Haven't seen any post about Fallout

I watched it knowing nothing about the game series except that it was a post-nuclear war world. It has a really good mix of dark and twisted with tongue in cheek humor / satire. Plus, Walton Goggins is always great and if he's in something, I'll usually enjoy it. Even my wife, who is not a video game fan, and not much of a sci-fi fan liked it.

I enjoyed the series enough, I'm now finally playing one of the games. It didn't hurt that it got a next-gen update shortly after the series came out... and it was all free for me. Back when the PS5 first launched, and for the first couple years, if you had a PS5 and PSN account, they gave you a catalogue of PS4 games that were yours to "claim" and download for free. You didn't even have to download them. All you had to do was "claim" them, and you owned the game to download any time you wanted. It was similar to how they give out a couple free games every month. But this catalogue had a ton of very good, and popular games in it. So I got to play several games I had never played before and didn't even know if I'd like but found a few favorites in the process. Games like God of War, Batman Arkham Knight, Days Gone (which is awesome and rumored to be coming as a TV series too), etc. One of the games was Fallout 4. I had no interest in it really. My only reference to the game was very old still shots from the earliest games which didn't really pique my interest. But I claimed it anyway figuring maybe I'll get bored and want to try it some day.

So not long after the series came out, they released a next gen version of the game (updated graphics, higher resolution and frame rate). The kicker was, it was free if you already owned the game. So I got it for free. I'm having a lot of fun playing it and like it enough, I just bought all of the DLC (which is currently on sale for peanuts too).

 

I am too. Which is why after 2 weeks, I don't think I've even scratched the surface of the story.

There's a line in the show that I think was put in on purpose as a wink to players. After a character scolds another about "the Golden Rule," he retorts after changing plans, "We have our own Golden Rule in the wasteland: thou shalt be distracted by bull**** every G-D time."

(censored for the board filter)

 

I’m almost done with the series. Good, fun TV. I have never played the games, but I’m going to check out the most recent one on PC IF it’s first person (I only like first person games).

 

It is. You can pull it out to 3rd person if you want, but it's first person by default.

There's a TON of mods for even console players. Some of the PC ones are crazy. LOL

 

Not gonna go full spoiler, but I think there’s an even larger WTF with the plot towards the end than not seeing Alia.

 

I'm not even wasting my time.

 

It would have been more accurate, and even more entertaining if it was just 3 hours of the director smelling his own farts.

It's a crying shame when the Sci-Fi channel, with a budget 1/100th of what you got, made a better adaptation. (Not that it was great either. But of the three adaptations, so far, the best).

Visually, the movie was mostly awesome. I didn't care for a few costume / appearance decisions. But overall, they got the visuals close to what you would imagine. Everything else was a slow, dull, slog to get through. I can't imagine how anyone who never read the books made it even 15 minutes.

 

I read the books…. 35 years ago, and it’s probably a good thing it’s been so long because my limited recollection of the book didn’t kill part 1 for me at all. Part 2 was great visually as well, but the story really got off track. More so even than part 1.

I don’t think it was even close to being as egregious as what was done with GOT at the end. That was a crime.