill based, etc. Anything that the character selects that is later on used to...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,591
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Talking about the speed bumps and times he thought about leaving and where he thinks others might have left, will try to keep it positive as he did stay in it. Talked to someone who had been in the industry as long as Cain has and they were both amazed that there were always times where it...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,584
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Replaying first Diablo, will explain why at the end. Thinks it won't make sense otherwise. Game holds up very well for coming from 1996. Very good looking, great music. VO albeit on a limited cast. Very minimal HUD. You can bring up stuff for your character, but most of the time it is a little...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,578
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Put together from about five years of notes. 1991, started making computer tools for GURPS, did them for fun. Send the Star System Generator to Steve Jackson Games and they let him use the license to release, can maybe still find it somewhere if you look. Middle of 1993, Rags to Riches just...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,568
- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Wrote a second book in addition to his unpublished memoirs, actually made prints of this one and sent it to a bunch of people. Moved to California in 1987, bought a house in 1995, soon after that his mom started sending him family photos, knew he was interested in family history and he was...- StrongBelwas
- Post #2,561
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Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel
Very few people know the full details about this, nobody at Bethesda knows about it, most of the Fallout team either doesn't know it or heard it third hand and probably forgot the details. Cain took many notes, some things missing, he will get into that. Back in 1995, development had Fallout had...- StrongBelwas
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- Forum: General RPG Discussion
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