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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures…

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Time Walker, A 2001 Troika RPG Proposal - YouTube Watch On Fallout co-creator and prolific RPG programmer Tim Cain's YouTube channel is a treasure trove of what-if stories. What if WildStar had shown up to the MMO craze just a few years earlier ? What if Interplay made Fallout 3 instead of Bethesda ? What if THAC0 wasn't so egregiously confusing that Cain's encyclopedic knowledge of it didn't get him hired at Interplay in the first place? They're all worth the watch if you fancy yourself an RPG gamedev loremaster—but yesterday, Cain talked about one of his wildest what-ifs yet. In his most recent video , Cain discussed Time Walker—a proposal for a first-person RPG he drafted at Troika with fellow RPG veteran Jason Anderson, who worked with him on games like Fallout and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. While the game never came to be, even in the form of a prototype or more elaborate pitch, it sounds ludicrously ambitious even today.…

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