Amazon’s glorious adaptation of the Fallout collection for TV is offered in its entirety now, and we cherished it. Nevertheless, not each Fallout fan is proud of the way it seemingly rewrites what was considered established collection lore, apparently retconning the ending of beloved black sheep, Fallout: New Vegas. Clearly, main spoilers for each New Vegas and Amazon’s present to comply with!
Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 had been developed by Bethesda Softworks, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2020. Fallout: New Vegas, in the meantime, was developed by Obsidian Leisure (additionally owned by Microsoft), a severe RPG developer in its personal proper. Many Fallout gamers consider Obsidian’s sport’s depiction of the grim, darkly comedic setting to be probably the most genuine.
Bethesda design director Emil Pagliarulo helpfully supplied a timeline of the Fallout universe (thanks, IGN), which is the place points start to crop up. You see, Amazon’s adaptation is the latest by way of that timeline, happening in 2296, 15 years after the occasions of New Vegas. One commenter replied: “Okay, cool. It’s simply that in line with the present, an, ahem…main occasion happens in 2277 that might positively have had an affect in Fallout: New Vegas. The one approach I can rectify this may be to maneuver the date of the occasion till *after* New Vegas and name it a typo.”
The most important battle may be discovered within the present’s sixth episode, which mentions that Shady Sands, the capital of the New California Republic (NCR), was destroyed in 2277. That is a difficulty as a result of it means the faction was largely worn out 4 years earlier than the climactic occasions of New Vegas, in the identical yr the faction supposedly fought within the First Battle of the Hoover Dam towards Caeser’s Legion.
In Amazon’s telling, the NCR has been scattered by the destruction of Shady Sands, a rag-tag outfit doing what they will to rebuild society. It would not sound like they might then be able to establishing a “vital army presence” in time to face the Legion once more on the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the ultimate encounter gamers face in New Vegas.
