Amazon’s Fallout TV sequence is ‘not retelling a game story’ says Todd Howard

In an interview this week with podcaster and AI researcher Lex Fridmen, Todd Howard answered a query that is been on the minds of each Fallout fan. Will the story of Amazon’s upcoming Fallout TV sequence be an authentic one, or is it an adaptation of one of many many Fallout video games we have performed through the years?

“It isn’t retelling a game story,” Howard stated. “It is principally an space of the map, let’s inform a narrative right here that matches on the planet that we’ve constructed. It does not break any of the principles, it will probably reference issues within the video games, however is not a retelling of the video games. It exists in the identical world however is its personal distinctive factor.”

It is nice to have that lastly confirmed, nevertheless it’s not a complete shock. We just lately discovered that the Fallout TV sequence will contain Vault 33, which hasn’t been utilized in any of the Fallout video games but. That makes a bit extra sense understanding that the story is a completely authentic one.

Howard additionally says within the interview that after the success of Fallout 3, he met with plenty of movie producers and executives who needed to create a Fallout film. However he wasn’t satisfied by the concept of condensing the world of Fallout right into a two-hour movie, and wasn’t enamored with the idea of merely retelling the story of Fallout 3. As tv studios started to provide reveals with greater budgets, Howard started assembly with producers once more, together with Jonathan Nolan who turned the Fallout TV show’s govt producer and director.

Not that Todd Howard is an neutral observer, however he says he is “surprised” by what he is seen of the show up to now, praising the workforce’s work. “Their consideration to element, and [they are] obsessive, simply obsessive with what’s on the display screen, and the storytelling, and the way it appears, the entire thing.”

You may watch the full interview right here on YouTube, which ranges to different matters like the rationale you will not should refuel your spaceship in Starfield (Howard calls working out of fuel a “enjoyable killer”) and the way Bethesda’s upcoming Indiana Jones game is a “love letter” to the famed archeologist adventurer.