Hell yes!

Speaking of video game adaptations

https://deadline.com/2026/02/baldurs-gate-3-tv-show-craig-mazin-hbo-1236710583/

Holy crap, someone gets it!

Welp, I put off watching the last 4 episodes for so long as someone I knew wanted to watch it too so we watched it all over from S1E1 but only a few episodes a weekend. Honestly, didn't mind though. Loved seeing it again. Just finished that finale.

Wow. What an incredible show. I am an absolute Fallout fanboy and have been for a considerable chunk of my life and this show is doing it justice. The shows that can do that for pre-existing media is vanishingly small these days. The fan service is top notch without going overboard and into tacky territory. I was screaming out the easter eggs as they were revealed. What a blast to watch.

Read through the last few pages of what I had missed.

Called it with Steph being a Canuck being a massive show pivot. Never trust a Canadian. I was also actually really, really impressed on how they wrapped up Lucy and her father's arc. No final bloodshed or "he won, she won" contest and everyone moves on. Just a very poignant and ultimately sad familial relationship coming to an end. Very memorable end to a main quest.

Can't wait for S3!

Average Joe said:

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One thing that worries me as someone who has played the games several times through is that they are covering a TON of lore really fast. The games were mostly personal journeys of the characters you played mixed in with regional struggles and a little bit of the greater lore.

We're not just making strides in the history we now know, we're making huge leaps. So much more information in 2 seasons on how the wasteland came about than there was in 5 games. What's the end game for this show? If the Enclave is the big baddy for the entire IP, can they afford to defeat them in the tv show?

Also, Steph, the Canadian, had to teach American history with her ex? husband's offspring (I don't think Lucy is Steph's kid). That's brutal.

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It is pretty interesting how much they are covering. I am of the mind they almost have to though to keep things flowing though. One of the things I hate about Bethesda is how little backstory we actually get in their lore compared to what we COULD be getting. Sounds crazy I know but aside from a few games (admittedly fairly big games overall) over a couple of decades, their IPs are set by what you play. What you see there is what you get.

I've been *****ing for years they need to do an "expanded universe" especially with official novelizations to really explore and open up their worlds. Something like Warhammer or even Star Wars.

Either way, they have a bunch of fairly big ideas but not a lot of in the weeds details that would fit the show characters as is. Take the Enclave for example. There is a bunch of high level lore on it and then the lore you interface with as a playable character. I mean, I doubt we are going to have Coop Howard fighting Frank Horrigan or trying to stop Project Purity and so on and so forth. (Could be wrong on that with the finale ending though). What I mean ultimately, is that there is only so much lore to go around and only so much that can be whittled down to meet the character arcs and time lines we have now. How many civil wars have the Enclave gone through now? How much percentage of the total lore do those wars take up that they have available? Would any of those fit in the show? Not sure they would.

All in my opinion of course. Just my couple of cents.

I also think they are handling it fine so far and from what they have done so far, they have earned my respect. So I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they'll figure it out and pace it right instead of assuming the worst.

RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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Bethesda should have also been working on something as well. They could have crushed it with a new Fallout release during all of this.

The show has done an amazing job integrating everything that makes fallout fallout unique in a television medium.

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Fallout 4 recently jumped back up into the bestselling category. Not bad for an old ass game.

Pretty sure Todd and crew had no idea what a positive reception they would get from this show.

I never did beat FO2 and never even touched 76. Need to rectify those points soon.