Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Yosharian]

How is this guy so insufferable

 

[Grauken]

How is this guy so insufferable

Most of us are, we just haven't uploaded on YouTube yet

 

[0sacred]

Tim abhors storyfaggotry, which isn't surprising because I don't think he could write a compelling story if his life depended on it.

 

[Butter]

Tim abhors storyfaggotry, which isn't surprising because I don't think he could write a compelling story if his life depended on it.

Shame more devs don't play to their strengths.

 

[NecroLord]

Tim abhors storyfaggotry, which isn't surprising because I don't think he could write a compelling story if his life depended on it.

Leave it to Avellone.

 

[Infinitron]

I show all the things in my memorabilia cabinets.

 

[0sacred]

imagine breaking into Tim's place and having to sift through all that garbage

 

[RepHope]

I answer some viewer questions, including:
When in your time of game development have you 'broken the rules'?
If you had to do a non-RPG genre, what would you most like to do? Or, if you had to do a different type of RPG, what would you do different than they usually are?
What are your favorite characters you've seen in games?
What is your take on mundane and grounded settings in games?

Tim would've liked to do a space exploration game with procedural generation.
DAGGERFALL IN SPACE?
Could've been interesting to see.

He also likes Sam and Max as memorable characters. Glados from Portal as well.

Isn’t that Starfield? Someone should ask him if he’s played that game and what he would’ve done differently with it.

 

[NecroLord]

I answer some viewer questions, including:
When in your time of game development have you 'broken the rules'?
If you had to do a non-RPG genre, what would you most like to do? Or, if you had to do a different type of RPG, what would you do different than they usually are?
What are your favorite characters you've seen in games?
What is your take on mundane and grounded settings in games?

Tim would've liked to do a space exploration game with procedural generation.
DAGGERFALL IN SPACE?
Could've been interesting to see.

He also likes Sam and Max as memorable characters. Glados from Portal as well.

Isn’t that Starfield? Someone should ask him if he’s played that game and what he would’ve done differently with it.

Yeah, I was thinking of Starfield as well, but would more than likely not be Tim's kind of game.

 

[Wasteland]

imagine breaking into Tim's place and having to sift through all that garbage

No need to imagine. We can just ask Roguey what it's like

 

[NecroLord]

imagine breaking into Tim's place and having to sift through all that garbage

No need to imagine. We can just ask Roguey what it's like

That would be Josh Sawyer.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about the pros and cons of fast travel in games...and why you probably need to include it in your game.

 

[NecroLord]

I talk about the pros and cons of fast travel in games...and why you probably need to include it in your game.

Teleport spell in Arcanum is a Godsend.
I think it even works when used by a Tech character, though I never mixed tech with magic due to cheese and roleplay.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Fast Travel is 100% decline. Limited, very limited mark and recall (gate) can be ok. Thats the limit though. Abundant Fast Travel and Horse Armour are two easily identifiable points of real serious decline.

 

[NecroLord]

Fast Travel is 100% decline. Limited, very limited mark and recall (gate) can be ok. Thats the limit though. Abundant Fast Travel and Horse Armour are two easily identifiable points of real serious decline.

Mark and Recall were alright.
Also very useful for escaping near death situations.
Also limited the Fast Travel cheese, you could only teleport back to the mark you previously placed on the map.
Been that way since Daggerfall.

 

[Late Bloomer]

A picture from his community tab.

Here is his chocolate blog

Chocolate I Have Known
A collection of chocolate labels since 1993

https://chocolateihaveknown.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/a-chocolate-christmas/

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I think that it depends on the style of open world. But if you have fast travel, at least try to make it diegetic (e.g. Morrowind).

 

[Late Bloomer]

Just watched the video. He had a fairly balanced take. He might but a giant homosexual but he has a real passion for games. He gets quite worked up doing these videos, both in a flamboyant gay sort of way, but also because he really likes talking about games and getting his thoughts out there.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about the contributing factors to the rising costs of making video games.

 

[Roguey]

A question I'd like to see him answer that I wouldn't expect him to just yet is how Troika was able to make Bloodlines for around 5 million but Hardsuit struggled and The Chinese Room continues to struggle to make Bloodlines sequels of lesser scope with tens of millions.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about the most important features of good enemy AI.

 

[Infinitron]

Naming things in games is a really important process and often overlooked. Let's look at it.

 

[Infinitron]

I perform a post mortem of my space game, talking about the pros and cons of the final product, and how I could possibly improve it.

 

[Roguey]

Despite being a Fun Friday video, he dropped a couple of juicy bits.

First item is that he thinks the reason why a lot of games these days have a short shelf life is because the devs don't have fun making them anymore, and that people can naturally tell whether there was passion behind the project. Notes how that even though ToEE is his worst-reviewed game, its fans still see the passion behind it.

Second item is that even though he liked both Fallout 3 and 4, he liked 4 less and thought it was the wrong direction to go in. Meanwhile, he liked New Vegas more than 3 and thought that was the right one. Bethesda's surely not thrilled.

 

[Wesp5]

First item is that he thinks the reason why a lot of games these days have a short shelf life is because the devs don't have fun making them anymore, and that people can naturally tell whether there was passion behind the project.

He is probably right. This would also explain why Deadpool and Wolverine was a huge success and The Marvels and other recent MCU products weren't. Or why Godzilla Minus One was a huge hit compared to the US movies.