I don't like the Fallout games, but the show might have made me a convert
by VG247
VG247— Before I get started, I'm going to have to ask you to put your guns down, because here's the thing: I don't really like the Fallout games. My first experience of actually playing them was with Fallout 4, which I do admit isn't the best way to start things off for a franchise that has run as long as it has, but it is what it is. I managed to make it a few hours into Fallout 4, but to be honest I just didn't vibe with it. The game did a pretty bad job at making me care about my baby, and I just...
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The Guardian—Pushing Buttons: The Fallout series doesn’t just look right – it feels like it was made by gamers, too. In this week’s newsletter: Great game adaptations are increasingly high-budget fan-fiction, thanks to a generation of writers who actually understand games• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI am a few episodes from the end of the series Fallout on Prime Video. It’s funny and gory, at times sentimental and at other times ridiculous. In other words, it’s just like the games, which veer between quiet, tragic moments exploring the vestiges of America, and being chased...
The A.V. Club—Game Theory: Which Fallout game should you play, now that you've finished the show?. Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what theories it’s got you kicking around. We’re now two weeks gone from the release of Prime Video’s Fallout, a shockingly good TV adaptation of one of the greatest video game series of...