Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it visually.”

On a more sour note, Cain took time to address the way fans of the series can behave poorly online, particularly regarding any perceived rivalry between Fallout entries developed by Bethesda (3, 4, and 76), and those from Interplay, Black Isle, and Obsidian (1, 2, and New Vegas). Cain spoke positively of Todd Howard, and said that “Some of the stuff you [series fans] say online is so off.” See also: the debate about whether the show somehow overrode or ignored the events of those non-Bethesda games, which has since been denied by a senior developer at the studio.

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    8 months ago

    i’m pretty sure the subtext of “woke” is “there are women and non-white people here”

    Or that the women in it aren’t explicitly tailored to their tastes. There’s a post going around some places about someone trying to “correct” the image of one of the characters to make them less “woke” (they were wearing a baggy jumpsuit). The resulting character’s back-end looks like it’s been plastiform sealed.

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      8 months ago

      i had forgotten all about Alloy and…was it Lara Croft?…and people “correcting” their appearances, good point!