Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Jack Of Owls]

I can't keep up with Tim's almost daily YT entries these days so I only catch him when I see him in my YT sidebar in something new discussing a subject (or incident) that I'm really interested in, which is once in a blue moon. He does seem to know what he's talking about though. It's not like he's some armchair game designer like so many codexers. Well, these days he is.

 

[Alienman]

It's not like he's some armchair game designer like so many codexers. Well, these days he is.

I'm not so sure. Have you heard some of his suggestions? And, the game that he made that were good, were all happy accidents.

 

[__scribbles__]

I talk about my experience at The Temple Of Elemental Evil press event that Atari held in the UK in 2003.

 

[Chuck Norris]

If someone could do a TLDR version of every Tim Cain video (preferably in bullet points, chronologically summarizing the points he makes), they would be doing God's work.

 

[Silverfish]

He is just a coder wishing to be left alone.

Which explains his youtube channel with his name and face front and center.

Making fun of someone because of their mannerism is so unnecessary mean.

You're absolutely right, but it's still fucking funny, though.

 

[Roguey]

Tim got pranked by a British guard.

At the end he tells the four-month kidney stone story.

If someone could do a TLDR version of every Tim Cain video (preferably in bullet points, chronologically summarizing the points he makes), they would be doing God's work.

Rusty used to have AI do summaries of the videos at the HQ, but he stopped bothering after the two gay ones. You can always try that yourself.

 

[Vyvian]

"Hi everyone, it's me, Tim."
This stupid line has grown on me.

 

[Jaesun]

"Hi everyone, it's me, Tim."
This stupid line has grown on me.

What should he say?

 

[Pyrite Pachyderm]

"Hi everyone, it's me, Tim."
This stupid line has grown on me.

What should he say?

Sup boiz it's ya man Tim here to drop some major bombs from back in the day when gaymz were made by real gaymerz!

 

[Vyvian]

"Hi everyone, it's me, Tim."
This stupid line has grown on me.

What should he say?

Sup boiz it's ya man Tim here to drop some major bombs from back in the day when gaymz were made by real gaymerz!

Make sure to SMASH those like and subscribe buttons now LET'S GOOOOOOOO!

 

[Roguey]

School days



Tim seethed at all the party animals at college. Loves to learn in a structured environment.

 

[Spukrian]

"Hi everyone, it's me, Tim."
This stupid line has grown on me.

What should he say?

Hey hey people, Tim here.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about (and read) the original Fallout introduction story that I wrote in January of 1995, which is the first mention of a Vault in any design doc for the game.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I really love how because of too frequent emergency evacuation calls, when the bomb really stroke only a small amount of people was at the shelter. The introduction is well written and interesting

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

The alternative intro idea (VD is part of the group ambushed by super mutants, he scares them off is the only survivor) is Bethesda level moronic. This would destroy the early pacing of the game, completely annihilating the every day in post-apo world aspects of the setting.

 

[Roguey]

Tim thought the vault being a safe place you could return to was a negative, which is funny because I never even bothered to go back to the vault until I had the chip, didn't want to waste any time.

Also it's not like Shady Sands and all the other social hubs are dangerous or anything.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

"Hi everyone, it's me, Tim."
This stupid line has grown on me.

What should he say?

"This is your Cain. This is your Cain on games. Any questions?"

 

[0sacred]

plz remind me why Tim was on strong painkillers for four months during TOEE's development, was it due to gay sex practices?

 

[Bulo]

Bladder stone?

 

[Roguey]

Characters named Cain. He's tired of it.



"The cab driver's name was Caine." There's the explicit confirmation.

 

[Vyvian]

Oh he actually did confirm that it was Caine after all.
Been in many an argument where people tried to say it wasn't and that he was really just a Malkavian LARPer.

 

[Delterius]

Been in many an argument where people tried to say it wasn't and that he was really just a Malkavian LARPer.

From what I understand that was just a White Wolf attempt to digest what happened in Bloodlines without making it too important within the metaplot. I don't remember the chronology, but thereabouts they wrote their own end of the world books where Cain's location was revealed to be some cave somewhere. Mind you, in their LA by night liveplay they chose to use certain characters like Nines, Strauss and the Voernams but they don't refer to BL1s' plot at all. Probably the wiser course of action.

The way I see it Troika was the Storyteller for BL1 and having Caine use LA as a microcosm of vampire society in his judgement of his children (and the PC as a witness) is what they went for. That was their game, their canon. And given that this is supposed to be a gothic horror world, every Storyteller should have their own. Otherwise there's no mystery.

 

[NecroLord]

Oh he actually did confirm that it was Caine after all.
Been in many an argument where people tried to say it wasn't and that he was really just a Malkavian LARPer.

If you play as a Malk, your character goes mental the first few seconds the cab driver starts speaking with you...
Perhaps as a realization that you are truly speaking with the "Dark Father"?...

 

[Roguey]

Oh he actually did confirm that it was Caine after all.
Been in many an argument where people tried to say it wasn't and that he was really just a Malkavian LARPer.

It was Troika's intent he was, but going by White Wolf canon, it wasn't (Caine was in a cave and unconcerned with what his children were doing).

 

[Bulo]

It was Troika's intent he was, but going by White Wolf canon, it wasn't (Caine was in a cave and unconcerned with what his children were doing).

My honest reaction