I love that Eddie Murphy was the one who first said "Isn't that the guy who made Fallout?" -- it's a similarly great energy to the story about how Al Yankovic knew he had "made it" when he heard Paul McCartney excitedly yell about how psyched he was to see that "It's Weird Al!"
he was also quite briefly in twin peaks, and latterly played the doctor in quite a few doctor who audio productions by big finish (that last one is for the MASSIVE nerds)
Hey Tim, I've been watching a lot of your videos over the last two weeks while recovering from surgery. As a software engineer and long-time Fallout fan (since my tween years), it's been refreshing to hear about game development in this format. I find myself agreeing with many of your insights. I'd love to hear your thoughts on balancing an RPG for different play styles. In a previous video, you mentioned how with Outer Worlds, your team had enough time to play through it multiple times with different characters for quality control. What are your design considerations for different characters when developing a game? For example, how do you ensure that a character with low speech skills can still solve a quest without falling out of their role? I'm asking because I'm currently sketching out a pen-and-paper RPG for my friends and want to avoid forcing them into certain play styles. If you've already covered this topic, please disregard my question and accept my gratitude for your videos and consistent upload schedule. Keep on rockin'!
Bret "The Hitman" Hart delievered an Amazon package to my house back in November (2023). Super nice guy and one of the most famous guys here in Calgary. I think I'm on that Amazon commercial for that contest or something. Met a few other people like composers, musicians, and Japanese talent people.
I could listen to you describing how your new can-opener functions. I really enjoy your videos. It's only been a few months since I discovered you had a channel. I listen while I am working and having my coffee. I think you ought to just have one hour long videos talking about anything and nothing. I would be tuned in. Thank you and please keep producing these videos for us. Highly appreciated.
That's really cool. It's really too bad you didn't get to talk to Will Sasso and Kyle Maclachlan, though :( I got go meet actor Bob Odenkirk and environmentalist David Suzuki on the same day, in entirely different circumstances. Bob was filming a television show and was coming out of a McDonalds with one of his kids, and Suzuki was attending a protest at an art gallery while I was visiting.
My brush with famous people? Sir Ridley Scott. It was at a charity event and he hosted a tour of the backlot of Warner Bros. where he shot Blade Runner. Sadly, I wasn't able to have any kind of conversation but I did shake his hand twice. Tidbits: He's not a people person and got lost on his own tour.
Happy Friday to everyone and Mr. Tim Cain to you also sir :) I just wondering if you have given a chance to meet with any celebrities you want whose those people are that you really would like to meet them .
I saw Troy Baker and Nolan North on a flight once when I was 16. I involuntarily did the meme "soy face" and started to stutter and I think I really freaked them out lol. My dad (he's not a rich connected guy or anything he just happend to know a friend) brought me to a party when I was around 7 and George Lucas was there. I kept asking him to show me how to do "The Force" and he was really nice about it. I never met him in person but I DMed Ken Levine on twitter once and he respond to it which I thought was really nice of him.
Tim left out the bit where he had dramatic music playing and was typing frantically when Steven came in. All those hacking scenes in movies are his fault. He wasn't even programming: he was arguing with a guy about Doctor Who.
The next video should just be thousands of people telling their stories of the day they got to meet you, Tim. Even now after everything you've done, you probably don't think of yourself as a "highlight of my life" kind of celebrity encounter, but you are
For real, I really have the feeling he doesnt grasp how many millions of peoples life he affected and improved to the point it entirly changed the life of some people
@@UlyssesM If an author of a book isn't invited to the movie premier; you don't think that would be a little weird? Neither of them have input on the created art in this instance, but you'd still invite the creator of the original piece. And at the very least give them vip for absolutely no cost to your company. It's just good networking and press. It's just a dumb decision all around. It's almost so dumb it's insulting.
@@UlyssesMinvitiation is nice, but you cant forget that Tim is to Fallout what Lucas is to Star Wars, yeah lots of people contributed to it being a success, but it literally wouldn't exist without the man. He's literally the most important person invovled in the creation of Fallout. I'd call that "Very Important Person" (VIP) status-worthy.
@@UlyssesM chill out. I didn't say anything absurd. I just mentioned that I find it odd that one of the OG creators of this million-dollar franchise isn't invited to the VIP areas of their games' release parties. If you'd like to exaggerate what I said, that's your problem, but make sure to not involve me in that, yes?
@@NakAlienEdif you've watched a bunch of Tim's videos you know he doesn't consider himself the single most important man in creating Fallout. Obviously he's a modest man but he didn't pick the aesthetic at all. I'm not going to pretend he wasn't super important but it was a whole team that made the game. Games are very different to movies where a director has much more individual control.
Hey Tim, I just yesterday beat fallout and it was a blast! It was the first fallout game I've completed and it was also my first crpg! I decided to play the game after discovering your channel, and my question is what game would you consider to be your magnum, opus? If it is fallout then what would the number two be? What game would you say has the most Tim Cain influence, because I really like your core values of what you think makes games fun, and what makes an RPG a good RPG. Also I just bought arcanum because it's on sale, excited to get started with that.
I think you meant David Warner from Origin's Privateer 2, The Darkening. 😉 Though honestly, that game did have quite the cast, Clive Owen was your avatar. It also had John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Brian Blessesed, David McCallum, and Amanda Pays. At the height of that "interactive movie" phase of the mid to late 90s.
Only celebrity moment that stand out for me was shaking hands with Robert Patrick at a science fiction convention. Now, I was dressed in a way that made people think I was a bit edgy. Long leathern coat, camo pants, bullet cartridge belt, steel capped combat boots etc. Then I found the booth where Patrick was at, and he's basically dressed as a hard ass biker and just goes "Well how do you do, young man?" Suddenly I was reduced to a little boy on the spot 😄 He signed my DVD copy of Terminator 2 and was overall super friendly and polite. In hindsight I kinda wished I had recommended him some bars in town that would've been to his liking. But yeah. There's celebrity actors... and then there's celebrity actors who starred in films that you've watched hundreds of times while growing up.
I've only ever met a couple celebrities in my life, the biggest one though is probably Bruce Willis. I met him in Toronto back in 2012? He must have been there for a movie or something like that. I held the door for him at a coffee shop, without knowing who it was, he said thanks and I looked up smiled and said I was a big fan, and thanked him for his work. He stopped and shock my hand, and I asked him about Pulp Fiction for about 10 mins, he was so chill to talk to. He really seemed to have loved his time working on Pulp Fiction haha.
You’re the man Tim. Any subject you discuss is so compelling. You remind me of some people I knew in the Navy. They could tell sea stories about anything and a big group just naturally gathers around.
Three things: First: I am SO bad at names, and my partner is like the rainman with names, she knows everyone in town, their family, job, address and hobbies. When we go out, she talks to everyone, asking relevant questions, and I am this caveman grunting behind her, calling everyone "Buddy". Second: You DO know that you are a celebrity too right? Just making sure you know? I did not know half the people on your list, but I would get the uncertain feet of childhood hero meetings if I ran into you. Third: I don't think you look like the Ghostbusters marshmallow man, he wears a really cool hat.
Tim, you're fuckin awesome man. You started my favourite game series ever and you just seem like a good guy i have a couple Fallout questions for you, i'd really like it if you answered them for me and my friend please. 1: What inspired you to make Fallout 2: Did you like the way Fallout Tactics came out? 3: If you could play any character in the TV show, who would it be, why, and how would you play them? 4: Favourite Fallout Game? 5: How are you so cool?!?!?
Question to Tim. Is AK-112 (assault rifle from F1/2) a soviet Avtomat Kalashnikova variant or maybe a Swedish Ak rifle or something completely different. If it's a Soviet weapon, how did it end up in the US?
>be Steven Spielberg >Enter programmer's office >Take a look, ask a weird question >Leaves >Refuse to elaborate further Are all movie makers like this? This is extremely funny
Tim, you came so close to getting all the names right, but right near the end it's Walton Goggins, not Walter lol. And to be really pedantic, David Spade was on Just Shoot Me, not News Radio (the skinny blond nerd on News Radio was Andy Dick, who you probably did well to avoid meeting). Oddly, I agree with you that if you just hang around in cities enough you'll just bump into celebrities with enough time. I've never made any special effort to meet famous people and I've met Gary Lightbody, the frontman of Snow Patrol, and David Wenham, aka Faramir.
I've hardly met anyone famous in my life. No one I've ever known, went to school with, family etc is famous. The only time I've had brushes with famous people were at game dev conferences and E3. The coolest one was E3 2005, tucked in back corner in a small booth for a mobile game was Evel Knievel, because it was kinda hidden booth no one was there. Got to shake his hand and an autograph. Also in 2010 game dev convention I was invited to a VIP party Blizzard Entertainment was holding, they had brought a bunch of voice talent for a panel.
Hey, you brought up a point in one of your older videos along the tune of "just because fallout 1 and 2 show you all of your stats on the main screen when you're creating your character doesn't mean it's the best game of all time", I wanted to bring up to you that I don't think anyone was arguing that it makes it the best game of all time. What I have seen that point used to illustrate is that modern RPGs hide things from you - especially Bethesda titles, to where you don't know the outcome of a choice you're making. (How it pertains to your skills, attributes, your overall character build). Fallout 3 and Oblivion come to mind for me, You're not shown anything as far as raw numbers concerning what your S.P.E.C.I.A.L points are changing, or the various racial bonuses or weaknesses in Oblivion. It's part of the overall dumbing down of RPGs for a larger audience, which many hardcore fans or fans of older RPGs really have distaste for. It's not so much that fallout 1 and 2 had the best character creator of all time, It's that modern AAA RPGs are lacking so much in that department that your games from the '90s trump it. This is something that has stuck out in my mind a lot and I just had to write a comment.
Tim, were you at the Fallout: New Vegas launch party? Because I know that Aaron Paul (Jesse from breaking bad) attended and I was really hoping that you would have met him
Hi, Tim. With the success and popularity of the Fallout TV show there's been a lot of people who had only played the Bethesda era Fallouts going back to play the original game for the first time and posting their reviews of it. Have any of these crossed your desk, so to speak? I've watched a few and they've all been positive. I imagine it must be kinda' surreal to see a lot of newly released reviews of your 27 year old game but also gratifying that people who are experiencing it for the first time in 2024 actually really like it considering how it's, let's be honest, clunky and very dated by today's standards?
I met Richard Garriott once too. I was in the finals for the *Zero Robotics* competition for high school students in its opening year. The competition was at MIT in a big lecture hall, with our teams' programs run on small spherical robots onboard the ISS. Previous rounds were run on simulations of those robots. Lots of cool stuff that day, we had a video call with the ISS, they had a couple of former astronauts there to meet us students in the room, and the MC was... Richard Garriott! Fans of him will recall that he's an amateur astronaut, went to the ISS, and is the son of an astronaut as well. During a break, my team leader went up to talk to Garriott about internship opportunities or something. I went along for the ride/as moral support, and got his business card - which I still have to this day. I'm sad to say that I didn't remember he was such a big video games creator. I used to watch the G4TV show "Icons" and they had an episode about Ultima I had watched, but I just didn't put 2+2 together given the different contexts. Glad I talked to him though.
Tim, I would love to get a first impression on an RPG called Kenshi. I don't know if it's come up on your radar but it's something I think about a lot.
My grandma worked at Disneyland for a decade or so (as a candymaker! You might've seen her in a window) and has a few stories about the celebrities you see just walking around. I guess it's just one of those places where socioeconomic barriers are less noticeable.
Tim, if you ever see me out, definitely don't be shy about saying "Hi". I really like getting interrupted by people named "Tim Cain". It definitely doesn't happen often (it hasn't happened yet), but if there ever comes a day, just know you're very welcome.
Tim, If you had an infinite amount of money to build a game and could hire anyone in the industry to get it done, what would the game be about, who would you hire for which position, and what would be your responsibilities in this project? Considering you had a deadline of 5 years to finish the game and ship its first version.
I've only seen one celebrity. I was in NYC visiting a friend, and I left the bar we were at while he was still paying inside. Walking down the street, I see Tony Hawk. He was with his wife, so I didn't say anything. Wish I would have said I recognized him because, apparently, routinely don't.
One time while volunteering for New York Comic con, probably 2007, I was requested to be back up to assist escorting a celebrity. I'm a comics fan, and my beat was normally info desk for Artists Alley, the writers and artists who are MY celebrities, but I was off shift having a break and they needed help without describing the task. I volunteered. We were given a hushed quick briefing of, "don't fawn, don't touch, don't talk unnecessarily," so as not to disturb the celebrity. Who was it? Dan Lauria, the actor that played the dad from the first Wonder Years show. Why was he at a comic convention? I didn't understand why people would want to stand on line to see him but he was cool and humble, thanked us and I was part of a human shield around him as we marched him to his booth. I had NO training in crowd control at this point of my life so I'm pretty sure I looked like an absolute goon looming over him and warding people off silently while having a half guard up partially remembered from martial arts. NYCC crowds are thick in the Jacob Javitz center, so it was very common to push your way through.
