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Yes, you can watch it without playing the games. Some references and fanbait will fly over your head, but it's generally not important. Narratively, only Fallouts 1, 2, and New Vegas are relevant, but even then, it's mostly just in reference to locations, and understanding the 1950s sci-fi tone.
As for whether it's good... I personally liked parts of it. The Ghoul and Lucy were very good. Everything involving The Brotherhood of Steel and the show's antagonist is terrible. The first half is noticeably better than the second half, but that's mainly because the finale episode is easily the worst of the eight (with possibly the dumbest combat scene I have ever seen in a modern show or movie) and fails to deliver a good payoff. The actor for Maximus does a decent job, but the writing for his character is terrible. In fact almost all problems with the show can be chalked up to bad, inconsistent writing, while set pieces, effects, and acting are much better than I expected them to be.
A major writing problem with this show is that it was made by people who wrote for Fallouts 3, 4, and 76. This matters because those games took place on the east coast and have a much goofier and lighthearted tone to them compared to the west coast-centric games I listed earlier, which were darker and more dystopian, and have much better narratives. They seem to have deliberately retconned at least one major event and location from the original games, messed up the timeline for New Vegas, and the show ends in such a way that they'll have to either retcon or define a canon ending to New Vegas, which will absolutely piss a lot of fans off.
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Well, it- oh, wait; you mean the TV series. That I can't speak on.
As to the games, 1 is good, 2 is amazing (but tonally all over the place), 3 was an abomination unto all that is good and true, New Vegas was a marked improvement in basically every way, Tactics was an interesting expansion that didn't work with established lore very well, but introduced me to the Browning M2, one of my favorite machine guns. Brotherhood of Steel was an abomination unto all that was good and true AND all that was wicked and false, but we don't talk about Brotherhood of Steel. Wasteland was kinda cool, but the whole "pause the game to read paragraph 44 from the booklet because we don't have enough disk space" thing is just sad.
Yes, its good, yes you can play it without having played the games. That being said there are a lot of Easter eggs for those having played the games. The main character doesn't know much about the world either so you bassically explore the outside world from her perspective.
I am enjoying it! Though I have played fallout before! You can totally watch it without playing the game. It does have game references but if you never played it , It won't make a big difference!
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I've only watched the first episode, I loved Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 had a lot of potential, but totally sh*t canned it all.
Because I've played those games, I knew what to expect, but video game to movie adaptations tend to be absolutely horrendous, so I didn't have much faith that a video game to tv show adaptation would fare any better.
If you've played the game, you won't like the show, it's very predictable and boring. If you haven't, it might be OK, but not good.
I'd just as soon watch the Walking Dead, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, or the Squid Game instead
The game is rather absurd science story made for game play proposes which the show follows correctly but story and the show adds to it in some less than Ideal ways.
For example in the game it is unclear who started the war, the show takes a side on the question which is kind of silly. Beyond that I found the show far too to gory
I'm almost done the 1st season and its been good so far. I think it depends on your version of good though. Been watching other TV shows that I think are better.
Oh ok. I may still watch it because people have been saying it's good but if it has woke stuff in it, I'm not sure if I'll make it through the whole show.
Tim Pool says he watched it and his girlfriend had no idea what was going on. He said he had to explain things to her. He also said that it was Woke so I’m not watching it. I don’t play Fallout anyway.
Thanks for your opinion on it. I will probably give it a watch for myself. Most people seem to say it's good so I will probably give it a watch. Thanks again!
Well that's good to hear. Usually when people play the game and they make a TV adaptation it's not as good. But that's good to hear that they loved it.
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