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Fallout's creator reveals you could have played as a snoring cow hater who believes in UFOs, had Black Isle stuck with its original licensed roleplaying system

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Tim Cain spills the tea on “GURPS Fallout”.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes

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One, visit 15 different time periods. Two, meet interesting historical figures. Three, kill them.

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Fallout: New Vegas 2 was real at one point before Obsidian's plans "quickly evaporated," says senior designer, but a revival "will not happen in the next six years at least, if ever"

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What could’ve been

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'

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I’m not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.

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We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979

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Thank you, sailor.

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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"

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There is a surprising amount of immersive sim Deus Ex’s DNA in Fallout 3. Though, for a good reason, you may not have noticed it before.

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Most of the original Fallout's "dark humor" was added just to make co-creator Tim Cain laugh: "We made this game for each other. When it shipped, we were like, 'Well, I hope other people like it!'"

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If it weren’t for The Simpsons, we would have no Radiation King

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Fallout's origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw

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But were there anchovies?

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Fallout 3 remaster is reportedly still happening as Bethesda aims for Oblivion Remastered-level polish, but personally I think it should aim a little higher

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A single map inspired Fallout 3's lead designer to create the RPG's entire story: "It's got to go back to those original themes"

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Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'

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Fallout: London's next DLC, Last Orders, will be served up early this year if current pint-pulling plans hold

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Fallout 3's VATS system helped compensate for Bethesda's lack of shooting chops: "We were never going to create gun combat that was on par with Call of Duty or Battlefield"

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Bethesda's Todd Howard says "we are doing other things with Fallout that we haven’t announced, and there’ll come a time for that"

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Bethesda lead says the biggest difference between a fantasy RPG like Skyrim and a sci-fi RPG like Fallout is how you piece together the story

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'

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“We started with the solid foundation that we inherited from Fallout 3”: How Fallout: New Vegas delivered a bigger, better post-apocalypse by sticking to the script – mostly

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Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard

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“Players are selfish”: Fallout 2’s Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy

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[Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell] and Death Stranding 2's pizza guy has "deep respect" for Hideo Kojima games, but hasn't been able to pull himself off Fallout 4 for 8 years

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Fallout 3 remaster reportedly in production as Bethesda boss Todd Howard confirms the developer is working on Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 76, "and some other things"

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Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it

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Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing

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Fallout co-creator warns studios amid rising layoffs and focus on AI that devs are not replaceable: "You're left with a company where nobody knows anything"

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"There's really no winning": Fallout 2 Remake mod lead talks "walking the thin line" of reimagining a classic

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The original Fallout's lead developer, [Tim Caine], says China nuked first, vault suits were meant to be 'extruded' by a machine, and yes Sugar Bombs are a Calvin and Hobbes reference

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