Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck (S.P.E.C.I.A.L).
The series will not only test dwellers’ core attributes, but also their loyalty and alliances. It’s a game of power dynamics, popularity and social strategy which will ultimately result in a huge cash prize, but do you have what it takes to be the most S.P.E.C.I.A.L?.
I am sort of speechless, but for all the wrong reasons.
What do you call it when even the shark has jumped the shark?
Sharknado?
It’s cheaper to make hollywood slop than video games.
shut up todd.
I had to check what community I’m in, still can’t believe this is not the Onion.
Reality TV. Reality TV never changes…
Just get people to agree to live in crowded vaults and have them sign a waver accepting any and all psychological torture performed on them. That’s a functional Fallout reality show.
that’s just real life at this point, with algo social media
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I’m half expecting Peter Thiel to say “maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we’re at it” in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.
Ew
“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”
Lmao the Steam Post has 0 likes
Enshittification comes even from previously unseen angles.
This feels a step above. Dysenterification?
A reality show vault? Not even Vault-Tec had any experiments that were that cruel.
Didn’t they, though? https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Vault_11
Or vault 81. One side had a full community to be tested on and observed, the other side had scientists watching the experiment.
It’s just a shame hardly any scientists showed up. They’d have had some great tv to watch after starting their molerat experiments.
Yeah… this seems pretty on brand really.
Actually, it seems really well themed, a messed up reality show is exactly the kind of thing you might find in a vault. The thing to remember though, is that Vault-Tec is supposed to be satirical… Bethesda should not become Vault-Tec because that would be unethical… Right Bethesda… Right?
So Big Brother then. With a theme.
My fav season was 2028 when the dwellers failed the ‘stealthboy raid’ task and they released FEV into the vault
Exactly what I thought.
Games getting turned into a massive franchises tend to put me off of the entire thing
Yeah. This makes me really dislike Fallout now.
fallout 1 sucks now because 30 years later they made a reality show
yeah i dont get it
I think it’s more like “I can’t enjoy fallout 1 anymore knowing what it eventually became”.
I don’t agree but I get it.
I don’t even get it. Everything after fallout 1 has no bearing on fallout 1. It’s exactly the same as it was when it was released. It’s not hard to not think about things you don’t like lol
It’s like how I can’t stand to watch Kevin Spacey movies after we all found out about who he is.
Does it mean he’s no longer a talented actor? No. Does it make his movies suck? No. Does it taint everything he ever did and now seeing him reminds you of how shitty he is as a person?
a Resounding and emphatic- YES.
That would be a good comparison if Fallout as a franchise was a person who committed sexual assault I guess
The crime doesn’t have to equate to ha e the same effect. Someone should have probably explained this to you by now.
When I said, “It’s like….” I didn’t mean “it’s identical to…” Understanding nuance goes a long way in these cases.
if thats the case, everybody should have stopped liking fallout after the brotherhood of steel game came out. and yet they didnt.
This is like designing a Game of Thrones fighting game.
You can throw all the clever nods you want into the product. You can read the source material to high heaven and spend all the time in the world perfecting it. You can hire the best and brightest fighting game devs to come in and design the best game ever.
Fundamentally it will never work. Game of Thrones’ charm is in its politics, feeling of isolation, and world building. There’s no way to bring anything out of that in a fighting game. As soon as you put Renly against Joeffry in a match to the death anyone that’s a fan will just look at the product befuddled.
For this reality show you’re taking a franchise that’s known for its single player experience and tight top notch writing for both the games (at least 1 and 2) and tv show and stripping that away in favor of a format that encourages none of that. All it’s going to be is some weird challenge with loser kids going “OMG I WASNT EXPECTING THAT!!” and “What. The. Fuck. “ for 30 minutes. It’s not going to be good. And it’s gonna be a shit stain on the franchise.
Yeah, it reads like they wanted to make that reality show and then just slapped a random franchise on it for PR reasons.
I think there’s a real angle there for something, in regards to the various vaults and what they are for. But I can’t see how that would convert to anything practically doable. But imagine squid game, basically, with each season being a different vault and a different experiment. Of course it can’t work as a reality show for obvious reasons, but I really do think it could be a hit show as a seasonal anthology series.
The tests and the vaults are a big part of the fallout lore after all, and part of it’s charm. I think there’s a lot there, even something that could work as a reality show were we not civilized and peaceful and instead allowed something like real life squid game concepts in reality shows.
The bachelor is basically vault 69. Amazon is late to the party.
