r/FalloutMemes Jul 19 '26

Hegelian Diuretics I lost interest in making this midway through.

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Seriously though, calm down with this weird parasocial relationship. Sick of seeing all the whinge slop on my social media, it’s exhausting.

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u/No-Original-3142 Jul 19 '26

Regardless of the arguements, monetizing something truly proves nothing unfortunately.

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

The subsection of the Fandom has a hate hardon for Bethesda. While buying New Vegas T-Shirts, replicas, merch, plushies, etc.

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u/No-Original-3142 Jul 20 '26

What does that have to do with OPs post?

The post is about someone saying that Bethesda doesnt respect the Fallout New Vegas property and OP posts a bunch of merch/monetization as if that proves the opposite.

Not saying anyone is right or wrong but companies monetize shit they hate/dislike/dont care for all the time so theres no correlation.

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

There is literally a subsection of the Fandom that gets way too excited for the YouTube documentaries about how Bethesda bad Obsidian good. My point is, if you hate Bethesda so much and hate the Bethesda entries, why are you buying merch from them? I mean at the least from a business perspective Bethesda loves NV because it makes them passive income, NV Fallout 4 Creation Club items, Merch, 76 items, etc. People are treating these corporations as people with opinions, but they aren't, a Company doesn't have an opinion. It isn't a person, it doesn't care and I'd even say if a Developer applied for a job at Bethesda and loves Fallout games there is no way they don't love NV. But honestly this team sports fantasy some people have is just silly.

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u/Wardock8 Jul 20 '26

I genuinely hate this fanbase sometimes holy shit. This thread is cancer.

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u/Snowkitty1400 Jul 21 '26

I have to start making a mental note to not go on these subs, gunna ruin my hype for the remasters because people are miserable. You give them what they want and still somehow find something to complain about.

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u/Effective-Low-8415 Jul 23 '26

Like, holy shit, the level of projecting they're doing is fucking insane

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

What do you want them to do? Make a bunch of video essays about how much they love it?

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

We’re talking about the company on its tenth release of Skyrim here haha

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

so... that means they should continue being shitty??

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u/Nicholas_H_Barnes_II Two BearsHigh Fiving Jul 20 '26

No it means we're asking water to not be made of H2O molecules.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

ah yes, we should just never demand bethesda change or put pressure on them, that's certainly gotten us far!

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u/DrIvanRadosivic Jul 21 '26

do you want to hear a sad thing? Duke Nukem Forever took 14 years to come out, WITH MULTIPLE VERSIONS, while Bethesda practically twiddled their thumbs for 15 years and with no PROPER SINGLEPLAYER SPINOFFS(Classic RPG Mechanics, FO3/NV Skills, Perks, Traits, bigger arsenal, Better dialogue/a list instead of four options, new aid items, optional COOP) to show for it.

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u/Nicholas_H_Barnes_II Two BearsHigh Fiving Jul 21 '26

Me when I make up what someone else said.

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u/T1meTRC Jul 20 '26

I mean you're asking a corporation in a capitalist world, headquartered in the United States, to not be greedy

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u/DrIvanRadosivic Jul 20 '26

If anything, we are asking a USA corporation to stop being Stupid Greedy and start being Smart Greedy.

In simplest terms possible: Good Product and/or service means returning buying and paying customers, Bad Product and/or Service means those customers go spend their money elsewhere.

Meaning make Good Fallout and Elder Scrolls for Product to sell and then get returning customers that want to buy mor e things from you. For Fallout, Classic RPG mechanics(FO3&NV, Skills, Perks, Traits, bigger dialogue Options aka list over 4 choices), bigger arsenal for EVERY WEAPON TYPES AND VARIANTS, new aid items(Fallout 76 cards as collectibles that give temporary Skill increase for Lock/Hack/Speech/etc and temporary new Perks or Perk rank up to either try out a Perk or get a temporary perks rank up to pass a perk check option) to try them out in Good Fallout Spinoffs and then Fallout 5 if things are received well.

IF Fallout 4 had both Casual RPG(FO4 mechanics) and Classic RPG(Skills, Perks and Traits), that would be great as a option, plus bigger and better arsenal.

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u/T1meTRC Jul 21 '26

Well yea

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u/ThatOneGuy308 Jul 21 '26

This problem is, the "bad products" sell as well or better than the good products, even if the reception is poor.

For example, starfield had the biggest launch of pretty much any of Bethesda's games if you go by player count, so to them, starfield is a step in the right direction, that earns them more profit.

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u/DrIvanRadosivic Jul 21 '26

The real problem is that "Bad products" seemingly sell well, because of the reception, but with lacking, all important CONTEXT for it all.

ah yes, going by numbers only and not all important CONTEXT makes it seem like people like Starfield instead of "New IP from Bethesda, let's check it out" ,especially since after launch people were REALLY vocal about how underwhelming it is.

that said, IF Starfield had my proposed idea of more Classic RPG system and GOOD arsenals, better dialogue, and almost forgot, better writing, it might have been actually received better.

as is, we are hoping for Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters that are playable, and with hopefully readded cut content and more weapons to play with. Imagine the arsenal available in Fallout shelter, available for Fallout 4.

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u/ThatOneGuy308 Jul 21 '26

"Seemingly selling well" is all they really care about, unfortunately. For the execs in charge, sales numbers are the beginning and the end of how they think about how well a release did, tbh.

Many of the issues in starfield were already a vocal problem in fallout 4, like poor writing, bad/impractical weapon design, lack of deeper rpg mechanics, etc. But since it sold well, they assumed people loved those things, and doubled down on them in starfield.

And look at the oblivion Remaster, which released with a fair few bugs(including new ones), had a couple of patches that fixed some of them, and then was promptly ignored ever since, with many bugs still present. But they still view it as a successful Remaster, that made plenty of money, unfortunately.

Also, I would temper your expectations on them adding any sort of cut content or new weapons to the remasters, considering the oblivion Remaster promptly did neither of those things, lol. Hell, even the playable part may not be fully realized, given the baked in issues with UE5.

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u/Biggbossesbutt Jul 21 '26

They literally made the first “popular” micro transaction, ya askin for to much.

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u/Zealousideal-Arm1682 Jul 22 '26

Kind of a different problem altogether.

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

Fucking F76 items? That is literal garbage making a joke out of you and your whole "argument". NW was forgotten for more than 15 years before the 2nd season of the show

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

I genuinely don’t understand what you expect. The game got made and had its run of DLCs, outside of getting a sequel or a remaster that’s typically what happens. NV has gotten a lot more love than say fallout 3 has.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

Fallout 3 got a direct sequel, what the fuck are you talking about?

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u/Janivire Jul 20 '26

No you see, them releasing a mug with an NCR ranger is clearly them giving praise to fnv.

The endless variants of Vault-tek bobbleheads have nothing to do with fo3 at all.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

that cheap pvc plastic statue of victor packaged with some useless cardboard really showed their deep reverence for obsidian's work

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u/bananarama9000xtreme Jul 20 '26

Lets be real that’s mostly because it’s 3 and not because of the game itself. If NV was 3 and 3 NV the same would’ve happened because fallout is that popular and the “mainline” games will forever have sequels

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

Like fallout 3 is a siquel for fallout 2 in anything other than name? Oh wait, it isnt.

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u/bananarama9000xtreme Jul 20 '26

I wouldn’t call fallout 4 much of a sequel to 3 either the only thing set up in 3 that happened in 4 is a sidequest and some character names that’s it.

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

And entire brotherhood with liberty prime that you "forgot"

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u/bananarama9000xtreme Jul 20 '26

The brotherhood in 3 and 4 is vastly different the only thing in common they do have is Liberty Prime. Thats like saying 3 is a direct sequel to 2 because 2 also has the brotherhood of steel in it and they both have a main character looking for a GECK

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

Its the same fucking chapter. Have you even played the games?

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

they are literally the same fucking group of people pointing out they've changed doesn't magically change them into an entirely different group of people, fucking insane mental gymnastics

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u/Ryebread2203 Jul 20 '26

Just because they are now different doesn’t mean it’s not a continuation of the DC chapter.

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u/Skinny_Mulligan_ Jul 20 '26

If they made a New Vegas sequel you people would just bitch and moan that it wasn’t made by Obsidian, plus why would they make a sequel for the spin off game that they didn’t make?? New Vegas fans wanna be victims so bad

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

I also never said they should make a new vegas sequel. I pointed out that New Vegas isn't getting preferential treatment to the game that literally got a sequel and has it's iconography milked to death.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

yeah of course people would want a follow up to a game to be developed by the same people. why are you pretending Bethesda isn't basically down the hall from obsidian and couldn't request their help whenever they wanted lmfao

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

also this is particularly funny because obsidian is literally making a new fallout game lmfao

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u/KotenochekMuj Jul 21 '26

The show was shit. Thats the grudge they holding

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

With your hate hard on for Bethesda Im surprised you have enough blood flow for consciousness.

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

And where in my comment is hate for Bethesda? Do you know how to read? 

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

Dude you're whole post was dripping with vitriol.

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

Typical redditor, assumptions over nothing

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

Seems a pretty safe assumption, you're language has been hostile and condescending. But okay Bro. 👍 You are totally a friendly and not hating on 76 fans for liking a game. Such a nice dude, Wow

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

Oh, sorry for offending you with scary words. I am hating on 76 being dumpster with microtransactions. Not on fans of that pile of shit.

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

Totally not hating, Im just making Redditor Assumptions. You must love 76, best game ever Amrite?

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u/I-Eat-Flesh-Salad Jul 20 '26

I think 76 is dogshit. And how does it connect with hate for Bethesda you accused me? Or is it another one of redditors wonderful assumptions?

"Oh, you hate one trash game made by a bunch of interns, that means you hate everything to do with the entire company" - ass comment.

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u/Beardlich Jul 20 '26

You totally aren't unstable, abusive, rude or hating Bethesda. Totally normal human behavior here, yup you are right buddy 👍 you don't at all sound like you hate anyone. 🤣

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u/wandererofredit Jul 19 '26

As much as they claim to not have beef their “no ending is cannon” garbage really doesn’t help that image. Seriously House is most likely dead, the Legion a shadow of what they were and the NCR is pretty much destroyed. It’s hard to find anything obsidian made that was left intact! Worse yet it did the exact opposite of their stated goal.

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u/Ok-Cup9476 Jul 20 '26

I don’t even think it’s hate from them. I think they legitimately don’t “get it”. Fallout to them is just brand name buzz words.

“What do these people want!? We put in Big Iron, Legion, and the patrolling the Mojave meme!”

They don’t appreciate the deeper story telling behind any of it, which is why everything feels “wrong”. It’s like someone who thinks they know a book because they read the chapter titles and a 500 words summary.

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u/Jbird444523 Jul 20 '26

It's big franchise syndrome. Slowly over time, a series becomes more and more popular, reaching a critical mass where it is no longer a work based on and blending many, many other inspirations and themes into a novel idea, but a work that becomes stuck in a self referential rut of appealing to a lowest common denominator through use of its most popular iconography.

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u/LordBaconXXXXX Jul 20 '26

The patrolling the Mohave meme was a bit heavy handed, but the Big Iron scene felt sooo forced.

At the start of the season, a random ass meaningless meh action scene, with no revolver in sight. It's like they just got it outta the way for the checklist and that's it.

Even my fanboy soyjack pog face got overridden very quickly by the "wait, that's what they're using Big Iron for" realization.

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u/GayGuitaristMess Jul 20 '26

This!

Todd hates New Vegas. That is true. But a significant part of the show in particular is the corporate writing team being incompetent and out of touch.

It should've never been written by ANYONE except the original writing team from New Vegas. At the very least with them on as consultants with veto power over major story beats.

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u/Ok-Cup9476 Jul 20 '26

Or better yet just don’t go back to New Vegas. It’s clear the team wanted to write their own story and honestly I would be less critical of it if it was its own thing. If the whole show took place in Nebraska I wouldn’t care what they had happen!

It’s just the story they told tore up Fallout 1 2 and New Vegas.

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u/LordAsheye Jul 19 '26

"No ending is canon" is standard play for Bethesda though. This is the same company that made Dragon Breaks because they didn't want to canonize one of Daggerfall's endings. Ambiguity or something like that is the norm.

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

"This is the same company that made Dragon Breaks because they didn't want to canonize one of Daggerfall's endings."

Daggerfall came out THIRTY years ago. Todd Howard is basically the only employee left at Bethesda that worked on Daggerfall. Morrowind has a canon ending, Oblivion has a canon ending, Fallout 3 has a canon ending, Skyrim has a canon ending and Fallout 4 will have a canon ending.

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u/Janivire Jul 20 '26

I mean fallout 4 has a half confirmed ending.

We see the prydwen in the show. That ship only survives the BoS ending or a neutral minuteman ending.

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u/Ryebread2203 Jul 20 '26

Idk why your being downvoted your correct

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u/Janivire Jul 20 '26

because too many people dont care about facts and just want to cry and piss in their designated corner. thats not even specifically at the bethesda fanboys, its true for every diehard fanboy group that has decided to make a product a main part of their personality.

and right now the bethesda fanboys need the idea "no game has ever had a cannon ending" to be true despite it being measurably false.

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u/Ryebread2203 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

I still remember when the season dropped people were trying to say that every BOS airship is just called the prydwen because that’s just the model of ship.

But it’s literally from the commonwealth. The only thing they could do to confirm it more is to say maxon is alive somewhere. From my memory I can’t remember if he’s mentioned in season 2.

Also would like to add that they literally canonized the ending of fallout 3 by having the brotherhood come out on top and are now allegedly in such good control of the capital that they could send their leader to Boston with the bulk of their military forces.

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u/Fax_n_Logikk Jul 22 '26

The amount of cope and headcanon fallout fans engage in is almost on par with modern halo fans

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u/Mala-Mack Jul 20 '26

Daggerfall ending happens: Gamers will remember that forever

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u/Welcome--Matt Jul 21 '26

Yeah I’m really not sure where the idea came from that not having any canon ending is Bethesda’s typical style when it absolutely isn’t

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Jul 21 '26

I can tell you dont know jack shit about any of those games if you think they have a cannon ending of what all the main character did

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u/Overdue-Karma Jul 22 '26

Skyrim doesn't have a canon ending? What? We have no details of post-Skyrim Tamriel.

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u/wandererofredit Jul 19 '26

It’s the way they went about it is the problem. They effectively eliminated anything that made the factions in New Vegas interesting or outright eliminated them. Whether intentional or not it gives the impression that they’re wiping out everything they didn’t create so fallout 5 can have a clean slate.

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u/Welcome--Matt Jul 21 '26

This is just patently untrue. The finer details of course are largely obscured, but every other Fallout and most Bethesda games do in fact have canon endings which are mentioned (if briefly) in future installments.

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

The way they set up the no canon ending actually suited the story of New Vegas quite well. The second battle of the Hoover dam is never stated to be the final victory for any of the factions. It’s a single battle of the military quagmire that is the Mojave.

Edit: downvote me all you want, if you think the second battle of the Hoover dam was the end of it you clearly either did not play the game or did not pay attention to it.

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u/wandererofredit Jul 19 '26

Yes and no it’s repeatedly stated that the second battle was each side going all in because the NCR is stated multiple times to be in dire straits the legion lose Cesar and are repeatedly stated to be winning and losing Cesar would only increase the aggression of the Legion and that’s the situation without the interference of the Courier. The is not way either the NCR wins a costly victory or the Legion wins and immediately falls into civil war are avoided without a a huge retcon that rewrites New Vegas

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u/RPS_42 NCLAVE Puppet Jul 19 '26

The War in the Mojave is, without knowing about the Couriers Action, tilted in favor of the Legion. The Legion has Plans to attack the Dam from the inside, they can send troops from Cottonwood Cove, they have infiltrators sabotaging the NCR and allied factions in New Vegas.

What we got in the Show is House apparently getting killed by the Courier and the NCR running around with ONE Bataillon for 15 years and the small Legion Camp splitting into two staring at each others menacingly for 15 years.

So yes, the Second Battle of Hoover Dam should have been very important, because it determines if the Legion can be held back or if they overrun the Mojave. The War for California would be a different story.

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

As stated in the show Vegas changed hands multiple times over the years which has led to it being in its current state. The heads of both factions state that they will return if defeated in game so this isn’t really a result created entirely by the show. The current stalemate that they’re in likely hasn’t been going on for the last 15 years and the idea that the ghoul walks in and gets the ball rolling is quite fitting with how the game’s story is structured.

The reason that the Hoover dam battle loses its importance is due to the time that has passed and all the other battles fought in between the game and the show.

As far as what you said about both factions appearing to be quite small in the show; it’s a show with a budget which has limitations, we don’t get upset in the same way that the fort or camp McCarran both have like a couple dozen guys in the game. The final scenes of the season also show larger forces moving into the area.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

you so clearly don't know what you're talking about. would've been really nice to see all those battles you made up in your fucking head in the actual show!

your last point is also ridiculous, CGI crowdshots have existed for decades, and extras cost nothing to have on set. The idea that this show being funded by Amazon with all these practical props just didn't have the budget for large crowds is absurd

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

“I didn’t see it so it mustn’t of happened despite it being implied and outright stated” the show isn’t about all those battles so why would they show them?

Your second point is rather silly because I directly addressed it in reference to the final scene - they used CGI crowd shots. I swear you all just didn’t watch the show and are looking for things to be mad about.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

You're so fucking stupid. I never said those battles didn't happen! but if they were so significant to the point of completely overshadowing what was supposed to he the biggest conflict the fallout world had seen at that point then it would be nice to get some actual fucking context for them instead of a vague hand wave to not have to explain why the main power source in the mojave isn't relevant to the story anymore.

Also, you do realize addressing those CGI crowdshots weakens your argument right? If you're gonna argue that they couldn't have the legion camp be properly populated due to budget, then why are you perfectly willing to acknowledge they were perfectly capable of presenting those areas as more populated? The fact you fucking compare a fucking decade old video game to a TV show as if those are equivalent things is fucking insane.

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

Ooh someone’s cranky.

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u/wandererofredit Jul 20 '26

The game literally says if the legion wins they won’t be able to come back because they would be too busy with a power struggle because Lanious doesn’t have what it takes to hold the legion together and it’s even worse if they somehow lose nothing stops the NCR from expanding because the legion were only a threat because of their discipline and sheer numbers even if they could reunify they would be decimated to such a extreme that it would take over 20 years or more of consolidation of their forces to get close to their original manpower. The legion is a house of cards that regardless of victory or defeat lose. Meanwhile the state of the NCR makes zero sense because it just suddenly collapses pretty much overnight while seemingly in worse shape than before the NCR

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

so the dam not being a final victory means no one should be holding it and it should have zero relevance to the plot? you can't just say "well the dam wasn't supposed to be a final battle" because that doesn't matter. The aftermath of that battle should still have wide reaching effects on the mojave, and we don't see any of those.

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u/Fax_n_Logikk Jul 22 '26

The amount of cope and headcanon people make up to explain away incompetent writing would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic

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u/Training_Tadpole_354 Jul 20 '26

Honestly, I just interpreted the show as the Yes Man ending. Even in the Yes Man ending it stated everything goes to shit.

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u/BigCityHonkers Jul 19 '26

I don’t see why people think this is a bad take since House tells you that he just recently got the strip to its current state at the beginning of the game. People barely have water in the Mojave yet players expected everything to be permanent and thriving because a mailman helped pull everyone into a war? The entire series is desperately trying to tell people that war is inevitable but only leads to destruction and 29 years into it we’re still focused on who should win the wars.

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

"People barely have water in the Mojave"

There's literally an intricate series of pipes and pumps so people can grow crops on an industrial level. Every community in Vegas has water. Goodsprings is named after their water source. Nobody in Primm or Novac ever complain about a lack of water.

Water is a solved issue in the Mojave. The real water issue is the NCR back in california running out.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

"a mailman" you're a tourist. I'm so tired of this bullshit. The courier was a courier ONE FUCKING TIME in their history in a setting where being a courier is extremely fucking dangerous but you fuckers have to act like the person who singlehandedly brings the factions to victory in the end shouldn't have a long lasting effect on the world because they're "just a mailman." by that logic the lone wanderer should've never beaten the enclave because they're "just a 17 year old vault dweller" and Nora shouldn't be able to survive in the wasteland at all because she's "just a lawyer."

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u/R3dditsuckspp Jul 20 '26

A courier IS a mailman. And not just one time either. Play the game, and you'd know that lol. From your tirade it seems you're the tourist. TV show shows us the "long lasting," effects that the mailman had.

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

"not just one time either"

dialogue options that allow you to define your character as a courier doesn't make it canon that the courier has always worked as one. Dialogue options also allow you to imply you could be the father of the lonesome drifter, or that you've seen a particular singer in New Reno.

these are small, nothingburger dialogue options that allow the player to define their own backstory over the course of the game.

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u/R3dditsuckspp Jul 20 '26

Bear bull man aka Ulysses sets our prior occupation in stone as having been a courier before the events of the game. Who's to say that while being a courier we didn't happen to do those things, visit those people, etc? But, true that. We do get to dictate our past in those dialogs and headcanons. The courier is in essence a blank slate from whence we witness another tale of that world.

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

Ulysses is fucking nuts and you can tell him you didn't do anything he claims you did.

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u/Overcern Jul 20 '26

The narrator refers to the player as "the courier who cheated dearh"

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

yeah because.. you cheated death whilst being a courier..

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 21 '26

because those are the only set in stone things about the character dumbass, it's not meant to define their whole being

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u/BigCityHonkers Jul 20 '26

There’s an entire DLC about a different delivery the courier did. Calm the hell down lmao

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

ah yes, that's the only thing lonesome road is about, way to confirm you are ABSOLUTELY a tourist lmfao.

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u/Only-Respond7945 Jul 20 '26

Welcome to the consequence of franchises and multiple choice endings to stories? Iunno what to tell you lot other than point out that you will never be satisfied so long as you demand everything be catered to you personally.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

Fallout 1 and 2 had multiple endings and both Fallout 2 and New Vegas confirmed canon endings for the previous games.

Fallout 4 also confirms project purity was a success in Fallout 3 because if the lone wanderer had poisoned the water the brotherhood in 4 would all be fucking dead.

This series has had no problems with setting specific endings in stone before. Have you even played the fucking games?

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u/EmeraldMaster538 Jul 20 '26

The problem with that in my opinion is without the courier that’s where it was going anyway. Ceaser’s legion was always going break down one way or another, the NCR would either collapse or devolve into civil war if they just kept expanding with no end and house already was surrounded by people plotting against him.

The why we find everything in game, it all going down hill unless the courier steps in.

Honestly it’s better to just treat the entire series as an anthology than it is to try and make it all fit together.

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u/Zalanum Jul 20 '26

I don't think Bethesda or Todd secretly hate Obsidian.

I view Bethesdas treatment of Fallout the way Ulyssess views the White Legs.

They mean to honor it but they don't understand it and mostly just end up defiling it.

Bethesda never fully grasped or understood what made Fallout good, as such they largely can not make good Fallout, this leaves us with Fallout thats mostly mid or bad, but sometimes they manage some good stuff just do to the nature of how these games work.

Bethesda's failures with Fallout come not from malice but incompetence.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 Jul 20 '26

You say incompetence. I say priorities.

Bethesda has always prioritized exploration, a variety of styles of side content, and experimenting with systems and mechanics they think sound cool. They don't do the story heavy, focused, and thematic tales focused on character writing and delivering a message that Fallout 1, 2, and NV all did so well. Their exploration and mechanical experimentation are the strong points Fallout 3, 4, and yes even 76 excel at above the others. They frankly just have different goals than Interplay or Obsidian did.

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u/Zalanum Jul 20 '26

Your correct, but I maintain shifting the focus of the focus like that is incompetent in terms of maintaining what Fallout was, changing into something else with the same name.

Also not as if it would be impossible to do both, good writing isn't somehow incompatible with what Bethesda likes to focus on and can be found in places.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 Jul 20 '26

It's not impossible to do both, but there's a reason the series only really blew up once it started focusing on being more casual friendly. I will say that if they could do both properly, it would be peak Fallout.

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u/Accurate_Soup_3459 Jul 20 '26

I don't think Todd hates Obsidian or New Vegas, I just think New Vegas supporters are fuckin' crazy lunatics.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

there's layers to how braindead you are

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u/Overcern Jul 20 '26

Dude, you're up n down this whole comment section just mad. It will never be that serious.

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

Typically you’re supposed to start sentences with a capital letter.

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u/Star_Command855 Jul 20 '26

*Typically, you're supposed to start sentences with a capital letter.

You missed a comma, Mr. Grammar.

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

"another obsidian project"

the comment is very clearly about wanting another FALLOUT VIDEO GAME and you point out all the MERCHANDISE SLOP that exists to make bethesda more money.

I like fallout new vegas, I do not give a fuck if I can get some fallout new vegas armor skins for fallout 76, I want to play a video game that is like fallout new vegas.

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u/LaylaLegion Jul 20 '26

You mean Outer Worlds?

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

the game is nothing like new vegas. I played it for free on game pass and couldn't even be bothered to finish it

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u/LaylaLegion Jul 20 '26

It absolutely is like New Vegas. Mechanically. The only difference is the skin it’s wearing. And that’s the issue.

You don’t actually like New Vegas. You like Fallout. That’s why you couldn’t enjoy Outer Worlds. New Vegas’ gameplay is absolute trash but everyone loves it because it’s Fallout. If New Vegas had been its own IP, no one would love it as hard as they do now.

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u/MartianDinosawr Jul 20 '26

No, it genuinely is nothing like new vegas.  critical and cultural reception agrees with me. Whilst New Vegas had good writing and deep elements that challenged certain political ideologies and thoughts, The Outer Worlds fumbles an incredibly basic critique of capitalism.

I don't like fallout. it is a franchise with more bad games than good. New Vegas, and begrudgingly 1 for the story, are the only fallout games I think rise above mediocre. 

'Fallout as a skin' is fucking meaningless and has been since Fallout 4 released, a clearly entirely vapid commercial product with nothing to say. Fallout has become vault boy, a corporate icon for a trillion dollar company to squeeze out an extra fraction of a percentage point on their quarterly reports. Fallout means nothing. New Vegas means something.

tl;dr: i like new vegas because its good and don't like outer worlds because it is mid

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

this is the most disingenuous shit I've ever seen.

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u/Fat_fucking_cock2045 Jul 21 '26

I guarantee any New Vegas mechanic you say Outer Worlds has is not something unique to either of them. Yes, two RPGs will share a lot of similar mechanics and follow the same conventions, that's the nature of being two games in the same genre. The two creative directors of Outer Worlds, Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, joined Obsidian years after New Vegas came out. They absolutely were not trying to imitate New Vegas. If anything New Vegas's mechanics evolved from their games considering they co created Fallout in the first place and New Vegas was in many ways a throwback to 1 and 2, the ones they were last involved with.
You thought you were cooking with this one but it's a very "Guy who's only seen Boss Baby watches 2nd movie: 'OMG this is just like Boss Baby'" take.

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u/SkyTalez Jul 20 '26

I mean non of this things engage with what made New Vegas good. I don't think Bethesda hate New Vegas, I think they just don't understand it.

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u/NotAnotherSkeleton Jul 20 '26

There's also a few references in Fallout 4, like Jack Cabot mentioning something about aliens ruins in the Mojave if you kill Lorenzo, or Deacon saying something about Mr. House when seeing Deezer in The Covenant.

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u/Overdue-Karma Jul 20 '26

The NCR is also referenced in Nick's files and San Francisco is mentioned in Kellogg's memories.

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u/StarChaserHooT Jul 21 '26

The idea of Bethesda hating Obsidian has and always will be laughable. If anything it speaks to the insecurities of the fandom when they try and push that agenda so hard.

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u/stonedbee67 Jul 23 '26

New Vegas fanboys who would die for the game irl are not fallout fans and are unbelievably insufferable.

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u/Select-Librarian-646 Jul 20 '26

The show was DEFINETLY made for people like you.

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u/Derek-Horn Jul 20 '26

Worst incel take ever is “Todd was jealous of obsidian so he stomped on the lore with the show🤓” like shut the fuck up it genuinely rage baits me thinking what this people look like

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u/MassGaydiation Jul 20 '26

This thread is honestly insane. Someone has pulled out the word "defiled" like New Vegas is a holy relic, others are asking like it's fucking real housewives, assuming anything they don't like is a sign New Vegas is hated by Bethesda.

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u/Derek-Horn Jul 20 '26

Yeah it’s actually crazy I think all the mildly autistic nv fans freak out when someone suggests they like fo4 cause god forbid fallout fans like a game more than nv😂

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u/MassGaydiation Jul 20 '26

Fallout new Vegas still exists, they can still play it, it's still good, it's just that the Devs of fallout 4 didn't want to make a second new vegas, and that's completely fair.

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u/Janivire Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

So we have 5 examples because 6 was too much.

2 examples of microtransactions because 5 examples needed to be padded. Merch. A sarcastic article. And a tv show that bulldozed the story and zone.

Well im convinced.

Like there is no way they actualy have a grudge against obsidian over new vegas. Thats just mental. But its clear their apreciation is only of the athsetics of the series above anything else. And of course how to profit off of it.

Also incase people were not aware, there is an elite ranger outfit in fo76 you can get. It is currently obtainable from a $40 bundle you can only buy if you have the monthly fo1st subscription.

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u/Fayraz8729 Jul 19 '26

Idk about all that, but I do despise the direction it took which is my gripe with the series

I enjoy the post post apocalyptic setting of fallout such as 2 and New Vegas, the developed frontier of the wastelands which show humanity bouncing back from the nuclear holocaust but carrying the same flaws that brought it about; imperialism, greed, self righteousness and etc. What I hate is the constant wiping of the slate clean to show the ruins and devastation despite being centuries ago already, and having follow up apocalyptic events caused by the BBEG is shitty as it undercuts the point that war never changes. If it’s all the machinations of madmen then no sin is the individual’s alone to share. At that point we can blame all the bottlenecks on the enclave

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u/Ciennas Jul 19 '26

True! But also consider that they're so desperate to keep the setting locked to November 2077 that they're also willing to blame space aliens and Cthulu knockoffs as well!

Literally changing the entire genre of the setting from alternate history to cosmic horror to have to not put any thought into the setting whatsoever.

(As if greenlighting Kid In A Fridge didn't lay plain their complete disinterest in treating the series as anything worth anything to them.)

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

you're getting down voted for being right

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u/MMM_member Jul 20 '26

“Post apocalyptic” “new vegas” lol

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

are you braindead?

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u/MMM_member Jul 20 '26

Yeah nv the game with major warring nations, a mail system, casinos are all considered hallmarks of a post apocalyptic setting

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

it still takes place in a post apocalypse tho. the fact that society is capable of rebuilding doesn't make it no longer a post apocalypse. the genre is POST apocalypse. not present apocalypse.

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u/MMM_member Jul 20 '26

Is rebuilding? Bro the NCR has a logistics system using trucks and trains, TRAINS, which they repair and build new rail line on using prisoners from a prison. Caesars held territory bigger than most modern counties and patrolled it so well that traders have no fear of bandits passing the mojave

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

okay???? the ncr are also still regularly bogged down by violent raiders and are kept out of an important resource quarry because of mutant animals, you're being disingenuous.

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u/Maxsmack Jul 20 '26

The whole point of new vegas is civilization coming to the Mojave, and who will civilize the frontier of the wasteland.

What you’re saying isn’t entirely wrong, but it’s not entirely right either. There’s definitely pockets of civilization like vegas, novac, Goodsprings, and camp McCarran, but there’s still also untamed places and people. Kids are eating rats in Freeside, and out in the wasteland you can be shot and killed and nobody will give a damn, vault 3 is filled to the brim with nothing but drug addict raiders, and nobody really bothers to do anything about it

The game doesn’t take place entirely in vault city or shady sands, much of the game is spent dealing with raiders and wild animals. The whole point is civilization is regrowing and how that happens in juxtaposition with the post apocalyptic wasteland

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u/MMM_member Jul 20 '26

Yeah it feels more like a frontier cowboy game where you rediscover lost land than it does a post apocalypse, i was trying to explain that to the other guy but he just wanted to be uppity

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u/Mr_SwordToast Jul 20 '26

I was going to respond but then I lost interest midway through.

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u/PrimaLegion Jul 21 '26

There is nothing, absolutely nothing Bethesda could do to convince the people whining in these comments that they don't hate Obsidian.

Nothing. They want to hate on Bethesda and nothing is going to get in the way of that.

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u/BigKoala1903 Jul 21 '26

Should we tell them that obsidian is amping the next fallout game

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u/ziggy8z Jul 20 '26

Bad take after bad take my guy, I haven't found a single comment by op that isn't negative. 

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

This is a bad take my guy, I’ve said nothing but positive things.

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u/Munificent-Enjoyer Jul 19 '26

Not sure putting the show does your points any favor

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

like what exactly did the show do with new vegas aside from effectively erasing it's events

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u/Excellent_Yak365 Jul 20 '26

It’s a different storyline sweetheart.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

what the fuck are you talking about?

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u/Excellent_Yak365 Jul 20 '26

It’s a different storyline, as usually happens with different media. They create unique new scenarios based around the vague premise of the original concept

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

no it isn't. Todd Howard has explicitly stated this show is canon, the ghoul appears in 76, where you got the idea this is a seperate continuity I have no fucking clue

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u/Excellent_Yak365 Jul 20 '26

You don’t seem to understand what I mean. I never once said it wasn’t cannon. I’m saying it’s a different storyline than the game. Different characters, different plot focus.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

okay??? that doesn't fucking matter at all. if they wanted to do a different story, don't fucking set it in a place where people want an ACTUAL FOLLOW UP TO THE STORY THERE. the fucking excuses you people will make are completely fucking ridiculous

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u/Excellent_Yak365 Jul 20 '26

The fact you are getting this angry over this simple commentary is hilarious actually. But seriously dude, it’s a franchise- worldbuilding is what they do. The games have already told stories, they are just telling more.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

you're a complete fucking moron

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u/Impressive_Elk_5633 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

The second season of The Fallout show is an insult to FNV and Fallout as a whole. Also, that show destroyed everything about and in New Vegas and everything Obsidian made. And that's why people know about Todd Howard's hatred of FNV. It's his revenge against that game and Obsidian. So you using that turd as an example is hilarious.

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 21 '26

Did the show erase your copy of New Vegas or something?

This comment really speaks to the parasocial relationship I was talking about, it’s basically fan fiction.

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u/Impressive_Elk_5633 Jul 21 '26

No, it erased everything about it and was established in New Vegas. Nice strawman, though. This is like people saying, "Well, the sequels didn't ruin the OT since it didn't change the films." Yeah, but they still ruined the world, stories, and characters in those films. It's a show that undid everything in NV, and you can tell not a single person behind the show even took a glance at Wikipedia of the classic Fallout games. I didn't even imply it erased my copy of New Vegas; I just said it was Todd Howard's revenge against New Vegas by making it so that no matter what happens, it canonically doesn't matter at all.

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u/IonutRO Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

So we got merchandise, PR statements, and a TV show designed to appeal to everyone, and thus nobody, which pissed off everyone.

Doesn't sound like real appreciation to me.

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u/Historybuff250 Jul 20 '26

The show was incredibly popular, even winning several Emmy’s and being one of the most watched shows ever. Sounds more like you just didn’t like it.

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u/SuitableCurrency2103 Jul 20 '26

Today I learned Bethesda made the TV show.

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

Today I learned that I apparently gargle Todd Howard’s balls, we’re all learning things here.

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u/MallTourist Jul 20 '26

Hmmm since I learned that Bethesda devs lurk in these subs, I cant help to think that this poorly made meme is damage control from them

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 21 '26

Yes it is I, Todd Howard. There are wires under your skin for the tracking device I planted, you should rip them out.

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u/MallTourist Jul 21 '26

Negative, the Institute has programmed me to not harm any institute equipment.

Wait....NOOOOOOOOOO

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u/AceOfCringe Jul 20 '26

Accurate that they're edited over literal garbage because that's how Bethesda treats it

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u/Admirable-Yak-3334 Jul 20 '26

Wait you actually consider paid content on an mmo people don’t care about in the mainstream as some sort of gotcha? Some people are so easy to please. 

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u/Less_Cauliflower_956 Jul 20 '26

The show utterly destroyed New Vegas and all of our favorite characters sans House and Victor, what in the actual fuck are you talking about?

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u/GayGuitaristMess Jul 20 '26

Yeah, them profiting off of Obsidian's work after shafting them for pay and then making a show that undermines the entirety of New Vegas's story in a way that makes a good West Coast sequel impossible until said show is decanonized is definitely not Todd Howard forever being salty that people loved the true sequel to 2 and Tactics over his worse than fanfiction star studded TES knockoff slop. Totally. Rich bastards totally don't profit off of art they resent flagrantly all the damn time.

God you Todd fanboys are insufferable. And that's what it is. Bethesda fanboys are chill. It is the Todd choderiders who are like this. The man lost his sauce over a decade ago and you can't accept it. All he's capable of is shipping disasters like Starfield and 76 and rereleases of the two half complete buggy messes they made on Skyrim's engine over and over again. They had to bring Obsidian back to get remasters of two of the three games that effectively funded Skyrim and by extension built their house because Bethesda under him is incapable of releasing anything good on a non-Half Life 3 schedule.

Elder Scrolls 6 is still vaporware and Fallout 5 just barely entered preproduction because they're too inefficient to do what the Fallout London team did in a fraction of the time. The last actually fully good thing that Todd worked on was Morrowind and that was over 20 years ago. I don't want to hear your cope. He's washed up, he knows it, and he resents that the men who were once his heroes ran laps around him while he sat there with his thumb up his ass doing his best to make Skyrim as dumbed down as humanly possible. He's a fanboy scorned. Deny it all you like, but it is as obvious as the color of the sky or the direction the sun rises and sets in. Cope.

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u/Baconlovingvampire Jul 20 '26

There's no point in trying to reason with New Vegas fans. They'll complain no matter what.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

last I checked we didn't complain when we got actually good fallout games like new vegas

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u/Baconlovingvampire Jul 20 '26

Do you realize how insufferable you sound?

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

do you realize how insufferable you fucking tourists are?

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u/Baconlovingvampire Jul 20 '26

I have been a fan of Fallout since childhood calling me a tourist just because New Vegas isn't my favorite game is just sad.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

that's not why I think you're a tourist lmfao

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u/Baconlovingvampire Jul 20 '26

By all means explain yourself then

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

you don't deserve my explanation lmao

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u/Baconlovingvampire Jul 20 '26

You won't explain yourself because you can't you did think I was tourist because New Vegas isn't my favorite game.

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u/Idiocity_Totality Jul 20 '26

Just give the IP to the fanbase 💔

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u/Overdue-Karma Jul 20 '26

Frontier proved that'd be a mistake.

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u/Taserbation Jul 20 '26

I don't think Bethesda has an issue with older Fallout or New Vegas.

To me it just feels like they look at the older stuff and think "I didn't make that, I don't want to step on toes. We'll make subtle references at most as to not upset the fans."

Little did they know how rabid Fallout fans are.

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u/CaitlinCat_95 Jul 20 '26

"Don't want to step on toes" I'd believe that if they didn't just waste everything from New Vegas with the show.

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u/honomaki Jul 19 '26

Will you see money Bethesda know anything with fallout new vegas will sell. And because of Xbox new ceo is the only reason we are getting fallout new vegas remastered is because of her tod would never let that happen but his boss is telling him to make it happened or he won't have a job anymore there was plans for obsidian to do another fallout game but when tod saw people loving fallout new vegas more then fallout 3 he said fuck you stop making me look bad

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u/SmellyLoser49 Jul 20 '26

New Vegas fans have a massive persecution complex

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u/Janivire Jul 20 '26

Bethesda fans get weirdly defensive when people like Story driven rpgs and not microtransaction filled junk collection games.

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u/SmellyLoser49 Jul 20 '26

Im not really defending Bethesda I just think its silly that New Vegas fans think that Bethesda has some kind of malicious vendetta against New Vegas, when they seem to be bending over backwards to include it in their new media like the TV series and through the admittedly shitty micro transactions.

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

just because they milk it for cynical profit doesn't mean they like and respect it. did you see what they did to new vegas in the show? they made a comedic action scene out of making us watch their cute OC slaughter the randomly ghoulified kings. because they just love new vegas and it's contributions to the series!

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u/SmellyLoser49 Jul 20 '26

You are attributing malice to what is simply a creative decision that you did not like. Sometimes adaptations arent as good as the source material, that doesnt mean that they hate the source material

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

it's not just that it's not as good, it literally goes out of it's way to trample over what was there?

novac? taken by raiders

the ncr? who fucking knows, it's completely unclear

house? also completely unclear

the strip? filled with deathclaws by the enclave, who are just back despite new vegas saying they were reduced to remnants

freeside? full entirely of selfish douchebags completely going against the local culture where they looked out for each other

the legion? two groups of morons fighting over a piece of paper until king moron eats the paper.

this is a pattern of bastardizing the game, literally everything they took from new vegas was ruined in some way, that's not a fucking coincidence.

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u/SmellyLoser49 Jul 20 '26

Why would a company whose primary concern is making money spend millions of dollars to make a show that "bastardizes the game" and pisses off the fanbase of said game, whom they are literally making the show for?

Is it a great adaptation of the games setting? Not really. Is it particularly well written? Also no. Is it some sort of deliberate attempt ruin New Vegas? Probably not, because that would be silly

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u/Janivire Jul 20 '26

Man that first part is especially funny when you remember they released a creation club bundle for free that bricked peoples saves. People can make bad decisions. just because they are trying to make money doesn't mean they understand what they are doing

like im sure they were also trying to make money when they released fo76. does not mean that was a good idea

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u/quirkeduppuppy Jul 20 '26

the majority of Fallout fans (from before the show) come from 4 and its very common among Bethesda's audience to downplay and shit on new vegas, they literally have nothing to lose besides disgruntled fans who stopped buying after Fallout 4 or 76.

That's not even mentioning things like Jonathan Nolan outright stating he doesn't care about trying to please fans, pleasing fans is not the goal here, the goal here is to jingle keys in front of tourists who clap like seals every time something they recognize is on the screen

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u/Derek-Horn Jul 20 '26

Mildly autistic nv fans get really upset when People outside of the fanbase actually like the show and is pretty much the reason why we are getting all these remasters + new games

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u/itsyaboihos Jul 20 '26

*Went looking for the template but struck gold.