Fallout series/show it's just ok

[ItaAndy]

Fallout series it's an ok at best type of series. I give it a 3/10

No idea why it's so popular

[peon]

I give it a 5/10. Only because lucy and maximus manage to redeem the show a bit. I dont even like the ghoul, hes basically a feral.

But maximus, has the awareness of a 5 year old. "I heard its like a pimple..."

[GinsengSamurai]

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

Fallout series it's an ok at best type of series. I give it a 3/10

No idea why it's so popular

So different people have different tastes. The point in announcing your personal preference is for.......?

Guess what? I'm not a fan of coffee. Don't get why so many people drink it. I much prefer herbal teas without cream and sugar. I also enjoy mountain/trail biking more than road cycling, though I've clocked about 15,000 kilometres doing road cycling and only about 11,000 kilometres with mountain/trail biking. Anything else? Oh, had a tiptronic Porsche once, a long time ago. Gave the system a 3/10. Might as well just get a full manual or automatic.

[valium]

Alita Battle Angel main character was great, and the Ghoul absolutely made the show a 9 out of 10 for me.

[ItaAndy]

Originally posted by GinsengSamurai:

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

Fallout series it's an ok at best type of series. I give it a 3/10

No idea why it's so popular

So different people have different tastes. The point in announcing your personal preference is for.......?

Guess what? I'm not a fan of coffee. Don't get why so many people drink it. I much prefer herbal teas without cream and sugar. I also enjoy mountain/trail biking more than road cycling, though I've clocked about 15,000 kilometres doing road cycling and only about 11,000 kilometres with mountain/trail biking. Anything else? Oh, had a tiptronic Porsche once, a long time ago. Gave the system a 3/10. Might as well just get a full manual or automatic.

Ever heard of the word "discussion"? Thanks for contributing

[GinsengSamurai]

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

Originally posted by GinsengSamurai:

So different people have different tastes. The point in announcing your personal preference is for.......?

Guess what? I'm not a fan of coffee. Don't get why so many people drink it. I much prefer herbal teas without cream and sugar. I also enjoy mountain/trail biking more than road cycling, though I've clocked about 15,000 kilometres doing road cycling and only about 11,000 kilometres with mountain/trail biking. Anything else? Oh, had a tiptronic Porsche once, a long time ago. Gave the system a 3/10. Might as well just get a full manual or automatic.

Ever heard of the word "discussion"? Thanks for contributing

Nobody in the Fallout 4 forum asked what your opinion of the Fallout show is. Want to leave a review for it? Try IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.

Thanks for the Jester award. It gives me 200 points from the 600 you spent.

[ItaAndy]

Originally posted by GinsengSamurai:

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

Ever heard of the word "discussion"? Thanks for contributing

Nobody asked what your opinion of the show is. Want to leave a review for it? Try IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.

Thanks for the Jester award. It gives me 200 points from the 600 you spent. :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

umm I wasnt the one who rewarded you...and you sound a little ticked off about my opinion. I guess my opinion does matter to you. Again, thanks for contributing.

[Luey Hewis]

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

Fallout series it's an ok at best type of series. I give it a 3/10

No idea why it's so popular

It's a very good show. It's popular because it's well done. Cope and seethe bozo

[GinsengSamurai]

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

Originally posted by GinsengSamurai:

Nobody asked what your opinion of the show is. Want to leave a review for it? Try IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.

Thanks for the Jester award. It gives me 200 points from the 600 you spent.

umm I wasnt the one who rewarded you...and you sound a little ticked off about my opinion. I guess my opinion does matter to you. Again, thanks for contributing.

It's your attitude that's the problem. Your opinion itself doesn't matter. You could very well be telling us about your mother's flowery panties. What's her @ by the way? ;)

[cravnmore]

A lot of love went into the sets and character designs and visually hit the right feel for the fallout universe. It was all dumped at once which makes for easy binge while keeping thinking about the story to a minimum. If it was released weekly and people discussed each episode its popularity wouldn't have been the same.

The writing was pretty weak( the whole Moldaver storyline was poorly thought out and executed) basically any game main quest was better written.

[ItaAndy]

Originally posted by GinsengSamurai:

Originally posted by ItaAndy:

umm I wasnt the one who rewarded you...and you sound a little ticked off about my opinion. I guess my opinion does matter to you. Again, thanks for contributing.

It's your attitude that's the problem. Your opinion itself doesn't matter. You could very well be telling us about your mother's flowery panties. What's her @ by the way? ;)

Dude, you're being a straight up ahole, right now. If you knew about my mothers health, you wouldnt be saying such childish things. Grow the f up, and stop acting like a keyboard warrior. Be better, do better.

[ItaAndy]

Originally posted by cravnmore:

A lot of love went into the sets and character designs and visually hit the right feel for the fallout universe. It was all dumped at once which makes for easy binge while keeping thinking about the story to a minimum. If it was released weekly and people discussed each episode its popularity wouldn't have been the same.

The writing was pretty weak( the whole Moldaver storyline was poorly thought out and executed) basically any game main quest was better written.

I agree!

[DarkLink]

I think its true to the games, very much. As a non Fallout player people wont enjoy it I think. I laugh my ass off at the dark humour, my gf looks at me as Im insane.

[vee-kay]

I humbly disagree with OP's verdict.

I would highly recommend to see the recent Fallout show (Season 1 is out on Amazon Prime). It is really good. Fans of the game series may nitpick on a few things, but it has an excellent cast, perfect pacing (the slow moments add the backstories and lore so newbies to the lore don't get confused or lost), gorgeous environments, thrilling fights/encounters, and does a lot of justice to the game lore and locations, and the attention to detail on the show is frankly astounding (the showmakers even got Fallout creator Todd Howard to agree to give them access to thousands of 3D models of the assets used in the games. so they could be 3D printed and painted to be shown in the show, so Fallout fans are literally combing through each scene to find and tag these easter eggs in the show. Fun times!

To put it into context why this Fallout show has a lot riding on it...
It's because the video game industry has typically fared poorly in the hands of the Hollywood execs.

Methinks...
Fallout got an excellent OTT show - at least, its first season is really good and enjoyable, staying fairly true to the roots of the game lore and authentically trying to recreate the environments and monsters, while still creating new ground with a perfect cast. Lots of little easter eggs and tropes sprinkled in the show for the fans to uncover and enjoy.

Halo movie was meh. Halo Legends (seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios) was much better than the recent Halo movie. Halo 5 game was bad too (good in some respects, but its story and some ideas were so bad that even the devs decided they are not canon for future sequels). Fans of Halo series deserved better. Halo Infinite is a redemption of sorts.

Uncharted movie (starring Spider star Tom Holland and action star Mark Wahlberg) was really bad and even kids didn't like it (except for that aerial fight on flying ships, which was not canon anyway; moviemakers later revealed they did not even build a single seemingly-complete ship, they merely built parts of ships and filmed on them). The Uncharted short by Nathan Fillion was much better, and he was/is an apt Nathan Drake according to fans.

Borderlands movie is being made, and it is likely to be a dud. They've cast an old-but-gold actress Cate Blanchett for the character of a young Siren (Lilith)! Duh! Borderlands game series has already deteriorated badly in its writing and new characters, and fans fear the movie will be even worse if the casting results seems to be anything to go by.

Most video-game-to-movie adaptations have failed:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/video-game-movies/

And the lack of creativity in Hollywood is exemplified by this humongous list of many video games being made into movies or OTT shows, within the next year or so.
Why do we get the feeling that most of these movies/shows will be flops?
Bad adaptations dishearten the fans, but unfortunately the fans do not have a say in these upcoming projects.

Even a bonafide star like Henry Cavill, who was so perfect as Geralt the Witcher, and who was a passionate fan of the games and books, was treated so badly by the Hollywood honchos and writers that he opted out of the Witcher show finally, because they deliberately deviated from canon despite his objections and insights, and butchered the Butcher of Blaviken (Geralt the White Wolf) character).

Video Game Movies in 2024 and Beyond

Borderlands (August 9, 2024)
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (December 20, 2024)
Minecraft: The Movie (April 4, 2025)
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (TBA)
The Legend of Zelda (TBA)
Ghost of Tsushima (TBA)
Until Dawn (TBA)
Gears of War (TBA)
Mortal Kombat 2 (TBA)
Return to Silent Hill (TBA)
Death Stranding (TBA)
Street Fighter (TBA)
Days Gone (TBA)
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu 2 (TBA)
Stray (TBA)
BioShock (TBA)
Space Channel 5 (TBA)
Comix Zone (TBA)
Mega Man (TBA)
Just Cause (TBA)
Duke Nukem (TBA)
Gravity Rush (TBA)
Dead by Daylight (TBA)
It Takes Two (TBA)
Sifu (TBA)
Slime Rancher (TBA)
Ark: Survival Evolved (TBA)
Pac-Man (TBA)
Streets of Rage (TBA)
Sniper Elite (TBA)
Toe-Jam and Earl (TBA)
Jak and Daxter (Status Unknown)
Call of Duty (Status Unknown)
Half-Life (Status Unknown)
Saints Row (Status Unknown)
Portal (Status Unknown)
Yakuza (Status Unknown)
Beyond Good & Evil (Status Unknown)
Firewatch (Status Unknown)
Metal Gear Solid (Status Unknown)
The Division (Status Unknown)
Just Dance (Status Unknown)
Dragon's Lair (Status Unknown)
Splinter Cell (Presumed Cancelled)

Video Game TV Shows in 2024 and Beyond

Fallout (April 12, 2024)
Arcane: Season 2 (November 2024)
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (2024)
Untitled Knuckles Series (2024)
The Last of Us: Season 2 (2025)
The Witcher: Season 4 (TBA)
God of War (TBA)
Horizon (TBA)
Gears of War (TBA)
Devil May Cry Anime (TBA)
Twisted Metal: Season 2 (TBA)
Assassin's Creed (TBA)
Splinter Cell (TBA)
Castlevania: Nocturne: Season 2 (TBA)
Mass Effect (TBA)
A Plague Tale (TBA)
Nier: Automata: Season 2 (TBA)
Disco Elysium (TBA)
Hunt: Showdown (TBA)
Alan Wake (TBA)
System Shock (TBA)
Grounded (TBA)
Life Is Strange (TBA)
My Friend Pedro (Status Unknown)
Skull & Bones (Status Unknown)
Child of Light (Status Unknown)
Brothers in Arms (Status Unknown)

[Cor.]

Originally posted by valium:

Alita Battle Angel main character was great, and the Ghoul absolutely made the show a 9 out of 10 for me.

ABA2 release date is supposed to be coming out soon.

[ZERBI-XCVII]

I would rate TV series a 6/10.
I'm not sure how others view the Fallout universe, but I see it as a solitary experience, primarily focused on exploration, fear, and scarcity of resources. If the series had followed a single protagonist, engaged in solo exploration of the contaminated area, forced to eliminate enemies and constantly on the brink of death (almost in a horror style), I would have found it much more interesting and satisfying. Instead, I found the TV series they produced quite ridiculous... especially with all that B-movie humor they inserted.