Fallout official trailer

[LibraryOgre]

I'm not sure how much we can/should extrapolate from New Vegas. As I recall, Mr. House had a moderately effective anti-missile system installed, which shot down a lot of the nukes headed for the area. That would have allowed for a lot more of the non-sheltered settlements to survive.

While they came to a bad end, also recall the people from West Everett... dude built a shelter in his backyard, and his neighbors worked their way home from Connecticut.

[Pax1138]

Back when there were only 2 games, I remember pretty specifically coming to a lot of conclusions that have since been wrong or retconned.

One is that all surviving humans came from Vaults, something that's believable in the first two games because a lot of the Vaults were already open and abandoned, and because the war was described much worse back then, as in it scoured and poised the world. This of course changed later, as the settling evolved.

Another is a realization I had at one point that the brahmin is really the only thing that allowed life to continue on the surface at all. Somehow, cattle had evolved in such a way as to survive the aforementioned scouring/poisoning, and were one of the few forms of life still able to eat the vegetation that survived, as well as being prey for humans and other carnivores (deathclaws!) This of course changed later, as the settling evolved.

Anyway, I have a lot more such old (mis)conceptions (That of course changed later, as the settling evolved), but as was already said, this isn't the Game forum. And they are far, far away from what has become portrayed in the TV series.

[lord_khaine]

Eh even in the original 2 games there were still other food sources. molerats. Giant roaches. Plants. Lizards.
And assumedly there had to be a food chain for that to persist on.

While on the sillyness of the setting.
It always seemed like it was pretty serious on the surface.
And then just had a lot of small silly easter eggs hidden away at the seams.

[Trafalgar]

Finished it last night. This morning a thought came to me.


The big bad is Vault Tec, a gigantic company that wants to have a monopoly and control everything.

And the show is shown on Amazon Prime........

[Tyndmyr]

Finished it last night. This morning a thought came to me.


The big bad is Vault Tec, a gigantic company that wants to have a monopoly and control everything.

And the show is shown on Amazon Prime........

Yeah, that's pretty much the case for The Boys as well.

[t209]

Yeah, that's pretty much the case for The Boys as well.

Written by Garth Ennis, whose beliefs (other than vitriolic disdain for superheroes) also reflected in The Boys.

[gbaji]

Finished watching the series. Eh... It was good. It's clearly season one of a two season storyarc (at least), but it felt like Fallout, looked like Fallout, and did a good job of introducing and backfilling most of the bits it introduced. I think that people who've played the games will enjoy it, while those who have not will certainly be able to follow along with no difficulty (given that the main character is someone who is completely naive about the outside world, the audience can learn right along with her, so that worked well).

I had maybe one or two very very minor nitpicks with it, but other than that I enjoyed it.

Other comments along the way:

I can think of plenty of examples from my youth of bad movies made by a superfan and good movies made by someone who hated the original (Starship Troopers for example).

That's a good example of a movie made by someone who hated/misunderstood the book, but I guess whether it's "good" really really depends on how we're using that word. It's a good movie only if you never once compare or contrast it to the book and are looking for absurdist over the top escapism. Got a bit of love/hate for that film actually...

The whole setting is cartoonishly stupid, that's kinda half the point. It's a post-apocalypse story filtered through the lens of 50's sci-fi, which was for the most part really dumb.

Yup. The whole point is to take 50s style optimism about the future, assume "the future" actually played out like they thought in said era, and then put a dark and silly twist on everything. And when Fallout pulls that off is when its at its best IMO.

When considering whether something in Fallout "makes sense", you must put yourself in the mindset of the folks who thought putting decorative spikes on steering wheels without considering what might happen when you crash was a great idea. Now. Put those people in charge of building the Vaults. And yeah... profit.