I haven’t been enjoying it too much but it has been alright, I’m giving it a pass. If it continues this way though I’m not going to like it. My main complaints so far:
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In the first episode they just let Vault 32 people into Vault 33 after he makes a speech about not knowing what the surface is like or what humanity has become like. You’d think there’d have been the slightest amount of precaution especially after they make it clear that it’s been a long time, and there was an unexpected change of overseer. You’d think her father would remember at least some of the people from the last exchange, you’d think at least one person would have checked in Vault 32, you’d think one person would have checked the radiation levels or that there would be some automated system. And holy shit the fight scene between Maximus in the power armor and The Ghoul, he could have crushed his arms and head like 3 times and instead chose to throw him over and over again? Even with a new user of the power armor, if he got a grasp of an enemy could just crush their bones.
Re the fight with the ghoul… remember that not only is Maximus new to the armor, he’s also dumb as rocks. In game he’d have an int score of like…. 2… maybe.
I feel like the vault stuff was explained pretty decently. Hank mentions telegrams back and forth and that it was a regular exchange (triennial I think? So every 3 years?). And, without giving anything away, the raiders intricately knew what they were doing so it makes some sense they’d be able to fake it well enough.
The ghoul VS power armor fight did require a significant suspension of disbelief, but two main characters fighting in like episode 1 or 2 (can’t remember), they can’t exactly kill one of them off. I guess you could complain they wrote themselves into a corner though, which could have been avoided.
Ultimately I enjoyed it, I’m just not sure I enjoyed it enough to recommend to people, especially people that don’t already have a significant love for fallout.
Just saw the power armor fight last night. I just see it as application of video game logic, and kind of appreciated it that way. Ghoul dude is clearly wearing some armor or something since he tanked bullets to the back. I mean, in the games you can tank a nuke if you’re wearing the right armor.
If you watch it as Fallout: The TV Show rather than a TV show set in the Fallout universe, it all feels very natural.
That’s fair, which is the reason I’m giving it a pass. It does feel like it’s embracing video game logic which is fine by me. Not everything needs to be realistically believable to be fun to watch. Thanks for writing that, it’s helping shift my perspective a bit, I want to enjoy it and I think this will help.
The ghoul actually mentions that Maximus should’ve read the manual for the power armor. He hasn’t used it for long and as far as we know he’s about as inexperienced as one could be.
as far as we know he’s about as inexperienced as one could be.
Incorrect, he grew up around the power armor, he asked Titus in the vertiberd if he had modified his power armor for mobility. He clearly knew a lot about the power armor, you’d think he’d have read the user manual many times since he was a child. To assume Maximus’ character only knows as much as anyone else about power armor is seriously hard to believe.
I took that as like a kid who grew up reading car magazines, but if you threw them behind the wheel would have no real idea what they are doing. I’m thinking of it kind of like fallout 3 where it won’t even let you wear the armor until you find someone willing to give you “power armor training”. Something something “if you don’t know what you’re doing, the armor will snap your bones”.
Also, as someone else said, Maximus is clearly a low-int build, so even if he’s read it, he didn’t retain all of it, lol.
I haven’t been enjoying it too much but it has been alright, I’m giving it a pass. If it continues this way though I’m not going to like it. My main complaints so far:
spoiler
In the first episode they just let Vault 32 people into Vault 33 after he makes a speech about not knowing what the surface is like or what humanity has become like. You’d think there’d have been the slightest amount of precaution especially after they make it clear that it’s been a long time, and there was an unexpected change of overseer. You’d think her father would remember at least some of the people from the last exchange, you’d think at least one person would have checked in Vault 32, you’d think one person would have checked the radiation levels or that there would be some automated system. And holy shit the fight scene between Maximus in the power armor and The Ghoul, he could have crushed his arms and head like 3 times and instead chose to throw him over and over again? Even with a new user of the power armor, if he got a grasp of an enemy could just crush their bones.
How far in are you?
Re the fight with the ghoul… remember that not only is Maximus new to the armor, he’s also dumb as rocks. In game he’d have an int score of like…. 2… maybe.
I feel like the vault stuff was explained pretty decently. Hank mentions telegrams back and forth and that it was a regular exchange (triennial I think? So every 3 years?). And, without giving anything away, the raiders intricately knew what they were doing so it makes some sense they’d be able to fake it well enough.
The ghoul VS power armor fight did require a significant suspension of disbelief, but two main characters fighting in like episode 1 or 2 (can’t remember), they can’t exactly kill one of them off. I guess you could complain they wrote themselves into a corner though, which could have been avoided.
Ultimately I enjoyed it, I’m just not sure I enjoyed it enough to recommend to people, especially people that don’t already have a significant love for fallout.
Just saw the power armor fight last night. I just see it as application of video game logic, and kind of appreciated it that way. Ghoul dude is clearly wearing some armor or something since he tanked bullets to the back. I mean, in the games you can tank a nuke if you’re wearing the right armor.
If you watch it as Fallout: The TV Show rather than a TV show set in the Fallout universe, it all feels very natural.
lol, yea. Ghoul has levelled up a few times so he is more of a bullet sponge than random NPCs :)
That’s fair, which is the reason I’m giving it a pass. It does feel like it’s embracing video game logic which is fine by me. Not everything needs to be realistically believable to be fun to watch. Thanks for writing that, it’s helping shift my perspective a bit, I want to enjoy it and I think this will help.
Some of the dialog sounds exactly like some of the dialog choices right from the games. And I love it.
He’s also very drugged with the healing stuff fighting off the radiation poisoning.
The ghoul actually mentions that Maximus should’ve read the manual for the power armor. He hasn’t used it for long and as far as we know he’s about as inexperienced as one could be.
Incorrect, he grew up around the power armor, he asked Titus in the vertiberd if he had modified his power armor for mobility. He clearly knew a lot about the power armor, you’d think he’d have read the user manual many times since he was a child. To assume Maximus’ character only knows as much as anyone else about power armor is seriously hard to believe.
I took that as like a kid who grew up reading car magazines, but if you threw them behind the wheel would have no real idea what they are doing. I’m thinking of it kind of like fallout 3 where it won’t even let you wear the armor until you find someone willing to give you “power armor training”. Something something “if you don’t know what you’re doing, the armor will snap your bones”.
Also, as someone else said, Maximus is clearly a low-int build, so even if he’s read it, he didn’t retain all of it, lol.
He might’ve grown up around power armors, but I doubt he had ever worn one before.