We all wondered why there was no Fallout game announcement to go with the Fallout TV show, but Phil Spencer says it was a good thing: "That gave us some creative liberty"
Nov. 13, 2024Season 2 is going to keep leaning into something games find “grammatically” hard
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A lot of us thought Amazon’sFallout TV showmight tie into a new game, or we’d at least get an announcement to capitalize on the hype, butXboxbossPhil Spencerreveals a good reason why that never happened.
AnInversearticle reporting on the annual Paley International Summit in New York states Spencer gave a reason why there wasn’t a game to go along with the show. “We didn’t have a new game lined up for the launch,” Spencer says. “I actually think that gave us some creative liberty that [we] wouldn’t have had if we tried to coordinate production of two very different creative processes to land at the same time.”
One way the Fallout show goes in a different creative direction than the games is through its use of flashbacks. Executive producer Jonathan Nolan tells Inverse, “For the most part, in games, it’s a little harder grammatically to flashback, right?” He continues, “In a show, you can flashback and you can explore that world beforehand […] It’s one of the things I love the most about season one and we will be doing more of that in season two.”
So, expect to learn more about The Ghoul, who a lot of people wanted toget down and dirty with, and maybe even see more of the world just after the bombs fell. I’d love to see more from the Capitol Wasteland of Fallout 3, as that’s my favorite game in the series, but I doubt the show will abandon the West Coast.
If, like me, you can’t wait for more of the show, check outeverything we know about Fallout season 2.
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