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Fallout [Amazon]

  • 19-02-2022 12:37pm
    #1
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    (Damned if I can find a previous thread with this new search; let me know if one was opened already...)

    Based on the popular video game franchise, set in a post apocalyptic world, itself set in the aftermath of an alternative, almost satirical version of 1950s America is nuked into oblivion. The tone of the games is often deeply comedy angled; black humour mostly.

    Walton Goggins is the first cast announcement, set to play a lead as a yet unnamed Ghoul.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,959 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Walton Goggins makes this a must watch anyway.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    He's a very underappreciated actor, with excellent comedic chops so maybe that gives some indication they'll be angling this with a wink in its eye. Any Fallout show that hasn't got dark humour through its veins would be an immediate fail IMO



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Another cast announcement; Ella Purnell to star in another undisclosed role; haven't watched Yellowjackets so no idea how good/bad an actor she is.




  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭fitz




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    So I've heard, but it'll only go into the Giant Pile marked "things I heard I should watch that are good" lol 😂



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭Heckler


    After Justified and The Shield I will give anything with Goggins a go. Didn't stick with the SEAL team thing he did but he's always watchable. Only played Fallout 4. Interesting to see where this goes.



  • Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭markw7


    You should check out Vice Principals so if you like him. Goggins and McBride play off each other well in it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭Heckler


    I tried it. Remember liking it but got distracted by something else as usual. Too much choice ! Will try it again.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Kyle MacLachlan had been cast, another undisclosed role. Could see him as a Vault Tec executive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,259 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Could easily be a crooked topside mayor too.

    There is a fantastic amount of lore to work with so I really hope they don't go with too deep or focused a story arc. Someone playing around in the wasteland like a post apocalyptic Firefly would be amazing.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Oh yeah, basically anything sleazy is probably a good shout.

    There's tonnes of lore to work with, and it'll be interesting to know if we'll visit somewhere visited like Washington, or somewhere new. Or indeed, if we'll leave a Fallout Shelter at all: it's not entirely crazy to think the series might set itself within the confines of a Vault-Tec shelter, Season 1 about trying to battle an Overseer and escaping to a Promised Land ... oops, it's a radioactive hell zone.

    My main worry/concern/hope is that the humour is kept intact. The series has never been like Borderlands and drowning in meta snark... but there has been a dark comedic edge informing everything - especially visible in the alt-1950s American iconography.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,147 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Looks like it's definitely keeping the 50s Americana anyway



  • Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭WillmaDickfit


    looks good , the set



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Looks like we're spending time in Vault 32; the set looks absolutely spot-on, as does the Vault Boy themed iconography & design.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,259 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    I would love to visit that set. It looks perfect.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    That looks spot on. Could be a good show if they get the balance right.


    "So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no

    Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go"

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Doesn't look like they've strayed from the art style at all, so you'd wanna think the soundtrack will be a collection of period appropriate tracks.

    The set looks expensive, wouldn't be surprised if the show charts a plot inside the Vault, and outside.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,259 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Could either follow a few stories, have the Vault Dweller still using it as a base or do flash backs.

    I suppose the set will also get redressed for visiting other vaults.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Usually this never goes well. Other vaults are cursed. Lol

    Imagine ending up in Vault 11, 42 or 92!!

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    I'd think it weird if they didn't use that old timey wimey music. I'm so used to it from Fallout 3 onwards.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    That has to be a definite translation from the games; the whole point of Vault-Tec was their twisted purpose to make every Vault a science experiment, no matter how immoral that might have been. Lots of possibilities there for messed up storytelling.

    More set pics, the detail is fantastic:




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,259 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    I'd happily watch a season of stand alone "Twilight Zone" episodes set in different vaults.

    Although seeing the BoS armour in that photo was pretty amazing too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Hopefully they nail the aesthetics with the likes of the fauna too. No half-assing the Mirelurks and Deathclaws please!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Looking forward to see how they manage deathclaws.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,259 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I remember in New Vegas there was a quarry that had about a dozen Deathclaws (and an uber one too IIRC); I saw an abandoned crane in the middle so I scarpered over to it as fast as I could. Then managed to glitch my way up its collision mesh so I was sitting at the top (sliding around it like it was an ice rink; ahhhh wonky game engines).

    Proceeded to just snipe away at the Deathclaws, happy and smug. Until I realised I hadn't packed nearly enough ammunition for the job, and proceeded to get smushed when I attempted to scarper.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,259 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Hopefully the high quality sets are an indication of high quality CGI. There does seem to be a shocking amount of bad CGI out there now though.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    In celebration of the game's 25th anniversary, a first screenshot was dropped of this;




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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Cute little video about the show, complete with a refreshing Nuka Cola. Didn't realise Jonathan Nolan had an American accent - that's weird.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    AFAIK Jonathan and Christopher Nolan are half-brothers, Jonathan growing up in Chicago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,147 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,147 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Trying to temper the hype, bit that's looking incredibly faithful to the games. I really hope they nail the tone and story



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,959 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Not going to get my hopes up as promo photos always look great.

    However with the cast and the crew behind the scenes I kinda am getting my hopes up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    If you want to temper expectations, just remember that Jonathan Nolan is involved.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,491 ✭✭✭Homelander


    It looks excellent but honestly the right photos from the Halo TV show would also make it look incredibly faithful, when in reality it was anything but underneath the surface, the characters, script, tone were all way off.

    I do think Bethesda were quite involved with the Fallout adaptation though. The advantage as well is that Fallout as a franchise doesn't have iconic central characters in the way Halo does, so it's basically free to tell whatever story it likes and only the core world building elements have to be faithful.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Yup, think your 2nd paragraph nailed the critical part here: ther's no grand overarching story or set of important characters in the overall fallout universe; each game has tended to exist as its own self-contained story with almost little overlap. It probably helps that you have potentially hundreds of Vaults dotted across America, not to mention as many valid geographic locations (I doubt we'll ever see an official non-US fallout story). Apparently this show will be "canon" too, so it's not a case of a loose adaptation that can be disowned.

    One criticism I've seen levelled at the Bethesda games and it's kinda true when I thought about it: their aesthetic for Fallout kinda made it look like humanity just forgot how to build things again. Fallout 1 & 2 had new settlements, and a degree of newness - new buildings and settlements; the towns in Fallout 3 & 4 looked like places even shanty-towns would call a bit ramshackle. So I hope the TV show doesn't go with this world of detritus and shows a degree of civilisation, however chaotic and barbarous it can be in these games. New Vegas was pretty good for that as well, though notably that wasn't Bethesda either



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Hype intensifies... first trailer's here. Spotted a pre war Goggins, and damn the BoS suits look good




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,959 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Ok that has me wanting more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Damn it, I'm in.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Oh looks surprisingly faithful. And importantly there was a dash of humour in the trailer too, so it's not going to just be too moody.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    From the trailer this is set on the west coast, so we've got brotherhood of steel and maybe New Californian Republic. Compared to the east coast it's a little more developed.

    Hopefully they don't make it too contemporary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    Looks very good. Played three fallout games but I forget so much about the plot but always loved the setting and I think this trailer seems to have alot of the elements of the game.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,654 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Trailer looks great. I really hope they nail a story. The beauty about fallout is that the universe doesn't have central characters so it should mean no baggage for the writers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    You forgot Ceasers Legion. Its crucifixion for you!!!

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Presumably we'll see something new to the world, can't imagine they'll stick to the games that closely we won't see a new faction, or even a new power to rival the BoS.

    Indeed I wonder will the BoS be portrayed as good or bad - cos while they're better than most factions, they're also not that great either. IIRC preferring to horse technology than try to apply some law or order.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,654 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    I do hope we get Preston Garvey in every episode telling us that another settlement needs our help 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,799 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Depends on the game version doesnt it?

    Fallout 3 -felt they were good guys

    Fallout 4 - purist as*holes with hint of genocide behaviouralisms.

    Fallout 76 -not sure what they were meant to be.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



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