Fallout co-creator hopes to "make one more game" before his second retirement from RPG development

You probably know Tim Cain best for cheating the original Fallout concept and leading the first game's development – or heck, maybe you know him for his highly quotable YouTube channel, which has generated plenty of headlines both here at GamesRadar+ and across the internet. But Cain's RPG CV includes an extensive list of bangers beyond Fallout, and it seems he's hoping to make at least one more before his second retirement.

That's according to the man himself, speaking in a video celebrating the third anniversary of his YouTube channel. Cain reckons he's starting to run out of topics to speak on and stories to share, and says "the channel is probably nearing the point where I see it being done. I think I've explained to you the game industry as much as I can. I've told all my stories, the fun ones and not so fun ones, and you've heard it all."

But the part the RPG fans will want to see is this: "I think I am going to make one more game before I retire again for the second time," Cain muses, before adding, "but who knows?"

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I'm not 100% clear on what Cain considers as his first retirement. He worked at Interplay, where he shipped Fallout, from 1991 through 1998, eventually leaving to co-found Troika Games with fellow Fallout veterans Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky. There, he worked on a trio of cult classics in the form of Arcanum, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.

While all three of those titles have armies of fans these days, they weren't enough to keep Troika afloat, and the studio shut down in 2005. He then worked on the ill-fated MMO WildStar before ending up at Obsidian in 2011, where he served as a programmer Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny and co-directed The Outer Worlds.

That's a pretty continuous range of employment, but I think this is where the retirement comes in, as Cain stopped working full-time at Obsidian sometime after the launch of The Outer Worlds. That still didn't stop him from serving as a creative consultant on the second game, so it's definitely a loose kind of retirement, and he's now full-time at Obsidian once again.

Presumably, then, he's figuring on that "one more game" being whatever project he's working on at Obsidian, but he's already teased that he can't say much about it. Fair enough, given that he's barred by an NDA, but even then he's teasing fans a bit: "Don't bother guessing; you're not gonna guess right." So no New Vegas 2, then?

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