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This.....could turn out to be very, very good if they do it in the old style. Or very, very bad if they follow the games that has been released over the last few years.
I love the Nukabreak web series, and jump at anything with the Fallout branding. It'd be nice to have the Obsidian guys having some input to give the series the right feeling (instead of just a gritty sci fi world), but I can't expect anything but good things from this.
...I feel that my friends may disown me upon its release from drooling over it so much. =)
Trondheim wrote: This.....could turn out to be very, very good if they do it in the old style. Or very, very bad if they follow the games that has been released over the last few years.
Dunno, I think New Vegas could be turned in to a new TV show / mini-series.
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However I hope they know fallout isnt the most "serious" of universes. Not saying there arent serious parts (and it can get really serious), but on a whole a good chunk of it is silly shenanigans
Nukabreak handles the atmosphere quite well I think. Its kind of Fallout, but in a somewhat Firefly style. Between something styled like the Walking Dead and Firefly I'd take the later though. It aught to be a light hearted affair, but wrapped around in a harsh world. Not silly, and not tongue in cheek all the time, but it shouldn't take itself too seriosly. Again the web series does this well enough (exclaiming "free s***!" one second as the rest of the cast ask if that guy's really rifling through a dead guy's pockets, to the villain saying "bring me Mathilda", a Fatman, and nuking a plucky little town with a smirk on his face..), so I'm hoping if this gets big budget backing it isn't taken over by people who think of it as the Book of Eli tv series or something. =P
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Trondheim wrote: This.....could turn out to be very, very good if they do it in the old style. Or very, very bad if they follow the games that has been released over the last few years.
Do you have any reasoning for this other than "OHEMGEE THE ORIGINALS WERE FAR BETTER GUYS, THEY WERE FAR LESS MAINSTREEM"?
As several others have said the Nukabreak series (set in the mojave iirc) is excellent and a tv series in that vein would be awesome.
Totalbiscuit suggested it could be Fallout 4 with a promotional miniseries, that would be even more awesome
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I'm intrigued about Fallout 4, but based off of the current leaks its coming across as being heavily influenced by the second ark of the novel The Postman (which Bethesda admitted was part of their source material for Fallout 3). =P
Erik Todd Dellums, who portrays DJ Three Dog in Fallout 3, recently tweeted that we may be seeing more of the character soon
That means it should be based around Fallout 3. If thats the case Ill be plenty fething happy with that! As long as the writing is decent/good of course. Dont get me wrong, I think NewVegas was a great game, but the story and setting of 3 was SOOooooo much better.
Erik Todd Dellums, who portrays DJ Three Dog in Fallout 3, recently tweeted that we may be seeing more of the character soon
That means it should be based around Fallout 3. If thats the case Ill be plenty fething happy with that! As long as the writing is decent/good of course. Dont get me wrong, I think NewVegas was a great game, but the story and setting of 3 was SOOooooo much better.
I liked the settings in Fallout 3 and New Vegas about equally. New Vegas is a sort of setting that is in the process of bringing itself out of the apocalypse, and will probably have some sense of a normal society within 40-50 years. Civilization is coming back slowly but surely in New Vegas. Fallout 3 on the other hand is far more bleak. There are few towns, and seeing a roving trader is a welcome sight after spending hours in the wasteland. And there is basically no law as there is in New Vegas outside the towns. No up-and-coming republic, just hot, bleak wasteland that will take a long time to get back to any sort of organized society.
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Trondheim wrote: This.....could turn out to be very, very good if they do it in the old style. Or very, very bad if they follow the games that has been released over the last few years.
Do you have any reasoning for this other than
As several others have said the Nukabreak series (set in the mojave iirc) is excellent and a tv series in that vein would be awesome.
Totalbiscuit suggested it could be Fallout 4 with a promotional miniseries, that would be even more awesome
Why yes I do actually. The new games where a great gateway for younger people into the fallout universe, but I prefer the old ones due to me growing up with them. And as for mainstream, I find that brand dose not make anything stand out with quality . And if you wish for a more detailed statement simply ask and thy shall receive. And I have not seen the mentioned series but will make a point to look into them.
Trondheim wrote: The new games where a great gateway for younger people into the fallout universe, but I prefer the old ones due to me growing up with them.
Nostalgia doesn't really count as a reason.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Trondheim wrote: The new games where a great gateway for younger people into the fallout universe, but I prefer the old ones due to me growing up with them.
Nostalgia doesn't really count as a reason.
For me its more than enough, but then again I dont assume it would be for everyone. Each to his/her own taste I suppose
The thing is, I feel nostalgia for Total Annihilation but I can still list off reasons why it's a great game, even by modern standards for the RTS genre.
So if it's a really good game, you don't necessarily NEED nostalgia to pick it over another.
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For me it a requirement when it comes to these kind of old games. I can too list of many reasons why I think its a great game. but when the new games fail to produce this feeling I expected when I first started them up when they came out a few years back I felt noting but a lack of nostalgia. But you raise a fair point I must say
I'm almost completely sure it's going to have "pretty" people in it.
I loved the fallout series to death, I still have fond memories of my first few steps outside of vault 15 fighting those stupid rats. However, seeing pretty people in a post apoc setting, even if it's my much loved fallout, will make me instantly hate it.
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Necroshea wrote: I'm almost completely sure it's going to have "pretty" people in it.
I loved the fallout series to death, I still have fond memories of my first few steps outside of vault 15 fighting those stupid rats. However, seeing pretty people in a post apoc setting, even if it's my much loved fallout, will make me instantly hate it.
Agreed although the mentioned series should not be all people that makes you afraid of the dark though.
Trondheim wrote: The new games where a great gateway for younger people into the fallout universe, but I prefer the old ones due to me growing up with them.
Nostalgia doesn't really count as a reason.
Okay how about:
*A main plot that was about the protagonist rather than the world. I can't even remember why you left the vault in Fallout 3. New Vegas was little better.
*The combination of music and art style that created a real feeling of a place, rather than wandering around an empty village, ocassionally seeing a villager walking through the air and having a conversation with himself. An exception to this is The Strip in Vegas. That place is amazing, it's just a shame most of the villages and towns seemed utterly dead.
*A sincere nihilism. Fallout 1 & 2 were seriously bleak places. New Vegas was a great game, don't get me wrong, but it just felt like it had the child lock on when it came to the setting.
*Memerable charectors. May be a problem with 1st person games in general but honestly I couldn't name you a single NPC from New Vegas. They were just bla bla bla bla. But Vic, Marcus and [can't remember his name, the dude you meet in vault city with the sawn off shot gun] will be with me forever. I genuinely missed them when they died, often re-loading simply to avoid their deaths.
Wyrmalla wrote: Nukabreak handles the atmosphere quite well I think. Its kind of Fallout, but in a somewhat Firefly style. Between something styled like the Walking Dead and Firefly I'd take the later though. It aught to be a light hearted affair, but wrapped around in a harsh world. Not silly, and not tongue in cheek all the time, but it shouldn't take itself too seriosly. Again the web series does this well enough (exclaiming "free s***!" one second as the rest of the cast ask if that guy's really rifling through a dead guy's pockets, to the villain saying "bring me Mathilda", a Fatman, and nuking a plucky little town with a smirk on his face..), so I'm hoping if this gets big budget backing it isn't taken over by people who think of it as the Book of Eli tv series or something. =P
That's pretty good for an indie project but I would like to see a more gritty and gory take on it if it was a TV series. Also I love Fallout 3 and New Vegas but from what I heard the older games were more humorous could anyone confirm that for me?
...The second game has an entire hidden subplot featuring characters from Monty Python's the Holy Grail.
Just leave that here...
Actually Chris Avellone noted this when it came to the Wild Wasteland perk with New Vegas. Josh Sawyer was into the idea of adding these humorous references all over the place, but Avellone didn't want New Vegas to be saturated with them as Fallout 2 was, thus why they stuck in the best ones and made them optional. I do find that New Vegas is funnier than 3 however because of all the... intelligent references (probably because the staff at Obsidian have their degrees in History and literature instead of IT like Bethesda...would explain the bugs). "The center cannot hold!" spray painted outside of the NCR base was a great one for instance. =P
Wyrmalla wrote: ...The second game has an entire hidden subplot featuring characters from Monty Python's the Holy Grail.
Just leave that here...
Actually Chris Avellone noted this when it came to the Wild Wasteland perk with New Vegas. Josh Sawyer was into the idea of adding these humorous references all over the place, but Avellone didn't want New Vegas to be saturated with them as Fallout 2 was, thus why they stuck in the best ones and made them optional. I do find that New Vegas is funnier than 3 however because of all the... intelligent references (probably because the staff at Obsidian have their degrees in History and literature instead of IT like Bethesda...would explain the bugs). "The center cannot hold!" spray painted outside of the NCR base was a great one for instance. =P
Yeah New Vegas had some humour with radio host and that, imo a good Fallout TV series should be gory, have dark and gritty themes but still have a certain amount of silliness to it something Quentin Tarantino in style would work for me.
Actually Chris Avellone noted this when it came to the Wild Wasteland perk with New Vegas. Josh Sawyer was into the idea of adding these humorous references all over the place, but Avellone didn't want New Vegas to be saturated with them as Fallout 2 was, thus why they stuck in the best ones and made them optional. I do find that New Vegas is funnier than 3 however because of all the... intelligent references (probably because the staff at Obsidian have their degrees in History and literature instead of IT like Bethesda...would explain the bugs). "The center cannot hold!" spray painted outside of the NCR base was a great one for instance. =P
The bugs are because obsidian had only 1-2 years to make the game with Bethesdas pos gamebryo engine (gamebryo ain't bad, beth's version of it is) and Bethesda didn't want to pay royalties to obsidian so that they could afford patching.
Every time I hear "in my opinion" or "just my opinion" makes me want to strangle a puppy. People use their opinions as a shield that other poeple can't critisize and that is bs.
If you can't defend or won't defend your opinion then that "opinion" is bs. Stop trying to tip-toe and defend what you believe in.
100% serious? Count me out.
Animated? Also count me out.
Low budget? Count me out.
To be honest I wouldn't mind an animated version.
Although obviously live action would be great.
Knowing Bethesda though, they'll make the quality of the actual televised series great, and make the DVD releases suck because "DVD players are hard to develop for".
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Necroshea wrote: I'm almost completely sure it's going to have "pretty" people in it.
I loved the fallout series to death, I still have fond memories of my first few steps outside of vault 15 fighting those stupid rats. However, seeing pretty people in a post apoc setting, even if it's my much loved fallout, will make me instantly hate it.
Agreed although the mentioned series should not be all people that makes you afraid of the dark though.
Why would pretty or unpretty people effect the quality of the experience?
Necroshea wrote: I'm almost completely sure it's going to have "pretty" people in it.
I loved the fallout series to death, I still have fond memories of my first few steps outside of vault 15 fighting those stupid rats. However, seeing pretty people in a post apoc setting, even if it's my much loved fallout, will make me instantly hate it.
Agreed although the mentioned series should not be all people that makes you afraid of the dark though.
Why would pretty or unpretty people effect the quality of the experience?
People going through hell should never look pretty or else it looks utterly fake. Warriors that have gone through battle and survived countless times will be covered in scars. People trying their hardest to simply survive an apocalyptic wasteland will not look like they put make up on that morning. That's just stupid.
Of course, this is entirely based around the show being semi serious. Although I highly doubt it's going to be a comedy.
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Necroshea wrote: I'm almost completely sure it's going to have "pretty" people in it.
I loved the fallout series to death, I still have fond memories of my first few steps outside of vault 15 fighting those stupid rats. However, seeing pretty people in a post apoc setting, even if it's my much loved fallout, will make me instantly hate it.
Agreed although the mentioned series should not be all people that makes you afraid of the dark though.
Why would pretty or unpretty people effect the quality of the experience?
People going through hell should never look pretty or else it looks utterly fake. Warriors that have gone through battle and survived countless times will be covered in scars. People trying their hardest to simply survive an apocalyptic wasteland will not look like they put make up on that morning. That's just stupid.
Of course, this is entirely based around the show being semi serious. Although I highly doubt it's going to be a comedy.
You can be rough looking and still be physically attractive, they could create a story line where a prostitute's husband get's murdered and the prostitute goes on investigation to find who killed him so can she get her revenge.
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