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Todd howard put out the hit. The premiere with Tim Cain was the Red Wedding. I like that The brotherhood draw everything on graphing paper and send data via grid.
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grobbo posted:Everyone on Fallout reddit appears to be fighting furiously about this already, so that's a good sign. The year was 2277 aka the first battle of Hoover Dam, for the curious. Also the same year the courier set off the nukes in the Divide
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3 episodes in and honestly I can't vibe with any of the criticisms I've seen. The show is great so far, especially for a Fallout fan who's played all the games. But even on its own merits, great stuff.
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grobbo posted:Everyone on Fallout reddit appears to be fighting furiously about this already, so that's a good sign. The date is probably a mistake but when they move that capital several hundred miles south and replace it with a blast crater the size of a minor league stadium surrounded by undamaged cars and buildings, that's just lovely writing Also the final episode's credit sequence has Vegas in complete ruins
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Apr 11, 2024 08:26
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That seems like less of a writing and more of a production design issue.
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Tankbuster posted:lucy's brother looks like a bosmer 😭 It took me forever to remember where I've seen him before, he was in Ender's Game
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Apr 11, 2024 08:32
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I have a question about episode 1. In the vault, the raiders said - to Lucy's dad - them or her. Then they proceeded to blow up a part of the vault. Next scene in the vault they're all together again. What was the "them or her" all about then?
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Kavak posted:Also the final episode's credit sequence has Vegas in complete ruins Should never of trusted Yes Man to look after things. 
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Tankbuster posted:That seems like less of a writing and more of a production design issue. Well it's bad something.
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Apr 11, 2024 08:37
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they could have stenciled an 8.
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I keep hearing that episode 4 is where threads begin to come together and it's pretty amazing from then until the end. Anyone here feel the same?
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currently I am checking reddit and everyone is saying chris avellone should have written the script.
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Apr 11, 2024 09:03
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he should never write
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Tankbuster posted:Todd howard put out the hit. The premiere with Tim Cain was the Red Wedding. Having a Jet inhaler appear in Ep1 and the vault dweller immediately recognising what it is? That's Howard's retcon calling card, the sick bastard. He's toying with us.
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Stinky videogame writer: What if I nuke New Vegas because the post-post-apocalypse is kinda limiting where the game goes Todd Howard No. Hollywood showrunner: What if I nuke New Vegas because the post-post-apocalypse is too expensive and hard to shoot Todd Howard Yes.
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Tankbuster posted:Stinky videogame writer: What if I nuke New Vegas because the post-post-apocalypse is kinda limiting where the game goes Can't you just set your next game somewhere else? No.
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Apr 11, 2024 09:13
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if only there was some other coast that was still in the post-apocalypse stage and prominently featured BOS
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Kavak posted:
I think that was one of the ideas for an expansion that bethesda shut down when obsidian said so.
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Apr 11, 2024 09:28
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Todd's gonna need private security.
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Well, watching the first episode of the show made me realize, I don't give a gently caress about FalloutTM and especially not Bethesda's take on it. The game visuals feel intrusive. Haven't formed an opinion about the show as an independent thing, though it's feeling like content. Thom12255 posted:Todd's gonna need private security. Leave it to gamers to form hate brigades, there's absolute bonkers people with axes to grind with Todd.
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Apr 11, 2024 10:29
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dunno. This is better than Masters of the Air so far.
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Screenshots re: the lore spoilerblocks Chronologically, Fallout 3 is set in 2277 and New Vegas in 2281. And they show an obviously ruined Vegas at the very end of E8.   
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Tankbuster posted:dunno. This is better than Masters of the Air so far. It's too early for me to say, but subjectively I feel like this would work without the franchise baggage. I would enjoy this more if I knew nothing about FalloutTM. Probably going to mainline the rest of the episode as soon as I have time. This is competent "film"making - the worst I fear is being jerked around aimlessly until they pull the plug on the show.
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I know nothing of the fanchise baggage and this is great tv.
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The Brotherhood’s elder cleric is Michael Cristofer. He played Philip Price on Mr. Robot.
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Just watched episode 1. Really enjoyed it - all of it, actually. Not a single scene I didn't at least somewhat enjoy. The destruction in Vault 33 actually made me sad because they'd done such a nice job of making me care in about 15 minutes. I'm glad we seem to be sticking with that place as a part of the show. Also very efficient setup of mystery with the 'you look like your mother' from the Raider leader, Overseer knowing who she was but not at first, and this Enclave talk. Hooks well planted. The part I was most whatever on was the Brotherhood of Steel stuff, but it actually turned me around on it all pretty quickly. I especially liked the interrogation scene between Maximus and the Elder, who was very good. Everybody on the show has watchability. It didn't lean too far into goofy at all, at least not for me. Goofiness is definitely in the mix but it's not suffocating the thing and it's more just comic relief. I'm not huge on the Fallout games, and I don't know the lore particularly well, only completed 3+New Vegas, but I do like the world. I'm sure there will be a lot of discussion about how it matches up with that, but I'm gonna be happy to stay out of it and just take the show on its own merits. Some really nice music, too, especially in the Brotherhood of Steel scenes.
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lmao at michael rapaport being torn apart by a funny bear.
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Tankbuster posted:lmao at michael rapaport being torn apart by a funny bear. Shame it doesnt happen to him in real life.
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also thought the whole joke with lucy fooling around with her cousin all her life was good. 'we have rules about that for a reason' was a great line delivery.
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roomtone posted:Just watched episode 1. Really enjoyed it - all of it, actually. Not a single scene I didn't at least somewhat enjoy. the goofiness so far is well placed in context. The pre-war stuff is surprisingly decent.
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The NCR poo poo is legit super dumb, it cut off so many set up points in New Vegas that would have made for excellent stories in the future.
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So far, show good? Seems like the courier opted for the nuke both ending
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Some actual first-half thoughts: Most reviews seem to agree that Maximus' storyline and character is a low point, but I'm really enjoying him and the relative nuance and unpredictability with which his combination of petty awfulness and genuine courage plays out. Purnell and Goggins do a great job with character archetypes that are quite broad, and it's refreshing to have a murky rear end in a top hat of a third protagonist as a midpoint between them. The BoS characters repeatedly panicking and messing up as they try to fight horrifying Wasteland monsters is a good and funny bit, and the Gulper design with the fingers is fantastic, just a lovely bit of monster creation. There's a loosey-goosey carelessness that enters the storytelling pretty much as soon as Lucy leaves the Vault to keep everyone on the move and crossing paths with each other (the Ghoul noting that the Gulper digests slow and then immediately setting off on an arduous miles-away sidequest instead of just trying the baiting tactic again, for instance, is forced nonsense). No biggie, though. For me the low points are pretty much any scene featuring regular Wastelanders like those sequences in Filly - the wackiness feels strained and not massively funny, and the generic post-apoc extras-raiding-the-prop-closet-for-bowler-hats costume design thoroughly tired at this point, which makes those bits feel very, uh, Nuka Break. Sorry to Inkspotsheads out there, but the constant needle drops get real tired and uninspired real quick, I think (and their predictability makes the sudden bursts of original music, like the Ghoul's yodelling refrain, feel quite jarring). The first scene with Coop is a strong highlight, as is the encounter with Roger the ghoul - I think it's fair to say that Team Nolan seems to be a better fit for the pathos than the black comedy of the setting so far.
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maximus being a petty rear end in a top hat is really charming. His power armor testing montage is pretty good characterization too, just trying to larp as a storybook knight.
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The only issue I have with full season drops vs weekly is that there are people who literally hit play the second this thing was uploaded and watched all 8 episodes in a row through the night, because it's been out for a total of 10 hours right now, and are posting about the whole season which is nearly that long. I mean I can't stop em, and maybe I'd binge a season immediately in the .right circumstances, but the thing I like about weekly or at least staggered releases is it lets everybody have some time to get to the same point and talk about it for a while. Cos as it is, it's like, spoilers could be for ep1 or something that happens in the last 10 seconds.
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Todd will pay for his crimes
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RealityWarCriminal posted:Todd will pay for his crimes this but unironically
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he should never have picked out the fallout IP.
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This pretty good show is really bringing some of the biggest nut jobs on the internet out of the woodwork, hoo boy. Acting like Todd Howard personally ordered every copy of New Vegas confiscated and burned. It’s not! It’s installed on my computer right now!
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My flatmate is going to poo poo a loving brick over this show. He's got the metal suit helmet on his bedroom shelf.
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