Culture Amazon Prime Video's Fallout sci-fi show won't just "please fans" of the games - "I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you want to make and trusting that, as fans of the game [ourselves], we would find the pieces that were essential to us... and try to do the best version." the show's director said.

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Amazon will finally debut its most eagerly-awaited new series on its Prime Video streaming service next month and although, like The Last of Us, it's based on a video game, it hasn't solely been made for "the fans".

Speaking at a press event with T3 in attendance, the director and driving force behind the Fallout TV series, Jonathan Nolan, explained that setting out to simply appease the fans of the games would've been "a fool's errand".

"I don't think you really can set out to please the fans of anything," he said. "Or please anyone other than yourself.

"I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you want to make and trusting that, as fans of the game [ourselves], we would find the pieces that were essential to us... and try to do the best version."

But those worried that the Prime Video series will deviate too much from Fallout lore needn't – Nolan himself is a big fan of Bethesda's apocalyptic RPGs, which prompted him to co-create the show in the first place.

"It started, for me, with Fallout 3, which devoured about a year of my life," he added.

"I was an aspiring young writer at that point, and it almost derailed my entire career. It's so ludicrously playable and fun... seriously, the games were just incredible.

"It's such a rare and unbelievable thing that I've gotten to do twice in my career, to take something that you love and get a chance to play in that universe, to create your own version.

"The first go-round for me was Batman, and this time with Fallout – a a series of games that I absolutely loved."

So does that mean he's happy with the end result?

"It's kind of a fool's errand to try to figure out how to make [other] people happy... You've got to make yourself happy. And I've made myself very happy with the show."

The Fallout TV series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 12 April 2024 with all eight episodes available to binge from day one.

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[frozen_runner]

"It started, for me, with Fallout 3, which devoured about a year of my life," he added.

Oh no.

Oh nooooooooo.

 

[Tablet County]

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It's this image in the trailer that amuses me. What good is it to shoot at someone in point blank range when they've got Power Armor?

It'd be kind of justifiable if it was a raider hopped up on every chem in the new west, but are these not NCR militiamen or something?

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Jeff Bezos should be brained with a golf club for this (and a litany of other reasons).

Nigga doesn't care. He recently relocated from WA state to FL to save hundreds of millions in capital gain taxes for the lovely beaches.

What a happy coincidydink, though....

Jeff Bezos Reaps Florida Tax Benefit With $4 Billion Amazon Share Sale

Leaving Washington state, which in 2022 introduced a 7% tax on capital gains, could have saved Bezos $288 million in taxes after he unloaded $4 billion of Amazon.com Inc. stock in the past week.

Edit: What I originally meant to say is you'd think they'd have taken a look at the clusterfuck that was made of Halo by Paramount and not, ya know, used that as a blueprint.

Must admit I kinda thought one of the trailers looked okay, as somebody who knows shit about the game. 'Course despite having Amazon Prime I'd pirate the show anyways, now that Amazon Prime has added advertisements. Unskippable.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

"please fans" as in "please fans, watch it".
Power Armor is the one thing you shouldn't fuck up, because it's featured on every Fallout game cover except New Vegas. And yet, they did. Bethesda for all its faults NAILED the PA look and movement in the F4 intro. Why didn't you copy that?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

It started, for me, with Fallout 3

The one Fallout that everyone hates except filthy casuals. Bad sign.

 

[Blacklight]

I'm getting tons of catharsis watching people shit on Oxhorn and FalloutFilms for being massive paid shills for Amazon.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

The fuck is that, a mirelurk? Did they forget to paint the prop or something?

 

[Tablet County]

The fuck is that, a mirelurk? Did they forget to paint the prop or something?

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I hope that's what it is and not a wanamingo.

 

[CHARizard]

The fuck is that, a mirelurk? Did they forget to paint the prop or something?

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Could be a Gulper, which are fairly common enemies in 76 and the FO4 expansion. Giant mutated salamanders.

I'm a big 76 enjoyer and even I am not excited about this show. Making it take place in an already established area like Shady Sands is such a colossal mistake. If it took place in an area we hadnt seen yet we could hand wave inconsistencies away easier.

 

[blablabla]

I aint watching that shit
The only worthwile Fallout shit wasnt even Made by bethesda

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

The one Fallout that everyone hates except filthy casuals. Bad sign.

There are 3 kinds of Fallout fans:

• Those who prefer 1/2
• Those who prefer 3/NV/4
• The drooling retards who like 76 and will probably like this show

 

[mlanguishi]

Prime for fast/cheap shipping, fmoviez for all the streaming.

Literally WHY don't people use fmoviez for everything? All streaming and all encoded media is on it, free. Hook up a damn PC with hdmi to a TV if you have to, it's freaking worth it just to have every single media (more or less) streamed from one place, free.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

"I don't think you really can set out to please the fans of anything," he said. "Or please anyone other than yourself.

How to tell me you are making garbage without saying you are making garbage.

The point of buying an IP and using it in film is to draw in the built in audience and for some reason studios refuse to let this penetrate.

Fallout is a fucking niche market. It is far smaller than LoTR and out of the gate you are basically saying, "Fuck the fans I am going to do what gets me off."

I will be shocked if this is anything less than girl boss bullshit with a side helping of nigger worship that is written worse than a fatty drug commercial.

I am starting to think Amazon makes these heaps of shit as some kind of write off.

 

[X Prime]

We live in clown world, so this shit doesn't survive off views, it survives off engagement.

This man is actually correct.

It really is unbelievable how much of a show's success is based off of sustained Twitter engagement. Which is nightmarish when you remember that Twitter induces something similar to ADHD.

 

[DootSkeleton]

"I don't think you really can set out to please the fans of anything," he said.

Pleasing fans really isn't as hard as people think it is.
Look at the Mario movie. It was simply a Nintendo ad comprised of a giant circle jerk of Easter eggs and it was really entertaining. Fans loved it.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Pleasing fans really isn't as hard as people think it is.
Look at the Mario movie. It was simply a Nintendo ad comprised of a giant circle jerk of Easter eggs and it was really entertaining. Fans loved it.

Look at the Sonic movies. they actually listened when people complained about how he looked and they got the fans respect.

 

[Meat Target]

Look at the Sonic movies. they actually listened when people complained about how he looked and they got the fans respect.

Then why are his arms blue?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Then why are his arms blue?

call them and ask.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

There are 3 kinds of Fallout fans:

• Those who prefer 1/2
• Those who prefer 3/NV/4
• The drooling retards who like 76 and will probably like this show

An interesting observation about Fallout New Vegas it only took them 18 months to make one of the best RPGs of the 2010s
Fallout 4 took 4 years to develop and isn't even half as good
A lot of the writers for Fallout New Vegas as well as Fallout 2 as well as the CEO of black Isle Studios literally said they'd be willing to work on another Fallout game.

I really wish we lived in a time when we're Bethesda never got its hands on all these great IPS Fallout Wolfenstein

Sadly a lot of the great game design companies that were big from 1980 to the 2000s
Went bankrupt due to complete and utter mismanagement
Who in the right mind thinks it's a good idea to focus on Console games when your main Market is PC
Also why would an RPG company make sports games that's literally retarded.
Also why did they think it was a good idea to do a business deal with a video game company created by a bunch of Harvard lawyers

And now we get to experience gaming franchises be butchered by companies like Microsoft and Amazon

 

[Magic Sun Daddy]

Honestly, do whatever you want with it. Bethesda already lowered the bar down into the center of the earth when it comes to the writing and lore of the series, so I really can't bring myself to give a shit anymore.