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It is official: Fallout 5 is in development.  Bethesda mastermind Todd Howard confirmed it yesterday.  Right now it’s being called “in pre-production”, which could mean a lot of things.  Depending on how far things are it could mean that concept art is being created.  It could also mean that the staff are still trying to determine where this new Fallout game takes place.  Previous games have been set in the California desert, the ruins of Washington D.C., the Boston region, and the landscape surrounding Las Vegas.  Where will the next Fallout take us?

Speaking of Las Vegas, Howard also said that remasters of Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 are coming.  Which will become an enormous time sink for me.  Fallout 3 sucked me in so hard that I spent over 130 hours playing it.  I got sooo obsessed with finding every secret, talking to every character that I ...

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…it’s being made by Obsidian, the studio that almost 16 years ago brought us Fallout: New Vegas.

 

Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the new Fallout game is guaranteed to be good.  But a lot of people put great store in Obsidian.  New Vegas is widely considered to be the best Fallout game produced yet and the onus is going to be on the studio to deliver.  They know this.  I have faith in them.

And I say that as someone who has still not finished playing New Vegas.  It’s sort of become a curse in my life: I cannot continue that game without something happening to throw me so far off course that by the time I get back to it, I’ve forgotten where I was and how I got there.  The last time I played it I had just come to New Vegas itself ...

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The second season of Fallout premiered a few days ago on Amazon Prime.  I haven’t seen it yet but I’ll probably watch it later this evening.  Have had a few things on my plate lately.  Although at the recommendation of a friend last night I did watch Wake 

Up Dead Man, the latest of Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” series starring Daniel Craig.  I really liked it.
Anyhoo, the new season of Fallout is unfolding this holiday season.  And as part of the festivities Amazon has posted on YouTube a special lil’ treat.  In the tradition of broadcast Yule logs that goes back many decades across the history of television, here is… the Ghoul Log!


Nothing says Christmas cheer quite like ninety minutes of Wayne Newton music and the fattened arm of some poor sap roasting over an open fire.

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Okay, the past few days have been a little wacky on my side of the screen.  Quite a bit of stuff going on that has been below my radar and this is one of them.  Five days ago the trailer for Fallout second season dropped and I’m just now looking at it.

And having just seen it I got to say: it looks glorious!  Now, Fallout: New Vegas is the one Fallout title that I’ve yet to complete.  I bought it when the game first came out in 2010 and, let’s just say that real-world circumstances have kept me from finishing it.  The last thing that I did in the game before having to take a “leave of absence” from it was to get to New Vegas and explore around.  I’m pretty familiar with the landscape surrounding the city before arriving there.  So I already know much of the ...

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This November will mark ten years since the release of Fallout 4.  That game was published seven years after Fallout 3.  There was Fallout: New Vegas in 2010 (still need to finish that one, my friends swear it’s the best of the series).  And I suppose there was Fallout 76 in 2018 but that game just isn’t the same.  Fallout really is more of a single-player experience, though I know that Fallout 76 does have its loyalists.

So this will be a full decade without a mainline Fallout entry.  Surely we’re going to get word sometime soon that a new one is coming, right?  Right?!?

The sad fact of the matter is, friends, is that video game production is now (a) very expensive and (b) very loooong.  Grand Theft Auto V was first published in 2013.  Its follow-up was announced two years ago and it’s ...

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A couple of things went online today that I’ve watch a few times.  I’ve got a good feeling about both of these.

First, it’s the first trailer for the second season of Amazon’s  Fallout series.  As a die-hard fan of the Fallout games I absolutely loved the first season.  They completely nailed the look and feel of the franchise.  It was an astounding surprise that throughly delighted me.  Season two debuts in December, which may be a busy month for streaming if the final volume of Stranger Things comes out then also (as many are speculating).

So here’s the trailer for Fallout season two:

And then there’s this: the new (and probably final) trailer for Superman.  This is a project that has gotten me increasingly intrigued with each new spot that’s been released.  I think David Corenswet is going to do much as the great Christopher Reeve did ...

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 “War.  War never changes.”

Actually, Ron Perlman’s voice for opening narration is pretty much the only thing missing from Fallout: Amazon Prime’s new streaming show based on the legendary video/computer game series.  I was looking forward to what those first words would be.

But that can be forgiven, in light of how epically faithful a live-series adaptation of the Fallout saga is to the source material.  It’s all here: the vaults, the stimpacks, the Brotherhood of Steel, the retro-futuristic look of pre-war America… Heck in the second episode we even see a live-action brahmin (the two-headed cattle seen in most if not all of the games).

So I’ve just finished watching the third episode, and it’s pretty well established that Lucy (Ella Purnell) from Vault 33 is way out of her element.  Actually, just about all of the dwellers in Vault 33 are in over their heads.  They ...

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 “War.  War never changes.”


 

It was on this day in 2008, exactly fifteen years ago, that the long-awaited Fallout 3 was released.  And computerized role-playing gaming was never the same again.

This was the first Fallout game that I ever played.  I bought it a few months after it was released.  At that point in my life I was needing something to distract my mind from itself, after a lot of recent events had rocked my world.  I bought Fallout 3 on something of a lark, having heard how much it sucked the player into it.

I am very glad that it did.

At the time I blogged about my journey through the Capitol Wasteland: the grim setting of the game.  Fallout 3 became not so much a game as an experience.  Something that put you in situations that you share as tales you tell your ...

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Look!  Teaser trailer!

Seems like the Fallout series is going to West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley area.  Definitely somewhere in Appalachia…


 


I have but one thing to say:

After they release Fallout 76 Bethesda should make Fallout: Lucky City based on my old hometown Reidsville, North Carolina. They wouldn’t even have to design anything from scratch, just use what’s already there!  Here, I’ve even bombed the place ahead of schedule for them…




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