Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck (S.P.E.C.I.A.L).
The series will not only test dwellers’ core attributes, but also their loyalty and alliances. It’s a game of power dynamics, popularity and social strategy which will ultimately result in a huge cash prize, but do you have what it takes to be the most S.P.E.C.I.A.L?.
I am sort of speechless, but for all the wrong reasons.
Great, sounds terrible. Now where the hell is Fallout 5?
Coming in 2033 if they follow the schedule they have been with game releases.
They need to finish TES VI before they start on the next fallout. And the “announcement” trailer for that was like 6 years ago
No. Just…. No.
Getting turned into massive franchises kinda puts me off of the entire thing
Yeah. This makes me really dislike Fallout now.
fallout 1 sucks now because 30 years later they made a reality show
yeah i dont get it
I think it’s more like “I can’t enjoy fallout 1 anymore knowing what it eventually became”.
I don’t agree but I get it.
I don’t even get it. Everything after fallout 1 has no bearing on fallout 1. It’s exactly the same as it was when it was released. It’s not hard to not think about things you don’t like lol
It’s like how I can’t stand to watch Kevin Spacey movies after we all found out about who he is.
Does it mean he’s no longer a talented actor? No. Does it make his movies suck? No. Does it taint everything he ever did and now seeing him reminds you of how shitty he is as a person?
a Resounding and emphatic- YES.
That would be a good comparison if Fallout as a franchise was a person who committed sexual assault I guess
The crime doesn’t have to equate to ha e the same effect. Someone should have probably explained this to you by now.
When I said, “It’s like….” I didn’t mean “it’s identical to…” Understanding nuance goes a long way in these cases.
if thats the case, everybody should have stopped liking fallout after the brotherhood of steel game came out. and yet they didnt.
Plot twist: Nuclear war happens while contestants are in vault
A vault made of plywood and gaffer tape
Well, the contestants are S.p.e.c.i.a.l
shut up todd.
This is like designing a Game of Thrones fighting game.
You can throw all the clever nods you want into the product. You can read the source material to high heaven and spend all the time in the world perfecting it. You can hire the best and brightest fighting game devs to come in and design the best game ever.
Fundamentally it will never work. Game of Thrones’ charm is in its politics, feeling of isolation, and world building. There’s no way to bring anything out of that in a fighting game. As soon as you put Renly against Joeffry in a match to the death anyone that’s a fan will just look at the product befuddled.
For this reality show you’re taking a franchise that’s known for its single player experience and tight top notch writing for both the games (at least 1 and 2) and tv show and stripping that away in favor of a format that encourages none of that. All it’s going to be is some weird challenge with loser kids going “OMG I WASNT EXPECTING THAT!!” and “What. The. Fuck. “ for 30 minutes. It’s not going to be good. And it’s gonna be a shit stain on the franchise.
Yeah, it reads like they wanted to make that reality show and then just slapped a random franchise on it for PR reasons.
I think there’s a real angle there for something, in regards to the various vaults and what they are for. But I can’t see how that would convert to anything practically doable. But imagine squid game, basically, with each season being a different vault and a different experiment. Of course it can’t work as a reality show for obvious reasons, but I really do think it could be a hit show as a seasonal anthology series.
The tests and the vaults are a big part of the fallout lore after all, and part of it’s charm. I think there’s a lot there, even something that could work as a reality show were we not civilized and peaceful and instead allowed something like real life squid game concepts in reality shows.
The bachelor is basically vault 69. Amazon is late to the party.
Ew
I had to check what community I’m in, still can’t believe this is not the Onion.
So… They’re inventing Big Brother, but with lore?
“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”
Just get people to agree to live in crowded vaults and have them sign a waver accepting any and all psychological torture performed on them. That’s a functional Fallout reality show.
that’s just real life at this point, with algo social media
What if we made it Vault 68, 69, or 43. No psychological torture required for any of them. That or if you really want to fuck with someone we have Vault 77 or Vault 12, Vault 12 would be particularly vile since then you’d have to be in Bakersfield.
This sounds stupid, but I’ll probably watch it
Is it just me or does this feel tone deaf?
I’d be shocked and appalled by the tone-deafness if Mr. Beast hadn’t already literally made a Squid Game style gameshow. Media literacy and irony are both well and truly dead.
I’m bummed there’s no good single player fallout after fallout 4.
And Fallout 4 was kind of mediocre.
Agreed, but it is a great platform to mod the heck out of. I recommend Wasteland Reborn, if you’re looking for a stable modlist.
Besides the main story (an incredible important element), it was good. The location lore was interesting. The radiant quests were fucking stupid. Most of the side quests were decent. It’s overhated imo. Nuka-Cola World was boring as shit besides the Hubbologists, I’m not gonna lie.
The main quest was terrible. Should never center the plot on the player when there’s custom creation and open world. It’s forcing a backstory or behaviour onto the player even if they don’t want it.
I played a big Michael Clarke Duncan brute rolling melee as Idiot Savant. The intro and main quest was entirely incompatible with character, full of things they wouldn’t have done, would do, or should do.
I never finished it. I was having a blast until I saw that I needed to collect a bunch of shit to upgrade the town. I lost interest so fast.
That’s actually one of my favorite parts, it’s like a feed into itself incentive for my already packrat tendencies.
Now instead of just taking all their weapons/armor/clothes to sell, the random junk is also useful for when I get back home and can upgrade the town, my weapons, or my armor!
I mean, you can just ignore Sanctuary and the other settlements completely. Honestly, if I play it again, that’ll be what I do.
I would pay good money for a remaster of Fallout 3 using the Fallout 4 engine (or preferably better).
I’d pay even more for a full 3D version of Fallout 1 and 2.
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