Fallout series will also have an impact on upcoming Fallout 5
The successful Amazon adaptation of Fallout has not only boosted player numbers, but has a direct impact on the development of Fallout 5. Bethesda boss Todd Howard now officially confirms that the series and role-playing game will share the same canon.
Episodes of the series for Fallout 5
With the start of the second season of the Fallout series on Prime Video, the future of the video game series is once again increasingly in the public eye. Todd Howard, Executive Producer and Director at Bethesda Game Studios, has now confirmed that the events of the TV show will have a direct and definitive impact on the world of Fallout 5. The upcoming role-playing game will not exist in an alternative universe, but will treat the series’ developments as a given historical background.
In concrete terms, this means that locations, factions and geopolitical changes shown in the series will be considered irrefutable facts in the next main part of the game series. Of course, there are also creative reasons for this: Unlike the HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us”, which is a direct retelling of the game’s plot, the Fallout series tells its own story. It takes place in the year 2296, nine years after the events of Fallout 4.
This means that the TV production is actually the most current entry in the brand’s official timeline and continues the story of the post-apocalyptic world. This presents the developers with the complex task of reconciling the creative freedom of a new game with the “lore” facts established by the series without causing logical breaks.
As Todd Howard recently spoke to the BBC explained, there is a close collaboration between the game studio and the series creators. Howard emphasized that he and executive producer Jonathan Nolan are not only close on business, but also on a personal level. Nolan himself turned out to be a huge fan of Fallout. This trust led to design director Emil Pagliarulo sometimes receiving text messages from the film set in the middle of the night to ensure that even the smallest details on set didn’t contradict the games’ established story.
Fallout 76 Bridging
Despite confirmation that Fallout 5 will take the series into account, fans will have to be prepared for a test of patience. The team at Bethesda is currently primarily focused on completing “The Elder Scrolls 6”. Since there are traditionally several years between the studio’s major releases, a specific release date for the next Fallout single-player part is still a long way off. This poses the risk that the current events of the series could lose their immediate relevance by the time the game is released or that the series will already be well advanced in terms of plot by then. To fill this gap, the developers are using the online game Fallout 76 as a link. Here, content from the series can be integrated much more dynamically.
A prominent example of this is the introduction of playable ghouls, a feature that was accelerated by the popularity of the ghoul characters in the series. According to creative director Jon Rush, it’s an organic process where the game is developed hand in hand with the players. According to Howard, discussions are currently taking place for the third season of the series, which is already being planned, about which elements could be integrated into the current games at the same time that do not feel forced or inauthentic.
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