Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Roguey]

"I don't think it'd change the fundamental nature of Temple if I completely rewrote it, redesigned the encounters, and added a lot more content."

It'd still be a 3.5 D&D game, sure.

 

[NecroLord]

2:10 - not as many people were a fan of the radial menu, because you couldn't hotkey things. I'd add hotkeys

b-but... there were hotkeys. Or is this a temple+ thing? Sitra Achara

Yeah, there are hotkeys.

 

[NecroLord]

"I don't think it'd change the fundamental nature of Temple if I completely rewrote it, redesigned the encounters, and added a lot more content."

It'd still be a 3.5 D&D game, sure.

Also, yeah, the game could've used more content.
Get rid of Hommlet or make it so there are a lot more quests that don't involve talking with the locals too much.
Hommlet's a real chore until you get to the Moathouse and the game begins proper.

 

[Roguey]

Yeah, hotkeys are mentioned in the manual. Either he forgot or what he actually meant was a having a hotbar where you can actually see and click on what you want to use instead of memorizing what you've hotkeyed or digging through several submenus each time.

 

[__scribbles__]

I talk about the questions I am skipping in my channel’s comment section, either because I cannot answer them or because I simply do not want to.

 

[StrongBelwas]

Don't ask Cain about releasing code, the indie scene (Just a consumer of them like anyone else, can't comment on the internal workings), Bloodline's design (You can thank him for the Sheriff throwing cars and hookers though), working at 'pure' tech companies, his opinions on methodologies like SCRUM, Outer Worlds 2 stuff (And don't try to trick him), streaming coding/playing games, or current events like Unity and BG3 bear sex.

 

[Alienman]

Another passive-aggressive Tim video?

 

[Roguey]

People have been seething about the bear since July, I don't think it's going away in a few months, the bear is eternal.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

the indie scene

Why not?

 

[Butter]

the indie scene

Why not?

Tim only plays AAA slop.

 

[NecroLord]

Tim only plays AAA slop.

Got that right.
You can see it in the design of The Outer Worlds...

 

[processdaemon]

People have been seething about the bear since July, I don't think it's going away in a few months, the bear is eternal.

Hopefully that means he can make a video addressing it in 5 years if people are still talking about it

 

[Roguey]

the indie scene

Why not?

Because he's not and has never been in it. He's only worked for (or been funded by in Troika's case) big companies.

 

[Viata]

What indie scene, btw? It's so big at this point it's just another big part of video game industry. What about the single A games instead of AA or AAA ones?

 

[__scribbles__]

I talk about designing skills for role-playing games, from deciding what skills to include to what numerical ranges those skills should have.

 

[Roguey]

Tim's now on the side of things and thinks a skill for any given action should only be present if it's used frequently enough to justify its inclusion.

He also seems to regret the coarse Arcanum skills and would have rather made those perks instead. Naturally he's most in favor of the granular 1-100 range, but doesn't mind 1-20 either.

 

[NecroLord]

Tim's now on the side of things and thinks a skill for any given action should only be present if it's used frequently enough to justify its inclusion.

He also seems to regret the coarse Arcanum skills and would have rather made those perks instead. Naturally he's most in favor of the granular 1-100 range, but doesn't mind 1-20 either.

What's wrong with Arcanum skills?
Not too few, not too many. Just the right amount.
It seems lately he is in a really "shoulda, coulda" mode. Running out of ideas for videos and starts talking about "rebalancing" the games he has worked on.
Will he talk about remasters eventually? Since we are living in the age of remasters and "reimaginings" for a more MODERN AUDIENCE that reflects the current world...

 

[Tyranicon]

"I own the code so I can use it"

"I can't release the code"

That doesn't sound like ownership at all, it sounds more like a license to use it with maybe some royalties mixed in.

 

[Roguey]

What's wrong with Arcanum skills?
Not too few, not too many. Just the right amount.

1-5 range is too small for his liking in a dozens-hours long RPG. Means it's not really a good idea to have items that give skill bonuses because it's such a huge buff.

 

[luj1]

I very much doubt a gay, old, washed-up developer could make a good CRPG in the year of our lord 2024.

 

[luj1]

I talk about what I would add and change if I were to remake The Temple of Elemental Evil today.

That already exists, it's called KotC 2.

Let me add that Tim sounds like he's begging for investor money. 'I would fix all the bugs', okay bud.

 

[Silverfish]

Let me add that Tim sounds like he's begging for investor money.

I'd want to remaster some decent old stuff rather than work on another Outer Worlds as well.

 

[luj1]

He wants now, after TOW became a laughing stock.

 

[Viata]

I very much doubt a gay, old, washed-up developer could make a good CRPG in the year of our lord 2024.

That is my problem with those videos. They gave me the feeling of "old man yells at clouds", because his most recent input was shit. So far, he has proved that no, he can't make a good CRPG anymore.

 

[luj1]

Neither can Fargo, Soyer, Ziets, Avellone...