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I'm kinda scared that the trailer was knee deep in "from the ____ who did _____ ."
Granted, it's a teaser trailer, but it would have been cool to see a little more of what this show has to offer. e.g. The Boyz is great, because the story adapted from it's source material was already interesting. I'd love to learn more about the story of this adaptation, esp since there's a lot they'd have to do to turn the non linear, choose your own adventure source material into a non-interactive story.
Feels like the showrunners and story writers would have the opposite challenge of, say, The Last of Us. There, it was all about retelling an existing story and resisting the urge to reinvent too much.
Here they'd need to pick one of many stories and fill in a bunch of gaps.
Hope it works out ๐ค๐
Even though each game is a player driven RPG, there's a canon "through line" of major events from 1 to 2 to New Vegas. 3 and 4 are set far enough away or in a different enough period of time that the plot impact is more minor.
Personally though, I hope this is less of an adaptation and more of a "side stories in the setting".
From what I've read about the series it's actually set 4 years after Fallout 4 events. So it's more "side stories in the setting" rather than straight up adaptation.
If it's an anthology series following different people in different parts of the world dealing with different scenarios then I'm waaay more on board from that than what they showed us in the trailer.
If you're a fallout fan, you're already on board. Our viewership is a given, and is theirs to lose. But for people who aren't big fans, having big names attached shows it's serious business. It's meant to convince people on the fence that it's worth an initial watch since there's money and names behind it so maybe it's not just "some dumb low budget video game shit."
I don't know. I've played every Fallout game (except tactics and that weird PS2/Xbox game) and it won't even be on my radar until word of mouth confirms it's good. The moment I saw Todd Howards name my interest plummeted. I'm happy that Bethesda has kept the franchise alive but Fallout 3 and 4 are a whole step below what Black isle/Obsidian created. If the show is going to be based on the Bethesda vision of Fallout then it's instantly going to be at odds with the fanbase.
Maybe it'll be good, maybe it won't. But after the 400+ hours I spent in fo4, I'm willing to commit to another hour to see if the first episode is any good. I've spent longer than that hunting for literal trash in-game. :)