Weird. I really enjoyed it. Loved the characters, liked the story, and all the little nods to the games and fandom were nice and didn’t feel out of place. Probably one of the better adaptations I’ve seen.
Same. Ragebait headline.
Maybe the title was changed after posting, but it’s more reasonable on the actual article
“A bad TV show no one will remember in 3 months…”: Some Fallout Fans are Gatekeeping Pretty Hard after New Vegas Revelations and Retcons Send Them Over the Edge
it got better halfway through or so (as a person who never played the games) but really had to just go with the ridiculousness of the world.
I’m glad they kept the ridiculousness. They could have made it super serious and edgy, and I don’t think it would have fit as well.
yeah. once I treated it as more a fantasy show and less a scifi it greatly improved my experience.
Gamers are so fucking weird. Really enjoyed the show. Hope they make 2nd season.
Yeah this is the first I’ve heard of it being bad. Everywhere else, I’ve read it’s pretty good.
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not so bad that Fallout fans won’t stick with it for butchering the IP.
Todd already beat them to the punch on that account.
The only way to go is up
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@0xtero @delitomatoes same here but I guess it rakes the clicks in.
Old fart FO player since the very first btw.
This is a great TV adaptation of a game (that isn’t exactly known for it’s “great” story writing as well)
I hate to say this, but it’s almost better at Fallout than Fallout.
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Lol, bullshit. 94%/88% on RT.
The show is awesome, and has already been greenlit for S02. It would have been so easy to fuck this show up, but they knocked it out of the park. As an avid player of the games, I loved it! This reviewer doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
I think the show is solid, but I did notice at one point that it’s basically a reskin of Westworld and now I can’t unsee it.
I mean, naive girl gets the nature of her world redefined for her and is poised to become a revolutionary fighter? That happens.
A ruthless, cruel cowboy who isn’t a cowboy but plays one for a long time, has god mode on and looks like an actor you know was left in the sun for too long? Surprisingly specific, but yep.
Is actually based on a videogame full of NPCs? In different ways but yeah.
Beloved older actor plays a figure of corporate authority with a secret plan? Getting into stretch territory but I see it.
I still enjoyed it, though. Looks so much better than the trailers, too, and it took me a while to realize it’s because the trailers really had to hide the gore so they looked really cosplay-y. Hard to look cosplay-y with so many chunks flying around.
This is such a high level description that it is a meaningless comparison. The fact that Fallout doesn’t take itself nearly as seriously as Westworld is already a huge difference. Sometimes the implementation is what is valuable, not the idea.
Well… you know, it’s the same people exploring the same ideas through the same archetypes. I think that comes through pretty clearly. All joking about specifics aside, it’s kinda hard to miss once you notice.
At some point we’re gonna get to the synths parts and I’m expecting blow for blow repeated scenes at this point.
Most stories fall into one of a few archetypes at least since the time of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The show is not high art. No one will be winning an Emmy for acting. It certainly doesn’t warrant the high rating on RT. But it’s entertaining, engaging, visually stimulating and a fantastic adaptation of the games.
If you’re expecting a Last of Us calibre deep dive into society and the human condition coping with an apocalypse, you’ll be disappointed. If you’re expecting a fun romp through the wastelands with body parts gratuitously exploding into red mist, then look no farther!
The Ghoul definitely picked Bloody Mess as one of his perks.
One of us! One of us!
Best review I’ve seen so far
It certainly doesn’t warrant the high rating on RT. But it’s entertaining, engaging, visually stimulating and a fantastic adaptation of the games
Which is it? because an entertaining engaging, visually stimulating show which is also a fantastic adaptation of its source material should have a good rating
I’ve basically given up on ratings and threads about ratings because every idiot thinking they sound bright, reduce everything to either “best ever, Jebus herself couldn’t make it better” or “dog shit that will make you pray for cancer to take your disappointment away”
PS: not referring to you (person I’m replying to) when taking about idiots that polarize everything… Referring in general to polarizers (that’s a word, right?)
I couldn’t wade through the first episode of the Last of Us. I watched this entire thing in one sitting and have now seen most of it twice. It deserves a decent score on RT.
Without having seen the series I’m guessing yours is probably the most accurate descriptor I’ve seen so far.
Whenever it comes to fandoms like this, the camps are always so divided in extremes. And neither camp is usually correct.
I mean, I saw Twisted Metal season 1 and it was not good by means an “actual reviewer” would stand by. But was it enjoyable? Sure. (Probably more so if I was high while watching it.) Will it be remembered? Not by a long shot.
The Fallout TV Show is likely better than TM, but I doubt it will remembered alongside Breaking Bad, The Sopranos or even Futurama for that matter.
I’ve played all the Fallout games, my wife has played none of them. We are both enjoying it quite a bit so far, at least two episodes in.
Yeah my wife and I have played both and were part way through the third episode and are really enjoying it.
Similar boat, except my wife actually got hooked on FO76 a couple of months back and loved it.
I skip a lot of adaption shows or remakes, so she basically forced me to start it, but I wound up really enjoying it. We’re trying not to binge it all in a day, so I’m only halfway through, but I look forward to watching it.
I think the show is actually a pretty good adaptation.
Yeah I was thinking… would a Fallout show be goofy and colorful, or dark and horrific? Amazon said, yes. And it’s great.
Fandomwire wants clicks, clearly.
Psh everyone I’ve talked to that’s seen it loved it
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The title/headline is purely for engagement, right? It has to be.
I haven’t seen it yet but I haven’t heard a single negative thing about the show yet. Only praise and lots of “it’s way better than I expected”
I finished watching it yesterday. Personally, I loved it and this is the first negative thing I’ve heard about it.
Tbh the way some people dote on this show makes it a little intimidating to throw out a criticism.
It’s not bad, and I’ll certainly watch the whole thing, but as of the first two episodes I’m hovering around a 5-6/10.
I fully expect to be utterly whelmed by it.
Honestly as long as it’s entertaining me, it doesn’t need to be the best show to ever exist. I don’t love The Fift Element because it’s high cinema. I love it because it’s fun.
Cold takes from crybabies.
I’m a franchise loyalist and I am so, so, so past caring about this New Vegas shit. There’s no guarantees that New Vegas isn’t in despair off an external shot. And even if it is, I’m interested in hearing how it goes.
The show was great.
I enjoyed the show. Even my wife who doesn’t like these types of shows enjoyed it mostly besides the gore. She liked the different perspectives from the main characters
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Retconning the only modern Fallout game with a decent story and good writing as opposed to all the garbage they put out.
Never change, Bethesda.
