Fallout

Caliane said:

is s2 worth watching for the laughs?

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Yes.

Caliane said:

is s2 worth watching for the laughs?

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Depends on whether you think you'd find a slapstick parody of Fallout funny or not, because that's what the show has become.

Vorph said:

Depends on whether you think you'd find a slapstick parody of Fallout funny or not, because that's what the show has become.

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Fallout hasn’t been grimdark serious ever. The Tv show is pretty on par theme wise with the 3D fallouts

I hope we get more Culkin and Uncle rico lol. Took me a second to realize that was him

If you view Fallout's "satire" flag as permission for Hollywood Leftists to build the most nonsensical version of capitalism trumping basic logic, it's not bad, though even this TV budget leads to a lot of tell don't show moments.

As a canonical entry in the Fallout universe that is invalidating every game it can get its hand on as quickly as possible (starting with the non-Bethesda material first, of course), I'm not sure the vandalism is worth the great production and costume design work.

Did you even play the games? Doesn't matter what the original creator claims his intent was, the games pretty much boil down to "some greedy corporations, people with no morals, and power hungry dudes fuck over the world and now we live in a wasteland". The games will even show good corporations....that get fucked over by larger, greedier ones. Which isn't unrealistic to be honest

Cybsled said:

Fallout hasn’t been grimdark serious ever. The Tv show is pretty on par theme wise with the 3D fallouts

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...if every character had the Idiot Savant perk and Wild Wasteland was considered canon.

Even then comparing it to the Bethesda games is a stretch, and it's not even remotely close to New Vegas in tone. I didn't think it could get more egregious than what they did with the Brotherhood of Steel in eps 1 & 2, but they set the bar at a new low with their treatment of the Legion. Which of course was made infinitely worse because the entire Legion subplot included Lucy, who is easily one of the most insufferable characters ever written. I didn't think that type of character could ever get more annoying than the one Emily Blunt played in Sicario, but Lucy MacLean is her dialed up to 11. Seeing her do another patronizing lecture to a group like Caesar's Legion and essentially get away with zero repercussions while they acted like yet another bunch of bumbling idiots was the final straw for me.

She was crucified and left to die - only reason she didn't is because the Ghoul passed his speech check

Imagine these people if the Bridgekeeper showed up.

Tuco said:

The legion was dumb AF in FNV and they protrayed them precisely in the show.

They were always a bunch of dorks cosplaying in the desert.

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Tuco said:

The legion was dumb AF in FNV and they protrayed them precisely in the show.

They were always a bunch of dorks cosplaying in the desert.

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The hypocrisy of "gamers" today is honestly breathtaking. Half the people screeching about adaptations being "unfaithful" to the source material clearly never played the games they're pretending to defend. Fallout is just the latest sacrificial lamb for this performative outrage, and the irony is thick enough to cut with a Super Sledge.

This forum is absolutely infested with virtue-signaling, terminally miserable crybabies who seem less interested in Fallout and more interested in lamenting the "state of civilization." They cosplay as cultural historians, clutching some imaginary golden age of media where everything was Serious, Deep, and "Made By Real Artists". While conveniently ignoring that the things they idolize were just as goofy, messy, contradictory, and tonally unhinged as what we get now.

Fallout has always been a parody. From day one. This is a franchise where you can get vaporized by a man in football pads named something like "Big Jim the Skullfucker," then immediately listen to a 1940s jingle about how everything's fine. The games are stuffed with sight gags, absurd violence, dark slapstick, and cartoonish brutality. You take a perk literally called Bloody Mess that turns human bodies into confetti, but suddenly the TV show is "too silly"? Please.

Fallout 1 - You can run a low INT playthrough where your character can only communicate with grunts and broken sentences. Entire conversations are slapstick routines about how stupid you are. You can find "The TARDIS" as a random encounter. Etc.

Fallout 2 - Interact with a sentient, sarcastic computer that acts like a petty HR manager and wander into pop-culture references so blatant they might as well wink at the camera - The Bridge of Death is just a giant Monty Python reference. The porn studio questline where you can become a porn star. You can get branded as the "Childkiller" if you kill enough kids. Etc.

What's really happening is much simpler - these people don't want faithfulness. They want their memory of the game preserved in amber, filtered through nostalgia, stripped of all the dumb, loud, obvious satire they tolerated back when they were younger and less bitter. They want to pretend Fallout was some grim, solemn meditation on post-apocalyptic suffering, instead of a franchise where you can wear a mascot head, do jet, and accidentally explode a town because someone dared you to push a button.

And this isn't unique to Fallout. It happens with all kinds of media now. It's the same boomer-tier nostalgia spiral every time. They posture, they whine, they circlejerk each other with "it's not like the good old days," hoping no one points out that the "good old days" were just as ridiculous, if not more so. It's the same energy as old men ranting about how music died after Vietnam or how Reagan fixed everything. Empty grievance, zero self-awareness.

The Fallout show didn't betray the games. It understands them perfectly. What it betrayed was the fantasy these people built in their heads where their favorite franchise was somehow above satire, above adaptation, and above change. And instead of admitting that, they'd rather pretend the problem is the show. Because god forbid they admit they've just turned into the exact kind of miserable, culture-war scold they used to laugh at.

'Memba those? Garfield does.

My wife has never played a Fallout game other then the one you can play on your iPad to build a base.

She has no problem following along because paying attention inst hard. In fact you are probably better off if you haven't played any of them because you wont be whining that they pronounced Ceaser wrong or why 2 dipshits in the desert dont understand they are the only two NCR people left.

Oh no someone is saying hyper-capitalism is bad (guess what it fucking is)

Not a whole lot went on besides story setups, although I lol'd at the addicted to Buffout bit because that is the one chem in Fallout I always had an issue with because you needed it to boost carry weight

I would've laughed really hard if: