I’ve the opportunity to watch it and i want to know if it’s worth it or not, because game-based shows are known to be not that great.
Edit : at the moment i write this, im at episode 3, they seems to have respected the game’s lore even if i disagree with the cause they choose in the scenario to force the hero to left the vault.
So far so good 3 episodes in.
The look and feel of the world is great.
The characters are pretty believable.
Writing is good so far.
Is the writing like fallout though? Or is it gonna just be some soap opera like the walking dead?
Trust me… The writing is very much with the same dark/silly humor as the game. You even get characters ignoring their main quests and going to clear side quests.
I just watched the first episode and I’m pretty pleased. However, my friend watching with me had never played the games and I’m sure was rolling their eyes each time I said, “that’s in the game, that’s in the game!” And my reflex to hold my thumb up the moment I saw Vault Boy with that lasso.
Not soap opera-y at all imo, 4 episodes in. It’s great, it feels like the fallout world 100%
It’s good.
If you’ve never played the games, it may take a few episodes to figure out, but my kids (who’ve never played) enjoyed it.
The universe has so many characters, factions, and creatures that I would say not even 1/4 are in the first season, so there is a lot of in universe room to expand and explore story-wise.
Not often I say this about new streaming series, but I highly recommend!
Should I play before watching? I heard there are nice inside jokes, is that true? Which Game should I play, all?
I haven’t watched the TV series, but I’m a big enthusiast of the games.
I’d say start at the start, especially if you’re alright with more old-school games. The first two are (sometimes punishingly hard) isometric RPGs that I personally had a blast playing. Some of the later games have little references to them that you might miss, too.
Get Fallout 2 on GOG instead of Steam if you can, the version on Steam is the censored European version that removes all the child characters and quite a bit of content with them (since you had the option to kill them in the game’s open world environment, despite the game heavily penalising child murder).
If turn-based combat and 90s graphics really repulse you (totally fair, I know they’re not everyone’s cup of tea), you could try playing the 3D games instead, which are essentially first-person RPGs with FPS elements. Fallout 3 is alright, the story isn’t that good, and the gunplay just feels a bit off, but the environments are really well-crafted and are fun to traverse.
If you have to play one Fallout game though, I would pick Fallout New Vegas. It’s mostly made by the guys who made the first two games, and they really really knocked the ball out of the park. It’s still got the slightly awkward gunplay of the third game, but everything else is really well done. The story especially is probably one of the best video game narratives I’ve experienced (putting it up there with those of Disco Elysium and Undertale).
I haven’t played Fallout 4, so I can’t really give you any recommendation there.
Seconded.
I’ve played most of the games.
New Vegas is best for overall gameplay.
Personally, I like 4 best, but that’s because I played it first and the newer interfaces and voice-acting integration is smoother (it’s a newer game, so this is kind of th point). But, everyone I’ve talked to says New Vegas is the best, and I have to agree.
The games are pretty dated
There is a good chance you won’t enjoy them, see if it’s something you’d like first and pick the one that looks most fun
Your kids? 😅
His kids could be any age.
That’s true too. Thinking about kids less than say, 15, watching this show is what makes me wonder. The level of violence is shocking to me and I’m over the hill. Can’t imagine how it might hit to someone in their formative years.
Absolutely.
It constantly makes me smile, whether it’s being smart, the actors are giving perfectly calibrated performances, or the action suddenly goes wham-bam VATS over the top.
3 eps in. Happy.
Binged, thoroughly enjoyed and now await season2
Finished episode three and it’s good. Credentials: played every Fallout game ever made.
The only i have not played are Fallout 1 & 2
I feel like the protagonist reminds me playing the original Fallout games. You’re on the move and it’s real easy to die. You aren’t some immortal god.
Those are worth playing. A lot more lore in those if you look around.
Basically binged through everything but the last episode and it’s really good. I was skeptical that the concept could even work, but it’s knocked my stupid socks off.
Great show so far. We used to complain about how Hollywood would change everything we loved from a game series, when translating to the screen. This show literally takes place within the canon of the games, and shares every bit of lore and design that games do.
Three episodes in, fantastic so far
It’s very entertaining
It’s extremely good. They really knocked it out of the park. It’s already been renewed for season 2.
We loved it - binged the whole thing in a couple of days. Probably helps that we’re huge fans of Walton Goggins.
I’ve watched the first season (8 episodes) and I think it’s pretty good. I personally think the first episode was a little slow getting into things. If you don’t know anything about Fallout it may be a bit confusing at first because they don’t really explain much of the Fallout lore or how things work in that world, but it mostly all comes together by the end of the season.
Apparently they’ve already greenlit a second season so that’s awesome, I’m just sad we’ll have to wait until probably next year to see it.
If it’s done by the Westworld peeps, i wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t 2 years between seasons.
That makes me a little more sad.
We’ve only watched the first couple of episodes and found it a bit too cartoony for our tastes.
One question I have for anyone who has watched the whole season - the question is a spoiler for anyone who hasn’t seen the first episode.
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Do they ever address the fact that the main character is raped in the first episode? Because it didn’t come up in the second episode and we’re unsure of whether the show creators are even aware they had a rape scene in their show.
Not really, but I’m not even sure the character herself would qualify it as rape based on her upbringing, so that could be why.
I really wish they hadn’t included it. I personally found it unenjoyable to watch those first couple episodes because of it.
(Dear reader: If you’re first reaction to my opinion is that sexual violence against women in this setting is realistic and fits in the show, 1) this is a series with mutant animals caused by radiation and a guy in a robot suit 2) you don’t think much of your fellow man if you think it’s inevitable 3) it’s just like, my opinion, man)
I haven’t watched the whole first season but we’re about halfway through and they didn’t mention it again. It would have been worse if the main character herself felt more… harmed, but she seems very utilitarian about it. I feel pretty mid about the show overall (for more reasons than just this), and I’m just really tired of acts of sexual violence showing up in media that’s meant to be goofy entertainment.
There’s also murder and significant gore as well
I only ever watched Fallout being played so I don’t really know or follow it at all but I really fucking enjoy it and I can’t wait to see New Vegas in the next season that’s just going to be fucking Wild… and I mean fucking Walton Goggins how can you fucking go wrong that shit is fucking sick
They gonna put New Vegas in the next season ?
Well I noticed that at the end of every episode, the weird Graphics at the end showed what was happening in the next episode… and the last episode of episode 8 they showed graphics for New Vegas so I’m assuming I’m just assuming
All my coworkers were saying they loved it this morning. Source: Nerdy bartenders.
