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'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on (www.pcgamer.com)
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"No, I haven't sat down to play the games," said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. "And I won't. I won't. I won't play the games. I'm not interested."

The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn't want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.

"All of a sudden, I'm looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don't believe that I'm an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world." he said.

"The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I'm presented with," Goggins said.

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The lore in Fallout is grossly inconsistent because of a lack of Henry Cavills working at Bethesda.

They have had staff that knew the lore the fact is they decided to change things because it made the game more fun. For example mutants and supermutants should not be in almost any part of the wasteland as the means to create them is not universally available according to lore, yet they are in every single game because they are fun enemies to fight.

Fallout chose fun gameplay over consistency.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    You can have both fun gameplay and consistency. In terms of gameplay, Super Mutants are just big, tough humanoids, nothing unique. I do like what the addition of the suicider in 4 does for gameplay, but they're bullet sponges in most of the games. Bethesda proved they can come up with a regional variant on that enemy type in Point Lookout with the Swampfolk.

    As for the Super Mutants themselves, they have at least half-assed an excuse every time they appear in the games, with 76's Super Mutants kinda fitting pretty well. The more they do it, the less valuable FEV is, but the Super Mutants are really the least of my problems with the lore. However, their constant reuse indicates a desire to establish series icons that they can use to market the game instead of good mechanics (look guys BoS again!). Above all, it really indicates a lack of creativity to me. They absolutely did not have to make a choice between their game being fun and their game having well-thought-out lore.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Super mutabts were literally made. They shouldn't be in most games because of this and they absolutely should not be in 76.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Yeah, that's why they fit more in 76. They were created by pre-War experimentation inspired by real life government experiments and are localized to one area.

    It's not watertight but again, it is probably their best excuse of the 3 they've given.

    While I largely agree with you, I thought you said the lore is inconsistent so it doesn't matter?

    EDIT: Oh, wait. I kinda see what you're saying now. My point is that the all the Super Mutants are, gameplay-wise, are big, tough guys. You can write a big, tough enemy class into your game a million different ways, which they did more creatively in Point Lookout. It wasn't a choice between inconsistent lore and fun, they're just lazy.

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