Bethesda could have made a Fallout movie or TV show a decade ago, but "credit to Todd Howard," they refused Hollywood's offers until they found "the right partner"

The right partner? You mean the one that makes the most money. You partnered with Bezos, dude. The show is alright, but it was clearly made to appease a wide market.

why would you expect any less? TV is made to make money, it is what it is.

You didn’t want a “video game movie director”, but you still made the equivalent of the Mario Movie.

oh come on, that's ridiculous. Who would you have preferred to make it?

A little more fan service wouldn’t kill the show. Reading journals, hacking computers, feral ghouls, side quests. A little faster pace would help too.

You can say the exact same stuff about The Last of Us which is also well done. Some things just wouldn't translate well to TV, especially with 8 episode seasons.

Look I'm not even trying to say you're wrong for wanting something different, but at least acknowledge it could have been a lot worse, like the Halo TV show.

but they've had all of those things, plus VATs, Bloody Mess, chems, loot chests, loading screens, out of bounds glitches, kiting enemies, npc dialogue, buggy aggro, FISTO bot, HUDs, unmarked quests, vendors... there's a ton of fan service.

To be fair, Bezos did make the right call with the Expanse. He's got precedent for potentially having good taste in Scifi.

I didn't like the series, mostly because it was very vanilla. I would have much preferred if it was based on A Boy and his Dog, many of the 80s Italian Mad Max clones (2019, After the Fall of New York), Neon City and even something like Turbo Kid.

An arguement can be made that to make social commentary effective you need a bit more subtly.

I'd argue The Last of Us shouldn't be a show or a movie.

It is character focused, and even though the show is good, it's fundamentally an adaption of a story which has already been told.

Fallout (as a series) is less character focused, and more focused on the world - which is very fleshed out, making it a great platform to build upon.

You could argue the games already contain meta-narratives in book-form; often the story of the locations you visit is unveiled through progressive terminal entries or notes.

I see no issue with telling another story within the world Bethesda/Obsidian have established, which retain the core feel of Fallout, minus he player choice.

One might say "but the player choice is what makes it Fallout".

Fair, but isn't hearing the stories of another persons experiences with the game just as interesting as your own?

Fair enough if that's what you think, but I've played them all, going back to 1 and 2 on computers where I had to check the system requirements, and I find the show to be very watchable and fun. Have you given it a chance?

Movies and TV also get game adaptions.

If there ever was a deus ex machina in a TV show that would be appropriate, it'd be this.

That's what they're saying.