Mauler

[Bradylama]

So, Fallout 3 all over but with a TV audience now instead.

Fallout 3 still had all of its influences drawn from the original games, so it got a few things right. Like the fascist art deco architecture, for one. The TV show, like Fallout 4, cuts out almost everything from the original games. It's like they never happened.

 

[Bradylama]

According to the interviews I've read, Jon Nolan claims Wagner was the real Fallout fan of the big 3 creatives. In another interview, Wagner says that he had to turn off the part of his brain that said "you can't do that" so he could let Nolan and Robertson-Dworet run wild with turning southern California into a stupid goofy theme park. If Wagner had insisted on taking things more seriously the show could have been completely different. He knew they were wiping out everything that had to do with the west coast games and went along with it for the paycheck. He certainly doesn't have as much industry pull as either Nolan or R-D.

 

[CT Phipps]

You don't need to play the game to put pointless references in your product. House behaves absolutely nothing like he does in the actual game, so it's clear the showrunner hasn't played the game.

All House does is listen to the Vault-Tec crazy people.

They also make fun of Sinclair's idiotic casino in an especially deep cut.

Anyway, here's how I rank the games:

1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. Fallout 3
3. Fallout 2
4. Fallout
5. Fallout 4
6. Fallout 76

 

[Norzan]

All House does is listen to the Vault-Tec crazy people.

The few lines are enough that he's a completely different character. Again, the showrunner has not played New Vegas, or else House wouldn't say the dumb shit he says in the show.

They also make fun of Sinclair's idiotic casino in an especially deep cut.

Yet another character that is nothing like the one in the game, and it's impressive how wrong they got that character since he's not even physically in New Vegas.

It's clear that the writers just went to a wiki or saw videos when writing anything related to Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas.

 

[CT Phipps]

The few lines are enough that he's a completely different character. Again, the showrunner has not played New Vegas, or else House wouldn't say the dumb shit he says in the show.

I doubt it as I perfectly understand why House did what he did now. Mind you, I actually like the shade this adds to the canon character.

House is bragging about knowing the war was coming but he knew it was coming because assholes told him.

 

[Bradylama]

Every reference to the west coast games runs about as deep as a pimple. It's all fanservice easter eggs and none of it actually matters. Pre-war conspirators act out of character and don't even represent the interests of the companies they're agents of. These are props set up for you to feel a sense of recognition.

 

[DannyJ]

Glad to see the Long Man tackle this one. He covered just about every criticism I had of the show, and even some stuff I never noticed or thought of. This was cathartic to watch.

 

[Norzan]

I forgot to mention that i laughed my ass off during Mauler's recounting of the fight scene between Maximus and Cooper. The part Maximus's leg gets stuck between two wooden boards sent me to heaven (power armor allows a person to punch a brick wall to nothing, but not get a leg unstuck between two wooden boards), such a horrendous fight scene.

It seems even the action is really bad and that's usually the thing normies gravitate towards to.