I know the Fallout show is really campy... but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning. That's actually staying true to form with the camp and the old west themes.

Let's just say it just scratches that itch well enough. We're not talking award winning performances except for maybe Walton Goggins, whose character has seemingly been given the most background story (which tracks for a guy who's been alive so long to have a... longer backstory) and the best material to work with, comparatively.

Anyway, both seasons are imperfect but a lot of fun if you can look past flaws. Looking forward to another campy romp in season 3... sad to see Dave Foley didn't make the cast list, though. I need more Yes Man in my life god damn it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ella Purnell is super cute I wish I was her cousin.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No more cousin stuff!

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fallout Alabama

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

The problem they're running into is having too many plot threads open at once. Which is apparently has been a problem with the producer in the past.

[–] misk@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I know the Fallout show is really campy... but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning.

Fallout 1 had some goofy bits but they were more like easter eggs than anything. Fallout 2 is when it embraced being campy in pulp 50/60s style but even then it was restrained to just that. Bethesda made it into a caricature of itself later with Fallout 3 and 4. New Vegas from Obsidian (who are ex-Black Isle guys, original creators of Fallout) tried to right the ship but the TV series also made a caricature out of it.

Fallout TV series is fine on its own but it definitely strays from what original games were like. I don’t mind people like new Fallout but why drag the original with it? Is it to appear cool because it implies you know the original? Someone disliking new Fallout games or TV series might never give FO1 a chance if they hear its like the new ones.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My man those are rose tinted glasses you're wearing. The whole plot with Gizmo in junktown is campy as fuck. There's enough pop culture references to make a nerd orgasm. People act like that shit started out with Fallout 2 but no way, there was tons of goofy shit in Fallout. It's a lot less well written than we want to remember ha.

[–] misk@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fallout 1 was Mad Max type of goofy. Fallout 2 started sprinkling pop culture references everywhere. There’s a big difference in humour between them.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_cultural_references

Give me a break, the evidence is there. This is all in Fallout, not Fallout 2.

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That’s not exactly a long list there.

Compare it to https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_2_cultural_references

Have you actually played Fallout 1?

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sequel to popular game has more things that people liked, more at 11!

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems like you agree with me that Fallout wasn’t drowning in pop culture references in the beginning. Why the sarcasm?

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not interested in your pedantry, goodbye

[–] misk@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Goodbye. Apologies for the pedantry, I suspect restricted thinking patterns that don’t allow me to compromise on what the truth is might be part of the autism thing. I kind of like it that way.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey my bad, there are lots of pedants on the fediverse so I tend not to engage much further when I spot it. “Have you actually played Fallout 1?” really gave off “you like band? name every song” vibes.

I commented originally because it was an inherently silly argument. It’s like saying Google wasn’t successful because Alphabet has become so much more.

[–] misk@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That was the intention even if I didn’t ask that directly. People try to act cool by pretending that they they’re familiar with something „classic” and to anyone who played old Fallout games it was plain obvious that they didn’t. I didn’t expect people to dogpile on me though. Using the same analogy, I was correcting someone wearing a Metallica t-shirt who said that And Justice For All has the best sounding bass.

To me this kind of rewriting history is really bothersome. What if someone didn’t like Bethesda Fallout games but since everyone says it was always like that they won’t ever give those old games a try?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The majority of the games were campy. So far the show is FO2,3,4,NV Leaving out 1 is fine as most people played 2+ since it became popular after 2.

[–] misk@piefed.social -2 points 2 days ago

My point is: no, Fallout didn’t start out as campy, it got gradually more campy over time.