Fallout : TV show

[FourWheelDrift]

Fallout the Bethesda post-apocalyptic game world is coming to TV on Amazon Prime

https://www.destructoid.com/stories/a-fallout-show...

by the makers of Westworld.....so um.....that might be good for the first series then....or.....

[BIRMA]

I always thought it would make a good film, and with todays CGI the Supermutants and Deathclaws should be scary let's hope there's not too many Feral Ghouls otherwise it'll be written off as another zombie apocalypse film.

[InitialDave]

There's been some really good fan made films and short series over the years, so if they can do a good job, I'll be looking forward to it.

[Mastodon2]

Well, they haven't managed to make a good game with the IP in years so I don't see the harm in trying a TV show.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mastodon2 said:

Well, they haven't managed to make a good game with the IP in years so I don't see the harm in trying a TV show.

Then a game based on the TV show to follow.

[KrazyIvan]

It'll be badly made, it wont be free and will likely require payment to get to the next 12 minutes of each show, and even when its pointed out their pissing over all their fans, they'll just shrug and go "yeah and", oh and it wont really fit in with the time line of the games before it.

[FourWheelDrift]

KrazyIvan said:

It'll be badly made, it wont be free and will likely require payment to get to the next 12 minutes of each show, and even when its pointed out their pissing over all their fans, they'll just shrug and go "yeah and", oh and it wont really fit in with the time line of the games before it.

After 5 minutes the main character gets stuck into a dialogue loop, his companion has a physics glitch and the screen goes blue.

[JagLover]

The world of Fallout could make for a great TV show.

From the creators of Westworld though............. . Not sure they are the right people to be honest. Westworld had a great first season but I am not sure the things that made it great would be similar to what is needed for Fallout. Once the Westworld people needed to create a world, rather than a cliched western world, season 3 world is what they came up with.

[EDLT]

FourWheelDrift said:

Mastodon2 said:

Well, they haven't managed to make a good game with the IP in years so I don't see the harm in trying a TV show.

Then a game based on the TV show to follow.

After the success of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game it would be a no brainer.

[bloomen]

I'll be interested to see what they make of it. If they jettison the tone of the games completely I can imagine it might be a bit of a slog.

One of the beauties of the current content creating frenzy is everything you've vaguely wondered would make a good screen effort may well happen.

This is the synopsis of an earlier stillborn film of it - https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_film_treat...

[glazbagun]

I think it's time may have passed. Fallout 1&2 had great plots, but 25 years later it'd just be another post-apocalypse movie.

The real joy of Fallout was the varieties of societies that had sprung up and their relation to the old world. I don't think you could explore it all in a single protagonist-led series.

[Sophisticated Sarah]

It has potential, maybe with a long story arc plus occasional “monster of the week” format.

[FourWheelDrift]

Jonathan Nolan will be directing the first episode.

[motorizer]

This could be really good or really st, be interesting to find out

glazbagun said:

The real joy of Fallout was the varieties of societies that had sprung up and their relation to the old world. I don't think you could explore it all in a single protagonist-led series.

I hope it's not a single protagonist series, that's ok for a game where you're the player or a film but for several hours of series I'd much prefer multiple protagonists and storylines over ten hours of some square jawed generic hero solving everything. I think multiple main characters could explore the different options you had in character creation too, (dumb muscle bound fighters, science nerds, exceptionally lucky or unlucky characters etc.. plus some daft perks and traits)

[frisbee]

I liked the pre-fallout world in Fallout 4, I think it could work really well with flash backs, life in a vault and outside.

[HARTLEYHARE1]

This better be good as cannot think of a game to movie challenge with hitting it home

Even the odd freeze up is allowed, vegas was borderline unplayable but we managed to get it finished only due to sheer quality of the franchise

[Clockwork Cupcake]

frisbee said:

I liked the pre-fallout world in Fallout 4, I think it could work really well with flash backs, life in a vault and outside.

Yes, that was a lot of fun.

I rather fell out of love with Fallout4 as it kind of destroyed the whole post-apocalyptic conceit due to having robots and advanced tech and the like. Civilisation has pretty much rebuilt itself yet nobody has cleared up the detritus and skeletons after 200-odd years. It just annoyed me a bit.

[JonChalk]

I really enjoyed 3 and New Vegas on the 360 and 4 on the One.

Plus, I actually liked all 3 series of Westworld.

Hard to see how I'm not going to like this, given my demonstrably low threshold for enjoyment and poor taste

[HARTLEYHARE1]

A bit worrying that only a few here discussing it ??

[JagLover]

HARTLEYHARE1 said:

A bit worrying that only a few here discussing it ??

It's not even started production yet I think?

Not sure how much buzz it will have at this early stage and in any case Amazon is the worst studio for respecting original IP so excitement will be muted until we can see it.