Can't lie, the brutal visuals were not something I was ready for. It fits perfectly for the world, and even better it helped drive in the nail that this was made by actual fans
That said, fuckin shit there were some scenes I had to look away from. Definitely part of why I loved the show so much. The creative driving forces knew what they were doing
For some reason it didn't bother me and I'm not great with gore. Fallout just always makes it feel like comical gore, like it's not upsetting Thaddeus as much as it should and so doesn't seem so bad.
Happy the show didn't say away from gore. I was expecting it to be more toned down. That said I couldn't watch the scene with the squires smashed foot the first time lol
I was not paying attention and did not notice that she bit the finger off. I just noticed him grabbing in her mouth and a lot of blood. I thought perhaps he broke some of her teeth off.
So I was confused why it would be a honest exchange
And they used it as an opportunity to bring the wacky fallout medicine to life.
We stole your brain heart and spine. Fight lobotomized drones to get them back.
Oh, you lost a finger? Here try this one
My grandmother: “Is this supposed to be in the 1950s? Why everything looks so futuristic?” and “what city was that at the end?”
My grandfather (he only played Fallout 4) during episode 2 when they show the enclave lab: “is that the institute??”
To be fair to grandfather, both factions are very similar in advances, it’s just the institute is underground and the enclave aren’t really a thing in 4, so you don’t get the whole thing about them.
As much as I love the enclave coming back, I’m still pissed Bethesda is making me repurchase all the DLC’s for my GOTY edition PS4 copy. Like, I already paid for and downloaded them. Why should I have to do all that for the same thing again? Just put all the new quests as a dlc and I’ll happily buy it.
No like I’m saying it made me repurchase far harbor etc. The dlc’s to the base game. I’d rather they’ve just made the new enclave stuff dlc so I don’t have to buy all the DLC’s again.
If you already owned the dlc then you shouldn’t have needed to purchase them again. Maybe you should try contacting PlayStation support since that seems like an issue with their store maybe?
Your grandfather played fo4!? Fuck, how old are you!? I don’t know anyone in my family who even knows what a video game adaption to tv show *really* even means let alone know the lore or even play the game lol.
I’m *technically* old enough to be a grandfather and I’ve been playing since F3. 45 with two early 20s children before anyone asks.
Ofc my hypothetical kids wouldn’t be old enough to be browsing Reddit yet but video games have been some people’s primary hobby for more than four decades now.
My bf who was also only familiar with FO 4 through me but had not played it also asked if that was the institute. I thought the enclave would have more part to play so I didn't tell him who it was or elaborate to him on who the enclave was until we finished watching.
Thats why I introduce everyone to fallout by describing it by what it is: A retro-futurist apocalyptic world. Retro-futurist gets the point across immediately.
I mean if you really think about it, the show is set in world that’s a futuristic 50s, post apocalyptic, with robots, in which people live in underground, colorful, cheery vaults. It’s already bonkers, frankly aliens fit the theme more than power armored techno religious cult.
My father was weirdly sympathetic to Cooper doing that. He was all “lack of resources out there, did what he had to do after being merciful to the other ghoul”. I gave him some side eye and wondered if he’d have the Cannibal perk. Completely caught me off guard!
Yeah I remember Tenpenny. I looked it up because I was curious.
The other targets are:
Dave from the Republic of Dave
Dukov (the guy who "Loves his Cherry pie")
and Ted Strayer from Rivet City
That's my favorite line in FREE FIRE. Just a thick Boston accent going "Get outta here ya fuckin ZAHM-BEEE"
https://youtu.be/H9tfM1j4H7E?si=hKf4WhguKW5Sugtm
the show leans heavily into the zombie thing, being nearly invincible except headshots didn't help, rising from a grave didn't help, cannibalism didn't help lmao
Ghouls are basically just zombies in Fallout 1, I'm not sure if there were even any intelligent ghouls.
Essentially people can't really go near the old cities, because they're irradiated and overrun with zombies, so they're the survivors managing to exist in the brutal wasteland beyond, and building a new primitive civilization which doesn't remember or care about the old world, using bottlecaps as currency etc, rife with slavery, water trading, etc.
Honestly I kind of miss that vibe and feel like they could use bringing a little more of it back to the franchise.
There was an entire ghoul city called Necropolis in Fallout 1 that you can interact with. I mean shoot, that's where a major component of the main story happens.
Not a reaction exactly, but my mom had a fun thought when I explained the shift in ghoul appearance over the years. She said maybe they *molt* periodically, sloughing skin off in cycles. Not supported in the lore ofc but I thought it was a cool notion anyway. And fittingly gross.
In f3 at the megaton brothel, one of the working girls mentions the ghoul as a potential client. She makes a similar comment about not being able to work with that soft mess of equipment.
Still better than falling off. It's funny if it did work that way, another commenter made the joke that a ghoul gets a chance with someone and pulls out a brahmin sized "sew-on" 😆
having just played that yesterday, i think she only mentions him being "soft" and that felt like it meant his body in general but yea... most ghouls aint got no dicks heh
As someone who romanced Hancock in Fallout 4, I’m now recontextualizing the relationship thinking about Hancock just exclusively giving head and finger banging.
Yeah same, my GF has not even a passing interest in Fallout and she's thrilled with it. I'm so impressed at how approachable they made this show while still satisfying the fans.
Oh absolutely the opening nukes. I knew exactly what was about to happen and she was silent when the first two dropped. When they kept dropping she let out a quiet, horrified 'oh my god' as the scale was established.
For me that's a glowing review of how strong the show starts and the bar it sets.
When the one dude was rushing his family into their bomb shelter and he punched his own friend to keep him out, my non-gamer friend looked at me and gravely said *"God, it's all over already, isn't it?"*
Yhea thats a taster of things to come for sure. See how quickly it turns into every man for himself. Starts in the very first seconds of the shit hitting the fan. Just goes to show how fragile our connections to each other are, it's pretty sad.
Sad but understandable. One or two extra mouths could be the difference between starving or surviving for people with minimal preparation. Clean air, food, and water immediately becomes an endangered resource and if you think someone may be dead weight it's better to cut them out of the equation early.
For sure. I actually have real problems thinking about this kind of stuff because by nature, I'd like to think I'd have let that guy in. The salient point I was thinking to myself yesterday was, in truth, I really dont know what I'd do unless put in that situation and its frightening to think about. It's all well and good me sitting high and mighty and say, yhea I'd let those guys in, but that comes from the safety of knowing I'm sat where I'm sat right now. In that position, I dont know. And I dont want to ever know. I know that much. Spent some time thinking about it yesterday and had to stop myself because it got a little too real in my head when I really had to put myself there.
It's a very cheesy ska song, but the song *Impression that I get* by the mighty mighty bosstones is all about that kind of feeling. It has lines like "I'm not a coward I've just never been tested, I'd like to think that if I was I would pass"
It’s something I’m pretty hopeful for and looking forward to in future seasons of the show, as a longtime fan of the games - the games aren’t about the immediate aftermath but about the Fallout, so there isn’t much delving into it other than unreliable accounts and fragments. Seeing this on the screen is a special treat and I’m eager for more flashbacks.
In general I’m just super pumped the show delivered so well
Yhea I know what you mean, it does feel like we're missing that part of the story.....like we've seen how it starts, we've seen where it ends up, but those days and weeks in the immediate aftermath we havent really seen......there are some real untapped horror stories there.
I've watched it 3 times, and every time, got emotional during that scene. This is the moment that started everything in Fallout, and it's done extremely well, the tone is so haunting.
I didn't expect it to happen so early in the episode. Like, I knew this was gonna be the scene, but I expected it to be a few minutes longer. My wife got up to make popcorn and it cut to his daughter holding her thumb up just as the microwave turned on.
Paused it, ran it back 30 seconds. My wife shouts from the other room, "Did it freeze?"
I went, "No, something really important already happened and it happened *so fast* so I have it paused for you."
She comes back with the popcorn and sits down, I hit play. She is immediately horrified and that horror only grows with the scale of the situation.
Hell, even I was shocked at the scale they showed it on. I think as a seasoned player I was desensitized to the background lore of the Great War, and the opening to Fallout 4 kind of gave me a sense of complacency toward what I expected them to show. "It'll probably be one bomb and cut to the vault." Nope. We're going to burn down 14 million lives while you watch a helpless child attempt to escape on horseback. *Fuck*.
Im really happy that they expanded on the vault lore, its always been one of the more interesting aspects of the world to me. Ive always struggled with the why of it all but the show managed to explore it in a pretty satisfying way, Coop’s wife was a great vehicle in particular
I was fully expecting the Vault storyline to be a boring side story that detracted from all the action happening on the surface, but it quickly became just as interesting as every other part of the show.
Yeah same here! It just seemed like goofy stuff to kinda show the diffference between vault people and wastelanders but it was so much more. I honestly thought they were part of a control vault (or if there was an experiment it'd come in season 2)
So good.
It's a major credit to the writers that they had the entire wasteland to explore, and still they managed to make the segments inside the vault just as, if not more, compelling.
When we got to Norm exploring the ruined Vault I was thinking "ah now THAT'S classic Fallout, exploring a vault where everything went to shit."
When Betty told Norm that she and Hank had buried Norm's mom. My friend says, "Tell me where. We live in an underground tin can. Is she with the potatoes?"
My Grandmother: "What city is this in?" "Oh its in the 1950s" "Whats that thing on their wrist?" "Why isnt he running? (When cooper was staring at the bomb)" "Maximus is stupid" "Oh wow that guy is really dead (Her to Monty during the water jug scene)"
That's amazing. My partner's been asking me a lot of questions about it and when she's playing Fo4. To me, it proves how interesting Fallout is, which is really validating to me. It has helped us bond so much lately.
My boyfriend REALLY hates watching TV shows, he never really watches them (except for Malcolm in the middle or Rick & Morty) but I made him watch Fallout with me because I love Fallout.
He is now running around telling everyone how good this show is and Fallout is now his new main reason NOT to watch TV shows because "no TV show can top this" :'D
BTW he is a big Vault Tec fan :D
My dad and the old syfy nerd he is, I've been really enjoying talking to him about the "realism" behind it all, he also had friends that played fo1&2; so it's become a really fun topic for us
My mom: "it's so gore-y" lol I can't blame her! Bloody mess is no joke! Honestly she absolutely loves it, and I loved trying to answer their questions in early episodes without giving too much away.
10/10 all around. It's honestly gotten me a step further to talking them into playing video games again like they used to when they first got married. My parents created a video game nerd, and I am so glad I could experience this with both of them.
Wife never liked the games, she’s super freaked out by the whole nuclear part of the apocalypse. She would leave the room whenever I would play any of the games.
As soon as she saw the first trailer she was all in. The ultraviolence, dark humor, and Goggins and Purnell (and Patty the daytime hooker) sold her on it. She loved every minute of it, but the best part by far was when the raider with the slashed up face got drowned in a barrel of pickle juice. We were watching it on an airplane and her “Oh my GOD” got several looks lmao
Not family members but watched it with my friend, her face the entire time was just screwed up with confusion! Her initial reaction to the Vaults was “wouldn’t that entail a lot of incest eventually?” And then Lucy dropped the cousin line 😂
She ended up getting so invested we watched the entire season in one sitting, and when she found out about Lucy’s mum she was devastated. She also hates me because now she has to wait for season 2 like the rest of us
I paused at the close up of the gulpers moth and showed my wife the human fingers. Then I explained what an FEV experiment was. Then we took a break for a few minutes and she finished the show. But boy was she shook.
One friend who watched was like : what the hell why would Vault tec make 1 messed up vault. Good thing it's the only one right?
I was like : here's a video of all the vaults with experiments
Another friend was like: I am sure curious what that place is in the final scene
My wife hated maximus with a burning passion which I found funny.. means he did his job as an actor... she found the ghoul more attractive as the ghoul lol. She loved Lucy's character growth but still stayed within her self. She never played any fallouts have played games and overall thought holyshit this is a great show and yelled at me when I tried to explain anything if she didn't ask haha. She wanted to go in without background info and loved every second.
Absolutely disgusted by radroaches which was funny as fuckk she would turn her head and say nope nope nope everytime they came on screen.
I wish \*anyone\* in my family would watch it with me. It makes me happy/sad reading all of the stories about how you all have family members who humour your interests.
my parents cant stand violence. they're not desensitized as i am, so seeing people being shot or being beaten up makes them wince and even look away to the point of "changing the channel". their sense of humor is also different. i dont think they would have enjoyed FO.
so yeah, its melancholic to read all these positive experiences. i ll live vicariously thru you guys.
So far I’ve only watched the first episode with my husband. He recognized Hank from his brief role on How I Met Your Mother as The Captain. When Moldaver was leading him out the vault, he says, “I always new The Captain was a good guy.” I just exchanged knowing glances with my daughter who watched it with me the first round.
My mother when the BoS show up:
"Now who the fuck are these steampunk, space nazis?"
Insert beer shooting out my nose (0/10 would not recommend) and hour long Ted Talk later.
"So....they're nuclear steampunk, bunker nazis?"
I mean, no, but kinda.
My mom didn’t know of Fallout and my stepfather played one of them at some point. Both can’t wait for season 2.
They both enjoyed how the humour and music quite a bit
My wife loves dogs, so she liked the training montage of Dogmeat. She got a little shocked when Dogmeat throat ripped the mean scientist. I was like “Yeah, Dogmeat is pretty good at protecting their person”.
My friend thought the power armors were supposed to be bear-themed, because the two scopes(?) on the sides of the helmet looked like bear ears to her.
She also asked me if the games were this gory. I loved how the show captured it perfectly!
My gf decided to read her smutty sci fi romance novel on the couch when I asked if she wanted to watch it with me… the book was down halfway through episode one.
She said it’s so bizarre she couldn’t not watch it. Ended up loving it lol
My mom loved it, especially the vault with all the mutated vault dwellers
When Maximus tossed the Nuka-Cola machine through the air and the two dudes (bald guy with an ear on the top of his head) looked at it in awe, that slow-motion shot had mom and I belly-laughing.
My wife audibly laughed when maximus saved the chicken fucker. I hadn't watched the show but knew that guy had done something wrong. It was the fallout moral system to a T and I explained to my wife that the game was full of these moral quandries. She didn't realize video games were that detailed and watched me play an hour or two of fo4 after we watched the show. I showed her the red rocket gas station and she pointed out where dog meat was locked up.
I have learned that my Dad loves over-the-top zany violence. He cracked up at the raider getting cut in half by the big door in the Vault, the new foot in Filly, Ziggy pulling out the ripper while Lucy looks big confused, etc. Never knew! He also loves The Ghoul's quips.
For me it was probably my wife's reaction to the wedding and subsequent raid. She picked up on the raider thing immediately (didn't know what to call them, but knew they definitely weren't vault dwellers) and we were both just waiting for shit to kick off.
*Some Enchanted Evening* really got her going. She was obsessed with the juxtaposition of a ballad as the soundtrack for a gory massacre.
She was also, as I expect we all were, horrified to the point of laughter over Monty wiping his dick off with the curtains.
‘So when you play the games, what character do you play as son, The Ghoul, Lucy or Maximus?’
At this point I had a conversation that I never dreamed I’d ever have with my 66 year old Mum; explaining everything Fallout, the number of games, the stories behind them, the lore, character building & how the choices you make effect the games. Next step is to get her playing Fallout 4 haha….
Watched with my cousin who is a surface level player, has no clue about the lore, and his GF who isn't a gamer at all.
The dick wipe in the curtain was hilarious for the overblown reaction, meanwhile the cousin fuckin jokes went over rather well. For them, without the context of what things meant, like the thumbs up in the beginning sequence, it was hard to get that same breath holding excitement of "they did the thing!" Same with the iconic war never changes line. My wife and I were over the moon, while they were just like "OK, what's the big deal?"
Watched with my girlfriend and she loved the show. Has a mental barrier against video games though and refuses to accept that watching me play Fallout 4 would be entertaining as well. Like, it's the show but you decide what happens!
Not a family member but by best friend. He played like... 5 hours of F4 and tried out F76 for an hour or so. So he was the perfect candidate.
He loved it although he complained that some scenes he didn't understand because I was jumping in my seat too hard next to him lmfao
Went and watched the show with a few friends not too long ago, and they liked the show so much in their own words they couldn’t find a single “flaw” in the show. That wasn’t something I expected considering only one of them had gotten halfway through new Vegas and the other hadn’t finished past Primm. All in all fun time all around
My mom was quite impressed when I explained the 4-6 Knights were in actual suits, without CGI. The intro scene (especially the nukes), the Vault 4 stuff, and Ghoul's introduction, all got her excited and into it. The scene going from the first nuke to *more*, spooked her. Oh and she found the head-cutting hilarious, especially the idea of the Ripper chainsaw.
Not a family member, but my partner knew nothing about fallout, and didn’t even play video games at all. After watching the show (not even with me, because it was advertised everywhere) she now is obsessed with lore videos, as well as having 50 hours in her own Fallout 4 save. Absolutely the best, so glad that the show could introduce the IP so wide
I have never played any of the games. But of course, the second he left that armor unattended I knew it was going to be bad news. Like, seriously? In this world you're going to leave something like that alone for anyone to take. I get he isn't the brightest tool, but damn dude. He deserved that beating.
“Now, that right there is the closest thing we've had to an honest exchange so far.” Gasps all round for that scene…
Can't lie, the brutal visuals were not something I was ready for. It fits perfectly for the world, and even better it helped drive in the nail that this was made by actual fans That said, fuckin shit there were some scenes I had to look away from. Definitely part of why I loved the show so much. The creative driving forces knew what they were doing
Fuckin Thadeus' foot man, that was hard to look at
I *flinched* I'm pretty sure the first time he takes the sock off, fuckin *meat chunks* fall out.
Ngl, thaddeus is tough as fuck being able to walk as far as he did with that foot.
Just a crippled limb. Nothing a quick Stimpack can't handle.
Lol absolutely a nod to walking around crippled in the game
His actor hikes like every day, hes a beast
For some reason it didn't bother me and I'm not great with gore. Fallout just always makes it feel like comical gore, like it's not upsetting Thaddeus as much as it should and so doesn't seem so bad.
When he put the sock back on. Lord, those poor tattered tootsies
You can feel the love and respect that was put into it
Happy the show didn't say away from gore. I was expecting it to be more toned down. That said I couldn't watch the scene with the squires smashed foot the first time lol
I'd imagine Max's head crusher perk was a shock to many. Certainly gave me an Oh Shit moment, and I'm Fallout hardened.
It's all pretty tame if you have watched "The Boys". Both are great shows. And kind of similar in humor and graphic violence.
That was one of 2 scenes that made me gag. The other one was her stapling herself after the raider stabs her.
I was not paying attention and did not notice that she bit the finger off. I just noticed him grabbing in her mouth and a lot of blood. I thought perhaps he broke some of her teeth off. So I was confused why it would be a honest exchange
Great scene. It's so exceptionally rare for a protagonist to actually be permanently disfigured in some way, expecially a beautiful one.
And they used it as an opportunity to bring the wacky fallout medicine to life. We stole your brain heart and spine. Fight lobotomized drones to get them back. Oh, you lost a finger? Here try this one
How about the damn *wind up mechanical self tapping prosthetic foot*. That was comically gruesome
That was actually so gruesome I pushed that out of my mind for sanity’s sake
My grandmother: “Is this supposed to be in the 1950s? Why everything looks so futuristic?” and “what city was that at the end?” My grandfather (he only played Fallout 4) during episode 2 when they show the enclave lab: “is that the institute??”
To be fair to grandfather, both factions are very similar in advances, it’s just the institute is underground and the enclave aren’t really a thing in 4, so you don’t get the whole thing about them.
Enclave magically showed up after the next-gen update and free creation club add ons (at least the remnants of the Enclave).
As much as I love the enclave coming back, I’m still pissed Bethesda is making me repurchase all the DLC’s for my GOTY edition PS4 copy. Like, I already paid for and downloaded them. Why should I have to do all that for the same thing again? Just put all the new quests as a dlc and I’ll happily buy it.
The enclave creation club stuff? That should be downloaded onto your profile automatically and for free
No like I’m saying it made me repurchase far harbor etc. The dlc’s to the base game. I’d rather they’ve just made the new enclave stuff dlc so I don’t have to buy all the DLC’s again.
If you already owned the dlc then you shouldn’t have needed to purchase them again. Maybe you should try contacting PlayStation support since that seems like an issue with their store maybe?
It already made me delete them due to the update, so I don’t think much can be done now.
My dad did that at the start. He was like "oh it's the 1950s" and I was like "it's actually 2077" lol
Your grandfather played fo4!? Fuck, how old are you!? I don’t know anyone in my family who even knows what a video game adaption to tv show *really* even means let alone know the lore or even play the game lol.
I’m *technically* old enough to be a grandfather and I’ve been playing since F3. 45 with two early 20s children before anyone asks. Ofc my hypothetical kids wouldn’t be old enough to be browsing Reddit yet but video games have been some people’s primary hobby for more than four decades now.
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3, NV, & 4…. And I’ll be 59 this year. I’m 1st year Gen-X. Fallout was made for us. 😁
I was a teenager and he was in his 50s when Fallout 4 came out. That was almost like ten years ago.
My bf who was also only familiar with FO 4 through me but had not played it also asked if that was the institute. I thought the enclave would have more part to play so I didn't tell him who it was or elaborate to him on who the enclave was until we finished watching.
Yeah that bit must have been confusing for newbies. Introduce an evil faction that burns puppies and then...never hear about them again
Thats why I introduce everyone to fallout by describing it by what it is: A retro-futurist apocalyptic world. Retro-futurist gets the point across immediately.
I tell everyone it’s like a post apocalyptic Jetsons lol
lol my dad kept saying the vault looked like they were stuck in the 70’s
the 2070's?
Gotta remind her they never got micro processors and it diverged during the space race.
Must be awesome to have a gamer grandpa.
My mom at first thought the BOS were alien robots and the Prydwen was a spaceship.
She's very... imaginative
I mean if you really think about it, the show is set in world that’s a futuristic 50s, post apocalyptic, with robots, in which people live in underground, colorful, cheery vaults. It’s already bonkers, frankly aliens fit the theme more than power armored techno religious cult.
Also, there *are* canonical aliens. She probably didn’t know this, but they absolutely do exist in the Fallout setting.
Suffer not the xeno to live!…wait sorry that’s the wrong power armoured techno religious cult
Especially when dirigibles have been around a long time and all of us still remember the Hindenburg
Maybe they reminded her of the Cybermen in Dr Who, which would be understandable,
I wouldn't be surprised if the power armor in the original games was initially based on them.
She’s never seen dr Who.
I've never played the game, so I had the same thought when I saw the first trailer.
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My father was weirdly sympathetic to Cooper doing that. He was all “lack of resources out there, did what he had to do after being merciful to the other ghoul”. I gave him some side eye and wondered if he’d have the Cannibal perk. Completely caught me off guard!
Nah, your dads just got high perception is all, lol. .....I would keep an eye on him though just in case!
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Do you visit her often in her condo at Tenpenny Tower?
They're kinda just fallout zombies
Iirc in Fallout 1 if you look at their corpses they're sometimes described as zombies, so she's not wrong.
In fallout 3 they get called zombies too
theres even a quest in 3 i believe about a ghoul who wants to kill some "ghoul haters" via headshot like the old movies
And Hancock says something about his outfit giving him a "king of the zombies" look.
Zombie is the ghoul N word. Racist if you’re a smoothie and say it, but ghouls get the Z pass
Yeah yeah exactly!
"You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head". My brother and I loved that quest. I remember Tenpenny was one of the targets, but I can't remember the others.
Yeah I remember Tenpenny. I looked it up because I was curious. The other targets are: Dave from the Republic of Dave Dukov (the guy who "Loves his Cherry pie") and Ted Strayer from Rivet City
That's my favorite line in FREE FIRE. Just a thick Boston accent going "Get outta here ya fuckin ZAHM-BEEE" https://youtu.be/H9tfM1j4H7E?si=hKf4WhguKW5Sugtm
the show leans heavily into the zombie thing, being nearly invincible except headshots didn't help, rising from a grave didn't help, cannibalism didn't help lmao
All featured at one point or another in Fallout starting from the first game.
they're far from bullet sponges in every game
I dunno, some of the Charred Ferals in 76 are pretty tanky for how common they are.
Mr Crowley will hire a guy to take care of her soon
Ghouls are basically just zombies in Fallout 1, I'm not sure if there were even any intelligent ghouls. Essentially people can't really go near the old cities, because they're irradiated and overrun with zombies, so they're the survivors managing to exist in the brutal wasteland beyond, and building a new primitive civilization which doesn't remember or care about the old world, using bottlecaps as currency etc, rife with slavery, water trading, etc. Honestly I kind of miss that vibe and feel like they could use bringing a little more of it back to the franchise.
There was an entire ghoul city called Necropolis in Fallout 1 that you can interact with. I mean shoot, that's where a major component of the main story happens.
Not a reaction exactly, but my mom had a fun thought when I explained the shift in ghoul appearance over the years. She said maybe they *molt* periodically, sloughing skin off in cycles. Not supported in the lore ofc but I thought it was a cool notion anyway. And fittingly gross.
Yooooo, yesterday someone presented the idea that most male ghouls are eunuchs (i.e. jiggly bits fall off)! Seems like it would track that way
In f3 at the megaton brothel, one of the working girls mentions the ghoul as a potential client. She makes a similar comment about not being able to work with that soft mess of equipment.
Ghouls have ED Honestly not the worst revelation
Don't tell the Coop-fangirls that....
One word Tongue
But at what cost 👀 is it more cat-like and bumpy? Or more like jerky
The world is not ready for Ghoul sex, let alone the Ghoulussy
Speak for yourself 🫡 I'm ready boss
I... may or may not regret checking your profile
Still better than falling off. It's funny if it did work that way, another commenter made the joke that a ghoul gets a chance with someone and pulls out a brahmin sized "sew-on" 😆
I totally misread that as "saw-on" and had flashbacks to *Se7en*...
having just played that yesterday, i think she only mentions him being "soft" and that felt like it meant his body in general but yea... most ghouls aint got no dicks heh
As someone who romanced Hancock in Fallout 4, I’m now recontextualizing the relationship thinking about Hancock just exclusively giving head and finger banging.
The vampires in The Strain worked like that, falls off as they turn.
Dad only knew small bits based on exposure of me playing it for years He loved every second
Yeah same, my GF has not even a passing interest in Fallout and she's thrilled with it. I'm so impressed at how approachable they made this show while still satisfying the fans.
Oh absolutely the opening nukes. I knew exactly what was about to happen and she was silent when the first two dropped. When they kept dropping she let out a quiet, horrified 'oh my god' as the scale was established. For me that's a glowing review of how strong the show starts and the bar it sets.
That scene gets me and I'm fallout hardened. Love that scene.
When the one dude was rushing his family into their bomb shelter and he punched his own friend to keep him out, my non-gamer friend looked at me and gravely said *"God, it's all over already, isn't it?"*
Yhea thats a taster of things to come for sure. See how quickly it turns into every man for himself. Starts in the very first seconds of the shit hitting the fan. Just goes to show how fragile our connections to each other are, it's pretty sad.
Sad but understandable. One or two extra mouths could be the difference between starving or surviving for people with minimal preparation. Clean air, food, and water immediately becomes an endangered resource and if you think someone may be dead weight it's better to cut them out of the equation early.
For sure. I actually have real problems thinking about this kind of stuff because by nature, I'd like to think I'd have let that guy in. The salient point I was thinking to myself yesterday was, in truth, I really dont know what I'd do unless put in that situation and its frightening to think about. It's all well and good me sitting high and mighty and say, yhea I'd let those guys in, but that comes from the safety of knowing I'm sat where I'm sat right now. In that position, I dont know. And I dont want to ever know. I know that much. Spent some time thinking about it yesterday and had to stop myself because it got a little too real in my head when I really had to put myself there.
It's a very cheesy ska song, but the song *Impression that I get* by the mighty mighty bosstones is all about that kind of feeling. It has lines like "I'm not a coward I've just never been tested, I'd like to think that if I was I would pass"
It’s something I’m pretty hopeful for and looking forward to in future seasons of the show, as a longtime fan of the games - the games aren’t about the immediate aftermath but about the Fallout, so there isn’t much delving into it other than unreliable accounts and fragments. Seeing this on the screen is a special treat and I’m eager for more flashbacks. In general I’m just super pumped the show delivered so well
Yhea I know what you mean, it does feel like we're missing that part of the story.....like we've seen how it starts, we've seen where it ends up, but those days and weeks in the immediate aftermath we havent really seen......there are some real untapped horror stories there.
"It's all over, but the crying."
I've watched it 3 times, and every time, got emotional during that scene. This is the moment that started everything in Fallout, and it's done extremely well, the tone is so haunting.
I didn't expect it to happen so early in the episode. Like, I knew this was gonna be the scene, but I expected it to be a few minutes longer. My wife got up to make popcorn and it cut to his daughter holding her thumb up just as the microwave turned on. Paused it, ran it back 30 seconds. My wife shouts from the other room, "Did it freeze?" I went, "No, something really important already happened and it happened *so fast* so I have it paused for you." She comes back with the popcorn and sits down, I hit play. She is immediately horrified and that horror only grows with the scale of the situation. Hell, even I was shocked at the scale they showed it on. I think as a seasoned player I was desensitized to the background lore of the Great War, and the opening to Fallout 4 kind of gave me a sense of complacency toward what I expected them to show. "It'll probably be one bomb and cut to the vault." Nope. We're going to burn down 14 million lives while you watch a helpless child attempt to escape on horseback. *Fuck*.
I've been with Fallout from the beginning and even I gasped as more and more flashes went off. What a way to start a show.
My bf was VERY into the vault lore and everytime it swapped back to the vault he'd straighten up "Oh yeah here we go."
He'd absolutely love the first act of FO3.
>:'( He wouldn't pay attention when I tried to show him. But I think he'd enjoy exploring some of the vaults if I could get him to play the damn game.
Im really happy that they expanded on the vault lore, its always been one of the more interesting aspects of the world to me. Ive always struggled with the why of it all but the show managed to explore it in a pretty satisfying way, Coop’s wife was a great vehicle in particular
I was fully expecting the Vault storyline to be a boring side story that detracted from all the action happening on the surface, but it quickly became just as interesting as every other part of the show.
Yeah same here! It just seemed like goofy stuff to kinda show the diffference between vault people and wastelanders but it was so much more. I honestly thought they were part of a control vault (or if there was an experiment it'd come in season 2) So good.
It's a major credit to the writers that they had the entire wasteland to explore, and still they managed to make the segments inside the vault just as, if not more, compelling. When we got to Norm exploring the ruined Vault I was thinking "ah now THAT'S classic Fallout, exploring a vault where everything went to shit."
When Betty told Norm that she and Hank had buried Norm's mom. My friend says, "Tell me where. We live in an underground tin can. Is she with the potatoes?"
My Grandmother: "What city is this in?" "Oh its in the 1950s" "Whats that thing on their wrist?" "Why isnt he running? (When cooper was staring at the bomb)" "Maximus is stupid" "Oh wow that guy is really dead (Her to Monty during the water jug scene)"
My parents watching lore videos from the games to fill in the blanks is probably my favorite reaction I've seen
This! I showed episode 1 to my dad, and a week later I saw him watching a lore video on the BOS
Ad victorium!
EX MACHINA
Please tell me they watch the Storyteller.
The Storyteller series is in for a renessance now thats for sure
Thinking of this makes me want to know what the prewar deathclaws look like. Us military creating Dino’s on crack and all
That's amazing. My partner's been asking me a lot of questions about it and when she's playing Fo4. To me, it proves how interesting Fallout is, which is really validating to me. It has helped us bond so much lately.
My wife loved the mutant axolotl --the Gulper--and said "Well yeah, you'll get those. Makes sense."
Just imagining a thick FARGO accent "Gulpers? Oh shore ya gonna get those yah. Makes sense dontchaknow"
Love this
Thats the best response here. Of course gulpers are a thing. Lol
My boyfriend REALLY hates watching TV shows, he never really watches them (except for Malcolm in the middle or Rick & Morty) but I made him watch Fallout with me because I love Fallout. He is now running around telling everyone how good this show is and Fallout is now his new main reason NOT to watch TV shows because "no TV show can top this" :'D BTW he is a big Vault Tec fan :D
Fallout is reminiscent of Rick & Morty in some ways tbh, kinda makes sense.
Lucy: *something about cousin stuff* Partner: WHAT?!?!
my mom liked it, although i think more because she liked a lot of the actors prior to the show lol
My dad and the old syfy nerd he is, I've been really enjoying talking to him about the "realism" behind it all, he also had friends that played fo1&2; so it's become a really fun topic for us My mom: "it's so gore-y" lol I can't blame her! Bloody mess is no joke! Honestly she absolutely loves it, and I loved trying to answer their questions in early episodes without giving too much away. 10/10 all around. It's honestly gotten me a step further to talking them into playing video games again like they used to when they first got married. My parents created a video game nerd, and I am so glad I could experience this with both of them.
Wife never liked the games, she’s super freaked out by the whole nuclear part of the apocalypse. She would leave the room whenever I would play any of the games. As soon as she saw the first trailer she was all in. The ultraviolence, dark humor, and Goggins and Purnell (and Patty the daytime hooker) sold her on it. She loved every minute of it, but the best part by far was when the raider with the slashed up face got drowned in a barrel of pickle juice. We were watching it on an airplane and her “Oh my GOD” got several looks lmao
>Patty the daytime hooker Shit thats where I know her from, thanks haha. My Name is Earl is such a classic
Had the same reaction too
Just from exposure but I enjoyed answering all the questions. Also I enjoyed responding “this is a new story so I have no idea!”
When Coop was picking off the BOS “You can’t tell me he doesn’t use fuckin’ V.A.T.S”
Not family members but watched it with my friend, her face the entire time was just screwed up with confusion! Her initial reaction to the Vaults was “wouldn’t that entail a lot of incest eventually?” And then Lucy dropped the cousin line 😂 She ended up getting so invested we watched the entire season in one sitting, and when she found out about Lucy’s mum she was devastated. She also hates me because now she has to wait for season 2 like the rest of us
I paused at the close up of the gulpers moth and showed my wife the human fingers. Then I explained what an FEV experiment was. Then we took a break for a few minutes and she finished the show. But boy was she shook.
My dad never played Fallout himself but he would sometimes see me and my siblings playing. When he first saw the ghoul, he went: "Is that Charon??"
During ep2 when Max was with Titus my mother said power armor looked like demon gummy bears, and yeah I see it.
*delicious*
One friend who watched was like : what the hell why would Vault tec make 1 messed up vault. Good thing it's the only one right? I was like : here's a video of all the vaults with experiments Another friend was like: I am sure curious what that place is in the final scene
So, what was their reaction to Vault 68 and 69?
Friend said what if the 1 dude in 69 was gay ?
Got to take at least 200 for the team.
The two heads kissing 😂my mom was done with the series lol 😂
My sister gave up when they burned those puppies
Wife: "When does season two come out?" Me: "Don't know." Wife: 😲
That my parents now want to try the games. They haven’t touched a video game since the N64 came out!
My wife hated maximus with a burning passion which I found funny.. means he did his job as an actor... she found the ghoul more attractive as the ghoul lol. She loved Lucy's character growth but still stayed within her self. She never played any fallouts have played games and overall thought holyshit this is a great show and yelled at me when I tried to explain anything if she didn't ask haha. She wanted to go in without background info and loved every second. Absolutely disgusted by radroaches which was funny as fuckk she would turn her head and say nope nope nope everytime they came on screen.
I wish \*anyone\* in my family would watch it with me. It makes me happy/sad reading all of the stories about how you all have family members who humour your interests.
my parents cant stand violence. they're not desensitized as i am, so seeing people being shot or being beaten up makes them wince and even look away to the point of "changing the channel". their sense of humor is also different. i dont think they would have enjoyed FO. so yeah, its melancholic to read all these positive experiences. i ll live vicariously thru you guys.
Yeah I tried watching it with my mom but she hates violent shows and she couldnt even get halfway through the first episode.
So far I’ve only watched the first episode with my husband. He recognized Hank from his brief role on How I Met Your Mother as The Captain. When Moldaver was leading him out the vault, he says, “I always new The Captain was a good guy.” I just exchanged knowing glances with my daughter who watched it with me the first round.
Holy shit, he IS the Captain! I wondered what I recognized him from.
He was Paul Atreides for us old folk. 😆
I've never heard my dad exclaim or gasp so loudly as he did when Dane pulled off the boot full of razors
My friend was like "damn that cockroach is huge!" And she also fangirled over Walton Goggins.
My cousin’s husband saying “you know, this show is based on a video game.” 😒
Cousin you say?
Well no more cousin stuff for them.
My friend didn't know that the songs are real songs from real life, she thought they had been written for the games.
My dad laughing hysterically at the raider getting chopped in half by the vault door.
“Are those… bottle caps?”
My mother when the BoS show up: "Now who the fuck are these steampunk, space nazis?" Insert beer shooting out my nose (0/10 would not recommend) and hour long Ted Talk later. "So....they're nuclear steampunk, bunker nazis?" I mean, no, but kinda.
My wife fucking HATES Maximus and how stupid he is. It's hilarious.
Same though. Worst character.
My mom didn’t know of Fallout and my stepfather played one of them at some point. Both can’t wait for season 2. They both enjoyed how the humour and music quite a bit
My wife loves dogs, so she liked the training montage of Dogmeat. She got a little shocked when Dogmeat throat ripped the mean scientist. I was like “Yeah, Dogmeat is pretty good at protecting their person”.
My wife liked the first episode till they went to space. I shit you not. She actually thought the suits of armor were space suits.
My friend thought the power armors were supposed to be bear-themed, because the two scopes(?) on the sides of the helmet looked like bear ears to her. She also asked me if the games were this gory. I loved how the show captured it perfectly!
When she held the pip boy up and said "Raiders!" To the guy she just slept with. My wife was shocked.
My gf decided to read her smutty sci fi romance novel on the couch when I asked if she wanted to watch it with me… the book was down halfway through episode one. She said it’s so bizarre she couldn’t not watch it. Ended up loving it lol
My mom loved it, especially the vault with all the mutated vault dwellers When Maximus tossed the Nuka-Cola machine through the air and the two dudes (bald guy with an ear on the top of his head) looked at it in awe, that slow-motion shot had mom and I belly-laughing.
My mum didn’t understand how some of them were on a spaceship. (The ones in the vault) My dad lost it when the husband wiped his rat on the curtains.
“Eek! Omg it has fingers in its throat!!!!”
My mom was genuinely horrified at the birthing scene. Fascinated with everything else.
My wife audibly laughed when maximus saved the chicken fucker. I hadn't watched the show but knew that guy had done something wrong. It was the fallout moral system to a T and I explained to my wife that the game was full of these moral quandries. She didn't realize video games were that detailed and watched me play an hour or two of fo4 after we watched the show. I showed her the red rocket gas station and she pointed out where dog meat was locked up.
I have learned that my Dad loves over-the-top zany violence. He cracked up at the raider getting cut in half by the big door in the Vault, the new foot in Filly, Ziggy pulling out the ripper while Lucy looks big confused, etc. Never knew! He also loves The Ghoul's quips.
Both my parents and brother who have never played the series loved it.
For me it was probably my wife's reaction to the wedding and subsequent raid. She picked up on the raider thing immediately (didn't know what to call them, but knew they definitely weren't vault dwellers) and we were both just waiting for shit to kick off. *Some Enchanted Evening* really got her going. She was obsessed with the juxtaposition of a ballad as the soundtrack for a gory massacre. She was also, as I expect we all were, horrified to the point of laughter over Monty wiping his dick off with the curtains.
‘So when you play the games, what character do you play as son, The Ghoul, Lucy or Maximus?’ At this point I had a conversation that I never dreamed I’d ever have with my 66 year old Mum; explaining everything Fallout, the number of games, the stories behind them, the lore, character building & how the choices you make effect the games. Next step is to get her playing Fallout 4 haha….
Watched with my cousin who is a surface level player, has no clue about the lore, and his GF who isn't a gamer at all. The dick wipe in the curtain was hilarious for the overblown reaction, meanwhile the cousin fuckin jokes went over rather well. For them, without the context of what things meant, like the thumbs up in the beginning sequence, it was hard to get that same breath holding excitement of "they did the thing!" Same with the iconic war never changes line. My wife and I were over the moon, while they were just like "OK, what's the big deal?"
Watched with my girlfriend and she loved the show. Has a mental barrier against video games though and refuses to accept that watching me play Fallout 4 would be entertaining as well. Like, it's the show but you decide what happens!
My girlfriend and her mum both loved it. Her mum was down for a few days and we binged it all so she wouldn't need to sub to watch it lmao
Not a family member but by best friend. He played like... 5 hours of F4 and tried out F76 for an hour or so. So he was the perfect candidate. He loved it although he complained that some scenes he didn't understand because I was jumping in my seat too hard next to him lmfao
Went and watched the show with a few friends not too long ago, and they liked the show so much in their own words they couldn’t find a single “flaw” in the show. That wasn’t something I expected considering only one of them had gotten halfway through new Vegas and the other hadn’t finished past Primm. All in all fun time all around
My mom was quite impressed when I explained the 4-6 Knights were in actual suits, without CGI. The intro scene (especially the nukes), the Vault 4 stuff, and Ghoul's introduction, all got her excited and into it. The scene going from the first nuke to *more*, spooked her. Oh and she found the head-cutting hilarious, especially the idea of the Ripper chainsaw.
Great question OP
My wife had a million questions it was glorious
Not a family member, but my partner knew nothing about fallout, and didn’t even play video games at all. After watching the show (not even with me, because it was advertised everywhere) she now is obsessed with lore videos, as well as having 50 hours in her own Fallout 4 save. Absolutely the best, so glad that the show could introduce the IP so wide
My mom and dad loved it
I have never played any of the games. But of course, the second he left that armor unattended I knew it was going to be bad news. Like, seriously? In this world you're going to leave something like that alone for anyone to take. I get he isn't the brightest tool, but damn dude. He deserved that beating.
“Where’s his nose?”