Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Yoomazir]

Next video will be about his favorite buttplug and favorite brands of dildos.

 

[Sweeper]

at least Underrail was explicitly mentioned (+1 Rep with normie)

I wish you guys would timestamp what you're referring to, I can't stand the droning of women and homosexual Californian men (it's @6:33 btw).
He mentioned the oddity easter egg... and then proceeded to say nothing about the game.
Did you even play it Tim? DID YA?

 

[Roguey]

He mentioned the oddity easter egg... and then proceeded to say nothing about the game.
Did you even play it Tim? DID YA?

In a previous video he said "If I have to go online to figure out how to spend my level up point or I have to use a spreadsheet to figure it out at that point I'm usually like 'I'm done,'" which describes Underrail.

 

[Sweeper]

"If I have to go online to figure out how to spend my level up point or I have to use a spreadsheet to figure it out at that point I'm usually like 'I'm done,'"

Imagine my shock.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Oh god not the triangles again. Though I kinda liked the system they ended up with in TOW, they've managed to streamline character creation without losing depth. No triangles were neccessary.

 

[Tyranicon]

Not sure if I should be taking this thread seriously anymore.

I mean, I don't. But not sure if I should.

 

[normie]

at least Underrail was explicitly mentioned (+1 Rep with normie)

I wish you guys would timestamp what you're referring to, I can't stand the droning of women and homosexual Californian men (it's @6:33 btw).
He mentioned the oddity easter egg... and then proceeded to say nothing about the game.
Did you even play it Tim? DID YA?

trust me, brüder, I would've elaborated if there'd been more to it than a really quick reference that's impossible to divine anything from, I love any excuse to stan Underrail

the only thing we can maybe be sure of now is that he at the very least played until Junkyard and reached the depots, while I had assumed he got filtered by rathounds coming out of SGS - but then, he could've just googled for references and stumbled upon Underrail's, he's shifty like that!

 

[Sweeper]

he's shifty like that!

 

[Old Hans]

"If I have to go online to figure out how to spend my level up point or I have to use a spreadsheet to figure it out at that point I'm usually like 'I'm done,'"

Imagine my shock.

no numbers, no points, no fun

 

[Alienman]

"If I have to go online to figure out how to spend my level up point or I have to use a spreadsheet to figure it out at that point I'm usually like 'I'm done,'"

Imagine my shock.

I never understood how simple numbers can be so hard. It's like when X-com players expect to always hit at 90%, and then get mad about it when they don't.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Should had picked an example that didn't had a broken RNG to make your point.

Spoiler

inb4 Mordheim: City of the Damned

Anyone who sees PoE's passive tree and is not excited no matter what genre of game it is should be hanged.

 

[Alienman]

Like we don't see it in every X-com like, from the original to nuXcom.

 

[__scribbles__]

I talk about a proposal that I wrote at Troika Games in June 2004 to make a Conan action RPG.

 

[Nano]

Tim likes 'em feral.

 

[Roguey]

Really speaks to the lack of faith publishers had in Troika that they wouldn't fund any of their action RPG pitches after Bloodlines. Didn't even believe a Conan RPG by them would sell huge numbers.

 

[KainenMorden]

Really speaks to the lack of faith publishers had in Troika that they wouldn't fund any of their action RPG pitches after Bloodlines. Didn't even believe a Conan RPG by them would sell huge numbers.

They really had no reason to believe any games by Troika would be big sellers. There were a number of Conan video games before the early 2000s, none of which sold particularly well.

I never played Conan Exiles, I'm just aware of it as a Conan fan and I know it sold incredibly well but I bet that's more because of the type of game it is, it's not an RPG. The Conan titles that came out in the mid to late 2000s were arpgs and didn't sell very well so it wasn't a stretch to think in the early 2000s that a Conan game isn't a sure success.

I also don't think too many arpgs in general sold that well back then anyways though there were many clones, Diablo ruled that market for a long time. From what I know, as I don't play arpgs anymore but have family members that still do, arguably still does.

 

[502]

I discuss Shopping Cart Theory, and how this simple philosophical test can inform how you create motivations for NPCs in your games or how you reward players for quests.

I bet none of you edgelords ever take the shopping cart back, because it's too pozzed or too beta or some fucking made up spastic bullshit.

 

[Butter]

I discuss Shopping Cart Theory, and how this simple philosophical test can inform how you create motivations for NPCs in your games or how you reward players for quests.

I bet none of you edgelords ever take the shopping cart back, because it's too pozzed or too beta or some fucking made up spastic bullshit.

Only niggers don't return the shopping cart.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about how to decide what parts of your IP you should choose to let other people be responsible for during development.

 

[S.torch]

Really speaks to the lack of faith publishers had in Troika that they wouldn't fund any of their action RPG pitches after Bloodlines. Didn't even believe a Conan RPG by them would sell huge numbers.

Was any of these actions RPGs these publishers pushed good thought? I was playing Divine Divinity the other day, old action RPG made by Larian, and everything about the game was comfy except the dumb action combat where you spam click at trash mobs

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Really speaks to the lack of faith publishers had in Troika that they wouldn't fund any of their action RPG pitches after Bloodlines. Didn't even believe a Conan RPG by them would sell huge numbers.

Was any of these actions RPGs these publishers pushed good thought? I was playing Divine Divinity the other day, old action RPG made by Larian, and everything about the game was comfy except the dumb action combat where you spam click at trash mobs

That was the golden age of consoles, PS2 and its battle against XBOX kinda narrowed down the choices for games and gamers. PC gaming took it really hard back then. Most of the classic pc genres were dying, and if it wasn't an MMO, it had to be a diablo like or a shooter. The DD project was kind of a mess, starting as a Dark Eye rpg, then moving into its own thing, and Swen trying to make an Ultima but having to make it more like Diablo to fit into the publishers' demands. Those were weird times... I remember quitting gaming altogether back then.

 

[S.torch]

PC gaming took it really hard back then. Most of the classic pc genres were dying, and if it wasn't an MMO, it had to be a diablo like or a shooter.

Meanwhile japs were in the golden age of jRPGs with final fantasy 7 and turn-based combat. Ironic.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

PC gaming took it really hard back then. Most of the classic pc genres were dying, and if it wasn't an MMO, it had to be a diablo like or a shooter.

Meanwhile japs were in the golden age of jRPGs with final fantasy 7 and turn-based combat. Ironic.

Well arguably it had been since a long time. The SNES had plenty great TB titles. But yeah.

 

[Nano]

I talk about how to decide what parts of your IP you should choose to let other people be responsible for during development.

The gay jokes write themselves. Is he doing this on purpose?

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about how we designed games that somehow predicted future events in our society. TLDW: we were surprised too!