Fallout co‑creator recalls nixing 'Terminator‑style' robots

Tim Cain posted a new YouTube video discussing tone in games and the responsibility of directors to keep a setting coherent.

He offered an example from the making of the original Fallout: someone proposed a Terminator‑style robot — "an endoskeleton and chonk chonk chonk" — and Cain rejected it as a poor fit for the game’s vision.

Cain argued the project was a 1950s imagining of the future and pointed to existing designs as a contrast: "Go look at Mr Handy. Mr Handy and Terminator robot do not belong in the same universe! At least, not the tone of our universe."

He has mentioned the decision before, notably in an earlier video on Fallout’s biggest influences, but this latest clip provides more context for his reasoning.

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