Fallout TV/games series discussion | Contains spoilers

RedViking said:
Is fallout 4 still worth playing in 2024. I have a GTX 1070 and would prefer with some graphic mods so it looks almost as good as Starfield.
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Not sure what is going to change with the 'next gen' update, but currently as is, more than worth it
 
Beyond.Celsus said:
Not sure what is going to change with the 'next gen' update, but currently as is, more than worth it
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Keenly waiting to check it out. Rumours are they have added in some expanded content as well.
 
RedViking said:
Is fallout 4 still worth playing in 2024. I have a GTX 1070 and would prefer with some graphic mods so it looks almost as good as Starfield.
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On PC you have the best options available. So def a yes from me.
 
Kaapie said:
Keenly waiting to check it out. Rumours are they have added in some expanded content as well.
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Unfortunately when it comes to Bethesda their 'expanded content' will likely come in the shape of a storefront where you have to pay for otherwise free mods like they did with Skyrim
 
Aghori said:
Yeah, another Woke PC shitfest. They love to destroy games and movies in this way now in Hollywood.

5/10 just because of fond memories of the game.
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There are some woke characters in the show and they get bliksemed, otherwise I would not call this a wokefesr. I am on episode 5. There are all sorts of characters.

This is as good as the first series of Westworld, hopefully it doesn’t go the same way.
 
Pegasus said:
There are some woke characters in the show and they get bliksemed, otherwise I would not call this a wokefesr. I am on episode 5. There are all sorts of characters.

This is as good as the first series of Westworld, hopefully it doesn’t go the same way.
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I think it is in good hands. The cast seems to be genuinely in touch with the lore and themes. It would make Henry Cavill proud, should give him a role. Everyone, and their dog, wants a cameo now...

Fallout is popular, but I didn't know that it was this popular.

Lol, they did delete a meme on social media, they posted:

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Aimed at the lore lords :ROFL: What did they expect would the response be?
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I think it is in good hands. The cast seems to be genuinely in touch with the lore and themes. It would make Henry Cavill proud, should give him a role. Everyone, and their dog, wants a cameo now...

Fallout is popular, but I didn't know that it was this popular.

Lol, they did delete a meme on social media, they posted:

6kjmrg.png


Aimed at the lore lords :ROFL: What did they expect would the response be?
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It'll be a boost for tourism in Namibia. I can see a Fallout tour at Kolmanskop and in the Sperregebit where the shipwreck scenes are filmed.
 
FiestaST said:
Top 10 Things to Know About Fallout if You Haven't Played the Games

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They begin their video by acknowledging that the Fallout universe is in an alternate reality, but they provide an incorrect general explanation. The backstory is that the world was caught up in the Resource Wars. It is better to read the Fandom Wiki which best explains the situation behind the resource crisis.

fallout.fandom.com

Resource Wars

The Resource Wars is an umbrella term referring to over 25 years of conflicts from the war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East in April 2052 to the Sino-American War and the Great War on October 23, 2077. Some of the conflicts included the annexation of Canada by the United...
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In conclusion:

Finally, by October, it seemed to many that the United States had entered a war it could not win, with the Boston Bugle deeming the situation the "Atomic Ultimatum," citing that billions of dollars, millions of lives, and countless resources had not only been used but wasted, over the course of the last decade. The riots coincided with the final offensive of the United States against China, which brought upon an end of the Resource Wars by way of total nuclear war.
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The last war, known as the Great War, in the Resource Wars, was instigated by corporations. Nuclear energy became imperative when petroleum reserves started to dwindle. There are other themes involved, but too much to discuss.

This explains it in short:

fallout.fandom.com

Technology

Technology appears in several variants throughout the Fallout series. Technology in the world of Fallout is different from ours, due to the Divergence. Much of Fallout's setting is inspired by 1950s pulp science fiction. The world is not our own, functioning due to a different set of rules. It...
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One of the key elements of the backstory is the Resource Wars, fought for the last remaining energy resources on Earth. In the wake of the crisis, as the economy ground to a halt, the United States sought alternatives to fossil fuel energy. In 2060, hydrocarbon fuels became too precious to waste on automobiles, so other alternatives were beginning to be explored.

Researchers arrived at two solutions: utilizing fission and fusion as the primary power sources. The first crude fusion cell was unveiled in 2066, providing the United States with an edge and averting its imminent bankruptcy.
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The above is explained in the Fallout Bible, which is not accepted as lore anymore, but the above is how it is known in the universe. The wars are all acknowledged in-game, as is the resource crisis. Bethesda even tied Fallout 4's, The Sole Survivor, to the Sino-American War /cough. I guess he did some time in cryo :whistling:

The world, or rather the US, is stuck in the "50s" because they isolated themselves, and in the process to counter their collapsing economy put their resources into advancing technology. I am sure it will all be explained in time on the TV show. As known, Vault-Tec ensured total nuclear war.

There is way more to their Ghoul explainer. Here is VATS illustrated, with caveats, having unlimited action points:

 
Fulcrum29 said:
They begin their video by acknowledging that the Fallout universe is in an alternate reality, but they provide an incorrect general explanation. The backstory is that the world was caught up in the Resource Wars. It is better to read the Fandom Wiki which best explains the situation behind the resource crisis.

fallout.fandom.com

Resource Wars

The Resource Wars is an umbrella term referring to over 25 years of conflicts from the war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East in April 2052 to the Sino-American War and the Great War on October 23, 2077. Some of the conflicts included the annexation of Canada by the United...
fallout.fandom.com fallout.fandom.com

In conclusion:



The last war, known as the Great War, in the Resource Wars, was instigated by corporations. Nuclear energy became imperative when petroleum reserves started to dwindle. There are other themes involved, but too much to discuss.

This explains it in short:

fallout.fandom.com

Technology

Technology appears in several variants throughout the Fallout series. Technology in the world of Fallout is different from ours, due to the Divergence. Much of Fallout's setting is inspired by 1950s pulp science fiction. The world is not our own, functioning due to a different set of rules. It...
fallout.fandom.com fallout.fandom.com



The above is explained in the Fallout Bible, which is not accepted as lore anymore, but the above is how it is known in the universe. The wars are all acknowledged in-game, as is the resource crisis. Bethesda even tied Fallout 4's, The Sole Survivor, to the Sino-American War /cough. I guess he did some time in cryo :whistling:

The world, or rather the US, is stuck in the "50s" because they isolated themselves, and in the process to counter their collapsing economy put their resources into advancing technology. I am sure it will all be explained in time on the TV show. As known, Vault-Tec ensured total nuclear war.

There is way more to their Ghoul explainer. Here is VATS illustrated, with caveats, having unlimited action points:

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Actually the fallout universe is stuck in the 50s aesthetic cause the transistor wasn't invented in that universe, so everything still had to run with vacuum tubes. Plus atomic power was persued so more portable atomic devices were built, also it's really just a choice made by the original designers of what the people from the 1950s would think the future would look like. Retro futurism, the music being stuck isn't really explained.
The original designers of Fallout didn't actually play music from the 40s and 50s, it was just the intro songs, Maybe by the Ink Spots and A kiss to build a dream on by Louis Armstrong. Bethesda when they acquired the IPs looked at it all and went ooooh so they were stuck in the 1950s lets go with that and blew it up more so.
They added the 40s and 50s music stations, they added super mutants in the East, they added Deathclaws there, plus they forgot that even after 200 years people would actually start cleaning up things... I mean Fallout 1 actually showed a world moving on, Fallout 2 expanded on that with Shady Sands and other towns expanding, Fallout 3 showed us a devastated Washington with roaming bands and people living in squalor, hell even Fallout 4. People have been living and working in a diner for years, but they leave the skeletons from the past there??
Most of the weirdness and how Fallout evolved was Bethesda, not the original guys. They wanted it to be Retro Future, Bethesda went balls to the wall with that.
 
I enjoyed the series,

The amount of actual story progression that went on would have been just a 2-episode opening prologue for most other series, the series only being 8 episodes and they spent a lot of time world building they made it work.

The show billed as 3 leads, but I think the brother character and the guy I can't place where I saw him before from the brotherhood should become a part of the main cast.
 
I owned and played all the fallout games, the problem I have with the series is, people don't look the part. Remember it is a wasteland filled with radiation, drugs that will outright kill you and tech that survived for a very long time. It will not be pristine. Some things will survive but let's be honest, with all those supper monsters and massive bugs what normal buildings will still be left standing?

I understand bunkers and vault tec facilities and even the robots. But you will runout of bullets eventually. Even America can run out of bullets. I would love to see the TV show and not just the Teaser trailer but can't watch it. So my point is I love the game I love the story telling even the music was good. New Vegas was really good loved it. Fallout 4 was good. Loved the base building aspect. It was fun.

I am not saying the series is a let down I am saying it lacks that "fallout MacGyver" fix **** or die aspect. Maybe it is in the TV show, I don't know but I am a fan.
 
Jackal46 said:
I owned and played all the fallout games, the problem I have with the series is, people don't look the part. Remember it is a wasteland filled with radiation, drugs that will outright kill you and tech that survived for a very long time. It will not be pristine. Some things will survive but let's be honest, with all those supper monsters and massive bugs what normal buildings will still be left standing?

I understand bunkers and vault tec facilities and even the robots. But you will runout of bullets eventually. Even America can run out of bullets. I would love to see the TV show and not just the Teaser trailer but can't watch it. So my point is I love the game I love the story telling even the music was good. New Vegas was really good loved it. Fallout 4 was good. Loved the base building aspect. It was fun.

I am not saying the series is a let down I am saying it lacks that "fallout MacGyver" fix **** or die aspect. Maybe it is in the TV show, I don't know but I am a fan.
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You do know that the bombs fell 219 years prior right? The games are the ones that forget that aspect, humanity won't live in squalor for long (well most won't). If you played the first 2 games you'd have seen the world trying to build back up, look at Shady Sands, Vault City, The Hub, towns starting to pop up, growing crops, cleaning up.
Bethesda Fallout seems to think that people living in an area will still have 219 year old skeletons in the bed upstairs and rubbish laying around.
 
Aghori said:
Yeah, another Woke PC shitfest. They love to destroy games and movies in this way now in Hollywood.

5/10 just because of fond memories of the game.
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You should get a room with @rambo919
He made the same baseless "overpowered heroine" claims and went awfully quiet when I asked for proof.
 
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