Tim Cain, the original author of "Fallout" and longtime CRPG developer, has produced a video that delves deeply into the "Fallout" TV show. The "Verdict" Cain still loves the show and doesn't seem too bothered that some people are so passionate about the inconsistencies in Fallout's timeline.

Most of all, Cain praises the series for nailing the Fallout vibe. He observes, "It's easy to write something post-apocalyptic that doesn't fit the Fallout mold," and I've certainly seen that play out in the mod scene over the years, forget Shadow the Hedgehog on Nexus or the anime, but those Many of the mods sometimes feel more like Book of Eli than Fallout.

Cain also appreciated that each of the three protagonists felt like a different kind of Fallout player: Lucy is a Good Karma diplomat, Maximus is a selfish power armor tank, and Ghoul is a Small Guns "killer."

Cain apparently recorded this video yesterday before season 2 was finalized, and was excited about the prospect of renewing the show. Basically, the timeline glimpsed in the show seems to suggest that a terrible catastrophe struck the New California Republic before the events of "Fallout: New Vegas". Senior Bethesda developers have since publicly stated (twice) that "New Vegas" actually happened. Well, it didn't actually happen: ...... You know what I mean.

Cain seemed to politely object to the surprise revelation, taking more issue with the show's answer about who shot first in the 2077 nuclear war. Other than that," he argued, "he didn't seem to care much about chronological matters and that it could be a case of an unreliable narrator: the date could be wrong, either in the game or on the show," Cain argued, adding, "'Fallout' makes a lot of games tell you things that aren't true history," he noted.

On a more meta aspect, Cain stated that "lore leaks are inevitable with big IPs" and compared "Fallout" to the infamous "Star Wars" timeline ambiguity Cain also noted that in an open-ended game like Fallout: New Vegas, "legitimate He noted the difficulty of choosing a "legitimate" ending for a game like Fallout: New Vegas, and said that the combination of various game endings that the Fallout TV show has incorporated into its timeline is not yet known.

To look further, Cain endorsed game writer Alanah Pearce's video about the show's potential lore inconsistencies as a review consistent with his own thoughts, but he also cautioned, "No matter, I am no longer in charge of this and neither are you." He concluded with.

"Basically, everything Bethesda does from now on, that is canon."

While that may be true, Cain's words carry a lot of weight for me, as someone who loves a good old-fashioned CRPG, where every attack misses for the first few hours. To them, Cain says, "I'm not going to be able to do it.