Show is damned good. Acting is great, it nails the atmosphere, and the action and CGI are well done. I don't care about some retconning or lack of continuity.
If you know little or nothing about Fallout, don't scratch your head about the weird tech like how passwords are cracked, why a stimpack instantly heals mortal wounds, rad away cures radiation poisoning, or any of that stuff like fusion cores. It's simply remaining faithful to the gameplay.
Predictably, the Fallout games are experiencing a big boost in player count at the moment thanks to the show.
I have never played a Fallout game, just have seen reviews, but I absolutely loved this show. Just so unique and different and wild and wacky while making great social commentary in such a beautifully crafted world. I mean it's just very well done and the production, acting and ambience are all top notch.
Tried that - really sucks hard on Windows 11.It does make me want to fire up NV again.
It probably still wouldn't be your jam, but you can play 3rd person. I used to play that way back in the Xbox 360 days. LOLs to be had at some of the comical ways I would get rekt.I am just not into those kind of first person action RPG games at all. So I don't know anything about the game world or anything like that.
I finished it tonight and thought it was awesome. I am not a fan of the games and don't like anything Bethesda makes. I am just not into those kind of first person action RPG games at all. So I don't know anything about the game world or anything like that.
But I thought the show was great and can't wait for season 2. The way it ended just made me want to watch more and they definitely left a great story to be told in the next season. They also left some things unanswered which is fine too so they can give answers in the next season, unless I missed some stuff.
I had read that some people said it got a little slow/down around episode 6 and I agreed but after finishing the final episode, the direction it went in those episodes made total sense why they did that. In general, I just am not a fan of shows where they ...
spend so much damn time in flashbacks. I want to know what is going on in the current story and don't care about the past. However, the way everything tied in with the flashback stuff into the final episode, I was okay with it after the fact.
All in all, a fantastic show IMO.
It probably still wouldn't be your jam, but you can play 3rd person. I used to play that way back in the Xbox 360 days. LOLs to be had at some of the comical ways I would get rekt.
Definitely not my jam no matter what the view point is.It probably still wouldn't be your jam, but you can play 3rd person. I used to play that way back in the Xbox 360 days. LOLs to be had at some of the comical ways I would get rekt.
I've only seen the first episode (that I was pretty impressed with) but that episode is very much Fallout Shelter (the mobile phone game). The raiders, her wandering around in a wedding dress, even the raider bomb at the door!I'm glad that this is more New Vegas and even FO 1 than the others (I think?). It does make me want to fire up NV again.
I play first person on PC with kyb&m. I like grinding so from FO3 on I never get bored. I need to count them but I must have over 30 suits of power armor in FO4. Pimped out with whatever I think is best for different parts of the map. Jet pack is the most ubiquitous item since it can be a time and climb saver. I don't play with mods like I used to with New Vegas. There's enough to keep me entertained as is. I start a new playthrough now and then. Going full Grognak the Barbarian is a lot different from being a stealth sniper. Taking different perks mixes it up too. Being an idiot savant, that kind of stuff.I always play Bethesda games 3rd person. Still, the games can just get tedious time-sinks where at some point, you can lose all sense of why you are doing any of this. FO 4 is probably the worst offender for me. ...honeslty, I think I got to the very last mission, maybe halfway through it, when I completely stopped playing, lol.
I don't think I got nearly that far with NV, but I also got burned out with it. Still, that's the only one I consider replaying...or FO2, I guess.
On a related note, isn't Fallout 4 supposed to be getting a big update this month? Last time I tried to play it it was not happy on an UW monitor so hopefully they'll fix that.
WTF are you on about my dude? In Fallout 3 we leave the vault looking for our dad voiced by Liam Neeson. She leaves to find her dad in the show, it's dead on faithful to the games.Ok so wife and I watched first two episodes.
As the kids would say, the show feels solidly mid.
The whole thing is just loaded to the gills with Easter eggs and inside humor but there isn't a lot of plot really pulling me in (seriously, the main character's whole purpose for leaving the vault is basically a meme).
I find clean clothes in the games all the time. It is one of the many wink wink nudge nudge easter eggs, is my hot take.Set and production values are fantastic, although the visuals suffer pretty badly from that "I'm the apocalypse, not your mother" level of clutter without the grime. Lots of people walking around in mishmash clothes that clearly came out of the washer that day.
You just described the wild wasteland perk from New Vegas. Again we diverge massively on how we interpret the show's intent. My hot take is you are witnessing different playthrough styles simultaneously via the main characters. On my first few playthroughs I was the Messiah by the end of the game. My son was always the Devil first time through. So it tracks for me. No matter what you are going to have to fuck shit up during a playthrough. But who, what, and why is the rub. I think the show is doing a good job of reflecting that.The tone of the show is definitely off though. It sort of whips around between serious, whimsical, slapstick goofy, terrifying... it seems to be having a helluva time getting the Fallout feel pinned down.
Confirmation bias almost always wins. There is little chance you won't see exactly what you want to see due to it.but I feel like I'm not going to enjoy Bethsoft's take on the Mojave wasteland.
1) WTF are you on about my dude? In Fallout 3 we leave the vault looking for our dad voiced by Liam Neeson. She leaves to find her dad in the show, it's dead on faithful to the games.
2) I find clean clothes in the games all the time. It is one of the many wink wink nudge nudge easter eggs, is my hot take.
3) You just described the wild wasteland perk from New Vegas. Again we diverge massively on how we interpret the show's intent. My hot take is you are witnessing different playthrough styles simultaneously via the main characters. On my first few playthroughs I was the Messiah by the end of the game. My son was always the Devil first time through. So it tracks for me. No matter what you are going to have to fuck shit up during a playthrough. But who, what, and why is the rub. I think the show is doing a good job of reflecting that.
4) Confirmation bias almost always wins. There is little chance you won't see exactly what you want to see due to it.
Even 'time sensitive' has always been relatively moronic in the FO series. FO1 gave you exactly 150 days from walking out of the front door to save the vault. Did the overseer seriously wait until they had just over 3mo of water before sending someone outside for the very first time? The water chip had been broken for years iirc. Did everyone die at the same time? Why was only one hero sent out? If you sent out half the vault, the remainder (probably children and elderly) could live for at least a year with appropriate rationing.1) It has been an issue with the Bethsoft Fallouts, a core quest that should be time sensitive but instead you go running off completing goofy side quests instead. In 3 you leave the vault looking for Dad, in 4 you are looking for your son. I get the show might have taken this approach tongue firmly in cheek but my first reaction was "you gotta be shitting me". Again, two episodes in so I concede the main plot may thicken considerably.
Even 'time sensitive' has always been relatively moronic in the FO series. FO1 gave you exactly 150 days from walking out of the front door to save the vault. Did the overseer seriously wait until they had just over 3mo of water before sending someone outside for the very first time? The water chip had been broken for years iirc. Did everyone die at the same time? Why was only one hero sent out? If you sent out half the vault, the remainder (probably children and elderly) could live for at least a year with appropriate rationing.
Maybe so, but at some point the complaints about 'time insensitivity' is just complaints about side-questing and RPGs in general. Don't get me wrong, it's not very realistic, but I did appreciate Sephiroth waiting to try to end the world while I spent 6 months raising chocobos, delving for ancient materia, completing quest chains for optional characters, and mastering games at the fair.- Given how horrific the world outside the Vault was, I didn't take much umbrage with the conditions in the first game. Keeping the broken chip a secret for as long as possible, hoping to quietly fix the issue, assigning too few resources to resolving the issue... all sounds perfectly believable from a poor leadership perspective (ask anyone working a corpo job how they know).
Even then, once the water chip is recovered, the main quest pivots to protecting the Vault from a merciless wasteland and the Master's army, and that is more open ended.