Red Letter Media

[Mola Ram]

when it comes to fallout, never heard a single fan of the game say anything but bad things about the show. never seen it, but it does look bad.

I've been a Fallout fan since the first game, and I thought the show was surprisingly okay. Walton Goggins elevates it way above its weight class. But then there is no fanbase more unpleasable than old school Fallout fans.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

I've been a Fallout fan since the first game, and I thought the show was surprisingly okay. Walton Goggins elevates it way above its weight class. But then there is no fanbase more unpleasable than old school Fallout fans.

No Mutants Allowed is full of fags. But the tv show had so many plot contrivances I couldn't enjoy it. Especially when it comes to Moldaver plan which makes no sense.

​

 

[Mola Ram]

No Mutants Allowed is full of fags. But the tv show had so many plot contrivances I couldn't enjoy it. Especially when it comes to Moldaver plan which makes no sense.

​

It's not great or anything, but it benefited from low expectations: I never expect a video game adaptation to be anything but bottom of the barrel trash. Moldaver plan aside ...

Spoiler: Fallout tv show spoiler

... I really hated the confirmation that Vault-Tec is the one who started the war. I'm pretty sure that was something they whipped up for the cancelled Fallout movie years and years ago, and it was a dumb idea then that hasn't improved with age. The origins of the war and who shot first should always remain a mystery, because ultimately it doesn't matter to the survivors decades later.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

I didn't think I would ever hear Jay say 'GILF titties' but here we are. Decent review overall.

 

[Pissmaster]

Am I the only one that thinks Mike is Lowtax with a bit more of a work ethic? Does anyone know Mike's SomethingAwful username? He'd be in the right age range to have joined in the early 2000s and early RLM content, "Horsey Sause" era, fits the humor of early SA.

He might have had an account, but his sense of humor goes along well with just how Gen X internet humor was during the early 2000s.

Spoiler: Fallout tv show spoiler

... I really hated the confirmation that Vault-Tec is the one who started the war. I'm pretty sure that was something they whipped up for the cancelled Fallout movie years and years ago, and it was a dumb idea then that hasn't improved with age. The origins of the war and who shot first should always remain a mystery, because ultimately it doesn't matter to the survivors decades later.

I thought that was a big central point to the overarching story of the Fallout franchise, that Vault-Tec are war profiteers that figured out a way to do horrible unethical experiments on everyone in America, all while professing themselves as saviors with a friendly mascot advertising their vaults. Like, long before the show, even.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

It's not great or anything, but it benefited from low expectations: I never expect a video game adaptation to be anything but bottom of the barrel trash. Moldaver plan aside ...

Spoiler: Fallout tv show spoiler

... I really hated the confirmation that Vault-Tec is the one who started the war. I'm pretty sure that was something they whipped up for the cancelled Fallout movie years and years ago, and it was a dumb idea then that hasn't improved with age. The origins of the war and who shot first should always remain a mystery, because ultimately it doesn't matter to the survivors decades later.

I think in Fallout 1 or an interview with Tim Cain one of them flat out said China fired first.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

I thought that was a big central point to the overarching story of the Fallout franchise, that Vault-Tec are war profiteers that figured out a way to do horrible unethical experiments on everyone in America, all while professing themselves as saviors with a friendly mascot advertising their vaults. Like, long before the show, even.

i think the whole vault tec experiments were something which cam later, i dont recall that being part of 1 or 2. im also under the impression that it was just part of a government conspiracy, aka the enclvae, to do these experiments so they could have the data after the war

 

[Mola Ram]

I thought that was a big central point to the overarching story of the Fallout franchise, that Vault-Tec are war profiteers that figured out a way to do horrible unethical experiments on everyone in America, all while professing themselves as saviors with a friendly mascot advertising their vaults. Like, long before the show, even.

That's true, but it was never confirmed that they started the war.

i think the whole vault tec experiments were something which cam later, i dont recall that being part of 1 or 2. im also under the impression that it was just part of a government conspiracy, aka the enclvae, to do these experiments so they could have the data after the war

There are no experiments in the first one (though it's easy to see what happened to the Necropolis Vault as deliberate), but conversations with President Richardson in 2 make the experiments explicit.

I think in Fallout 1 or an interview with Tim Cain one of them flated out said China fired first.

Not sure about Tim Cain's comments, but the first game actually implies the war was started by bored/insane artificial intelligences -- something which tenuously connects the game to its spiritual ancestor Wasteland, where an AI is the big bad.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Not sure about Tim Cain's comments, but the first game actually implies the war was started by bored/insane artificial intelligences -- something which tenuously connects the game to its spiritual ancestor Wasteland, where an AI is the big bad.

Found it https://www.gamesradar.com/26-years...st-debate-who-dropped-the-first-nuke-and-why/

 

[Mola Ram]

Found it https://www.gamesradar.com/26-years...st-debate-who-dropped-the-first-nuke-and-why/

Well that's fuckin' lame.

 

[Preacher ✝]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WesiLHmV-nsI look forward to an elderly man fumble around and try to wrap his head around the concept of a video game movie that also stars the elderly

Boarderlands wasn't even a good video game.

 

[mlanguishi]

I didn't think I would ever hear Jay say 'GILF titties' but here we are. Decent review overall.

Yeah, that was probably the funniest part. If this review had been done by RLM just 5-6 years ago Mike would've been doing nonstop age jokes. He hasn't done that so much anymore, cause he's almost in that age range he used to bash so much.

They kind of seem pretty restrained on the negativity now, and their best material is typically when they go over the top once in awhile with that.

The GILF jokes and Mike trying to explain that video games have actual plots these days compared to NES/90s games like the near boomer he is were the best parts to me. I'm sad they didn't talk about how ridiculous those rabbit ears look on that girl though.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

because remember when it was a pack in game for the Playstation Vita

I'm into games and know what Borderlands is, but lol no?

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

it reminds me of all the people liking the fallout TV show who never actually played the fallout games but everyone who actually played all the fallout games hitting the TV show.
Also Borderlands went downhill after the pre sequel and ran out of good ideas

Yeah, Handsome Jack left behind some large shoes to fill. Unfortunately, Sweet Baby Incorporated intervened and shat up everything. This movie was a wild disappointment. I think the only movies I've enjoyed that were a game adaptation are Clue, and Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves. If they approached the game with the lightheartedness as DnD, it would at least be higher rated than Bye Bye Man.

 

[Pissmaster]

I'm into games and know what Borderlands is, but lol no?

It was around 2013-2014. I don't think it moved any units, since Borderlands 2 wasn't the kind of game most people would buy a PlayStation Vita for. Plus, it was the worst version of the game, and it was released on a plethora of platforms. It felt like the Vita was struggling to run it. Making your system look like it's struggling to run its pack-in game isn't exactly the best introduction for newcomers.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

It was around 2013-2014. I don't think it moved any units, since Borderlands 2 wasn't the kind of game most people would buy a PlayStation Vita for. Plus, it was the worst version of the game, and it was released on a plethora of platforms. It felt like the Vita was struggling to run it. Making your system look like it's struggling to run its pack-in game isn't exactly the best introduction for newcomers.

Which is sad because the Vita had potential.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

game adaptation are Clue

completely forgot about that one. when i think 'game adaptation' i tend to think of video games. that is legitimately a pretty good movie. now that you remind me of it, i change my answer; clue is the best movie based upon a game.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

He might have had an account, but his sense of humor goes along well with just how Gen X internet humor was during the early 2000s.


I thought that was a big central point to the overarching story of the Fallout franchise, that Vault-Tec are war profiteers that figured out a way to do horrible unethical experiments on everyone in America, all while professing themselves as saviors with a friendly mascot advertising their vaults. Like, long before the show, even.

My impression was that Vault Tec never really thought that the bombs would actually drop and was just designing these vaults because the amoral psychologists running the company thought it was fun to design terrible experiments on the company dime when you're flush with an ungodly amount of other people's money.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I don't get why people put any weight into Tim Cain when it comes to Fallout.

The guy didn't even want to continue the series after the first one.

 

[Mola Ram]

I don't get why people put any weight into Tim Cain when it comes to Fallout.

The guy didn't even want to continue the series after the first one.

The way he tells the story, he left over some pretty shoddy treatment concerning bonuses. He said/she said for sure, but there are plenty of stories over the years indicating Brian Fargo was something of an asshole back in the day, so it's believable. Beyond that, who else who had such a big hand in the original game is telling these stories?

I don't put a ton of weight into what he says, because even from 1 to 2 the game clearly evolved, and tons of the "Fallout Bible" never made it into any game that hit the shelves.