Tim Kaine, the original creator of Fallout, has been talking about possibly returning to the RPG series, and it all boils down to one basic requirement that has nothing to do with money or power. Rather, he says it would be a “personal question” as to whether the virtual game would be different enough to interest him.
In addition to being a series creator, Cain was a designer on Fallout 1 and 2, but was not involved in subsequent installments of the RPG series. He’s clearly aware that there’s a lot of interest in seeing him return to the industry, as he now has a full video on his YouTube channel discussing exactly that. The short answer? maybeBut it will depend on whether the game plans will be significantly different.
“Every RPG I made offered me something new and different that made me interested in making it,” Kane begins. “It wasn’t about money or power or a role in the game, it was the game itself offering me something interesting that made me say, ‘Oh, I want to do that, I’ve never done that before.’”
Moving on to Fallout specifically, Kane confirmed that he would like to apply the same condition to it. “If someone came to me and said, ‘Do you want to make a Fallout game?’ my response would be, ‘What’s new? I didn’t even want to make Fallout 2, so why would I want to make a new Fallout game? What’s special about it?” he said.
He continues: “You’re not asking me a question about money, you’re not asking me a question about power and authority, you’re asking me a personal question that has a personal answer. Which is, ‘Would this be something I would want? Would he be interested in doing it, because it’s different?’”
Speaking generally, Kane revealed that “people approached him” during the pandemic asking if he would be willing to direct their games, but he ended up turning them down, regardless of what position he would be given on the project, because “I’ve been there, I’ve done that, there’s nothing new to bring to me.”
As for what counts as “different” enough, Kane says that if he were asked to return to a new Fallout game where the draw was “we might add a new feature,” then “I probably wouldn’t be interested.”
So, whether or not that day will come is another matter. Currently, Bethesda has confirmed that Fallout 5 It would be a thing, but we haven’t seen any of it. However, it’s really no surprise, as this has been previously confirmed It will come after The Elder Scrolls 6which despite getting a trailer six years ago, hasn’t been seen since. With that in mind, it seems like we still have a long wait before the next post-nuclear RPG, so for now we’ll just have to wait.
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