#but I also think ‘Bethesda has a personal vendetta against New Vegas’ is pushing it

[dragonie]

What's your opinion of the new fallout show?

I liked it! If you’re looking for something that harmonises really well with West Coast/New Vegas games you’re going to be disappointed, but honestly I was expecting worse. Has a lot of the same problems as Bethesda Fallout games in that it would probably work better set earlier - it’s strictly working within post-apocalyptic whereas west coast/new vegas stuff progressed from post-apoc to post-post-apoc.

That being said I think it also manages to play to a lot of Bethesda Fallout’s strengths (the Vault investigations were by far the highlight of the show, and also played to the writers’ strengths) and cuts down on some of the other bullshit. The ghoul concept was odd and just another contradictory image of ghouls on the one hand, but I also liked that the show depicted ferals with more pathos and sympathy than just “more baddies to shoot”.

I liked the characters overall, wish we got more of Moldaver though. Feels like there are a lot of dangling threads there though they might be developed more in a Season 2. Same with Dane’s character.

I’m going to be honest, while I don’t think it meshes well thematically with West Coast Fallout and especially New Vegas, I feel like some New Vegas fans are going a bit too conspiratorial with “Bethesda is trying to retcon New Vegas, Bethesda personally hates New Vegas and deliberately setting out to undermine it” kinda rhetoric. I feel like there were too many New Vegas references, especially at the end there, for that to be true, and I think that jokes aside the Todd Howard Is Out To Ruin Everything I Love thing can kinda end up overshadowing legitimate critique of how the show works within its setting.