Is Fallout serie on Prime Video good or bad ?
I've the opportunity to watch it and i want to know if it's worth it or not, because game-based shows are known to be not that great.
Edit : at the moment i write this, im at episode 3, they seems to have respected the game's lore even if i disagree with the cause they choose in the scenario to force the hero to left the vault.
It's good.
If you've never played the games, it may take a few episodes to figure out, but my kids (who've never played) enjoyed it.
The universe has so many characters, factions, and creatures that I would say not even 1/4 are in the first season, so there is a lot of in universe room to expand and explore story-wise.
Not often I say this about new streaming series, but I highly recommend!
Should I play before watching? I heard there are nice inside jokes, is that true? Which Game should I play, all?
I haven't watched the TV series, but I'm a big enthusiast of the games.
I'd say start at the start, especially if you're alright with more old-school games. The first two are (sometimes punishingly hard) isometric RPGs that I personally had a blast playing. Some of the later games have little references to them that you might miss, too.
Get Fallout 2 on GOG instead of Steam if you can, the version on Steam is the censored European version that removes all the child characters and quite a bit of content with them (since you had the option to kill them in the game's open world environment, despite the game heavily penalising child murder).
If turn-based combat and 90s graphics really repulse you (totally fair, I know they're not everyone's cup of tea), you could try playing the 3D games instead, which are essentially first-person RPGs with FPS elements. Fallout 3 is alright, the story isn't that good, and the gunplay just feels a bit off, but the environments are really well-crafted and are fun to traverse.
If you have to play one Fallout game though, I would pick Fallout New Vegas. It's mostly made by the guys who made the first two games, and they really really knocked the ball out of the park. It's still got the slightly awkward gunplay of the third game, but everything else is really well done. The story especially is probably one of the best video game narratives I've experienced (putting it up there with those of Disco Elysium and Undertale).
I haven't played Fallout 4, so I can't really give you any recommendation there.
The games are pretty dated
There is a good chance you won’t enjoy them, see if it’s something you’d like first and pick the one that looks most fun
Your kids? 😅
It constantly makes me smile, whether it’s being smart, the actors are giving perfectly calibrated performances, or the action suddenly goes wham-bam VATS over the top.
3 eps in. Happy.
Binged, thoroughly enjoyed and now await season2
Finished episode three and it’s good. Credentials: played every Fallout game ever made.
We loved it - binged the whole thing in a couple of days. Probably helps that we're huge fans of Walton Goggins.
Three episodes in, fantastic so far
I've watched the first season (8 episodes) and I think it's pretty good. I personally think the first episode was a little slow getting into things. If you don't know anything about Fallout it may be a bit confusing at first because they don't really explain much of the Fallout lore or how things work in that world, but it mostly all comes together by the end of the season.
Apparently they've already greenlit a second season so that's awesome, I'm just sad we'll have to wait until probably next year to see it.
If it's done by the Westworld peeps, i wouldn't be surprised if there aren't 2 years between seasons.
That makes me a little more sad.
Great show so far. We used to complain about how Hollywood would change everything we loved from a game series, when translating to the screen. This show literally takes place within the canon of the games, and shares every bit of lore and design that games do.
It’s extremely good. They really knocked it out of the park. It’s already been renewed for season 2.
Basically binged through everything but the last episode and it's really good. I was skeptical that the concept could even work, but it's knocked my stupid socks off.
I only ever watched Fallout being played so I don't really know or follow it at all but I really fucking enjoy it and I can't wait to see New Vegas in the next season that's just going to be fucking Wild.... and I mean fucking Walton Goggins how can you fucking go wrong that shit is fucking sick
All my coworkers were saying they loved it this morning. Source: Nerdy bartenders.
We've only watched the first couple of episodes and found it a bit too cartoony for our tastes.
One question I have for anyone who has watched the whole season - the question is a spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen the first episode.
I really wish they hadn't included it. I personally found it unenjoyable to watch those first couple episodes because of it.
(Dear reader: If you're first reaction to my opinion is that sexual violence against women in this setting is realistic and fits in the show, 1) this is a series with mutant animals caused by radiation and a guy in a robot suit 2) you don't think much of your fellow man if you think it's inevitable 3) it's just like, my opinion, man)
I haven't watched the whole first season but we're about halfway through and they didn't mention it again. It would have been worse if the main character herself felt more... harmed, but she seems very utilitarian about it. I feel pretty mid about the show overall (for more reasons than just this), and I'm just really tired of acts of sexual violence showing up in media that's meant to be goofy entertainment.
There's also murder and significant gore as well
I watched episode 1.
I'm delighted they kept the feel and aesthetic of the games. I thought they might change it and just be Fallout in name.
That being said, I thought the majority of the show was boring, slow, directed poorly, and I just didn't buy most of the characters and therefore didn't feel anything for them.
Watched the first episode and thought the pacing was slow. It was the first episode lol
I'm not sure what you're getting at. There's no rule that says first episodes have to be slow. But more to my point, slow also doesn't mean it has to be boring. Most of it was.
Watched 6 episodes and I think I'm done. It's boring and very contrived and simply written. I'm not enjoying any of the characters or performances either
The prop and costume design is well done. That's about it
Also, they erased the New California Republic despite setting the show in California. Not sure why Bethesda hates ideas that they didn't personally create, but it's very off-putting
So far so good 3 episodes in.
The look and feel of the world is great.
The characters are pretty believable.
Writing is good so far.
Is the writing like fallout though? Or is it gonna just be some soap opera like the walking dead?