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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[BikeLock]

If they're not making this to please the fans of the series then there is no point.

I got 30 seconds into the trailer and tapped out.

Worse than Fallout 76.

 

[thog]

I got 30 seconds into the trailer and tapped out.

Worse than Fallout 76.

I clicked off as soon as I saw that "ghoul."

I pray they don't try to adapt TES, they would make Lawd Dem Rangz look half decent by comparison.

 

[BikeLock]

Man, the moment that bitch went on a long speech about the ghoul being a big poopoo head, i knew what kind of people are behind this.

any other situation, the person would get shoot mid-sentence.

I expected the Ghoul to blow her brains out mid rant, which would both be on brand for the Fallout universe, and an appropriate response in the Fallout wasteland that I've played out MANY times before on various playthroughs of the games.

I checked out when a cringelord in a BoS T-45 Power Armor suit inserted himself not to just kill them both and take their tech gear.

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

Because Bethesda has made it clear that this show is canon with the games.

I’m not a Fallout fan by any means (I’ve never played any of the games), but with how many companies are canonizing retarded shit (political or otherwise) into once fantastic franchises, I prefer to adopt the viewpoint of “actually I think the official canon is gay and retarded so I’m ignoring it”

You can call it petulant cope all you want, but I’m just taking a cue from the troons. My story now, faggot. If I want to retcon some dumb bullshit you ruined a series I like with, than I will and you aren’t going to stop me.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

"welcome to the ouch motherfuckers" level of writing.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Fallout New Vegas sold a million more copies than Fallout 4

You got a source for that? Cause the only source I see says you're wrong by a huge margin, but it's VGcharts so I'd like something better if you have it. (it's apparently as of 2021, and I find that 1.4 million for 76 dubious)



Here's my source for the engagement, though.

 

[dustbuster]

I will never understand people who like the fallout series.

Its aesthetic is more depressing than a decaying polish commie block and its gameplay reminds me of every bland "girl with bow" open worlder put out by sweet baby adjacent companies.
I've had the displeasure of seeing stream after stream from the franchise and those that didn't put me to sleep depressed me into booze.

 

[Begemot]

fucking console peasant.

If amazon or netflix is involved, it's gonna be shit no matter what. But when you add in the fallout 3/bethesda mouthbreathers you get pure certified fucking monkeypox diarrhea.

Imagine guzzling todd howard's poz load and thinking you know Fallout and that you're qualified to produce a show based on it.

This is exactly on the same level as faggot fans of the ubisoft deus ex abominations who are missing the 30 extra iq points required to develop and appreciation or understanding of what made the original great.



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I think you mean the superior Ubisoft Deus Ex games, sweetie. The ones that aren't conspiritard dated jank.

 

[Mango Cobra]

From the looks of it, they have already done huge damage to the lore. In the trailers Shady Sands, one of the most important settlements in FO and FO2 and the capitol city if the New California Republic, is a massive crater. It looks to me that Bethesda was so salty over fans preferring New Vegas because it was crated by people who made the original games and was closer in tone and more lore accurate to the OG Fallout games that they decided to nuke the NCR and ruin the lore. Because Bethesda has made it clear that this show is canon with the games.

Blame Lonesome Road. I think it was Chris Avvelone, but he hated the NCR as a functional nation state, and wanted to reset the setting and that's why you can nuke the NCR. Bethesda saying "fine whatever the NCR is gone now" would be going along with what he wanted.

 

[Misericordia]

Blame Lonesome Road. I think it was Chris Avvelone, but he hated the NCR as a functional nation state, and wanted to reset the setting and that's why you can nuke the NCR. Bethesda saying "fine whatever the NCR is gone now" would be going along with what he wanted.

The NCR didn't exist in Fallout 1, and it wasn't portrayed in a particularly stellar light in Fallout 2, or New Vegas. Whining about "ruining" the NCR makes no sense to me. As if being a fan of the old Fallout games implies you must adore the NCR for some reason.

 

[Conan]

Narrative wise, fallout 1 has probably the most straightforward and movie friendly plot, at least in terms of beats and pacing. A major reason fallout 1 is so good, imo, is the fact that's it's the only entry in the series that learned to cut the fat.

It's laser focused, it has an act structure if you play the game without intentionally sequence skipping, no one thing ever overstays it's welcome.
Even it's sequel immediately tried stuffing as much new wacky shit as possible into the world.

i get that just by the sale numbers fallout 3, nv, 4 etc were far more successful and are the entry points most everyone familiar with the series knows, but man if there was one story in fallout that would fit in a two hour movie, or even stretched for a miniseries, it'd be the first game.

 

[Mango Cobra]

The NCR didn't exist in Fallout 1, and it wasn't portrayed in a particularly stellar light in Fallout 2, or New Vegas. Whining about "ruining" the NCR makes no sense to me. As if being a fan of the old Fallout games implies you must adore the NCR for some reason.

I'm just saying g what the lead dev of FNV who worked on the old games felt about the NCR, and why he included a "Nuke the NCR" option while Ulysses goes "BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BIG BLACK BULL FUCKS BEAR BULL BEAR BULL".

Also, the NCR is flawed. It's not a bad nation to live in, all things considered, and if you live in one of the cities there the standard of living isnt much worse than what we have, with private ownership of cars being a thing, but the Brahmin Barons are ruining it and forming their own version of the Enclave (only less cool) with president Kimball and General Oliver at the head. The best hope for the NCR to not end up becoming USA 2 with all the same issues the pre-war USA had is if they lose the Mojave war to Mr House or an Independent New Vegas, with the Ranger Chief not being exposed for trying to sabotage the war effort. He becomes a major politician who is pushing againts the NCR's current trajectory of "The NCR is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding NCR" (per the ending slides) general Oliver likely commits suicide (per mr house's calculatons), and Kimball, the guy who is in the pocket of the Brahman barons, gets all the blame for the waste or life and resources.

Also the NCR does exist in fallout 1... In the epilogues if you don't side with the raiders (Khans) and help shady sands.

 

[Marmite Despiser]

I think you mean the superior Ubisoft Deus Ex games, sweetie. The ones that aren't conspiritard dated jank.

avatar checks out. fuck yourself pissfilter-nigger. maybe get an aug that will help you understand why the ceiling birds sing

 

[Mango Cobra]

Narrative wise, fallout 1 has probably the most straightforward and movie friendly plot, at least in terms of beats and pacing. A major reason fallout 1 is so good, imo, is the fact that's it's the only entry in the series that learned to cut the fat.

It's laser focused, it has an act structure if you play the game without intentionally sequence skipping, no one thing ever overstays it's welcome.
Even it's sequel immediately tried stuffing as much new wacky shit as possible into the world.

100%
You have a small cast of characters:
The Vault Dweller, the naive but smart outsider
Ian, the caravan guard who joins up early and is more experienced with the outside world
Tycho, so you can use the awesome as cool desert ranger design from new vegas that is just-as iconic as the power armor despite only being in a single game, as well as being a veteran desert ranger who knows the wasteland like the back of his hand
Dogmeat because... Dogmeat is one mean dog in F01
And Katja, who is a danger hair girl boss who likes to use CQC weapons and grew up in the boneyard and knows how to survive in the ruins of a city, unlike Tycho and Ian who are more of a "We can survive in the wastes" type of characters.

It's genuinely perfect for a TV show. Shame they didn't do that.

 

[Begemot]

avatar checks out. fuck yourself pissfilter-nigger. maybe get an aug that will help you understand why the ceiling birds sing

The continual unknown beeping noise in Black folx houses finna be a blatant tool used by white supremacists to enslave BIPOC folx. We know all bout yo tricknology, mayo ghoul...

 

[Tablet County]

I clicked off as soon as I saw that "ghoul."

I pray they don't try to adapt TES, they would make Lawd Dem Rangz look half decent by comparison.

THLMR is the only adaptation of TES worth watching.

 

[Kulee Baba]

100%
You have a small cast of characters:
The Vault Dweller, the naive but smart outsider
Ian, the caravan guard who joins up early and is more experienced with the outside world
Tycho, so you can use the awesome as cool desert ranger design from new vegas that is just-as iconic as the power armor despite only being in a single game, as well as being a veteran desert ranger who knows the wasteland like the back of his hand
Dogmeat because... Dogmeat is one mean dog in F01
And Katja, who is a danger hair girl boss who likes to use CQC weapons and grew up in the boneyard and knows how to survive in the ruins of a city, unlike Tycho and Ian who are more of a "We can survive in the wastes" type of characters.

It's genuinely perfect for a TV show. Shame they didn't do that.

They didn’t want to play it. Even be half assed to watch a YouTube playthrough.

Also I wouldn’t be surprised if you might have to pay the old Interplay staff some residuals for adapting characters they wrote.

Like they say in this “We want to tell an ALL NEW STORY in the Fallout Universe.” That means hell no they’re not going to adapt Harold or The Master into this.

 

[BatterHomes&Gardens]

Are you telling me you deliberately entered a thread regarding a topic you don't care for and now you're upset?
How could this be happening to you?

yall are adult men crying about a video game.

i am interested too. excuse me for busting balls a little bit.

thanks for contrubiting and answering the quetion.

 

[Meat Target]

Ah yes, nothing says atompunk wasteland than.. cowboys?

They probably think a superficial imitation of New Vegas's Western vibe is enough.

 

[Tablet County]

yall are adult men crying about a video game.

i am interested too. excuse me for busting balls a little bit.

thanks for contrubiting and answering the quetion.

Incorrect. We are crying about a shitty tv show based on a video game.