Tim Cain, Producer Controversyhas provided fresh details about the cancellation of the original Fallout 3 – which has been in development at Interplay but was reduced to ashes five years ago Bethesda Game Studios took control of the IP and launched Fallout 3 for PlayStation 3, Windows PC and Xbox 360.
Rewind: Interplay was in a state of turmoil in the early 2000s, running out of cash and running low on reserves. Fallout 2 had launched in 1998; Cain left Interplay-owned Black Isle Studios in 1998, before that game shipped, and founded Troika Games, which was “right across from Interplay,” Cain says.
Although Interplay had sued Cain in the intervening years, alleging that he had stolen source code from the original Fallouts (which Cain denies), he still had a friendly relationship with an unnamed vice president there, who invited him to play an early version of Fallout 3.
The game will be their first 3D-engined Fallout, somewhat similar to Bethesda’s 2008 one, rather than the isometric-view, turn-based combat of the first two.
In the video, Cain says he play-tested Fallout 3 (code-named Van Buren) as a favor to the “vice president”, despite co-workers at Troika Games advising him not to get involved in Interplay’s troubles. After the test, and after several questions from the developers, the developers left the room and the “vice president” came in to ask a question.
According to Cain, he said, “How long do you think it will take the team to complete this game and make it shippable?”
A year and a half, Cain said. “I said, ‘I’m sure in 18 months, you can make a really great game,'” Cain recalled. “And he said, ‘Hmm, can it be done even faster?'”
“And I said, well, even if you did a death-march crunch, I don’t think you could do it faster than 12 [months]”And then you’ll ship something that’s unbalanced and has bugs, and the team will be destroyed,” Cain says in the video.
Cain says that as he left the Interplay offices, the executive told him that “any response longer than six months would result in them cancelling the game, which meant whatever answer I gave, the game was canceled.”
Can started her own vlog series in April 2023 to give more insight into game development in order to find out what really happens behind the scenes as programmers, designers, and producers bring the finishing touches to gamers’ favorite franchise. The video is quite shocking, as at the beginning of it, he places at least partial blame for the cancellation of the original Fallout 3 on himself, which directly led to the closure of Black Isle.
“First of all, most of the [Fallout 3] The team didn’t know I was involved in this [in its cancellation]”It was a very private matter,” says Cain. “It was just me and a VP at Interplay involved. […] I know some people like to make a villain out of every story. And some of you will now see me as a villain because I helped cancel Van Buren.”
Did Tim Cain really cancel Fallout 3?
Cain may be a little hard on himself here. From another perspective, he fought for the game and its developers, he simply didn’t give the “right” answer to someone, no matter how friendly, who had already made up their mind.
What if Cain overpromised and said “six months”? Then he’d put his co-workers through six months of workplace hell, and leave Fallout fans disappointed with a broken, buggy, unpolished game. He This would be villainy.
Subsequently, Bethesda licensed Fallout from a cash-strapped Interplay for three games, then purchased the property outright in 2007. Todd Howard, creative director of Bethesda Game Studios, recalled the moment Bethesda took control. Chain He left a Post-It note on his desk that read, “The fallout is yours.”
Cain and the Troika tried to recapture it, but were left far behind. The rest, as is said about many things, there is history,
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