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Each of us has our gaming blindspots. For Bradford, it's Fallout. Yet Prime Video's Fallout TV show was so good it made him finally do something he never thought he would: install Fallout 76.

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Batak_Killer

Fantastic! I've read only good things so far... oh cant wait. Fallout is one of my favorite universes and hearing it got a great adaptation is music to my ears.

harken33

The trailers look good so far!

Using Los Angeles for Fallout 5 could certainly be the location; however, if you are psyched up for Fallout action, I would say get your Fallout Show to Game itch from 76.

Elders Scrolls 6 is next up on the Bethesda schedule, and Fallout 5 comes after that so probably 2030-2032. This show will be over by then most likely.

Aeander

You couldn't pay me to play Fallout 76. Time is precious.

ACommonMugger

Aeander said:

You couldn't pay me to play Fallout 76. Time is precious.

Wish there was a eye-roll emote.

Anyways, show looks amazing. And Fallout 76 has come a long way. This is great news.

uriel_mafess

"Prime Video’s adaptation is able to tell a more rounded story that explores the themes of Fallout: unchecked corporate greed, how society survives after it falls, striving for the greater good, and more. "

Feels its based on FO4 or FO76 (worst games of all the franchise by a mile) more than FO1 or FO2 themes. Heard about Enclave? Goverment too powerful? Running experiments on humans by military? Nuclear war started by Politicians? Survival based on people and not institutions? Freedom and free will over institutions/"safety"?

I doubt this show is any good.

Also in the trailer I can see al least 3 things that make no sense (total bs) within Fallout lore (even "actual" FO4-FO76 lore).

That said Pigs will eat anything that gets thrown at them so I expect great reviews.

uriel_mafess

Double post

ValdemarJ

uriel_mafess said:

"Prime Video’s adaptation is able to tell a more rounded story that explores the themes of Fallout: unchecked corporate greed, how society survives after it falls, striving for the greater good, and more. "

Feels its based on FO4 or FO76 (worst games of all the franchise by a mile) more than FO1 or FO2 themes. Heard about Enclave? Goverment too powerful? Running experiments on humans by military? Nuclear war started by Politicians? Survival based on people and not institutions? Freedom and free will over institutions/"safety"?

I doubt this show is any good.

Also in the trailer I can see al least 3 things that make no sense (total bs) within Fallout lore (even "actual" FO4-FO76 lore).

That said Pigs will eat anything that gets thrown at them so I expect great reviews.

FO76 deals deeply with those themes, including the Enclave (which is why MODUS did what it did). The FEV and Scorched viruses didn't happen on their own. It deals with deep corporate greed with the mining companies. It also shows how "survival based" groups like the Free States and Brotherhood of Steel failed as well, along with the Responders and vigilante groups, and even the raiders. All those groups failed and died because they were mistrustful, isolationist, and unwilling to work together.

The entire point of Fallout 76 is that we need each other and we need to work together in order to survive and thrive, no matter our differences or how much better or more right we feel we are than everyone else. It is a message of "United we stand, Divided we fall", which is true because a house divided against itself cannot stand.

FO76 is probably the best narrative in the series if people take the time to hunt down all the notes and holotapes and piece it all together.

Slapshot1188

Will be watching in a few hours.  Hope it's better than Halo was.  Couldn't even finish that season 1...

Kyleran

Totally agree, FO76 as originally delivered told a powerful and poigant story which I'm glad I got to play through before the expansion content started coming out.

I guess you had to be there.

lotrlore

Slapshot1188 said:

Will be watching in a few hours.  Hope it's better than Halo was.  Couldn't even finish that season 1...

I can confirm it's better than Halo season 1 was - at least for me. I stopped watching Halo 2 episodes in it was so bad. With this, I had to stop myself from binging the screeners in a single day.

Acornia

How does the old game/tv series Defiance stack up agaist Fallout for both tv and game rateings?

Elidien_ga

If you expect the show to deal with everything in the Fallout universe, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. You could not do that in 2-3 seasons much less a handful of episodes. I expect there will be a tragedy in the vault (common theme), main character leaves,  some conflict with factions, lots of mutated beasts, and maybe a super mutant. If anything, knowing Jonathan Nolan's work, I think the FEV or Scorched virus might be the focus. This will be a very limited story in a very small area of the country and not some major, all-encompassing epic.

uriel_mafess

ValdemarJ said:

uriel_mafess said:

"Prime Video’s adaptation is able to tell a more rounded story that explores the themes of Fallout: unchecked corporate greed, how society survives after it falls, striving for the greater good, and more. "



Feels its based on FO4 or FO76 (worst games of all the franchise by a mile) more than FO1 or FO2 themes. Heard about Enclave? Goverment too powerful? Running experiments on humans by military? Nuclear war started by Politicians? Survival based on people and not institutions? Freedom and free will over institutions/"safety"?



I doubt this show is any good.



Also in the trailer I can see al least 3 things that make no sense (total bs) within Fallout lore (even "actual" FO4-FO76 lore).



That said Pigs will eat anything that gets thrown at them so I expect great reviews.

FO76 deals deeply with those themes, including the Enclave (which is why MODUS did what it did). The FEV and Scorched viruses didn't happen on their own. It deals with deep corporate greed with the mining companies. It also shows how "survival based" groups like the Free States and Brotherhood of Steel failed as well, along with the Responders and vigilante groups, and even the raiders. All those groups failed and died because they were mistrustful, isolationist, and unwilling to work together.

The entire point of Fallout 76 is that we need each other and we need to work together in order to survive and thrive, no matter our differences or how much better or more right we feel we are than everyone else. It is a message of "United we stand, Divided we fall", which is true because a house divided against itself cannot stand.

FO76 is probably the best narrative in the series if people take the time to hunt down all the notes and holotapes and piece it all together.

I played a diffrent game.

I played one where you are an "elite" selected by Vault Tec working together with the shadow government (Modus/Enclave) to have "the best of the best" (ivy league & white house officials) to rebuild the country 25 years after the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust because ordinary Joe didnt have in him to build a state and needed leaders...

You follow your overseer that went on crying about how bad humans are (herserlf included) and her mission (and yours) is to secure the nuclear silos with warheads that are stored in Appalachia and put them under Vault Tec control and prevent any other party from getting their hands and stablish a new form of goverment with the monopoly of violence provided with those nuclear weapons. In the way there she founds out about scorched and the vaccine but never leaves the origina plan behind and ends becoming a military for the US Defense to access the silos.

It's true that her underlaying message is that each group of humans failed because they couldn't cooperate with the others but has special harsh words for 2 groups: Raiders and Free states.

Raiders are basically a bunch of cannibals. Free states are the group that invented the scorched detection system, the scorched lures, that researched each class of monster and how to defeat them and they lost the war because they were too few.

Later expansions added the gold standard as the base of the new goverment storyline.

Tiller

Acornia said:

How does the old game/tv series Defiance stack up agaist Fallout for both tv and game rateings?

I did not like that show or the game. Both launched together and for me it felt half baked and forced.

lotrlore

Acornia said:

How does the old game/tv series Defiance stack up agaist Fallout for both tv and game rateings?

I'm going to be honest: I never watched Defiance, and despite owning a physical copy of the game, I never opened it. It honestly never looked good to me.

OrwellRand

Hope it's good and not tainted in messaging. The whole "greater good" and "corporate greed" (without mentioning government) is concerning, but at least they put "unchecked" in front of it.

enesisxlr8

Cannot wait to watch this! Fallout fan! Loved Fallout 76... just a huge shame the game engine sucks and performs so dam bad...

ZenJelly

I've gotten to see the first two episodes. Won't be finishing it. Not worth watching. The creators ignored, disrespected and straight up destroyed large parts of lore. What a waste of time.

Kyleran

uriel_mafess said:

ValdemarJ said:

uriel_mafess said:

"Prime Video’s adaptation is able to tell a more rounded story that explores the themes of Fallout: unchecked corporate greed, how society survives after it falls, striving for the greater good, and more. "



Feels its based on FO4 or FO76 (worst games of all the franchise by a mile) more than FO1 or FO2 themes. Heard about Enclave? Goverment too powerful? Running experiments on humans by military? Nuclear war started by Politicians? Survival based on people and not institutions? Freedom and free will over institutions/"safety"?



I doubt this show is any good.



Also in the trailer I can see al least 3 things that make no sense (total bs) within Fallout lore (even "actual" FO4-FO76 lore).



That said Pigs will eat anything that gets thrown at them so I expect great reviews.

FO76 deals deeply with those themes, including the Enclave (which is why MODUS did what it did). The FEV and Scorched viruses didn't happen on their own. It deals with deep corporate greed with the mining companies. It also shows how "survival based" groups like the Free States and Brotherhood of Steel failed as well, along with the Responders and vigilante groups, and even the raiders. All those groups failed and died because they were mistrustful, isolationist, and unwilling to work together.

The entire point of Fallout 76 is that we need each other and we need to work together in order to survive and thrive, no matter our differences or how much better or more right we feel we are than everyone else. It is a message of "United we stand, Divided we fall", which is true because a house divided against itself cannot stand.

FO76 is probably the best narrative in the series if people take the time to hunt down all the notes and holotapes and piece it all together.

I played a diffrent game.

I played one where you are an "elite" selected by Vault Tec working together with the shadow government (Modus/Enclave) to have "the best of the best" (ivy league & white house officials) to rebuild the country 25 years after the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust because ordinary Joe didnt have in him to build a state and needed leaders...

You follow your overseer that went on crying about how bad humans are (herserlf included) and her mission (and yours) is to secure the nuclear silos with warheads that are stored in Appalachia and put them under Vault Tec control and prevent any other party from getting their hands and stablish a new form of goverment with the monopoly of violence provided with those nuclear weapons. In the way there she founds out about scorched and the vaccine but never leaves the origina plan behind and ends becoming a military for the US Defense to access the silos.

It's true that her underlaying message is that each group of humans failed because they couldn't cooperate with the others but has special harsh words for 2 groups: Raiders and Free states.

Raiders are basically a bunch of cannibals. Free states are the group that invented the scorched detection system, the scorched lures, that researched each class of monster and how to defeat them and they lost the war because they were too few.

Later expansions added the gold standard as the base of the new goverment storyline.

You missed a few storylines, like how the first responders were working on a cure for the FEV virus but were destroyed before it could be delivered .

Or how an aging TV Star founded an elite group of peacekeepers only to be sabatogued internally and brought to ruin.

Or the wife who had turned into a ghoul and found herself hunted by her husband who wanted to put her out of her misery thinking she was now a monster.

Or the Brotherhood of Steel who thought they had the firepower to overcome the Scorched, and actually so committed to a no nukes doctrine they'd rather die than use them to solve a problem.

Can't forget Modus, created to serve but found itself with no master. Yet still it followed it's directive to save humanity, even pitting the player against a fellow AI which had entirely different intentions.

Talraekk

Greatly looking forward to it, if only for the universe. Fallout 3 was good, Fallout 4 is in my top games of all time. 76 is only sidelined for me because of its multiplayer aspects (I greatly prefer sp games for modding/cheating). It deeply surprises me that the Fallout 4 receives such hate, with me feeling it does so much better in regards to skills and leveling than the predecessors.

Slapshot1188

Throne and Liberty stole my attention and before I knew it, it was 1:30AM and I forgot to watch Fallout...
1st world problems

Scot

Kyleran said:

You missed a few storylines, like how the first responders were working on a cure for the FEV virus but were destroyed before it could be delivered .

Or how an aging TV Star founded an elite group of peacekeepers only to be sabatogued internally and brought to ruin.

Or the wife who had turned into a ghoul and found herself hunted by her husband who wanted to put her out of her misery thinking she was now a monster.

Or the Brotherhood of Steel who thought they had the firepower to overcome the Scorched, and actually so committed to a no nukes doctrine they'd rather die than use them to solve a problem.

Can't forget Modus, created to serve but found itself with no master. Yet still it followed it's directive to save humanity, even pitting the player against a fellow AI which had entirely different intentions.

This is fascinating, we often see stuff about messages players think the writers are trying to convey to the "readers/gamers/watchers". But here very different messages are being received. Having played all the single player games bar the first, I saw what I would consider a realistic approach, you need to trust people, but you can't trust everyone. Not that a realistic approach is a necessity, but that was my very broad brush take.

What do people think about the series maybe revitalizing FO76?

uriel_mafess

Kyleran said:

uriel_mafess said:

ValdemarJ said:

uriel_mafess said:

"Prime Video’s adaptation is able to tell a more rounded story that explores the themes of Fallout: unchecked corporate greed, how society survives after it falls, striving for the greater good, and more. "





Feels its based on FO4 or FO76 (worst games of all the franchise by a mile) more than FO1 or FO2 themes. Heard about Enclave? Goverment too powerful? Running experiments on humans by military? Nuclear war started by Politicians? Survival based on people and not institutions? Freedom and free will over institutions/"safety"?





I doubt this show is any good.





Also in the trailer I can see al least 3 things that make no sense (total bs) within Fallout lore (even "actual" FO4-FO76 lore).





That said Pigs will eat anything that gets thrown at them so I expect great reviews.

FO76 deals deeply with those themes, including the Enclave (which is why MODUS did what it did). The FEV and Scorched viruses didn't happen on their own. It deals with deep corporate greed with the mining companies. It also shows how "survival based" groups like the Free States and Brotherhood of Steel failed as well, along with the Responders and vigilante groups, and even the raiders. All those groups failed and died because they were mistrustful, isolationist, and unwilling to work together.

The entire point of Fallout 76 is that we need each other and we need to work together in order to survive and thrive, no matter our differences or how much better or more right we feel we are than everyone else. It is a message of "United we stand, Divided we fall", which is true because a house divided against itself cannot stand.

FO76 is probably the best narrative in the series if people take the time to hunt down all the notes and holotapes and piece it all together.

I played a diffrent game.



I played one where you are an "elite" selected by Vault Tec working together with the shadow government (Modus/Enclave) to have "the best of the best" (ivy league & white house officials) to rebuild the country 25 years after the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust because ordinary Joe didnt have in him to build a state and needed leaders...



You follow your overseer that went on crying about how bad humans are (herserlf included) and her mission (and yours) is to secure the nuclear silos with warheads that are stored in Appalachia and put them under Vault Tec control and prevent any other party from getting their hands and stablish a new form of goverment with the monopoly of violence provided with those nuclear weapons. In the way there she founds out about scorched and the vaccine but never leaves the origina plan behind and ends becoming a military for the US Defense to access the silos.



It's true that her underlaying message is that each group of humans failed because they couldn't cooperate with the others but has special harsh words for 2 groups: Raiders and Free states.



Raiders are basically a bunch of cannibals. Free states are the group that invented the scorched detection system, the scorched lures, that researched each class of monster and how to defeat them and they lost the war because they were too few.



Later expansions added the gold standard as the base of the new goverment storyline.

You missed a few storylines, like how the first responders were working on a cure for the FEV virus but were destroyed before it could be delivered .

Or how an aging TV Star founded an elite group of peacekeepers only to be sabatogued internally and brought to ruin.

Or the wife who had turned into a ghoul and found herself hunted by her husband who wanted to put her out of her misery thinking she was now a monster.

Or the Brotherhood of Steel who thought they had the firepower to overcome the Scorched, and actually so committed to a no nukes doctrine they'd rather die than use them to solve a problem.

Can't forget Modus, created to serve but found itself with no master. Yet still it followed it's directive to save humanity, even pitting the player against a fellow AI which had entirely different intentions.

Played many of those missions too but some of them are really f-up.

The rich aging actress that creates a group of assassins with young woman only and gets betrayed by her own daughter cause the idea of indoctrinating children into seductor ninja assasins was a bit of a mess. Unluckily she falls in love with a Raider. Even more deranged than her mother.

I dont remember Modus sending you against another AI nor trying to save humanity. In lastest expansions the golf camp was populated by shady people that seemed to be being manipulated by Modus but never really delved deep into that could be interesting.

The Redneck booze house with banjoos OST where brothers (3?) kill each other for a woman thats robbing them but has one brother infatuated is quite on the nose too. Secret service being gold custodes is a huge lol.

FO76 has many side quests (some sensitive, some poignant, a few contrarian) but main plot is what it is.

Scot said:

What do people think about the series maybe revitalizing FO76?

Could happen but I dont think game is attractive to masses. I would say its quite niche. Many things were reworked and added since launch and game is fun (for a while) but its still not great.

cheyane

I modded the Fallout games to death. I had them looking so fantastic I could no longer launch them from Steam. They were really great games. Looking forward to this series.

Wargfoot

I'll watch this just to see Walton Groggins.