1 and 2 are completely different games and play styles. Start with 3, New Vegas, and then 4. Skip 76.
I’ve played Fallout 3 and 4, and I got a little into New Vegas but never got back to it. I think New Vegas is supposed to be better than 4 from a role playing standpoint — if you care about that sort of thing.
It was good. Spoiler Same creators as cancelled Westworld and their stamp was felt...innocent starting heroine, badass cowboy, dystopian social commentary, the Corporation holding us all down, enough mood setting and cinematography to help you appreciate the details they put in. They love doing parallel stories across time, but I'm hoping they learned their lesson with the preztel shaped storytelling. I wouldn't mind another season of either as they're genuine sci fi geeks, though I hope they evolve in executing great ideas to the end... You either love the dark humor or you don't...
Good show up until the final episode, which was mostly just a massive info-dump plot/twist reveal (many shows suffer from this).
Question: I am not trying to crap on the show, but 2 episodes in, I find it terrible. Like I wonder if I am watching the same show. Is it because I never played the games? I am looking forward to the borderlands movie. I can totally see why someone whonhasnt played the game would not like it
It gets better. I felt similar to you early on. The great reviews kept me going and it eventually the show matches the hype.
How the Show Fits In With the Games(spoilers). https://www.ign.com/articles/fallout-official-timeline-confirmed-how-the-show-fits-in-with-the-games I watched the first season and had some questions about how the show and the games all fit together. So I found this article that explains most things about the series, the games, and the timeline. I would say read this only after watching the series because it does contain some spoilers. But, the article does a good job of describing the characters and the world they live in. I enjoyed the show, and I’ve never played the games.
Finished this over this past weekend. Overall I really enjoyed it, maybe not quite as much as I was hoping based on the trailers. My wife watched with me but I think she suffered a little from not connecting with the characters enough to care what happens to them. I got that a little, but I feel like eventually came around on Maximus, Lucy and Ghoul Sheriff by the season 1 end. I did a have a question that I'll spoiler. I'm curious if the games addressed this or not: Spoiler So VaultTech's grand plan was to drop A-bombs to start World War 3 so that all the competition is wiped out and they rule what's left? Such a weird business plan. Like once you've brought about nuclear apocalypse, there isn't going to be an capitalist economy to "win". It just seemed kind of silly from a motivation perspective, especially when you consider it involved killing billions of people. Hard to imagine anyone ever getting behind that idea. Overall, I definitely enjoyed enough to come back for another season. Hopefully they make more.
Spoiler So it isn't really addressed in the games I don't believe. I think VaulTec's involvement has been implied but never stated until the series (I may be wrong). However, there plan seemed more likely to be destroy everyone and everything on the surface. Create vaults with the people we want to repopulate the world with. Then wait out the radiation, resurface and control everything. It just didn't work out that way. Not everything was destroyed. The vaults didn't go as planned. I think it was more rebuild it in the image we want rather than control what is left. It just didn't work out the way they expected.
