Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to ha...
So much over-acting really ruins shows for me. I mean, the casting is never the greatest in these kind of shows though is it. Maybe it’s just like that in the clips they chose for the trailer though and it’s more reserved otherwise.
I mean yes, but fallout seems to have been a lot more Airplane/Naked gun instead of Scary Movie/Not Another Teen Movie.
A kind of dry parody with absurd things played straight. Like the robot sherrif.
EDIT : One of the problems with a highly choice based narrative or presentation is that everyone has a different way the tone of the game goes based on what they did in their playthough. The zero int builds are more or less on par with the serious playthoughs.
To be fair, Fallout tries to maintain seriousness. It takes itself very seriously, even the humorous aspects, it doesn’t point itself out as absurd.
In my opinion, it better highlights the commentary the series is making by grounding itself in reality and using a sort of dark comedy to draw attention to the points it makes.
Fallout 1 did. Everything that came after absolutely was absurd. Harold with a tree in his head named bob, dogmeat coming back from the dead, porn shoots in new reno for fallout 2. Bethesda’s versions were a bit more tame than 2, but still off the wall. There exists some purists who only like fallout 1 for that reason. My favorite is fallout 2. I think fallout 1 was still trying to be wasteland, but after that the series became a parody. That doesn’t mean parody doesn’t make commentary, of course, because it does.
I honestly disagree a bit with that. 1 was a dark comedy, 2 was half dark comedy half absurd references, 3 was bleak absurdism, New Vegas was back to dark comedy, then 4 went to less dark absurdism.
In general, the classics and New Vegas better carried the serious tone, while 4 was pretty close to pure parody. Like 2, 3 seems split in half, while 1, NV, and 4 were more consistent in tone, though not necessarily with each other.
So much over-acting really ruins shows for me. I mean, the casting is never the greatest in these kind of shows though is it. Maybe it’s just like that in the clips they chose for the trailer though and it’s more reserved otherwise.
Over acting is kind of part and parcel for any parody, which is what any fallout show would be.
I mean yes, but fallout seems to have been a lot more Airplane/Naked gun instead of Scary Movie/Not Another Teen Movie.
A kind of dry parody with absurd things played straight. Like the robot sherrif.
EDIT : One of the problems with a highly choice based narrative or presentation is that everyone has a different way the tone of the game goes based on what they did in their playthough. The zero int builds are more or less on par with the serious playthoughs.
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To be fair, Fallout tries to maintain seriousness. It takes itself very seriously, even the humorous aspects, it doesn’t point itself out as absurd.
In my opinion, it better highlights the commentary the series is making by grounding itself in reality and using a sort of dark comedy to draw attention to the points it makes.
Fallout 1 did. Everything that came after absolutely was absurd. Harold with a tree in his head named bob, dogmeat coming back from the dead, porn shoots in new reno for fallout 2. Bethesda’s versions were a bit more tame than 2, but still off the wall. There exists some purists who only like fallout 1 for that reason. My favorite is fallout 2. I think fallout 1 was still trying to be wasteland, but after that the series became a parody. That doesn’t mean parody doesn’t make commentary, of course, because it does.
I honestly disagree a bit with that. 1 was a dark comedy, 2 was half dark comedy half absurd references, 3 was bleak absurdism, New Vegas was back to dark comedy, then 4 went to less dark absurdism.
In general, the classics and New Vegas better carried the serious tone, while 4 was pretty close to pure parody. Like 2, 3 seems split in half, while 1, NV, and 4 were more consistent in tone, though not necessarily with each other.