Interview Tim Cain Interview

[nihil]

In b4 fanboys slit their wrists because Tim starts working for Bethesda.

Better than Obsidian

Obsidian is like crazy back alley bum - first it watches how one franchise gets raped than killed like a cheap crack whore, then it waits until the original murderer-rapist leaves and then it rapes the corpse.

No, it stitches the corpse back together again, and cares for it. Still pretty sick, but with good intentions?

Bottom line: FO:NV was much better than FO3.

 

[MetalCraze]

There's a difference between retarded stuff like ancient roman barbarians, crossdressing mutants and tribals vs. shit like tree worshipping cult?

But I know it already - it was much better due to a different quest compass colour and Obsidian logo.

 

[Stinger]

Lily and Tabitha aren't crossdressers...they're female.

 

[nihil]

I just think FO3 felt very unconvincing. Everything felt unnatural and out of place. Just lots of shit Todd Howard found amusing crammed into the game, it felt like.

FO:NV has its share of stupid, but overall it has a coherent world with believable conflicts and character motivations. I was drawn into for periods of time, while FO3 I just gave up because I couldn't take anything seriously.

And they improved the game system a bit. The non-randomized skill checks, and what not. A lot more skill checks with any meaning to them, I think?

 

[gromit]

This coming from some guy whose avatar catches somebody else's cumshot in the air.

If the only tool you have is a cum-rag, everything looks like cum

 

[SharkClub]

Lily and Tabitha aren't crossdressers...they're female.

I wouldn't bother trying to talk sense into him, it's not like he's even played New Vegas to know that much.

 

[Cassidy]

K, Obsidian writes better than the average of Bethesda and Bioware and that is one hell of an accomplishment. Having read the whole New Vegas LP in the Codex I have to agree it's not at the same level of retardation Fallout 3 is and unlike it it is mostly bearable and has a few moments, although that doesn't forgive its due share of stupid(Novac Ghouls, etc.), nor the fact its gameplay remains Oblivion with Guns.

Fallout 3 without 100% retarded writing therefore is a much better game because writing is everything that matters.

Storyfags gonna storyfag.
Fanboys gonna fanboy.

If you are expecting anything good from Tim Cain joining Obsidian, you're either delusional, needing urgently to move to a better hobby or totally glad and immersed in the next-gen.

 

[Jaesun]

We COULD expect some good with Tim joining Obsidian, provided there was a Publisher that approaches them to make an actual cRPG.

But monkeys will fly out of my ass before that will ever happen.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Never doubt that you can find a man who ejaculates flying monekys, Jaesun. Like Tim said, anything is possible.

 

[Krraloth]

We COULD expect some good with Tim joining Obsidian, provided there was a Publisher that approaches them to make an actual cRPG.

But monkeys will fly out of my ass before that will ever happen.

What's the worst that can happen?
I might be suffering from an acute case of naïveté, but as far as devs team grouped togheter go they make me hope something good can still pop out, against all odds.

How would you feel about the monkeys, in that case?

 

[kaizoku]

Never doubt that you can find a man who ejaculates flying monekys, Jaesun. Like Tim said, anything is possible.

 

[ironyuri]

How do you make room for dick with all those monkeys up there?

 

[Forest Dweller]

What the fuck is more appealing to him than working for Obsidian?

 

[Jaesun]

What the fuck is more appealing to him than working for Obsidian?

Make Yet Another Shitty Action Game With Little Or No RPG Elements Labeled As A RPG with people that can actually tell a decent story, or Make Yet Another Shitty Action Game With Little Or No RPG Elements Labeled As A RPG.

Perhaps Tim is a story fag....

 

[Shannow]

If you are expecting anything good from Tim Cain joining Obsidian, you're either delusional, needing urgently to move to a better hobby or totally glad and immersed in the next-gen.

After a lot of discussion I've found out that they either like the new-shit gameplay or don't mind it as long as they can play a choose-your-own-adventure written by MCA. So for those who already like Obsidian games I don't see why expecting more "good" from Tim Cain joining OE should be delusional.
It'd only be delusional if one considered previous Obsidian games to be mediocre at best and now expects that to radically change.

 

[commie]

We COULD expect some good with Tim joining Obsidian, provided there was a Publisher that approaches them to make an actual cRPG.

But monkeys will fly out of my ass before that will ever happen.

You will believe a monkey can fly.

If Tim is there only for a short time, maybe, just maybe he's there to stick a TOEE combat system or GURPS(as he worked for a long time on it) into Onyx? Fuck the fags who say it's a shitty engine. It seems quite capable of doing everything needed for a en expansive TB game, is stable, bug free, looks good. It's actually an engine that would be good a true Fallout style game. Yes, many engines are good, but there was a reason Obsidian went with their own: they know it inside out and probably developed it with ease of adding modules and with a RPG bias from the start.

 

[villain of the story]

I don't know about TB, I can't imagine Obsidian -or pretty much anyone else- securing funding for an exclusively TB western RPG, though perhaps another hybrid could be made, but indeed, why Tim Cain in particular and only for such a short time? It makes no sense unless it's for the only thing that could set him apart from others as a programmer: his past involvement in Arcanum and TOEE. Not particularly for a new Arcanum or TOEE game but something similar. And hopefully something fundamentally different enough from Dungeon Siege 3 that they needed to hire Tim Cain.

 

[nihil]

If you are expecting anything good from Tim Cain joining Obsidian, you're either delusional, needing urgently to move to a better hobby or totally glad and immersed in the next-gen.

Personally, I don't expect anything. I'm just saying there's a better chance of seeing Tim Cain do something good if he's at Obsidian than if he's at Carbine (or Bethesda).

 

[DwarvenFood]

Mwah, will there be a AP2 ?

They are helping on the Wheel-of-Time game, working on their own IP (Defiance), doing the animated series 2D game for which they hired Tim Cain (New York) and possibly doing another project.

Tim used to be more senior than just programming but I'm sure he will bring some incline. Either way, the Codex will hate the game(s) so why worry

 

[meh]

2D game doesn't sound very promising tbh

 

[commie]

I don't know about TB, I can't imagine Obsidian -or pretty much anyone else- securing funding for an exclusively TB western RPG, though perhaps another hybrid could be made, but indeed, why Tim Cain in particular and only for such a short time? It makes no sense unless it's for the only thing that could set him apart from others as a programmer: his past involvement in Arcanum and TOEE. Not particularly for a new Arcanum or TOEE game but something similar. And hopefully something fundamentally different enough from Dungeon Siege 3 that they needed to hire Tim Cain.

Well that's what I thought. It seemed too short a time to actually do a full game. More like it's to get Tim to implement some specific thing that he did in the past and get it to work with the new shit.

 

[Stinger]

I dunno, the interview to me made it seem like Obsidian was just hiring him to give him a job while he transferred to the next company out of goodwill moreso than other reasons...but then again they've lost a few devs recently so maybe not...

 

[Clockwork Knight]

What the fuck is more appealing to him than working for Obsidian?

making successful games

 

[jagged-jimmy]

In before Tim and Leonard bringing you Diablo III DLCs.

 

[Jaesun]

2D game doesn't sound very promising tbh

What do you know about the project then that we don't?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

What the fuck is more appealing to him than working for Obsidian?

A decent wage?