#or by video games in general

[cantsayidont]

April 2024. I don't like video games, which I find to be a worst-of-all-worlds combination of storytelling features, and I have yet to see any very compelling evidence that video game stories and concepts can translate into other media with other than embarrassing results. (Even THE EXPANSE, which never actually became the video game it was originally intended to be, was severely handicapped by its video game story conceits despite its many compelling points.) So, my expectations for the new FALLOUT show would be very low even if it weren't executive produced by noted hacks Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, who were responsible for the hackish and racist WESTWORLD reboot and the hopelessly misfired TV adaptation of THE PERIPHERAL, and I probably wouldn't bother at all except that I have enough second-hand knowledge of the game setting not to be baffled by its various weird conceits and arch satiric tone, which, for better or worse, the show seems to be embracing with relish.

If you're not familiar with the game, it's set in the late 23nd century of an 1950s-like alternate timeline where the world was devastated by atomic war, and where various factions are now vying to "civilize" the mutant-ridden radioactive wastelands of North America. Ella Purnell, who doesn't need prosthetics or CGI to look a bit like a cartoon character, is a Vault Dweller named Lucy MacLean, raised in an underground bomb shelter complex that's preserved a kind of parody of '50s Americana, but forced to venture out into the Wasteland to search for her kidnapped father (Kyle McLachlan). Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young Aspirant of the Brotherhood of Steel, a kind of paramilitary science cult with power armor, while Walton Goggins is a Ghoul named Cooper, a mutated prewar survivor who's been rendered more or less immortal despite looking like a rotten corpse.

So far, it seems to capture the look and feel of the games about as well as it could, with a high level of gore and glibness and the expected array of Easter eggs for people familiar with the games. Whether it will manage contrive any kind of point to the story is TBD, although given the source material and the creative team, I'm not holding my breath. Goggins could do this kind of weird PoMo cowboy shtick in his sleep at this point, which is probably a plus; the only one of the other characters who's at all interesting is Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane, another Brotherhood of Steel Aspirant whom I think we're supposed to take as canonically nonbinary. I'm not sure how I feel about the treatment of Dogmeat, who crosses certain lines for me in terms of cute animal character vs. fictitious animal abuse.

[milkywayes]

there's downsides to ranking high in the hierarchy [prints]

[shib4guette]

SHADOW GEMNERATION (its almost 4 am WE'RE STILL KICKING)

[evilwvergil]

"I was created here, I don't know if there's a place for me on Earth. That was no mere nightmare. And it all began in view of the ARK. Could he have survived? No. That can't be. I need answers." ↪ : SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS (25.10.2024)

[thelvadams]

Metal Overlord in SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS

[xinyuehui]

ᓚᘏᗢ Yes, Cat Caretaker ♡

[blazingarts909]

That Shadow the Hedgehog reveal went so hard, I still think about it

[acquired-stardust]

Pokemon Silver Gameboy Color 1999

[prokopetz]

Asking the voice actors on my video game project to consent to having AI models of their voices created specifically and exclusively for the purpose of making the dialogue say the player character's name out loud at appropriate junctures no matter what the player chooses.

[mushramoo]

did it very fast so I know it’s cringe and yucky etc but I want more first interactions between the Emilys and Aftons in game

[cheriafreya]

Beautiful Feixiao

[milkywayes]

dress blues [prints]

[fryday]

i needed a compilation of dan adoring phil in nice clothes so i made one

[evilwvergil]

"Chaos Control!" "Stop it. That life was taken from me long ago. I need to focus on the mission at hand. A threat lurks aboard the ARK, and I must eliminate it." ↪ : SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS (25.10.2024)

[thelvadams]

SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS • Autumn 2024

[cozylittleartblog]

8th annual nick valentine post! fallout 4 npcs Love sitting. they'll see a chair and ask "is anyone gonna sit here" and not wait for an answer. its like nick is on a personal quest to sit in every chair in the commonwealth. if he sees a chair its on sight

its because his joints are bad, obviously. he's like 140