Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Roguey]

Tim is skeptical of negative glassdoor reviews, believing they may be a result of bad employees who choose to blame the company instead of self-reflect.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

If there are a lot of bad reviews, wouldn't that mean the company had a flawed hiring process that repeatedly gave jobs to bad candidates?

 

[Nano]

Now I'm wondering how big his husband is.

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

If there are a lot of bad reviews, wouldn't that mean the company had a flawed hiring process that repeatedly gave jobs to bad candidates?

Maybe, maybe not. But even if this is the case it would be telling that at least their HR department is shit at their own job.

 

[NecroLord]

Tim is skeptical of negative glassdoor reviews, believing they may be a result of bad employees who choose to blame the company instead of self-reflect.

A company is no better than the people it employs...

 

[Infinitron]

I describe a character class called the Elemental Mage from my idea book.

 

[Sweeper]

Now I'm wondering how big his husband is.

You finna steal him away?

 

[Nano]

You finna steal him away?

Spoiler

Size comparison turns me on.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about the effect this channel has had on me, including on my professional experiences.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

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[KeighnMcDeath]

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[Infinitron]

I have talked a lot about encumbrance and carry weight mechanics in other videos, so I have collected all my thoughts in one place.

 

[Necrensha]

Tim keeps mentioning ''the economy'' as if it was something that devs have any control over.
If items weight a lot and you can only carry a select few, I'm sure that more than one player may decide to simply take 5 additional trips back and forth to sell everything.
It would be better to make loot rare and more valuable while keeping a reasonable amount of the weight system, instead of doing the usual move of flooding you with garbage and then expecting the players to decide which one of these 29 enchanted axes that you got on the first 5 minutes of the dungeon is worth using.
Nevermind the part where this type of design forces you to have a dedicated mule cause your twink wizard boy can't hold more than 2 scrolls in his pathetic arms without breaking down into tears, that's another issue with linking the weight system to strength.

 

[Sweeper]

If items weight a lot and you can only carry a select few, I'm sure that more than one player may decide to simply take 5 additional trips back and forth to sell everything.

 

[Naraya]

I have talked a lot about encumbrance and carry weight mechanics in other videos, so I have collected all my thoughts in one place.

This hits SO hard.
I'm definitely a retard with regard to hoarding stuff (especially potions/consumables and scrolls) in cRPGs and never using it. I just can't.

I'm playing through BG right now and not having a bottomless bag almost physically hurts me.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

RIP OFF THAT BAND AID AND USE THAT SHIT!!!

USE IT NOW!!!

 

[Odoryuk]

I have 34 Megaelixirs and I ain't using them, no siree, don't even ask

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

MEGALICKERS!

 

[Melcar]

I have talked a lot about encumbrance and carry weight mechanics in other videos, so I have collected all my thoughts in one place.

This hits SO hard.
I'm definitely a retard with regard to hoarding stuff (especially potions/consumables and scrolls) in cRPGs and never using it. I just can't.

I'm playing through BG right now and not having a bottomless bag almost physically hurts me.

I was like that for the longest time. BG EE at least has a potion bag and scroll case.
SCS sort of fixed the problem for me, as the advanced AI and roll fudging in higher difficulties sort of forces you to use your consumables even if your characters are well equipped or haver uber stats.

 

[Wesp5]

Tim forgot another solution that Troika used in Bloodlines: the inventory is almost limitless, but there is not that many stuff to pick up in the first place !

 

[rojay]

RIP OFF THAT BAND AID AND USE THAT SHIT!!!

USE IT NOW!!!

Heresy!

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Tim forgot another solution that Troika used in Bloodlines: the inventory is almost limitless, but there is not that many stuff to pick up in the first place !

Personally, I've always felt that Arcanum was the spiritual successor to Fallout 2, and Bloodlines was the spiritual successor to Arcanum.

Unfortunately, that meant a tradition of stupid but convenient inventory-equipment systems.

 

[Wesp5]

Unfortunately, that meant a tradition of stupid but convenient inventory-equipment systems.

For me coming from Doom and Half-Life Bloodlines had the perfect inventory system: a real inventory for special items and a weapons-converted-to-ammo system like in the FPS. No need to collect weapons and sell them to stupid vendor machines!

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Unfortunately, that meant a tradition of stupid but convenient inventory-equipment systems.

For me coming from Doom and Half-Life Bloodlines had the perfect inventory system: a real inventory for special items and a weapons-converted-to-ammo system like in the FPS. No need to collect weapons and sell them to stupid vendor machines!

When it comes to ammo and specific types of weapons, yes, but what I meant was that the equipment in this game is an abstract chute, which differs from the Fallout one only in that it has compartments.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about "flow", that mind state where ideas and work efficiently happen.