Bethesda’s very personal Mr Helpful (director and govt producer) Todd Howard has addressed the controversy surrounding the Fallout TV present’s remedy of Fallout backstory, reaffirming the canonicity of Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas and promising that Bethesda and Amazon are being “cautious” to keep up consistency between the video games and the TV collection. Are you new to this newest lore scandal? Be careful for Fallout Season 1 spoilers forward, then.
To catch you up, there is a blackboard sketch within the TV present on which some useful, probably now-fugitive soul has written “The autumn of Shady Sands” and “2277” with an enormous arrow pointing to a mushroom cloud. This offers the pretty unambiguous impression that Shady Sands, capital of a wasteland faction known as the New California Republic, was nuked in 2277 – a number of years earlier than the occasions of Fallout: New Vegas, through which the NCR and Shady Sands are mentioned to be doing pretty properly. As such, it means that the occasions of Fallout: New Vegas by no means occurred, or did not occur as depicted within the sport.
Chatting with the Ian Video games Community, Howard insisted that there is no conflict between the present and the occasions of the Fallout sport collection. In accordance with Howard, Shady Sands will get nuked straight after the occasions of Fallout: New Vegas, not in 2277.
Here is the factor, although: Howard does not point out the blackboard message in his reassurance. I suppose one reinterpretation of that message given Howard’s feedback is that “the autumn of Shady Sands” merely started in 2277 – it was a gradual decline that culminated with the dropping of the bombs sooner or later in or after 2281. One other clarification is that the blackboard date was written in error by a member of the manufacturing group, and Howard is politely not revealing this. Ah, the fantastic thing about open-ended videogame graffiti.
Howard instructed IGN that the concept of nuking Shady Sands got here from Fallout TV showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. “And we talked by it and it was, ‘This might be a reasonably impactful story second that lots of issues anchor on,”‘ he mentioned. The proposed destruction of town – which is not simply an necessary location in Fallout: New Vegas however one of many first surface-ground cities you will go to within the very first Black Isle-developed Fallout sport – was apparently a catalyst for Bethesda and the TV manufacturing group working collectively extra intently, to make sure the present remained per Fallout lore.
“We’re cautious concerning the timeline,” Howard mentioned. “There may be a little bit little bit of confusion in some locations. However all the things that occurred within the earlier video games, together with New Vegas, occurred. We’re very cautious about that.” He added that “all I can say is we’re threading it tighter there, however the bombs fall simply after the occasions of New Vegas.”
Satisfied? Unconvinced? Too busy watching the present or revisiting the video games or getting on along with your life to care? You may be extra to know that there is a potential Fallout announcement coming in November. Maybe it will be the primary trailer for Fallout TV Season 2.
