Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[0sacred]

lmao TOW was nominated for BAFTA for its writing.

 

[Modron]

lmao TOW was nominated for BAFTA for its writing.

Probably less 'orrible than the other nominees.

 

[ColonelMace]

The little hands fucked it up for the outer worlds, but, in all honesty, the original idea was good.
To send the player head first in a whacky setting only to progressively reveal how serious the situation actually is, and how every whacky situation was actually to be taken at face value, is an interesting idea. And the setting itself isn't particularly bad.
But the filler writing, and more generally the filler content, required a certain degree of quality for this to properly work.
I don't blame Cain for quitting, nothing's more frustrating than being in no capacity to properly bring an idea to fruition.

 

[Roguey]

lmao TOW was nominated for BAFTA for its writing.

Probably less 'orrible than the other nominees.

NARRATIVE


CONTROL Writing Team - Remedy Entertainment/505 Games


DISCO ELYSIUM Writing Team - ZA/UM/ZA/UM


LIFE IS STRANGE 2 (EPISODES 2-5) Writing Team - Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix


OUTER WILDS Writing Team - Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive


THE OUTER WORLDS Writing Team - Obsidian Entertainment/ Private Division


STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER Aaron Contreras, Matt Michnovetz, Stig Asmussen – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

Disco won. TOW actually did beat DE in the Nebula Awards, revealing the bad tastes of those judges.

 

[0sacred]

Disco won. TOW actually did beat DE in the Nebula Awards, revealing the bad tastes of those judges.

chlamydia vs. herpes, which is better and why

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about how technological advances change jobs, and I give my prediction for AI and its effect on the game industry.

 

[Naraya]

I swear that thumbnails for Tim's videos couldn't be staged to be better:

 

[NecroLord]

Yeah, Tim, just keep on fucking spamming these videos...

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I swear that thumbnails for Tim's videos couldn't be staged to be better:

Man's outsoying Soyer with these.

 

[Infinitron]

I tell the story of my first day at college.

psst...it's really a story about my mom.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

 

[Infinitron]

I present data on my channel, from April 2023 to August 2024.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about the biggest lessons I learned from my games, based on post mortems I wrote after they shipped.

 

[Roguey]

The Tim Cain post-motem - he addressed every problem he had with his games with The Outer Worlds, the most perfected Tim Cain game.

 

[Wasteland]

Too bad we can't skip to the post-mortem about his youtube channel

 

[Gahbreeil]

 

[Infinitron]

Hmmm:

I talk about the rise of romantasy, the combination of romance and fantasy genres, and its effect on other genres, in both books and games.

 

[0sacred]

Romance or romance?

if we're talking about gay Twilight shit, fuck right off plz.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk more about encumbrance, based on the discussions in the comment section of the first video...which you really should watch before watching this one.

 

[Roguey]

Does Tim have a problem with Pillars of Eternity?

I don't really mind either way, but inventory management can get tiring. Looking specifically at Arcanum with its weight and size restrictions, ToEE where you need to use a mod to make identifying scrolls and potions a bit more tolerable. The kind of thing that makes you think "Do I really want to play this again and have to do all this rote activity again?"

 

[0sacred]

who are these decline mongers who'd rather have few items in the game than not being able to carry everything they want?

 

[NecroLord]

Loot hoardism.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Does Tim have a problem with Pillars of Eternity?

I don't really mind either way, but inventory management can get tiring. Looking specifically at Arcanum with its weight and size restrictions, ToEE where you need to use a mod to make identifying scrolls and potions a bit more tolerable. The kind of thing that makes you think "Do I really want to play this again and have to do all this rote activity again?"

I think single-player vs party-based needs a completely different approach to encumberance. Pillars had the right ideato just remove it entirely and allow you to carry all the loot around because diddling around with 6 characters worth of loot is definitely just a bullshit busywork.

 

[Infinitron]

Pillars of Eternity did have an inventory limit option but it was disabled by default.

 

[Roguey]

Pillars of Eternity did have an inventory limit option but it was disabled by default.

Limited in the sense that you couldn't access your stash except at safe locations. You could continue to throw everything in there.