r/Fallout • u/Royalexp • 4d ago

If Bethesda decides to make a Fallout film, it should focus on the story of Randall Clark and his adventures in Zion. It’s one of the best pieces of lore I’ve ever read.

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u/Mountain_Man_88 4d ago

Randall Clark has a great story but it's not "Fallout" enough for a Fallout film. No vaults, no pipboy, no BOS/power armor.

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u/Mr-BillCipher 4d ago

I mean, I personally wouldn't mind playing a title where the brotherhoods near extinction

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u/Mountain_Man_88 4d ago

May I introduce you to Fallout: New Vegas? That's probably the closest we'll get to an almost extinct Brotherhood. I mean, the BOS is so important to Bethesda that they retconned them into 76.

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u/Mr-BillCipher 4d ago

I played NV, it was a fun game, though I really really hate its online fanbase. Honestly, I doubt Todd Howard's going to be allowed to hold onto fallout

On Howard's timeline, he has no plans to start a new fallout game for around 20 years, or 30 years after fo4

Microsoft wants a new game now while the fanbase is reeled in

Todd howard is a fantastic game lead, absolutely fantastic, but I've rarely heard of a worse CEO. Dude has a massive AAA game studio, and instead of having multiple IPs working at once, the dude hyperfocuses on one IP at a time so he can lead them. Which is not his job. He's a CEO now, not a lead

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u/Strange_Compote_4592 4d ago

And instead of having multiple IPs working at once, the dude hyperfocuses on one IP at a time

It will probably sound weird, but that approach is why I consider Bethesda my favourite studio.

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u/Pixel22104 Brotherhood 3d ago

I totally agree with you. While Bethesda isn’t my number one favorite gaming studio(that honor goes to Nintendo), they still are up there as one of my favorites even despite their flaws. I still really find it so cool that even though Todd Howard is CEO of Bethesda Game Studios. That he still wants to be involved with every project. He still wants to be part of the process that makes the games. I know it can make projects take forever to do but even still.

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u/Strange_Compote_4592 3d ago

Yup. He is really cool even in vacuum. The CEO who actually cares about his games. And in comparison to other CEOs he is a fucking saint.

Has he ever been in a scandal, actually? Like, anything other that "dur-hur, skyrim rerelease"?

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u/Mr-BillCipher 4d ago

Ever since they took that approach they just re-released skyrim for over a decade. Before todd was ceo, they would always have fallout and elderscrolls, and usually one small ip on the side

The only thing they've produced from this tactic is starfield

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u/Strange_Compote_4592 4d ago

Do you think they re-release skyrim just because they don't want to make a new game? It sells like crazy, they would be stupid not to do it. And pry tell me, why nobody has issues with GTA 5 re-releases? RE4?

And yes, while starfield is not all it could have been, it is still a decent game. A bit too ambitious for its own pants.

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u/M242-TrueLove 3d ago

starfield is decent, but its so infinetely shallow. nothing means anything. exploration sucks, writing sucks, characters suck, enviroments are dull. nothing is good. nothing

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u/Strange_Compote_4592 3d ago

I haven't played starfield, to be the judge of its writing myself. But If there is one thing about bethesda that I learned throughout the years is this:

People who complain about their writing DON'T PAY ATTENTION. Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4 all suffer from "BeThEsDa WrItIng", which is usually condensed to "I didn't pay any attention neither to the environment, nor to the dialogues". So i am pretty sure the writing is, at the very least, is alright. (Poor Institute... How many times will I have to listen to "institute has no goal")

Environment is just a plain out lieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Is generated stuff a too vast? Yes. Are 100 planets are plain too big? Yes, the game IS too ambitions. But is it bad or uninteresting? No. Bethesda is THE best environment storytelling studio, so I hardly pressed to even consider it.

Same goes for the characters. They aren't made to be "video gamey", they are made to feel like real people. And 95% of real people are BLAND AND BORING. (Not because they are bland and boring in vacuum, but because your interests don't collide)

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u/M242-TrueLove 3d ago

there is little to no enviromental storytelling in starfield, characters are also embarassingly bad they are all the same and they also tend to have incoherent dialogue, and the most egregious part about the game isnt even anything i already said, its the fact you have no agency at all with regards to anything that happens, its an rpg in name only. and fallout 4 characters rarely feel like real people outside of companions-

i have played starfield 40 hours of gameplay and its the biggest piece of AAA slop ever produced outside of sport games.

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u/SoulfoodSoldier 4d ago

I really hope he gets replaced, bro went all in on the money trail and left the community behind entirely. We went from oblivion to fallout 3 in only 2 years and now we’re supposed to wait decades for an inevitably barely distinguishable mediocre title? It’s not like they’re actually spending decades developing it, no they’re literally just not even starting development until then.

Fucking insane and an amazing example of fully chasing exponential growth while disregarding the fundamentals that grew your company in the first place

Keep chasing profits while you’re selling shit products and it’s going to shrink and you’re going to be sacked, maybe your company will reinvent itself and get its groove on or maybe it will be like every other legendary studio that went from quality to live service/micro transaction slop, and die.

Dude went from ambition to corporate, it’s lame

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u/Mr-BillCipher 4d ago

Well, the thing is, he was a lead back then. The most respected lead, but he wasn't the CEO until skyrims success I believe (correct me if I'm wrong)

That's why I say, amazing lead. Amazing. Lead some of my favorite games. But he's still trying to be a lead.

His job should be trusting titles to senior leads, find more todd Howard's to manage multiple IPs, while at most only personally being involved in 1 or 2

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u/Garibaldi_Biscuit 3d ago

They were in a pretty bad state in Fallout 2. 

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u/AceAlger Brotherhood 4d ago

In other words: Corporate needs more brandable material for the consoomers.

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u/Mountain_Man_88 4d ago

I still have no clue why Amazon isn't all over Fallout merch. I guess they just have no actual manufacturing capabilities, but you'd think they could contract that out. And I'm not saying t shirts and shitty canvas bags, I'm talking Star Wars levels of merch. Action figures, toy weapons, helmets/masks. Collector level highly detailed stuff.

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u/SynthBeta 4d ago

What do you mean? There's a lot of Fallout merchandise they're selling: store

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u/Mountain_Man_88 4d ago

And I'm not saying t shirts and shitty canvas bags

And Funko pops. I want to see actual toys of characters and vehicles, nerf versions of fallout weapons, detailed collectors editions of in game items. Limited Edition Sugar Bombs cereal and Blamco Mac and Cheese. Star Wars levels of merch.

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u/SoulfoodSoldier 4d ago

Star Wars is able to be that diverse because it’s all age appropriate, yes it’s violent but it’s not fallout levels of violence lmfao and the show is arguably far more violent then the video games

Like I think kids can handle fallout honestly but I’m an exception, your average parent isn’t letting their 6-9 year old near fallout for the same reason you don’t see them sporting a Dexter themed onesie, most parents are overly cautious of their kids.

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u/Coolscee-Brooski 4d ago

I want little green power armour men

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u/schrodingersscroller 4d ago

The fuck are you on about ? It's not unreasonable for fans to expect a potential big-budget film based on the thing they like to be easily recognizable as the thing they like. Are we getting this film ? No, because that's what the show is for, but for the sake of argument for OP's post, this my stance.

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u/Kiel_22 4d ago

He did fight all of those Vault cannibals...

Yea, I see your point

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u/Royalexp 4d ago

That's exactly the reason, why i want this as a film , fallout it's not just pip boys vault and Bos