A Very Vile Interview: Tim Cain Of Fallout Fame – YouTube
“Somebody once asked me, ‘What do you think of Britney Spears?'” Cain remembers. “And honestly — I wasn’t kidding — I turned to him and said, ‘Is that a new weapon in our game?’ This was while we were working on Arcanum. The guy, Jesse Reynolds, just stared at me and said, ‘Dude, get out more.'”
Troika formed in 1998, and Arcanum hit shelves in 2001 — right around the same time Britney Spears exploded into the mainstream. Songs like “…Baby One More Time,” “Oops!… I Did It Again,” and “I’m a Slave 4 U” dominated radio and MTV, yet Cain clearly missed much of that cultural noise.
“I thought maybe ‘Britney’ was related to Britain, or it referred to some kind of spear,” Cain laughs. “Like, ‘Here’s an Ethiopian dagger, and here’s a Britney spear.’ I had no idea.”
Cain says Bethesda broadened Fallout’s audience, though not exactly in the way he would have done it: “Did they expand it the way I would have? No, not at all, that’s OK.”
Source: gamesradar.com
