@@HannaHsOverInvested Hello Mrs. H Over Invested. You have made a serious omission. I strongly recommend you to watch dragon age cinematic trailers. You might want to avoid the console ones where you have a chance, as the PC versions are much better.
The 3 main characters do a good job of representing the experiences of actual players. Lucy is the beginner player who is in over their head and knows nothing about the world, Maximus is the intermediate player who decided, "I want that power armor" and joined the Brotherhood of Steel, and the Ghoul is the experienced player who spent 200+ hours doing side quests before continuing the main story.
Also for Lucy, most Fallout games start with the main character leaving their vault out of necessity to find something/someone. So she's representative of most peoples first experience with a fallout game.
This is exactly how I explained it to my friend who hasn't played the game. I also found it funny because I feel like Maximus had really low speech at the start of the show, because his "dialogue choices" seemed so terrible, and as the show goes on he gets better. They really captured the player experience phenomenally with this show imo
As a fan of the games, I had very low expectations for the show. I am so excited to report that I adored what they did with the show! It's exactly what it should be! I can't wait to season 2 🙂
This show starts with a simple premise but things escalate rapidly until the original goals for each of the characters are no longer the same. The show is also set up to allow someone who hasn't played the games to still understand what is happening
Yep. My wife has very little familiarity with the games (outside of walking through the living room when I've been playing over the years), but absolutely loved the series despite not having any real prior knowledge.
Which is something that also happens in Fallout games, you venture into the wasteland for a concrete goal, but eventually get involved into something much greater.
I had no expectations for the show and I liked it. I think its what I want from a video game adaptation. Where they capture the feel and tone of the world from the games and the story is good enough to work in a game and show. I do think you are allowed to be confused and somethings will be explained as the show goes on. Will say there are alot of game references in the show that they don't explain, but they are fun little easter eggs. The giant bags the squires are carrying is a inside joke on how players use companions to carry all of their loot. Also, Ella Purnell/Lucy is Jinx from Arcane so she is awesome.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Hannah (i posted this comment a 2nd time so you wouldn't miss it), while it's always good to see you react to a new series, i gotta warn you, this series is something else. Theirs a scene at the beginning of the 2nd episode that you WILL DEFINITELY NOT LIKE! I'll spare you the mental image scaring, but it involves newborn puppies. So, trust me, even for a fallout fan like me, this series is definitely NOT for the faint of heart. So, proceed at your own risk.
08:24 Stimpack. Healing item from the game. Inmstantly restores health. A little nod to the game trope of instant healing items. And yes, this series captured the feeling of the Game SO well.
“What was that thing she stabbed herself with?” We call that a Stimpak. They heal you very quickly. Think of it as this world’s version of a healing potion ^^
@@sliceofheaven3026 is a word document a book? How many steps away from what we grew up with do we have to get before we use a different word. Film with multiple installments on an Amazon streaming service… tv show… Does the length affect it too? If each episode is like an hour would it still be considered a tv show?
@@fobbles_ The medium might change but the essence probably remains. A series on netflix is still a tv show in its essence. Not sure there is need to change the meaning entirely or have several different words to mean the same thing. Also word document becomes a book if it fits certain standards considering its lenght, plot and so on. Do you also call a physical blank page a book?
@@sliceofheaven3026 no… but if there was a bound book that was just blank pages I’d call that a blank book. But now that doesn’t have much to do with the content anymore just the physical form of the paper… 🧐 And if a whole books worth of text was condensed onto one page. I’d still call that a page. So. It’s a streamed show with the contents of a tv show… which needs a better name than that is there one already? Series? No that’s for tv shows too…
@@fobbles_ A blank word format isnt a book either but just a blank page in digital format..it can become a essay, a novel or a report. Should we start calling spacehips other than ships since they dont sail on sea anymore but move through space? The defination of a book is "a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. "a book of selected poems"". So a object that looks like a book with blank pages isnt a book. if that would apply you also could call a 60 min filming of a wall a tv show.
There’s a reason everyone’s fawning over this show It’s actually top notch. As a fallout fan I was like “oh here we go they can’t possibly get the feel right.” They did. This is such an awesome show.
*Fallout* takes place in an alternate history, after World war 2 things went a bit different. ~Transistors and silicon chips weren't invented until much later than our world, but they had more advanced nuke tech even nuke powered cars, also laser and plasma weapons ~The US politics and culture stagnated, stayed around 1950s, continental states organized into 13 Commonwealths ~Dwindling resources led to wars that destroyed Europe and Middle East with limited nuke war etc, Russia stayed out of it but got got wrecked by chaos/fallout ~China invaded Alaska to get last major oil reserves on Earth, led to a 10 year long bloody stalemate war, broken by US deploying advanced "power armour" and portable mini nuke launchers for their troops ~The Great War lasted on 3 hours, HUGE numbers of mostly "small" nukes set to "ground burst" wrecked the US, added to all the nuke powered equipment in cities, left place irradiated.
~Many mutants due to radiation but also...the "FEV" virus (Forced Evolutionary Virus, too long to go into but a major issue in the games and part of why the Chinese nuked America) ~Ghouls are caused by an unusual mutation, when some Humans were hit by lethal radiation they didn't ' die but became ghouls, they have strange healing factor and aren't affected by aging, so can live centuries, but...the healing factor doesn't work on their skin and brains. Ghouls are often discriminated against by normal Humans ~The Enclave is a mysterious very high tech faction, their agenda and higher up are really evil, been defeated twice in the games ~The Brotherhood of Steel were started just before the nuke war, US soldiers mutinied against evil experiments on civilians, their goal was to prevent abuses of science etc, but over time they got fossilize din outlook, too militaristic, began taking tech by force they thought other folk shouldn't have etc. Small in number but very advanced military tech, some factions are ok, others are aholes
"Ah mais c'est quoi ça ?" Hahaha, une très bonne question! The stuff she used to heal herself is called a stimpack, they're the primary healing item in the games and it can fix you injuries too.
Yeah. I like how they said fuckit' usually Hollywood productions feel the need to make these thing's make sense. But they really don't have to. It's a fantasy world, let our minds wonder.
Yes! You are supposed to have many questions at this point, but not due to lacking any game knowledge. There's a bunch of intertwined stories and mysteries that get revealed as it goes. I guess some backstory might be useful, like but not really essential. The alternate reality of this world diverged just after World War 2, and is mostly rooted in how the world perceived nuclear energy after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ie they embraced it rather than being terrified of it. Oh, and the US annexed Canada at some point. Sorry. :)
Lets put it this way. The Fallout tv show is so good in the entirety of its 8 episode span; that the entire franchise and EVERY SINGLE game has had a huge resurgence of players.
I love this game franchise so damn much; it's such a great combination of cartoonishly over-the-top violence and biting, wild satire. I was cautiously optimistic going in, and the show surpassed my expectations. The smartest thing they did was, instead of directly adapting one of the existing games, they just made a completely original story set in the same game universe. And Walton Goggins always makes every movie or TV series better. But overall, I think they absolutely knocked the tone and aesthetic completely out of the park.
This show is surprisingly good, and accurate to the lore. Keep watching. It gets even better! Also, "Raiders" is the word she said you couldn't figure out. Raiders are basically what they call common people in the world above, except they survive by scavenging, and killing. Similarly to Vikings I suppose. This is also a error in writing. Cause they aren't actually supposed to know about Raider's. That's generally a term you find out in the games, after you gotto the surface. Someone could correct me if I'm wrong.
Good to see you back Hannah! This show is awesome but that opening scene where the atomic bomb was dropped and his little girl saw it was just terrifying!
This show is one of the best video game adaptations! You can really feel that the people behind it are huge fans of the games since there are references/easter eggs to not just the newer games, but also the very first games too! Even the tiny details, the feel, atmosphere, humour.. They just nailed Fallout!
The world pre bombs is basically what they thought the future would be like un the 50s. Their universe focused in nuclear power while ours focused on the integrated circuit and microchips. We share a lot of similar historical moments up until roughly the 1950s.
This show is phenomenal. Its a lot more accurate to the games then Last of Us was. The problem i had with the Last of Us was that it was a story that was already told through the game. Sure there were some differences but for the most part you knew the overall story. This is an entirely new story that's cannon to the Fallout world and takes place about 9 years after Fallout 4, which is the most recent in the timeline. Everything you see in the world is pulled directly from the games. The tone is perfect. It feels like it belongs in the same world that the games do. I think it helps that the creator of fallout, Todd Howard, had direct involvement with the show. The scenes with Lucy in the vault are pretty much the first hour or two of every Fallout game. Fallout is a massive open wold RPG. Its not a game to play if you don't have the time. Your put in the world and told here are some missions now go explore. If your new to gaming its a little overwhelming because while you have missions you can get easily sidetracked by random quests that have nothing to do with the main story. I highly recommend you watch the season. As you get further in show some of the story is new to even players of the games. It expands the lore instead of the games rather then overwrites it. Season 2 has already been confirmed.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Witcher III (and most open work RPGs) are quite slow paced... though in my mind, The Witcher III is nearly perfect; my favourite game. I genuinely think you'd enjoy one of the newer Assassin's Creed games. Origins is my favourite by far. Love the setting (Ancient Egypt) and the characters are really good, too.
Small correction, Todd Howard is not the creator of Fallout. That would be Tim Cain, who developed the first fallout game in 1994. Todd Howard did direct the games once Bethesda acquired fallout and made fallout 3.
@@HannaHsOverInvested 8,945 hours in Fallout 4 and 2,683 hrs in Fallout New Vegas :P (I have an excuse though, seriously disabled and open world games let me feel like i can still roam and explore etc) The games are incredibly deep, interesting TONS of stuff to find, they often use vignettes of dead folk and abandoned places that tell a story themselves The thing Lucy stuck into herself is a STIMPACK, can heal most wounds in minutes ;)
Im just so happy you're making content again. You were gone for a while, and your absence was felt. This show was fantastically well made, I was very thoroughly impressed.
Also fallout is like a exploration adventure game where you go on quests “a big main quest” and lots of little “side quests” to do the big main quest eventually! It’s about picking through ruins and fighting weird creatures to get cool things that hide within while taking time to explore the lore of old broken down places. What happened here? Why is everything nuked? Who dropped the nukes? Why are there super mutants and people in different factions? Why are there people in metal armor? I think the show does a great job of conveying the feeling of “Lost but adventurously curious.” 😊
The good Fallout games actually tie up most of their side activity to the player's main objective. directly or through those side quests effecting the broader major conflict that surrounds said main objective. See: Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas.
@@fillosof66689 I haven’t played one or 2 but there are SO many quests in new Vegas that have nothing to do with the main quest. But y’know if they all were the game would suck I wanna explore
I loved this show! The story, the actors, the sets and Easter eggs. You can really tell the people involved love the games. And the scene where Lucy staples her wound closed, at least she didn't staple her clothes to the wound like the last time you saw Ella Purnell in a video game inspired series. IYKYK
My level of Fallout Lore is "Intermediate to Good", I played all the games, I watched loads of Lore videos on UA-cam and I'd say that for me this is an amazing adaptation of the world. The story is fully new but still considered canon to the Fallout World. You will see a lot of gore and splatter as that is very common in the games, you will also see some "game mechanics" such as how Lucy stabs herself with that needle. That needle was a Stimpak, a healing item from the games which instantly heals you and can even help severely injured limbs. There is SO MUCH fanservice in this show. Basically everything you see in the background is from the games. The colour and textures of the Vault walls, the Vault suits are almost identical, the sound effect as the Raider uses the red-whit einhaler is exactly like the game. In later spidoes you can see food and candy in the background which is exactly from the games, and you will see magazines used to give the player a temporary bonus lying on the tables. The Pip-boys (the wrist-computers) are from the games and it's how the player can view the map, use items, change equipment, etc. Even the background music (the copyrighted 50's music) is straight from the games! Add to how there are Game mechanics such as how a player heals with the Stimpak, how limbs just.. vanish in explosions, how the player and their companion seems to have infinite bagspace, there is a computerhacking scene later on that's only visible for a second but is exactly how it is in the games. In short, game players seem to really love the show, and all the Fallout games have seen a resurgence with new players! Fallout 76 (that you watched an Internet Historian video about and how Bethesda were utter A-holes in how they lied and screwed customrs over) making it more popular now than it was evern at its launch!
As a long time Fallout player who played the first one in 1997 and who has around 10000 hours of cumulated play time in those games, this show just nails it. It really gives that Fallout experience full of nonsense, funny things, horor and gore. We need to keep in mind that this is not our world but a different one who sepearted from ours after WW2, there is no advanced electronics but atom power is everywhere.
13:13 It's the Rock-It Launcher, or Junk Jet. It's a reverse vacuum type thing that propels every day junk objects as bullets to end the not-death of people
I'm a huge fallout fan, and the show surpassed my expectations. It has everything that I expect something set in the fallout universe to have. The tone, the characters, the aesthetic, the lore; they nailed it all.
This show is considered very good in the community. I’m glad it wasn’t just a retelling of a story we already have heard. It’s an addition to the world the fans already love. It’s a new story set in the same world as the games.
I have to be honest, I wasn't really expecting much from this show, but it was sooooo much better than I thought it'd be and definitely made me want to visit the world in the games. I had a lot of fun with this show! The grimy, gross chaos is part of the fun in both the show and the games.
5:30 this show is such a good example of show and not tell. It’s doesn’t just feed you everything on a silver platter. This is the first show I’ve ever watched where I genuinely enjoyed myself watching a second time and third and fourth!
They gave Maximum the spot because his answers showed fanatical and unquestioning loyalty. My assumption if they were going to execute him but his answers convince the cleric he would be useful in the wilds. The key thing is Maximus is a zealot, a true believer.
I think it honors the game very well. It doesn't use any of the stories from the games but it's heavily influenced by the universe. Everything comes together in this by the end
13:58 I hope you keep the guessing in. It was a lot of fun guessing when I first watched, then rewatching and seeing things I completely missed the first time!!!
I love that Lucy is essentially doing what a few previous protagonists have done. Fallout 3: Main Character leaves his vault to find his father, voiced by Liam Neeson (aka Qui-Gon Jinn from Starwars) Fallout on Amazon: Main Character leaves her vault to find her father, played by Kyle MacLachlan (aka Paul Atreides from David Lynch's Dune)
Exceeded expectations for sure. The Fallout franchise has seen a massive resurgence in player count due to this series. It's pretty great - hope you enjoy it!
I noticed they didn't explain it well for people who aren't fallout fans, but what she injected herself with is a Stimpak, they almost instantly heal minor and some major injuries, although medical care is still recommended. I wish they made that clear somehow as my family also didn't get it
Yes, it is above and beyond my expectations (as a fan since 1997). Be sure to watch the credits, they do some storytelling there before it goes to pure credits.
So at the beginning when you were talking about your sign and mentioned your glowing one, that's more appropriate than you know for this franchise. Ghouls get the way they are because of exposure to radiation. Give enough radiation, they start lighting up the room like a Christmas Tree, and are called "Glowing Ones".
This very much lived up to my expectations. I think what makes it work so well is that it isn't trying to re-tell an already established story from one of the games, but rather is an extension to the universe. It's a story that stands on its own inside an established canon.
Yes, this show brings the world of Fallout to life expertly. If you watch the opening cinematic of Fallout 4 (its on youtube somewhere), it will tell you everything you need to know about the Fallout universe without any spoilers for the show.
There is a video out there of a guy who made measurements of the explosions at the beginning of the show. He concluded that the show completely failed to scale the bombs. The one we see here were incredibly small bombs, not even deserving to be ranked among the nuclear bombs we know, at about 100 tons TNT equivalents (compared to the "small" 15,000 tons Hiroshima bomb), while nukes these days are in the range 150,000 to 1,000,000 tons bombs. In the game universe it is said that the bombs range between 250,000 to 750,000 tons. As a result, from where he and his daughter were standing, they should have been instantly 3rd degree burned by the initial light flash emitted by sucha bomb (and after that blasted away, loosing their ears). They would also have inside the ash cloud as it developped. The cloud itself would have reached about 20 km high, and obviously covered the entire view. In other words, they would have died instantly. Instead of that, what we see here reminds me of the incident which took place not too long ago at a dock in Beirut Lebanon, where a large quantity of ammonium nitrate (a chemical used as an agricultural fertilizer) detonated.
I love the show and played the *beep* out of the games aswell. Not only are they good at references, but the show is actually canon for the universe and takes place some years after Fallout 4. So good! Ed: Fallout 4 - year 2287 Fallout TV - year 2296
The actress who plays Lucy (Ella Purnell) in general have really big eyes but my goodness she is a great actress she has a very promising future in acting.
You have a glowing one in Ottawa you say?... **Nervously points Geiger counter at Hannah** This show captures the setting and the tone of the Fallout universe incredibly well and told a compelling enough story whilst doing so. As a fan of the games I can tell that the production team put a lot of work into making this show an accessible starting point for a general audience. They took great care to not overload viewers with overt 'in your face' references to the games all the time which would cheapen the experience, make the show harder to follow for viewers new to the franchise, and cause them to lose interest. Another great aspect of this show I find is the commitment to the use of practical effects and real sets in many places where it would have been easy to justify just using CGI for everything. For me, this adds so much texture to the world when you can tell most of what you are seeing on screen is actually there in camera. So to summarize, best video game adaptation so far! Thanks for the content 🙂
Heyy, comming from the second episode here to make some notes about stuff that references the games, as I did there 2:28 Yes, it's a wierd future. The game states that, the transistor, a very importante piece of electonics technology we have, was not invented till MUCH further down the timeline in this universe, so stuff evolved differently. Humans found out other ways to make stuff that we have, and with that, came a whole new plethora of techs and stuff that we don't have, cause tech evolved differently there. I don't think this part was explained in the intro videos you watch a while back. No time stamp in this, cause it's whole episode: The vault's look all EXACTLY like that in the game. I mean, the setting and mood of them, each vault looks different, but the look... It's so spot on. 7:53 Yeah, the stimpak... Explained that on the other one. 9:42 Ah the brotherhood... A very "militar-esque" organization, and you surely perceived, their purpose in the games is solely to stash away pre-war technology, so that people don't use them, in hopes that the nuclear war doesn't break out again. I don't think they REALLY explained that other than this scene. They have all the cool pre-war stuff stashed away. That's why they are also the primary source of power armors, the (yes, they are) heavy looking armors, powered by nuclear energy. The BIG ship is (supposed to be) the Prydwen, the only one of it's kind so far. Though, that would mean, if I'm not mistaken, that one and only one of the endings to fallout 4 is canon. Maybe it's another ship, somehow. The Prydwen plays a BIG part in that game. 11:33 There are always some outside way to open the door (that's how people from the surface opened vault 32 if you think about it) but you HAVE to have a pip-boy to be minimally able to do so. 13:12 Yeah, the Junk Jet I mentioned in episode 2's comment. 14:43 I don't think they really do explain what a ghoul is, so, it's kinda like the game implies that, if a human takes so much, so so so so much damn concentrated radiation in such a fast dose, it would mutate you into this creature faster than it would kill you, and since ghouls heal faster, and use radiation as "fuel", once you're mutated, the radiation would not kill you anymore, on the contrary, would be beneficial. Here, the ghoul is alive because, SO FAR AS WE KNOW, ghouls don't die of old age (or, at least, they don't die of old age before AT LEAST 200 and some years after "ghoul-ification". If they are not immortal by time passing, they could last 1000s of years, again, as far as we know) and all they aparently need to keep alive and kicking, is radiation, so those bags above the ghoul's grave were radiation bags of some sort, to keep him kicking. In the show, that's no spoiler at all, he keeps taking doses of radiation to keep himself sane, that's not really a think in the game again, as far as we know. In the games, it seems that what drives them insane is just time, loneliness, (un)luck, or it's just purely random. Hope it's usefull for context 🙂
The director for this also did the Westworld series, and the style of storytelling is very similar. You're spot on when you say that you feel like you're meant to be confused!
I've watched the entire season; and I've played Fallout games since 1997. I sometimes tell people, "No, I'm not a gamer, I'm a Fallout player." I have played Fallout games for thousands of hours over 26 years. I probably dreaded a TV show Fallout, more than anticipated it. I love the gameplay and the established lore of the games. I really enjoyed the show--enough to binge watch the season. The show captures the lore and aesthetic of Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, the two most recent games in the franchise. The show also captures the lore of Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and especially Fallout New Vegas very well. I wholeheartedly approve of the TV show. Each Fallout game is a unique story, with a unique setting, and unique characters, all set in the same Fallout universe. The five latest games in the franchise are entirely open world; and of course, the player character is the main protagonist in each. The fact that I cannot play the TV show as the main protagonist, playing my way, making my choices, causes me to prefer the games to the show. But still, I really enjoyed the show, probably enough to buy it. The games can be more disturbing than anything you'll see in the show. Fictional post apocalyptic worlds can be more than a little disturbing, and more than a little eccentric, and the Fallout lore knows it. I'll close with, the leadership team of Bethesda Game Studio has clarified that Amazon's TV Fallout IS lore
This show captures the spirit of the games better than any adaptation ever made. This one comes right up along side The Last of Us in faithfulness to the source material, but unlike TLOU, Fallout is fully open world and most games have some variability in possible endings. Every twist of this show is glorious, and the new additions to the lore only serve to improve the fallout universe as a whole. (I mean "improve" in terms of how in depth and exciting the story is, things don't ever get better for anyone)
The makers of Fallout have described the setting as the “main character” and it’s a fundamentally bewildering place. While the show throws a lot at the audience (especially the uninitiated) a relatively tight plot keeps it from getting too confusing. It’s remarkably palatable for how far out the story is.
The show doesn't follow any one particular game plot, rather it's an exploration of the game's universe. And It's a pretty damn good adaptation of the game-world, IMO.
long time fallout fan here this show is good way better than i expected, i had very low expectations but this show genuinely surprised me in a good way
Yep, so many people that have done a reaction to the show forget that fallout shelter is a personal shelter for just that family, it was never built to take on more than just that household with supplies for just that house hold. The friend was desperate to survive and didn't want to rush to find safety himself so he hopes his friend would let him and his kid in which would have over taxed the personal shelter.
I was hoping you'd watch this one. The TV series absolutely lives up to the games, I've played them all to death and this show is just as Fallout as they are, I've already watched through it all three times now. Also, the item Lucy used on herself after getting stabbed is a Stimpak, an item from the games used for healing. The series is chock-full of game references and Easter eggs, it's a fantastic introduction to the world of Fallout for newcomers. If you ever decide to play one I'd recommend Fallout 4, it's the simplest one that'd be perfect for people fresh to the series. 😉👍
Season 1 of Fallout is amazing. Absolutely nails the feeling of the games. Best video game adaptation by far, and the majority of the questions do get answered.
Fun lore without spoilers for the games or show: - This isn't an adaptation! It's a fully original story in the world of Fallout. Bethesda has confirmed that the events of the series are canon to the universe, alongside the games. - The opening happens in 2077. The games and series take place in an alternate timeline of America that kinda stayed stuck in post WWII American culture, hence the 1950's style of the clothing, cars, and decor. Nuclear power was highly normalized, and eventually replaced coal and oil. Transistors didn't initially take off, so miniaturization of computers and tech didn't happen until much later. That's all you need for background!
As someone with **literally** hundreds of hours per fallout game, I was initially expecting it to not be that great, for it to not have stuff for hardcore fans and basically just be establishing the world and characters. HOWEVER, I actually really enjoyed it, it’s got great writing, characters, set design etc. and it actually is probably the best game-adapted-to-tv-series example I’ve ever seen. It might be a little rocky to start as I feel it takes a lot of time introducing everything it needs to for people who know nothing about fallout but ep 3 and onwards is just good, solid entertainment.
This show is everything I could want from a Fallout TV series. It respects the spirit of the games, the lore of the games and expands on the lore in a respectful manner. Fallout Is quite similar to Warhammer 40k, whether you're introducing new characters or continuing the story of old characters whatever story you decide to tell whether it's a drama or romance what is integral to the core of the franchise is an absurdist dark comedy about the worst of humanity. The world was messed up before the bombs dropped and it just got worse from there and the absurdly amoral world Is a character for you as the player to interact with.
I went into this show with rock-bottom expectations. I was very pleasantly surprised that the showrunner managed to combine very competent writing with an obvious love for the subject matter. I can now say that this stands as one of the best VG adaptions out as yet.
I have been playing fallout since the first game dropped and have played all the canonical games. I love the show a lot of great references great storyline. I cannot wait for season two!
I'm a massive fallout nerd and I love the show. I think they did a great job. Knowing the games helps you to know about some of the references but isn't necessary to follow the story. So people who don't know anything about the games can also appreciate the show. You should definitely do a letsplay of fallout.
As someone who has played 3, New Vegas, and 4, I found the show to be an incredible representation of what a player is bound to experience throughout one of the games. The main characters all act out like they're player characters on different playthroughs/runs and the story is still solid enough that a non-player can follow along and understand what's happening. For players, there are easter eggs galore, and it's glorious.
Only played fallout a little bit before watching the show but I could tell already it was matching the vibe it's a hard thing to do with video games. But fallout is more about the setting than is about any one persons particular story so I think that really helps this show in particular. If you get the setting right you can tell whatever story you want because they all can fit in the world of fallout.
Really great show that did justice to the games, and I don't think you necessarily need to play the games to understand. Couple things that might make it easier for you; Stimpacks (Thing Lucy injected) is basically a very handy cure-all in game that seems in this universe to be able to close up wounds decently well. Brotherhood of Steel (Maximus' story) is a cult like organization with militaristic structure; They see pre-fallout technology as almost sacred. Lastly, Fallout as whole is a bit gruesome with serious messages delivered with lighthearted comedic vehicles and that is why some things may seem a little outrageous. The world pre-fallout is like Cold War era What-If with some high tech advancements like advanced robotics and lasers it is NOT the exact same as ours. Most of the rest is explained well over the course of the show and i'm excited for you to watch and react!
The games to my understanding are RPGs and open world games. I bought a copy of Fallout 4 a few years ago and just recently started playing it after watching the show.
This show manages to create an engaging story that leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat at the end of every episode while still being incredibly faithful to the tone, appearance, dark humor, and style of the Fallout series games. There are literally thousands of references to in-game things -- pre-war brands, food items, medicine, robots, power armor, weapons, and history. Just as an example, the weapon firing random junk like the doll leg and the scissors is called a Junk Jet. It's based on a weapon you can find in both Fallout 3 and 4, and is essentially an amped up vacuum cleaner that will fire almost anything as a projectile. The injector used by Lucy is an in-game healing item called a Stimpak. It is effectively an instant heal using the magic of late 21st century super medicine (the war happened in 2077, so about 50 years from today in an alternate timeline where nobody invented the microchip).
The Fallout games have gotten a boost in sales because of this show, so safe to say it's pretty good. Heck, I bought Fallout 4 myself because it was on sale for 5 bucks.
Finally getting around to this. I didn't want Fallout spoilers, but eventually I realized that I wasn't going to be giving Amazon money anytime soon to watch the show. I honestly don't think that Fallout would be the _best_ game for you to play, from what I remember. Well, it might not be the best for your content. The game is a lot about exploring, wandering, stumbling upon interesting stories and people. They also tend to involve a lot of reading: journals, computer terminals, letters, unvoiced dialogue (depending which game). Playthroughs can take between a couple dozen and a couple hundred hours, depending how much the player chooses to chase side quests and explore. That said, if you ever see them on sale, it would be worth a first-impressions stream or two. (I don't know about PlayStation, but on PC the games regularly go on sale from 3 CAD to 20 CAD, depending how new the game.)
The series has a ton of easter eggs, for example when the guy was killed with the doll leg sticking out? The weapon that does that is the Junk Jet, which you use to shoot junk items with surprisingly devastating effects. Pretty much everything, from Power Armor to Pip Boy (the wrist-mounted PDA) is very faithful to the games' design. But so far (I'm in e4) I have not found anything easter egg-y that was not explained if you needed to know. Just a lot of nods to the people who have spent over 1000h in the Fallout games. (Not me of course, ähem.)
8:24 DJ Paisley drop the beat!
🤣🤣 This one got me.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Hello Mrs. H Over Invested. You have made a serious omission. I strongly recommend you to watch dragon age cinematic trailers. You might want to avoid the console ones where you have a chance, as the PC versions are much better.
@@HannaHsOverInvested then why didnt you like it?
The 3 main characters do a good job of representing the experiences of actual players. Lucy is the beginner player who is in over their head and knows nothing about the world, Maximus is the intermediate player who decided, "I want that power armor" and joined the Brotherhood of Steel, and the Ghoul is the experienced player who spent 200+ hours doing side quests before continuing the main story.
Also for Lucy, most Fallout games start with the main character leaving their vault out of necessity to find something/someone. So she's representative of most peoples first experience with a fallout game.
you could also say the 1 int, 10 luck character. the 10 charisma character and yeah the ghoul is basically lv 50+ with everything maxed out
Thats a great way of explaining it, and I fully agree aswell
on top of that lucy is good morality, maximus is neutral, and the ghoul is bad
This is exactly how I explained it to my friend who hasn't played the game. I also found it funny because I feel like Maximus had really low speech at the start of the show, because his "dialogue choices" seemed so terrible, and as the show goes on he gets better. They really captured the player experience phenomenally with this show imo
As a fan of the games, I had very low expectations for the show. I am so excited to report that I adored what they did with the show! It's exactly what it should be! I can't wait to season 2 🙂
Woohoo! Glad it goes somewhere fun. I've already watched episode 2 and hope to watch 3 and edit 2 tomorrow!
@@HannaHsOverInvested I hope you like it! It's super fun if you're down to suspend disbelief and accept it for the wacky ride that it is.
Whole heartedly agree!
This show starts with a simple premise but things escalate rapidly until the original goals for each of the characters are no longer the same. The show is also set up to allow someone who hasn't played the games to still understand what is happening
yep they do an Excellent Job slowly brining you into the world which is why its pretty much a universal Hit.
Yep. My wife has very little familiarity with the games (outside of walking through the living room when I've been playing over the years), but absolutely loved the series despite not having any real prior knowledge.
Which is something that also happens in Fallout games, you venture into the wasteland for a concrete goal, but eventually get involved into something much greater.
the little brother who you suspect as a traitor is the character who hard follows the lore and reads all the text entries
I had no expectations for the show and I liked it. I think its what I want from a video game adaptation. Where they capture the feel and tone of the world from the games and the story is good enough to work in a game and show. I do think you are allowed to be confused and somethings will be explained as the show goes on. Will say there are alot of game references in the show that they don't explain, but they are fun little easter eggs. The giant bags the squires are carrying is a inside joke on how players use companions to carry all of their loot. Also, Ella Purnell/Lucy is Jinx from Arcane so she is awesome.
The bag IS SO BIG. And that's cool that she's Jinx!
@@HannaHsOverInvested Hannah (i posted this comment a 2nd time so you wouldn't miss it), while it's always good to see you react to a new series, i gotta warn you, this series is something else. Theirs a scene at the beginning of the 2nd episode that you WILL DEFINITELY NOT LIKE! I'll spare you the mental image scaring, but it involves newborn puppies. So, trust me, even for a fallout fan like me, this series is definitely NOT for the faint of heart. So, proceed at your own risk.
Ella Purnell also plays one of the main characters on Yellowjackets, which is a show we need to bully Hanna into watching.
08:24 Stimpack. Healing item from the game. Inmstantly restores health. A little nod to the game trope of instant healing items. And yes, this series captured the feeling of the Game SO well.
“What was that thing she stabbed herself with?”
We call that a Stimpak. They heal you very quickly. Think of it as this world’s version of a healing potion ^^
Starting out with a banger line of “are they even tv shows they’re not even on tv-“ 😂
Are books books if they are in digital form:)?
@@sliceofheaven3026 is a word document a book?
How many steps away from what we grew up with do we have to get before we use a different word.
Film with multiple installments on an Amazon streaming service… tv show…
Does the length affect it too? If each episode is like an hour would it still be considered a tv show?
@@fobbles_ The medium might change but the essence probably remains. A series on netflix is still a tv show in its essence. Not sure there is need to change the meaning entirely or have several different words to mean the same thing. Also word document becomes a book if it fits certain standards considering its lenght, plot and so on. Do you also call a physical blank page a book?
@@sliceofheaven3026 no… but if there was a bound book that was just blank pages I’d call that a blank book. But now that doesn’t have much to do with the content anymore just the physical form of the paper… 🧐
And if a whole books worth of text was condensed onto one page. I’d still call that a page.
So. It’s a streamed show with the contents of a tv show… which needs a better name than that is there one already? Series? No that’s for tv shows too…
@@fobbles_ A blank word format isnt a book either but just a blank page in digital format..it can become a essay, a novel or a report. Should we start calling spacehips other than ships since they dont sail on sea anymore but move through space? The defination of a book is "a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
"a book of selected poems"". So a object that looks like a book with blank pages isnt a book. if that would apply you also could call a 60 min filming of a wall a tv show.
There’s a reason everyone’s fawning over this show
It’s actually top notch. As a fallout fan I was like “oh here we go they can’t possibly get the feel right.”
They did. This is such an awesome show.
4:12 "Well, she's dead anyways." that slayed me 😂
Well maybe not ! this is Fallout!
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@@HannaHsOverInvested Cooper Howard/The Ghoul stayed alive, who knows? 😄
Every single reaction mourns the loss of the pickles and I love it every time
Saying “a glowing one” in the context of fallout means something different lol
No Jason I don't want to send your people to space again dangit
The quick cuts of sounds of disgust just had me cackling on my work break like a mad man. 😂
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*Fallout* takes place in an alternate history, after World war 2 things went a bit different.
~Transistors and silicon chips weren't invented until much later than our world, but they had more advanced nuke tech even nuke powered cars, also laser and plasma weapons
~The US politics and culture stagnated, stayed around 1950s, continental states organized into 13 Commonwealths
~Dwindling resources led to wars that destroyed Europe and Middle East with limited nuke war etc, Russia stayed out of it but got got wrecked by chaos/fallout
~China invaded Alaska to get last major oil reserves on Earth, led to a 10 year long bloody stalemate war, broken by US deploying advanced "power armour" and portable mini nuke launchers for their troops
~The Great War lasted on 3 hours, HUGE numbers of mostly "small" nukes set to "ground burst" wrecked the US, added to all the nuke powered equipment in cities, left place irradiated.
~Many mutants due to radiation but also...the "FEV" virus (Forced Evolutionary Virus, too long to go into but a major issue in the games and part of why the Chinese nuked America)
~Ghouls are caused by an unusual mutation, when some Humans were hit by lethal radiation they didn't ' die but became ghouls, they have strange healing factor and aren't affected by aging, so can live centuries, but...the healing factor doesn't work on their skin and brains. Ghouls are often discriminated against by normal Humans
~The Enclave is a mysterious very high tech faction, their agenda and higher up are really evil, been defeated twice in the games
~The Brotherhood of Steel were started just before the nuke war, US soldiers mutinied against evil experiments on civilians, their goal was to prevent abuses of science etc, but over time they got fossilize din outlook, too militaristic, began taking tech by force they thought other folk shouldn't have etc. Small in number but very advanced military tech, some factions are ok, others are aholes
"Ah mais c'est quoi ça ?" Hahaha, une très bonne question! The stuff she used to heal herself is called a stimpack, they're the primary healing item in the games and it can fix you injuries too.
Yeah. I like how they said fuckit' usually Hollywood productions feel the need to make these thing's make sense. But they really don't have to. It's a fantasy world, let our minds wonder.
Yes! You are supposed to have many questions at this point, but not due to lacking any game knowledge. There's a bunch of intertwined stories and mysteries that get revealed as it goes. I guess some backstory might be useful, like but not really essential. The alternate reality of this world diverged just after World War 2, and is mostly rooted in how the world perceived nuclear energy after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ie they embraced it rather than being terrified of it. Oh, and the US annexed Canada at some point. Sorry. :)
Lets put it this way. The Fallout tv show is so good in the entirety of its 8 episode span; that the entire franchise and EVERY SINGLE game has had a huge resurgence of players.
I love this game franchise so damn much; it's such a great combination of cartoonishly over-the-top violence and biting, wild satire. I was cautiously optimistic going in, and the show surpassed my expectations. The smartest thing they did was, instead of directly adapting one of the existing games, they just made a completely original story set in the same game universe. And Walton Goggins always makes every movie or TV series better. But overall, I think they absolutely knocked the tone and aesthetic completely out of the park.
How could I feel so icky but so entertained...cousin stuff....
It has the tone of a really good dark Alice In Wonderland vibe.
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I mean there's only so many people in the Vaults
That thing she stabbed her self with after getting stabbed with the knife was called a stim. Basically a healing potion for this universe
This show is surprisingly good, and accurate to the lore. Keep watching. It gets even better!
Also, "Raiders" is the word she said you couldn't figure out. Raiders are basically what they call common people in the world above, except they survive by scavenging, and killing.
Similarly to Vikings I suppose. This is also a error in writing. Cause they aren't actually supposed to know about Raider's. That's generally a term you find out in the games, after you gotto the surface.
Someone could correct me if I'm wrong.
Good to see you back Hannah! This show is awesome but that opening scene where the atomic bomb was dropped and his little girl saw it was just terrifying!
It was
@@HannaHsOverInvested I'm hoping we find out she survived like her dad :( Also hope she's not a Ghoul like her dad. lol... Better than dead tho, yeah?
This show is one of the best video game adaptations! You can really feel that the people behind it are huge fans of the games since there are references/easter eggs to not just the newer games, but also the very first games too! Even the tiny details, the feel, atmosphere, humour.. They just nailed Fallout!
The world pre bombs is basically what they thought the future would be like un the 50s. Their universe focused in nuclear power while ours focused on the integrated circuit and microchips.
We share a lot of similar historical moments up until roughly the 1950s.
In my opinion this is the best video game adaptation to movie or TV show to this day
47 yt old wife didnt know anything about the Fallout universe and she LOVED it so much. She was gutted when it was over and can't wait for more!
This show is phenomenal. Its a lot more accurate to the games then Last of Us was. The problem i had with the Last of Us was that it was a story that was already told through the game. Sure there were some differences but for the most part you knew the overall story. This is an entirely new story that's cannon to the Fallout world and takes place about 9 years after Fallout 4, which is the most recent in the timeline. Everything you see in the world is pulled directly from the games. The tone is perfect. It feels like it belongs in the same world that the games do. I think it helps that the creator of fallout, Todd Howard, had direct involvement with the show. The scenes with Lucy in the vault are pretty much the first hour or two of every Fallout game. Fallout is a massive open wold RPG. Its not a game to play if you don't have the time. Your put in the world and told here are some missions now go explore. If your new to gaming its a little overwhelming because while you have missions you can get easily sidetracked by random quests that have nothing to do with the main story. I highly recommend you watch the season. As you get further in show some of the story is new to even players of the games. It expands the lore instead of the games rather then overwrites it. Season 2 has already been confirmed.
I'm scared of open world games even tho I played a whole 1.5 hours of the Witcher 3.
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Witcher III (and most open work RPGs) are quite slow paced... though in my mind, The Witcher III is nearly perfect; my favourite game.
I genuinely think you'd enjoy one of the newer Assassin's Creed games. Origins is my favourite by far. Love the setting (Ancient Egypt) and the characters are really good, too.
Small correction, Todd Howard is not the creator of Fallout. That would be Tim Cain, who developed the first fallout game in 1994. Todd Howard did direct the games once Bethesda acquired fallout and made fallout 3.
@@HannaHsOverInvested 8,945 hours in Fallout 4 and 2,683 hrs in Fallout New Vegas :P (I have an excuse though, seriously disabled and open world games let me feel like i can still roam and explore etc)
The games are incredibly deep, interesting TONS of stuff to find, they often use vignettes of dead folk and abandoned places that tell a story themselves
The thing Lucy stuck into herself is a STIMPACK, can heal most wounds in minutes ;)
Accurate with fallout 4 and 76, not 1,2 and NV
Good job show
Im just so happy you're making content again. You were gone for a while, and your absence was felt.
This show was fantastically well made, I was very thoroughly impressed.
Also fallout is like a exploration adventure game where you go on quests “a big main quest” and lots of little “side quests” to do the big main quest eventually!
It’s about picking through ruins and fighting weird creatures to get cool things that hide within while taking time to explore the lore of old broken down places. What happened here? Why is everything nuked? Who dropped the nukes? Why are there super mutants and people in different factions? Why are there people in metal armor?
I think the show does a great job of conveying the feeling of “Lost but adventurously curious.” 😊
The good Fallout games actually tie up most of their side activity to the player's main objective. directly or through those side quests effecting the broader major conflict that surrounds said main objective. See: Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas.
@@fillosof66689 I haven’t played one or 2 but there are SO many quests in new Vegas that have nothing to do with the main quest. But y’know if they all were the game would suck I wanna explore
The main girl Lucy is the acress that voices Jinx from Arcane
In the Fallout universe they never developed microtechnology, they still use vacuum tubes. That's why their "smartwatch" is still so big ;)
I loved this show! The story, the actors, the sets and Easter eggs. You can really tell the people involved love the games. And the scene where Lucy staples her wound closed, at least she didn't staple her clothes to the wound like the last time you saw Ella Purnell in a video game inspired series. IYKYK
Even the weird and awkward parts have really good explanations! I loved this show so much after being so damn worried it would be bad.
The Vault fight scene and Hannah just "ew ew ew ew ew ew yes ew ew" made me fucking giggle
My level of Fallout Lore is "Intermediate to Good", I played all the games, I watched loads of Lore videos on UA-cam and I'd say that for me this is an amazing adaptation of the world. The story is fully new but still considered canon to the Fallout World.
You will see a lot of gore and splatter as that is very common in the games, you will also see some "game mechanics" such as how Lucy stabs herself with that needle. That needle was a Stimpak, a healing item from the games which instantly heals you and can even help severely injured limbs.
There is SO MUCH fanservice in this show. Basically everything you see in the background is from the games. The colour and textures of the Vault walls, the Vault suits are almost identical, the sound effect as the Raider uses the red-whit einhaler is exactly like the game. In later spidoes you can see food and candy in the background which is exactly from the games, and you will see magazines used to give the player a temporary bonus lying on the tables. The Pip-boys (the wrist-computers) are from the games and it's how the player can view the map, use items, change equipment, etc. Even the background music (the copyrighted 50's music) is straight from the games!
Add to how there are Game mechanics such as how a player heals with the Stimpak, how limbs just.. vanish in explosions, how the player and their companion seems to have infinite bagspace, there is a computerhacking scene later on that's only visible for a second but is exactly how it is in the games.
In short, game players seem to really love the show, and all the Fallout games have seen a resurgence with new players! Fallout 76 (that you watched an Internet Historian video about and how Bethesda were utter A-holes in how they lied and screwed customrs over) making it more popular now than it was evern at its launch!
As a long time Fallout player who played the first one in 1997 and who has around 10000 hours of cumulated play time in those games, this show just nails it. It really gives that Fallout experience full of nonsense, funny things, horor and gore. We need to keep in mind that this is not our world but a different one who sepearted from ours after WW2, there is no advanced electronics but atom power is everywhere.
So you don't understand a game after 10000h
@@lordboreal137 So maybe you can explain what is to understand then, i would love to hear it.
I have a feeling that suspense and mystery both get filed under "confused" in HannaH's head lol
Yeah, and she is supposed to be a writer ? That really don't sell me her books.
13:13 It's the Rock-It Launcher, or Junk Jet. It's a reverse vacuum type thing that propels every day junk objects as bullets to end the not-death of people
It's called the Rock-It Launcher in fallout 3, while in fallout 4 it's called the Junk Jet. It's a fun and silly weapon to use in both games.
@@TheKrislaf Yepyep!
I'm a huge fallout fan, and the show surpassed my expectations. It has everything that I expect something set in the fallout universe to have. The tone, the characters, the aesthetic, the lore; they nailed it all.
This show is considered very good in the community. I’m glad it wasn’t just a retelling of a story we already have heard. It’s an addition to the world the fans already love. It’s a new story set in the same world as the games.
I have to be honest, I wasn't really expecting much from this show, but it was sooooo much better than I thought it'd be and definitely made me want to visit the world in the games. I had a lot of fun with this show! The grimy, gross chaos is part of the fun in both the show and the games.
5:30 this show is such a good example of show and not tell. It’s doesn’t just feed you everything on a silver platter.
This is the first show I’ve ever watched where I genuinely enjoyed myself watching a second time and third and fourth!
They gave Maximum the spot because his answers showed fanatical and unquestioning loyalty. My assumption if they were going to execute him but his answers convince the cleric he would be useful in the wilds. The key thing is Maximus is a zealot, a true believer.
Am I the only one who got caught off-guard when she started goin on about "A glowing one" at the start of the video!?
"Raiders" That's who took over the vault
I think it honors the game very well. It doesn't use any of the stories from the games but it's heavily influenced by the universe. Everything comes together in this by the end
13:58 I hope you keep the guessing in. It was a lot of fun guessing when I first watched, then rewatching and seeing things I completely missed the first time!!!
I love that Lucy is essentially doing what a few previous protagonists have done.
Fallout 3: Main Character leaves his vault to find his father, voiced by Liam Neeson (aka Qui-Gon Jinn from Starwars)
Fallout on Amazon: Main Character leaves her vault to find her father, played by Kyle MacLachlan (aka Paul Atreides from David Lynch's Dune)
7:15 Probably best to watch with Subtitles especially if you're not familiar with the games lol. She said "raiders" (theyre raiding the vault).
Exceeded expectations for sure. The Fallout franchise has seen a massive resurgence in player count due to this series. It's pretty great - hope you enjoy it!
(7:17) "...Raiders" (I feel your pain, lol. This is why I have to watch with subtitles on 👍👍)
I noticed they didn't explain it well for people who aren't fallout fans, but what she injected herself with is a Stimpak, they almost instantly heal minor and some major injuries, although medical care is still recommended. I wish they made that clear somehow as my family also didn't get it
Yes, it is above and beyond my expectations (as a fan since 1997).
Be sure to watch the credits, they do some storytelling there before it goes to pure credits.
So at the beginning when you were talking about your sign and mentioned your glowing one, that's more appropriate than you know for this franchise. Ghouls get the way they are because of exposure to radiation. Give enough radiation, they start lighting up the room like a Christmas Tree, and are called "Glowing Ones".
I can't wait for Hannah to CRY in the emotional scenes coming later! Am I some kind of emotion vampire?
This very much lived up to my expectations. I think what makes it work so well is that it isn't trying to re-tell an already established story from one of the games, but rather is an extension to the universe. It's a story that stands on its own inside an established canon.
Yes, this show brings the world of Fallout to life expertly.
If you watch the opening cinematic of Fallout 4 (its on youtube somewhere), it will tell you everything you need to know about the Fallout universe without any spoilers for the show.
0:18 here I was thinking you were speaking of a “glowing one” ghoul… cause those are some brutal nasty feral dudes.
There is a video out there of a guy who made measurements of the explosions at the beginning of the show.
He concluded that the show completely failed to scale the bombs.
The one we see here were incredibly small bombs, not even deserving to be ranked among the nuclear bombs we know, at about 100 tons TNT equivalents (compared to the "small" 15,000 tons Hiroshima bomb), while nukes these days are in the range 150,000 to 1,000,000 tons bombs.
In the game universe it is said that the bombs range between 250,000 to 750,000 tons.
As a result, from where he and his daughter were standing, they should have been instantly 3rd degree burned by the initial light flash emitted by sucha bomb (and after that blasted away, loosing their ears). They would also have inside the ash cloud as it developped.
The cloud itself would have reached about 20 km high, and obviously covered the entire view.
In other words, they would have died instantly.
Instead of that, what we see here reminds me of the incident which took place not too long ago at a dock in Beirut Lebanon, where a large quantity of ammonium nitrate (a chemical used as an agricultural fertilizer) detonated.
I love the show and played the *beep* out of the games aswell. Not only are they good at references, but the show is actually canon for the universe and takes place some years after Fallout 4. So good!
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Fallout 4 - year 2287
Fallout TV - year 2296
The actress who plays Lucy (Ella Purnell) in general have really big eyes but my goodness she is a great actress she has a very promising future in acting.
You have a glowing one in Ottawa you say?... **Nervously points Geiger counter at Hannah**
This show captures the setting and the tone of the Fallout universe incredibly well and told a compelling enough story whilst doing so. As a fan of the games I can tell that the production team put a lot of work into making this show an accessible starting point for a general audience. They took great care to not overload viewers with overt 'in your face' references to the games all the time which would cheapen the experience, make the show harder to follow for viewers new to the franchise, and cause them to lose interest.
Another great aspect of this show I find is the commitment to the use of practical effects and real sets in many places where it would have been easy to justify just using CGI for everything. For me, this adds so much texture to the world when you can tell most of what you are seeing on screen is actually there in camera.
So to summarize, best video game adaptation so far!
Thanks for the content 🙂
"Adorable child, Adorable child.. ah she's dead any ways" you got over that fast lol.
Heyy, comming from the second episode here to make some notes about stuff that references the games, as I did there
2:28 Yes, it's a wierd future. The game states that, the transistor, a very importante piece of electonics technology we have, was not invented till MUCH further down the timeline in this universe, so stuff evolved differently. Humans found out other ways to make stuff that we have, and with that, came a whole new plethora of techs and stuff that we don't have, cause tech evolved differently there. I don't think this part was explained in the intro videos you watch a while back.
No time stamp in this, cause it's whole episode: The vault's look all EXACTLY like that in the game. I mean, the setting and mood of them, each vault looks different, but the look... It's so spot on.
7:53 Yeah, the stimpak... Explained that on the other one.
9:42 Ah the brotherhood... A very "militar-esque" organization, and you surely perceived, their purpose in the games is solely to stash away pre-war technology, so that people don't use them, in hopes that the nuclear war doesn't break out again. I don't think they REALLY explained that other than this scene. They have all the cool pre-war stuff stashed away. That's why they are also the primary source of power armors, the (yes, they are) heavy looking armors, powered by nuclear energy.
The BIG ship is (supposed to be) the Prydwen, the only one of it's kind so far. Though, that would mean, if I'm not mistaken, that one and only one of the endings to fallout 4 is canon. Maybe it's another ship, somehow. The Prydwen plays a BIG part in that game.
11:33 There are always some outside way to open the door (that's how people from the surface opened vault 32 if you think about it) but you HAVE to have a pip-boy to be minimally able to do so.
13:12 Yeah, the Junk Jet I mentioned in episode 2's comment.
14:43 I don't think they really do explain what a ghoul is, so, it's kinda like the game implies that, if a human takes so much, so so so so much damn concentrated radiation in such a fast dose, it would mutate you into this creature faster than it would kill you, and since ghouls heal faster, and use radiation as "fuel", once you're mutated, the radiation would not kill you anymore, on the contrary, would be beneficial. Here, the ghoul is alive because, SO FAR AS WE KNOW, ghouls don't die of old age (or, at least, they don't die of old age before AT LEAST 200 and some years after "ghoul-ification". If they are not immortal by time passing, they could last 1000s of years, again, as far as we know) and all they aparently need to keep alive and kicking, is radiation, so those bags above the ghoul's grave were radiation bags of some sort, to keep him kicking. In the show, that's no spoiler at all, he keeps taking doses of radiation to keep himself sane, that's not really a think in the game again, as far as we know. In the games, it seems that what drives them insane is just time, loneliness, (un)luck, or it's just purely random.
Hope it's usefull for context 🙂
It's a perfect adaptation to me. One of if not THE best.
The director for this also did the Westworld series, and the style of storytelling is very similar. You're spot on when you say that you feel like you're meant to be confused!
I've watched the entire season; and I've played Fallout games since 1997.
I sometimes tell people, "No, I'm not a gamer, I'm a Fallout player."
I have played Fallout games for thousands of hours over 26 years.
I probably dreaded a TV show Fallout, more than anticipated it.
I love the gameplay and the established lore of the games.
I really enjoyed the show--enough to binge watch the season.
The show captures the lore and aesthetic of Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, the two most recent games in the franchise.
The show also captures the lore of Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and especially Fallout New Vegas very well.
I wholeheartedly approve of the TV show.
Each Fallout game is a unique story, with a unique setting, and unique characters, all set in the same Fallout universe.
The five latest games in the franchise are entirely open world; and of course, the player character is the main protagonist in each.
The fact that I cannot play the TV show as the main protagonist, playing my way, making my choices, causes me to prefer the games to the show.
But still, I really enjoyed the show, probably enough to buy it.
The games can be more disturbing than anything you'll see in the show.
Fictional post apocalyptic worlds can be more than a little disturbing, and more than a little eccentric, and the Fallout lore knows it.
I'll close with, the leadership team of Bethesda Game Studio has clarified that Amazon's TV Fallout IS lore
This show captures the spirit of the games better than any adaptation ever made. This one comes right up along side The Last of Us in faithfulness to the source material, but unlike TLOU, Fallout is fully open world and most games have some variability in possible endings. Every twist of this show is glorious, and the new additions to the lore only serve to improve the fallout universe as a whole. (I mean "improve" in terms of how in depth and exciting the story is, things don't ever get better for anyone)
The makers of Fallout have described the setting as the “main character” and it’s a fundamentally bewildering place. While the show throws a lot at the audience (especially the uninitiated) a relatively tight plot keeps it from getting too confusing. It’s remarkably palatable for how far out the story is.
The show doesn't follow any one particular game plot, rather it's an exploration of the game's universe. And It's a pretty damn good adaptation of the game-world, IMO.
long time fallout fan here this show is good way better than i expected, i had very low expectations but this show genuinely surprised me in a good way
Definitely gonna check your book out. Been looking for some stories, that aren't the same ones I see every bookstore I go to
when you have a bomb shelter you only have suppliees to last you and your family letting in even one person is a huge risk
Yep, so many people that have done a reaction to the show forget that fallout shelter is a personal shelter for just that family, it was never built to take on more than just that household with supplies for just that house hold.
The friend was desperate to survive and didn't want to rush to find safety himself so he hopes his friend would let him and his kid in which would have over taxed the personal shelter.
Yeah, its unfortunate he couldnt let his neighbor in, but he was just lookin out for his family's health
I was hoping you'd watch this one. The TV series absolutely lives up to the games, I've played them all to death and this show is just as Fallout as they are, I've already watched through it all three times now.
Also, the item Lucy used on herself after getting stabbed is a Stimpak, an item from the games used for healing. The series is chock-full of game references and Easter eggs, it's a fantastic introduction to the world of Fallout for newcomers. If you ever decide to play one I'd recommend Fallout 4, it's the simplest one that'd be perfect for people fresh to the series. 😉👍
Season 1 of Fallout is amazing. Absolutely nails the feeling of the games. Best video game adaptation by far, and the majority of the questions do get answered.
Fun lore without spoilers for the games or show:
- This isn't an adaptation! It's a fully original story in the world of Fallout. Bethesda has confirmed that the events of the series are canon to the universe, alongside the games.
- The opening happens in 2077. The games and series take place in an alternate timeline of America that kinda stayed stuck in post WWII American culture, hence the 1950's style of the clothing, cars, and decor. Nuclear power was highly normalized, and eventually replaced coal and oil. Transistors didn't initially take off, so miniaturization of computers and tech didn't happen until much later.
That's all you need for background!
As someone with **literally** hundreds of hours per fallout game, I was initially expecting it to not be that great, for it to not have stuff for hardcore fans and basically just be establishing the world and characters.
HOWEVER, I actually really enjoyed it, it’s got great writing, characters, set design etc. and it actually is probably the best game-adapted-to-tv-series example I’ve ever seen.
It might be a little rocky to start as I feel it takes a lot of time introducing everything it needs to for people who know nothing about fallout but ep 3 and onwards is just good, solid entertainment.
That's Jinx's voice actress, weird that she stars in 2 different game adaptations that are goated.
This show is everything I could want from a Fallout TV series. It respects the spirit of the games, the lore of the games and expands on the lore in a respectful manner. Fallout Is quite similar to Warhammer 40k, whether you're introducing new characters or continuing the story of old characters whatever story you decide to tell whether it's a drama or romance what is integral to the core of the franchise is an absurdist dark comedy about the worst of humanity. The world was messed up before the bombs dropped and it just got worse from there and the absurdly amoral world Is a character for you as the player to interact with.
I just found your channel and have been binging your videos. Non gamer to gamer series has been amazing.
I went into this show with rock-bottom expectations. I was very pleasantly surprised that the showrunner managed to combine very competent writing with an obvious love for the subject matter. I can now say that this stands as one of the best VG adaptions out as yet.
I have been playing fallout since the first game dropped and have played all the canonical games. I love the show a lot of great references great storyline. I cannot wait for season two!
I'm a massive fallout nerd and I love the show. I think they did a great job. Knowing the games helps you to know about some of the references but isn't necessary to follow the story. So people who don't know anything about the games can also appreciate the show. You should definitely do a letsplay of fallout.
As someone who has played 3, New Vegas, and 4, I found the show to be an incredible representation of what a player is bound to experience throughout one of the games. The main characters all act out like they're player characters on different playthroughs/runs and the story is still solid enough that a non-player can follow along and understand what's happening. For players, there are easter eggs galore, and it's glorious.
"I am going with you." "No you will ruin the show". LOL. Poor Chet.
Only played fallout a little bit before watching the show but I could tell already it was matching the vibe it's a hard thing to do with video games. But fallout is more about the setting than is about any one persons particular story so I think that really helps this show in particular. If you get the setting right you can tell whatever story you want because they all can fit in the world of fallout.
@7:15 .... there's something called "subtitles" that can help you ... hehe ;p
Really great show that did justice to the games, and I don't think you necessarily need to play the games to understand. Couple things that might make it easier for you; Stimpacks (Thing Lucy injected) is basically a very handy cure-all in game that seems in this universe to be able to close up wounds decently well. Brotherhood of Steel (Maximus' story) is a cult like organization with militaristic structure; They see pre-fallout technology as almost sacred. Lastly, Fallout as whole is a bit gruesome with serious messages delivered with lighthearted comedic vehicles and that is why some things may seem a little outrageous. The world pre-fallout is like Cold War era What-If with some high tech advancements like advanced robotics and lasers it is NOT the exact same as ours. Most of the rest is explained well over the course of the show and i'm excited for you to watch and react!
This show has a lot of issues but as a game to a live-action show goes I think this is the best one we had so far.
The games to my understanding are RPGs and open world games. I bought a copy of Fallout 4 a few years ago and just recently started playing it after watching the show.
This show manages to create an engaging story that leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat at the end of every episode while still being incredibly faithful to the tone, appearance, dark humor, and style of the Fallout series games. There are literally thousands of references to in-game things -- pre-war brands, food items, medicine, robots, power armor, weapons, and history. Just as an example, the weapon firing random junk like the doll leg and the scissors is called a Junk Jet. It's based on a weapon you can find in both Fallout 3 and 4, and is essentially an amped up vacuum cleaner that will fire almost anything as a projectile. The injector used by Lucy is an in-game healing item called a Stimpak. It is effectively an instant heal using the magic of late 21st century super medicine (the war happened in 2077, so about 50 years from today in an alternate timeline where nobody invented the microchip).
This is an awesome tv show. I am a massive Fallout fan and this lived up to it. Things will connect as you progress.
Omg Hannah i missed you! welcome back and I hope you enjoy the show! I sure did as well as the games lol.
Actress Ella Purnell, Lucy, is also the voice actress for Jinx from "Arcane".
The Fallout games have gotten a boost in sales because of this show, so safe to say it's pretty good. Heck, I bought Fallout 4 myself because it was on sale for 5 bucks.
Finally getting around to this. I didn't want Fallout spoilers, but eventually I realized that I wasn't going to be giving Amazon money anytime soon to watch the show.
I honestly don't think that Fallout would be the _best_ game for you to play, from what I remember. Well, it might not be the best for your content. The game is a lot about exploring, wandering, stumbling upon interesting stories and people. They also tend to involve a lot of reading: journals, computer terminals, letters, unvoiced dialogue (depending which game). Playthroughs can take between a couple dozen and a couple hundred hours, depending how much the player chooses to chase side quests and explore.
That said, if you ever see them on sale, it would be worth a first-impressions stream or two. (I don't know about PlayStation, but on PC the games regularly go on sale from 3 CAD to 20 CAD, depending how new the game.)
This is one of the greatest adaptations
The series has a ton of easter eggs, for example when the guy was killed with the doll leg sticking out? The weapon that does that is the Junk Jet, which you use to shoot junk items with surprisingly devastating effects. Pretty much everything, from Power Armor to Pip Boy (the wrist-mounted PDA) is very faithful to the games' design.
But so far (I'm in e4) I have not found anything easter egg-y that was not explained if you needed to know. Just a lot of nods to the people who have spent over 1000h in the Fallout games. (Not me of course, ähem.)
Considering our confidence in Bethesda and video game adaptations were low coming into this, it exceeded all expectations.