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The "fall" has no date so I’m assuming it goes with the nuke.

Regardless, neither version works. Shady Sands was very much alive and well during New Vegas. It had not "fallen" and it certainly had not been nuked. The NCR was actively expanding at the time, not collapsing.

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Ah… I see now.

 

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Yes, it appears that this is correct. 

The show says Shady Sands got nuked in 2277. New Vegas takes place in 2281.

That is a major fuckup. 

9 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Do you think it’s a coincidence that the best character by far is named "Howard"? 

I kept thinking the same 

Well I saw the scene.

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How’s posting an accurate timeline damage control? 

It was in response to a Twitter meltdown about people saying Bethesda has removed NV from the timeline 

Apparently Beth is doing damage control 

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Seems like it.

 

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Don’t know the details yet, but Shady Sands is now a crater, and a character explains that the NCR didn’t last, describing them like a distant childhood memory.

11 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Episode 5 major spoilers.

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Okay, I officially hate this show.  

Would be fine if it was just a goofy noncanon adaptation but since they claim it’s part of the actual game timeline, yeah, I hate it. 

The NCR is gone. They got deleted off-screen like an afterthought.

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2 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Re-releases and games nobody likes 

Actually, people use to say "There a better publisher then a dev studio!" Can't even give them that with Microsoft handling all of that 

6 minutes ago, Celan said:

Mod breaking is what Bethesda does these days.

 

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Do they establish that it’s all ghouls? The interpretation I have seen is that Goggins’ ghoul is an addict and just thinks he needs drugs to remain non-feral.

 

Re-releases and games nobody likes 

Even with retcons, is the show still maintaining it's batshit funnery? 

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Minor episode 4 spoilers. And new ghoul lore.

 

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Funny, the near-feral ghoul they meet is startlingly similar to a character that I wrote for the RP but never got to the point of including. Even his role in the story is somewhat similar.

They’ve retconned ghouls again. Not a fan. Now apparently they all go feral and are constantly needing to take radiation drugs in order to stave off the process of losing their minds. Only ghouls with lots of money to afford them (like Goggins) can remain normal, which is pretty contradictory to all the downtrodden ghouls we see in the games. Seems a pointless thing to introduce just to invent artificial new stakes for our ghoul protagonist.

The actually makes him a bit more like a Hollow from Dark Souls 

Fallout 4 is getting a nextgen update with "free content" 

https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/4s2bXQEbpcrsdCZhUYLHAi/fallout-4-is-getting-free-updates?linkId=100000254670482

There getting new creation club stuff, but there's apparently "other" new content too

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I’m just saying, if I get through a Fallout show and the most entertaining part was yodeling, I’m gonna call it an L.  

An immortal zombie cowboy who sleeps in a coffin and has insane gunslinger skills with YODELING is a W 

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Jury’s still out, to be honest.  Half of my enjoyment came from laughing at it. 

I didn't know half of the time if I doing that or laughing with it  Some of that yodeling has to be intentional! 

1 minute ago, The Good Doctor said:

It’s basically Fallout 3 mixed with the worst parts of Fallout 2.

One thing’s for certain. Bethesda writers definitely helped with this one.  

 Could have been worse though. Much worse.

And I must say, I'm a sucker for Winchester Rifles  

And yeah, I hope they explain the lore situation, but thankfully all the episodes have released, so we don't have to wait. 

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Saw two episodes tonight. This show is scattershot as hell. It’s fun, but like really stupid fun. Production quality is great, but the writing is pretty bad. All those 9/10s are way over the mark. There was a lot to laugh at, though.  

Predictably, Walton Goggins as "The Ghoul" is by far the best part. Main BoS character is a bitch and the vault girl is hit-or-miss.

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Looks like the BoS very much won in Fallout 4 and are basically running things from the Commonwealth now. 

Crossing the continent is treated like a casual thing for them now, which is pretty bizarre, and the whole East/West divide is not even acknowledged. But the show hasn’t done much to explain anything so far. Maybe that will change.

Enclave are apparently still a thing too, somehow… 

The weirdest part is that the NCR is just nonexistent. They are definitely in California, but these two episodes at least make zero acknowledgement of the NCR ever being a thing and all the wastelanders come across as deranged weirdos with no concept of civilization. 

I was going to say, for better or worst, I think they nailed the zanny fusion of 60's era B Movie, with cheesy Max Max Apocalypse the Bethesda games so love perfectly, with a flavor of western.  

Not my favorite version of Fallout by far, but I still enjoy it  At least it seems more Fallout 3 then Fallout 4. 

Real fun start. Me and Doc spent the last two hours laughing our asses off  I have complaints (quite a few) about the writing, but it's quite entertaining, if very campy. Production is through the charts, so just from a visual perspective it's a treat, and it has a great score. I say's it's worth a watch so far. 

As soon as I heard Lucys Dad was a scientist I was half expecting to see Liam Nesson pop up 

Ten minutes in. (First episode is one hour and fifteen minutes). I can't stress how fucking amazing the production is. It looks like a movie. Reminds me of the first time I watched GOT. I can't imagine how much Amazon spent on this 

Oh this I know for sure

Seeing some leaks, don't know if there true. 

2 hours ago, Celan said:

They're all dropping on Prime tonight at 9pm EST.

Oh shit no staggered release?