Tim cain is a crappy designer. The rules and combat system of arcanum was completely whacked, a retarded child could have come up with a better system. What kind of stupid system gives you 1 point when you level up to distribute amongst god knows how many skills, stats and other things? Who came up with the retarded design idea of making guns do almost no damage, or making them useless by allowing enemies to run up to you in 1 turn? Its purely horrible design.
Who came up with the idea of making the towns of temple of elemental evil completely bland and lifeless? Who came up with those pain in the ass quests? And I simply cant imagine how much stupidity it takes in order to design the identify spell to only tell the name of an item and not what it does.
I think its good that troika will disappear. It is better to have no rpgs coming out than for me to waste my money on crappy rpgs because even though i know they are crap and probably wont play them i still end up wasting my money on them due to my desperation for rpgs to play.