Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[NecroLord]

I talk about all of the problems we ran into trying to make The Temple of Elemental Evil. TLDW: these problems were all my fault.

p.s. this is a long video that is less positive than my other ones, but there are some good lessons to learn in it. Consider this video a cautionary tale of game development.

Modern devs should take notes from this man on how to be humble and able to acknowledge their own mistakes.

 

[Maldoror]

You bastards. I arrived but minutes too late.

 

[Maldoror]

"Can you believe that they didn't want to see my kidney stone?"

Yes? Imagine your boss running up to you while you're hard at work on a game and putting a kidney stone in your face.

 

[Alienman]

This channel is a gem. I wish Avellone would do something similar.

 

[NecroLord]

This channel is a gem. I wish Avellone would do something similar.

Would be really cool, that's for sure.
But remember he got cancelled after the whole lawsuit thing...

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

I agree with him on sequels, it's one of the declines in gaming(as well in movies and some books). Instead of making new original games with original mechanics, worlds.. companies just reskin the same shit over and over again, sometimes with subtle improvements between each game, sometimes worse, it kills innovation and creativity. The same happens with some books and movies where they release shit tons of filler sequels, just because the first one was sucessful, thus creating a profitable brand. This makes a game, a movie or a book less 'art' and more like products to sell, imagine if there was Mona Lisa 2?

Fallout would be perfect if just ended with the first one, same with Baldur's Gate, Gothic, Diablo, Dark Souls, The Elder Scrolls, System Shock... these games did not need sequels, that does not mean that the sequels for these games are bad, most are better, but the effort could've been put making a new game instead. Yeah, we would have lost great games but think about what we could have gained if companies focused on making new IPs instead of making sequels.

Of course i know making new IPs every time is not viable from a business standpoint.

So my respect for Cain for understanding this, he wanted to create art and not just products.

 

[Alienman]

This channel is a gem. I wish Avellone would do something similar.

Would be really cool, that's for sure.
But remember he got cancelled after the whole lawsuit thing...

Yes, but he made it out of that one alive, even if it took time, and it would be a personal channel. I think he would get a pretty big audience fast.

 

[Butter]

On this episode, we cover how to make a stay awake for 72 hours consuming nothing but bar peanuts and Negronis.

 

[Roguey]

Tim wanted the opening vignettes to be an hour long each.

He's awfully hard on ToEE and deservedly so, but it's still more fun to play than Arcanum.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

 

[Vincente]

 

[Late Bloomer]

A big middle finger to ads

 

[Roguey]

Making all your videos 9 minutes long just so people too ignorant to use an adblocker (I'm aware youtube has plans to address this but it hasn't happened yet) don't see them is a bit much.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Not even the most discreet homo is able to hide it all the time.

 

[Shadenuat]

"I wrote war never changes and thought i am writer. Turned out it just actor could make even reading phone book interesting"

 

[Jrpgfan]

He's a better writer than the hacks in the big vidya studios though.

Atleast he tries to create interesting/fun characters and plots.

 

[Melcar]

So we love Tim Cain now?

 

[0sacred]

So we love Tim Cain now?

too little, too late

 

[Abu Antar]

In a perfect turn-based world, he would take what he learned from Arcanum and ToEE, and create his magnum opus.

 

[Roguey]

In a perfect turn-based world, he would take what he learned from Arcanum and ToEE, and create his magnum opus.

Don't forget South Park.

 

[Abu Antar]

In a perfect turn-based world, he would take what he learned from Arcanum and ToEE, and create his magnum opus.

Don't forget South Park.

I didn't dislike South Park, though!

 

[Maldoror]

Gygax was planning on introducing Chaotic Good Paladins - with a Celtic flair

Incline. Good shit.
Oh, and Tim says that he cut up his original module to distribute it to the devs. Instead of just copying it.
What?

 

[Roguey]

Oh, and Tim says that he cut up his original module to distribute it to the devs. Instead of just copying it.
What?

You have to cut the pages out to properly scan/copy them.

 

[Maldoror]

How Fallout got its name.

 

[Butter]

At some point he's going to notice that no one is asking him to talk about Otter Worlds.