Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: '[Publishers] often don't learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well'

"Jesus Christ, I could write this shit:" The great Alan Moore once said that the sort of negative inspiration you get from reading drivel is even more fruitful for aspiring authors than the kind you get from reading the classics. Fallout co-creator and prolific video blogger Tim Cain took it a step further in a video he published Wednesday, saying everyone from bigwig publishers to the casual gamer could learn a thing or two from bad games.

Granted, he's not talking about irredeemable refuse like Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, but rather the "many" cases where "one game came out, it wasn't very good, and it was forgotten … you could learn a lot from games like that." You know, stuff like Viking: Battle for Asgard.

"For a publisher, their success is game sales. Because of that, they often don't learn from failure because they only ...