I forgot about the biggest “fourth wall/meta/game logic” moment in the show. The fucking automated turret. It’s like a couple feet away and fires probably a hundred rounds and doesn’t hit either the dog or the scientist. Wtf? Like what the fuck is actually going on there? That has to be a game reference somehow. I know the rest of the action in this show is dumb and John woo kill bill esque but they want to have these silly action scenes and a serious story. It just doesn’t translate to live action.
Absolutely. I guess they couldn't make the turret just disappeared like in F76, so they went with that.
As I had mentioned in my post about the series, it's a translation of the cartoonesque, silly Bethesda Fallout, where you get a rocket launcher that fires teddy bears at people, where people subsist in fridges for the sake of a nod to an even worse movie, where the game loading screens encourage you to use a portative naval cannon because urk urk funny boom boom.
It's why I think the show is visually a success based on the directives given : someone here mentions everything looks like cardboard sets, and it's on purpose in my opinion. The latest games look that. So yeah, it looks crap but I still find it a sign of some sort of competence to have managed to carry that goofy look and feel from the games to the TV screen. Not that it's what I wanted to see, don't get me wrong...
Same goes for the general "smoothing" - I can't believe I didn't mention in my post about the apperance of Walton Ghoulggins, but someone has so thanks to them.
That, too, was started in the games.
I mean
And now it's one step further.
I'm guessing soon they'll just be standard humans, slightly pale.
Not sure if it's supposed to be a Comedy outright, but the mix doesn't work. It did in F2 because the silly bits were isolated and not the overarching tone and premise of the game. Same goes for NV.
I'm expecting more of this in the future season 2, I bet they're going to disseminate easter eggs with shots passing over "wild wasteland" type stuff - something dumb passes in the background, characters look at each other giong "huh?" then action resumes and fans go apeshit on Twitter praising the great reference to the "game material".