Gamers are so fucking weird. Really enjoyed the show. Hope they make 2nd season.
Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months
Submitted 1 year ago by delitomatoes@lemm.ee to gaming@beehaw.org
https://fandomwire.com/fallout-fans-new-vegas-revelations/
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0xtero@beehaw.org 1 year ago
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah this is the first I’ve heard of it being bad. Everywhere else, I’ve read it’s pretty good.
bekopharm@social.tchncs.de 1 year ago
@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)
modifier@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I hate to say this, but it’s almost better at Fallout than Fallout.
Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
ahal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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!
Crankpork@beehaw.org 1 year ago
The Ghoul definitely picked Bloody Mess as one of his perks.
ahal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
One of us! One of us!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
Best review I’ve seen so far
exanime@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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”
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 year ago
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.
millie@beehaw.org 1 year ago
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.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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 knower it out of the park. I loved it! This reviewer doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
modifier@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yeah my wife and I have played both and were part way through the third episode and are really enjoying it.
nac82@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
CapitanStrider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I think the show is actually a pretty good adaptation.
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Yeah I was thinking… would a fallout show be goofy and colorful, or dark and horrific? Amazon said, yes. And it’s great.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Fandomwire wants clicks, clearly.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Psh everyone I’ve talked to that’s seen it loved it
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 1 year ago
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”
Eggyhead@kbin.run 1 year ago
It’s not bad, but it’s not as great as people make it out to be. For me, Silo & Severence are shows that hit a 10, The Boys is like an 8, One Piece Live Action is like a 7-8. As of the first two episodes of Fallout, I’m hovering around a 5-6. It’s fun, but I feel like I’m only engaged because I’ve been playing the games for so long.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 1 year ago
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.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
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.
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 1 year ago
Cold takes from crybabies.
millie@beehaw.org 1 year ago
This person has zero IMDB credits. Call me after making literally anything even remotely approaching the quality of anything Bethesda has ever sneezed out.
Does he maybe have some semblance of a point about NCR and New Vegas? Sure, but if that makes it a ‘bad show’ that ‘no one will watch’, please let me point you at Star Wars, which jettisoned its own extremely substantial extended universe to the chagrin of long time fans and is doing fine.
Can’t you just, like, look at it like anime or like Douglas Adams?
Yes, we get multiple iterations of more or less the same story in different mediums. No, they aren’t exactly the same. Is that a problem? Does the Ranma 1/2 TV series have to match the OVH or they’re both shit?
Do I have to choose only the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide books, or the radio series, or the show, or the movie? Am I not allowed to enjoy both?
It’s it really more economically viable to make a living being an entitled and cynical jackass about other people’s work than to go make your own?
beefcat@beehaw.org 1 year ago
New Vegas is the best of the modern Fallout games, but toxic elements in its fan base are making me enjoy the game less and less each year. We should stop giving them the time of day.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
The show isn’t that bad but it’s also definitely not as good as the people here are making it sound. The copium levels in this thread are off the charts. The show is mediocre. That’s all there is to it. Stop over thinking it
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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
Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I love Fallout and played 3, NV, and 4 avidly. It’s a good adaptation. A little campy, but it feels like something made by people who know and love the source material. And with the goofy moments come some real nasty aspects of the wasteland laid bare with no question as to how nasty it is, even in the first couple episodes.
The Vaults setup was unique enough to feel new, but fit the Vault-Tec MO nicely. 4 felt generic, but I think it was mainly included for people who didn’t play the games so they could get a general vibe.
The subtle nods are nice, with enough items and mechanics from the games peppered through to make it feel like part of the universe. Some are on the nose like Sugarbombs, but I’ve recognized generic NPC armor from the games on extras in the background.
It was also odd but fun to see game mechanics work in real time, like seeing drugs heal a grievous injury
If you want an adaptation of Fallout story it may fall short with the lighter stuff. But if you want an adaptation of a Fallout playthrough I think you’re I for a good time.
Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
My friend described it with the phrase “reddit liked it,” and I immediately crossed it off our list
nac82@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Imagine living your life letting reddit be your filter for experience lmao.
Touch grass guy.
Broken@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
If the best description of something can only be broken down to “reddit liked it” then either the person doesn’t know how to describe anything, or that’s an accurate description in itself.
I watched the first episode and found it not interesting. Certain things were good and others bad, but I just didn’t care and was waiting for it to end.
Apparently I’m in the minority as fans seem to flock to defend it. To each their own.
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I’m not a “fan”, haven’t played the games, other than some of the shitty mobile one, but knew some of the lore.
Just binge watched all episodes… and judging all of them by just the first one, is a mistake. There’s much more to the show than what amounts to a basic introduction.
But to each their own, as you said.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They should have made one more episode to where after she gets out, they explain some of the factions, the monetary system, and where in the Wasteland they are. All in all, I liked it and can’t wait until season 2.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
On the Prime Fallout site, they have a bunch of extras and bonus content that explains a lot of the background stuff like that.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 1 year ago
Like what the hell happened to the NCR?
Or, you know, the lore of all of the games outside of Fallout 3 and 4
CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
According to my Steam stats I played the 3rd one for about twenty minutes. The game engine seriously hurt it. The show was worth watching because it had nowhere to go but up.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s amazing how much potential the world of Fallout has when not shackled to a terrible engine, isn’t it?
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve finished 3 fallout games but fortunately don’t remember any of it well enough for any of this to mean anything to me so I can just enjoy the show.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I stopped watching in the first episode when the tiny girl beat up a muscular huge man like it’s nothing.
Felt like avengers.
Kir@feddit.it 1 year ago
Beat up? Are you kidding me? She’s described as a combat trained woman in peak physical performance and she’s still being overcomed by the man aggressor. She succeeded in winning buy using a blender as a weapon, and that sounds pretty realistic to me.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I mean, as the previous posters have said, if this is supposed to be like a game, then sure. Anything is possible. But if it was reality, she would have no chance against that guy.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 year ago
spoiler
…you mean the girl that took on a man post coitus and still was thrown around the room and only survived thanks to the blender?
Seemed pretty realistic, and Fallout to me.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Yeah I don’t know the fallout backstory at all, but A+ doesn’t change things like physics. :)
Eggyhead@kbin.run 1 year ago
Her introduction montage at the beginning, where she was doing all the exercises and training, didn’t do it for ya? Between the two, I thought the guy was less believable given his circumstances.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Really? So interesting to me that someone would think she could even hurt the guy.
flumph@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s a video game show that uses the rules of the video game world.
Whayle@kbin.social 1 year ago
I played the games. I think the show's sets and designs are good, but I can't get into it. It just feels like sequalitis with no soul.
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Anything I should be aware of if I decide I’d like to give it a watch?
Templa@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Best thing in the show was the mistery of vault 31 and the solution was extremely underwhelming. I think people just need time to digest. I hate Maximus.
Crankpork@beehaw.org 1 year ago
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.
EldestMalk@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Same. Ragebait headline.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Maybe the title was changed after posting, but it’s more reasonable on the actual article
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
Crankpork@beehaw.org 1 year ago
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.