Fallout creator Tim Cain wants to make a sequel that drives home how much “power corrupts” as players misunderstand the series’ “grey morality”

Fallout creator Tim Cain hasn’t touched the series since the release of the second game, but 27 years after leaving the series, the historic game developer is envisioning what he would like to do in a sequel.

Speaking on an episode of his YouTube series, Cain explained that he would like to explore “some new factions, some new locations, and more morality stuff” in a sequel “because that’s what it’s about”.

Fallout creator wants to double-down on morality

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Cain claimed that he wants to focus much more on “morality” but also double down on the “main theme” of “power corrupts”.

“People have always done bad things; war never changes. That was always Fallout’s main theme. I would love to explore that in detail in a sequel,” Cain said (and transcribed by GR). “And really make some of the players who are coming to have fun in this wasteland of cool weapons and weird monsters – give them something to think about while they’re playing this game. It’s what we always intended, it’s why Fallout was so dark and had some of the quests it had.”

Cain previously explained that he would want to focus more on the morality of the wasteland and, while he loves grey morality, the developer also feels that many players misunderstand it.

“I also like tough black and white decisions,” the developer explained. “People consider this to be grey… [but] there’s nothing gray about the decision, there’s an obvious right choice, there’s an obvious good choice, but the evil choice is way more rewarding.”

Cain explained that he wants to use the theme of morality to see just how far gamers will go if “there’s an effect in the game for” them. The Fallout creator uses the internet’s favourite moral choice as an example: the trolley problem.

“There’s people who think there’s a solution,” the Fallout creator said. “There isn’t. I love the trolley problem, because if you put it into a game, those gamers are going to talk online, and they’re going to talk about ‘the right solution’ – and there is no right solution, there’s just a variety of solutions.”

While Cain hasn’t touched the Fallout series in a very long time, the developer is still involved in RPGs. After working as a director on Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds, the developer is working as a creative consultant on the upcoming sequel.

As for Fallout itself, multiple games are said to be in development for the series, including a remake of the third game. While it will be a long time until we see an official Fallout 5, Bethesda reportedly has the game in some form of pre-production.