Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Russia is over. The end.]

Due to the war I can no longer accept PayPal donations, but you can buy me Turkish giftcards here:

[email info redacted, can be found here]

If enough people show support, I may get around to releasing the combat overhaul patch I'd been working on before my health started declining (I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder). And now with the war added to the mix, I'm in a pretty bad spot.

I'm very sad Drog is doing poorly. Can he prove his illness and the costs of treatment to the admins, and then can we do a crowdfunding campaign like we did for that guy with the kidney?
Infinitron v1c70r14 DarkUnderlord

 

[0sacred]

dunno about Turkish gift cards, I could just buy it some baklava instead

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

INB4 Tim Cain fired from the Outer Worlds 2 for making the White Power hand gesture.

EDIT:

Never tell me the odds

 

[Infinitron]

Despite not being a game artist, I have watched the challenges they have faced over the course of many decades and many projects, and I talk about those challenges in this video.

 

[NecroLord]

Damn.
Tim is fucking cranking out videos like crazy.
Once he runs out of topics to discuss about, what will he do? Twitch streams?

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Anyone still watching? I lost interest.

 

[0sacred]

Anyone still watching? I lost interest.

I thought the "advice to designers" one would be interesting, but it was really low IQ stuff, so I quickly zoned out. Maybe NoMoneyNoFameNoDame should watch these

 

[Roguey]

Tim passive aggressively defending The Outer Worlds again.

It has some of the most garish colors of all time (of course Tim wouldn't understand this). The women aren't appealing to look upon (of course Tim wouldn't understand this either) though the cg movie that opens Murder on Eridanos and the poster art created for it clearly show they know what attractive women look like. Otherwise I have no complaints.

Fallout, ToEE, and Bloodlines all look good. Arcanum looks like crap. Wildstar does not personally appeal to me, but I'm not the target audience, and I think it looks fine for what it's trying to be.

 

[NecroLord]

Tim passive aggressively defending The Outer Worlds again.

It has some of the most garish colors of all time (of course Tim wouldn't understand this). The women aren't appealing to look upon (of course Tim wouldn't understand this either) though the cg movie that opens Murder on Eridanos and the poster art created for it clearly show they know what attractive women look like. Otherwise I have no complaints.

Fallout, ToEE, and Bloodlines all look good. Arcanum looks like crap. Wildstar does not personally appeal to me, but I'm not the target audience, and I think it looks fine for what it's trying to be.

Outer Worlds is truly shit.
But Tim defends it fervently because, you know...

 

[Maxie]

Tim passive aggressively defending The Outer Worlds again.

It has some of the most garish colors of all time (of course Tim wouldn't understand this). The women aren't appealing to look upon (of course Tim wouldn't understand this either) though the cg movie that opens Murder on Eridanos and the poster art created for it clearly show they know what attractive women look like. Otherwise I have no complaints.

Fallout, ToEE, and Bloodlines all look good. Arcanum looks like crap. Wildstar does not personally appeal to me, but I'm not the target audience, and I think it looks fine for what it's trying to be.

wow if only he asked someone trustworthy to set a realistic color palette and to make the girls cute
yknow like bojarski did in vampire..

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Imagine if instead of Cain, Boyarski and Anderson, it was Maxie , @sheep and warpig who started an RPG company in mid 90s Krakow, and made a legendary RPG called Sniffout.

 

[Roguey]

wow if only he asked someone trustworthy to set a realistic color palette and to make the girls cute
yknow like bojarski did in vampire..

Well, as Tim revealed just a few days ago, there was one woman who was pretty passionate about making that happen and Leonard told her to pound sand.

 

[Butter]

Leonard was buck broken by his time on Diablo 3. He has lived long enough to see himself become the villain.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Pretty sure Felix in Outer Worlds is a Leonard self-insert.

 

[Riddler]

Leonard was buck broken by his time on Diablo 3. He has lived long enough to see himself become the villain.

More like he was buck broken by being ground into paste being the CEO for Troika.

Diablo seemed like a no effort meal ticket he got for being friends with some people at blizzard.

 

[d1nolore]

Why do you guys dislike TOW so much?

 

[KIss My Ass]

Why do you guys dislike TOW so much?

There's only a 8k post thread describing why -

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...i-rpg-set-in-a-corporate-space-colony.130421/

 

[Modron]

Why do you guys dislike TOW so much?

Because it was average at best when we were hoping for at least decent to good for what it was.

 

[Broseph]

The only thing memorable about TOW is that virtually all of the female characters looked like lesbians. Gameplay was unremarkable, not terrible but not especially good either.

 

[d1nolore]

What were the key things or systems that were a letdown?

I’ve not played it yet.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Because of the pedigree of the developers, everyone was expecting something like Fallout 1/2, Bloodlines, Fallout: New Vegas. Instead we got some bland dull soulless mediocrity.

 

[Riddler]

What were the key things or systems that were a letdown?

I’ve not played it yet.

Nothing was actually good. Things weren't egregiously bad (except the some of the colours, holy shit!) either but *something* needs to be good in a game for it to be worth playing.

People were expecting good things and got one of the blandest experiences ever.

 

[NoMoneyNoFameNoDame]

Anyone still watching? I lost interest.

I thought the "advice to designers" one would be interesting, but it was really low IQ stuff, so I quickly zoned out. Maybe NoMoneyNoFameNoDame should watch these

Wasn't useful to me either. Give him time to circle back. Once he unlearns the pesky social-skill of not oversharing, we will get into the good stuff.

 

[Goral]

Another interesting episode:

I talk about the difficulty in assigning credit to developers on video games, and I use the story of companions in Fallout to illustrate this problem. I have seen this problem my whole career, it's still happening, and I am not sure how to solve it.

 

[Geomancer86]

Credits should be pretty straightforward, the higher you are, the higher the contribution, Hollywood solved this more than a century ago.