Bethesda's Fallout TV Show Boss Shares Details That Might Get Gamers Riled Up

[Guest]

 

Video games are still an incredibly popular source for film adaptation, despite the fact that few movies based on games are actually seen as any good. Recently, we’ve seen a new approach with popular titles like The Last of Us and Fallout being adapted as TV series rather than film. Whether it works remains to be seen, but these two shows, while both being based on games will be quite different in their approach, because while The Last of Us is expected to be a reasonably faithful adaptation of the first game, it turns out the Fallout series won’t actually be based on any of the games.

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Fallout is an incredibly popular game series whose first entry arrived from developer Interplay in 1997. However, since Fallout 3’s release in 2008, the franchise has been run by game publisher Bethesda Softworks. The more recent Fallout games have nearly all been big hits, the less said about Fallout 76 the better, so fans might be hoping to see a Fallout series from Amazon that adapts the story from one of the games, but Bethesda’s Todd Howard recently told Lex Fridman that the series will be set in the same world as the games, but will tell a new story. He explained… 

 

While it’s understandable that there are probably fans who would love to see Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 adapted directly, it makes some sense why they might consider going in a different direction. While the Fallout games have a main storyline, as open world games full of different things for the player to do, that main story is just part of what fans of the games love, and it might not even be the part they love most. A movie, or even a TV series, would likely need to focus on the main storyline, and thus the flavor of the game would get lost, as the open world games became a linear story on a screen.

And the Fallout games themselves have largely been their own stories. While the games are numbered sequels, they have not been the continuing adventures of one character like the Uncharted games, which turned it's film adaptation into a Nathan Drake prequel story. Each Fallout story has been a new adventure in the world, so it makes sense the show will be just one more. 

A brand new story that isn’t tied to the games will have fewer expectations as to how it will be told, it can focus more on a single story without baggage, or even be a series of disconnected adventures like a bunch of side quests. And the story can still be connected to the games, as the world of the Amazon series will still be the same world as the games. The events of the Fallout games still happened here, characters from the games could even still show up. What will ultimately look like we still don't really know, it's too early, but it does look like the Wasteland is coming.

Edited December 2, 2022 by caveman74

[katrina.balanchuk]

I am ok with that.

I just hope it does not take away writers from Fallout 5.

[Krolista]

Don't know about anyone else, but I've always expected the show to be a new separate story or stories. Honestly I would be rather disappointed if it was just a rehash of the storyline of Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, we've already played those stories through, and they are complete in my opinion.

 

The bigger question is whether the show is going to suck or not, and unfortunately I'm expecting it to be MEH.

 

Edited December 3, 2022 by Krolista

[Miauzi]

Vor 4 Stunden sagte Krolista:

Ich weiß nicht, wie es jemand anderem geht, aber ich habe immer erwartet, dass die Show eine neue separate Geschichte oder Geschichten sein wird. Ehrlich gesagt wäre ich ziemlich enttäuscht, wenn es nur eine Wiederholung der Geschichte von Fallout 3 oder Fallout 4 wäre, wir haben diese Geschichten bereits durchgespielt, und sie sind meiner Meinung nach vollständig.

 

Die größere Frage ist, ob die Show scheiße wird oder nicht, und leider erwarte ich, dass sie MEH wird.

 

if it's just the "vanilla" plot, it's going to be absolute shit
in Fallout 4, the "Vanilla" plot doesn't even provide a complete background - a "foreground" (viable story for the main character) doesn't even exist...
..so that it would be a filmable variant, you have to add 95% - just like players do with their various quest mods.

[Krolista]

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42 minutes ago, Miauzi said:

if it's just the "vanilla" plot, it's going to be absolute shit
in Fallout 4, the "Vanilla" plot doesn't even provide a complete background - a "foreground" (viable story for the main character) doesn't even exist...
..so that it would be a filmable variant, you have to add 95% - just like players do with their various quest mods.

 

 

Something might have mistranslated. When I say the plot of Fallout 4 is complete, I mean it has already been shown or told in Fallout 4. Making a show that just retold the story of Fallout 4, just in a cinematic version instead of a video game, would in my opinion be a waste.

[Miauzi]

Vor 56 Minuten sagte Krolista:

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Irgendwas könnte falsch übersetzt worden sein. Wenn ich sage, dass die Handlung von Fallout 4 abgeschlossen ist, meine ich, dass sie bereits in Fallout 4 gezeigt oder erzählt wurde. Eine Show zu machen, die nur die Geschichte von Fallout 4 nacherzählt, nur in einer Kinoversion anstelle eines Videospiels, würde mir gefallen Meinung eine Verschwendung sein.

any film adaptation of "Fallout 4" or even "Fallout something" by a Mister T.H. is involved in it.

The "Resident Evil" live-action films are a deterrent example - the main character is only cast as Madam J. because she is the producer's wife (or was it the director).

Yes - the whole thing runs under the term "milk the cash cow" until it becomes a skeleton.

[LT12Gauge]

On 12/2/2022 at 4:58 PM, caveman74 said:

 

Video games are still an incredibly popular source for film adaptation, despite the fact that few movies based on games are actually seen as any good. Recently, we’ve seen a new approach with popular titles like The Last of Us and Fallout being adapted as TV series rather than film. Whether it works remains to be seen, but these two shows, while both being based on games will be quite different in their approach, because while The Last of Us is expected to be a reasonably faithful adaptation of the first game, it turns out the Fallout series won’t actually be based on any of the games.

null© Bethesda Softworks

Fallout is an incredibly popular game series whose first entry arrived from developer Interplay in 1997. However, since Fallout 3’s release in 2008, the franchise has been run by game publisher Bethesda Softworks. The more recent Fallout games have nearly all been big hits, the less said about Fallout 76 the better, so fans might be hoping to see a Fallout series from Amazon that adapts the story from one of the games, but Bethesda’s Todd Howard recently told Lex Fridman that the series will be set in the same world as the games, but will tell a new story. He explained… 

 

While it’s understandable that there are probably fans who would love to see Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 adapted directly, it makes some sense why they might consider going in a different direction. While the Fallout games have a main storyline, as open world games full of different things for the player to do, that main story is just part of what fans of the games love, and it might not even be the part they love most. A movie, or even a TV series, would likely need to focus on the main storyline, and thus the flavor of the game would get lost, as the open world games became a linear story on a screen.

And the Fallout games themselves have largely been their own stories. While the games are numbered sequels, they have not been the continuing adventures of one character like the Uncharted games, which turned it's film adaptation into a Nathan Drake prequel story. Each Fallout story has been a new adventure in the world, so it makes sense the show will be just one more. 

A brand new story that isn’t tied to the games will have fewer expectations as to how it will be told, it can focus more on a single story without baggage, or even be a series of disconnected adventures like a bunch of side quests. And the story can still be connected to the games, as the world of the Amazon series will still be the same world as the games. The events of the Fallout games still happened here, characters from the games could even still show up. What will ultimately look like we still don't really know, it's too early, but it does look like the Wasteland is coming.

I'm so fuckin pumped for this show!

[LT12Gauge]

23 hours ago, Krolista said:

Don't know about anyone else, but I've always expected the show to be a new separate story or stories. Honestly I would be rather disappointed if it was just a rehash of the storyline of Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, we've already played those stories through, and they are complete in my opinion.

 

The bigger question is whether the show is going to suck or not, and unfortunately I'm expecting it to be MEH.

 

I don't know, movies and shows adapted from games have been getting much better

[Krolista]

Spoiler

29 minutes ago, LT12Gauge said:

I don't know, movies and shows adapted from games have been getting much better

 

 

Eh maybe, hard to be disappointed if I don't expect much though. ?

[Idyll]

I've got Halo PTSD to deal with, still, I might just hold off on this one.