Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Infinitron]

Gib monies:

I talk about channel memberships, what levels are available, and why I am adding them.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Gib monies:

It's his reputation to ruin at this point. He honestly lost me months ago.

 

[Infinitron]

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

 

[0sacred]

Tim: hates sarcastic NPC's

Also Tim: let's give the PC in Arcanum lots of snarky shit to say

 

[ds]

"Master" tier??‽ As a programmer Tim should know that context doesn't matter anymore and it needs to be called the "main" tier now unless you are a racist nazi.

 

[Roguey]

Can't really fault him, every video he uploads gets over 100 comments. Imagine making a thread every day that gets hundreds of replies. It's not like here where each video gets a handful of posts in response.

 

[Tyranicon]

Can't really fault him, every video he uploads gets over 100 comments. Imagine making a thread every day that gets hundreds of replies. It's not like here where each video gets a handful of posts in response.

TBF you can't really compare YouTube to some niche RPG forum. Didn't YouTube send him a plaque a while back?

I tried to watch a few of his videos because I respect Tim's legacy, but most of his videos seem unscripted and are just staring at his face as he meanders around the point.

I don't really get why people love watching people talk. It must be that parasocial thing everybody keeps talking about.

 

[Melcar]

Can't really fault him, every video he uploads gets over 100 comments. Imagine making a thread every day that gets hundreds of replies. It's not like here where each video gets a handful of posts in response.

TBF you can't really compare YouTube to some niche RPG forum. Didn't YouTube send him a plaque a while back?

I tried to watch a few of his videos because I respect Tim's legacy, but most of his videos seem unscripted and are just staring at his face as he meanders around the point.

I don't really get why people love watching people talk. It must be that parasocial thing everybody keeps talking about.

I bet most of his core viewers are just old fans from the Interplay days, and they just watch because of nostalgia and for interesting anecdotes. Nothing wrong with that and I doubt you need a script.

 

[0sacred]

I watch Tim's videos because he's an interesting case of someone who used to be respected for seemingly good reasons and whose career took a nosedive later on. It's the same as with other early RPG developers, and the question of wether they were genuinely gifted or if their success was happenstance (due to less competition etc.).

Also Tim embarasses himself regularly in these and that makes it fun to watch. Like a drunk gay uncle at Christmas who feels like he has a lot of wisdom to share.

 

[Butter]

I watch Tim's videos because he's an interesting case of someone who used to be respected for seemingly good reasons and whose career took a nosedive later on. It's the same as with other early RPG developers, and the question of wether they were genuinely gifted or if their success was happenstance (due to less competition etc.).

Also Tim embarasses himself regularly in these and that makes it fun to watch. Like a drunk gay uncle at Christmas who feels like he has a lot of wisdom to share.

Most creative people lose touch with reality as they get older. Metallica thought their fans wanted to hear southern rock in the 90s. Tim thought his fans wanted to play with triangles in the 10s.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

Reminder that the man probably forgot more about making games than most devs ever learned in their lifetimes.
Tim Cain casts a long shadow. When in doubt, sometimes listening to the wisdom of the Elders is good advice. Who knows, he might have some insight you need.
Plus, the man has been through a lot.

I need to remind myself to go through all his videos one day.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

slumdunk

LMAO. Hardly.

Like I said, you can comfort yourself by calling it whatever you want. Create your own safe space to retreat to.

Pong has an impact. It's undeniable.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

I don't really get why people love watching people talk. It must be that parasocial thing everybody keeps talking about.

Sharing history orally is the longest human tradition.

When you said "parasocial" are you sure you're not staring at the mirror bibanicon?

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about some old (early 2000s) ideas I had for a fantasy game. These ideas that are not detailed enough to form an IP, but they would be useful to explore in a brainstorming session.

 

[Nano]

The political message of Pong is if you don't have quick reflexes, you'll die.

 

[0sacred]

Tim is stealing ideas from Lionheart - Legacy of the Crusader (killing monsters gives souls which power mana). Or wait, wasn't that Diablo?

Crafting from souls, let alone different types of souls, sounds horrible.

More Diablo crap like item sets and bad ideas like set related quests.

Areas closed off until quests are done was in Arcanum (Shrouded Hills bridge, Elven settlement).

Can't resist the urge to go to Castle Evil if you're evil?

tl;dr all his ideas are terrible. We need transcripts of actual Troika brainstorming sessions to see who came up with which ideas.

 

[processdaemon]

I think Tim seems like a nice dude and I enjoy watching his videos when they're on topics that interest me. I'm not interested in interacting with him so there's no point in me getting a membership but if people are that keen to have him answer their questions he might as well monetize it.

 

[Infinitron]

I found a PowerPoint that I had made in mid-1999 to present at the GDC 1999 Roadtrip Conference in Austin, TX. I never gave this presentation, so here it is, a time capsule from 25 years ago.

 

[FreshCorpse]

He's on track to be more financially successful as a youtuber than he ever was as an actual game developer

 

[Roguey]

Tim's predictions about the future of RPGs were way off.

 

[0sacred]

Tim's predictions about the future of RPGs were way off.

if :fabulously optimistic: was a vibe