Amazon’s series “Afterlife” received great reviews, and Bethesda’s screenwriter confirmed that “New Vegas” is still canon | 4Gamers

2024-04-13 07:34:44

The live-action TV series adapted from the video game “Fallout” (Fallout TV Series), which is exclusively broadcast on Amazon Prime, has received widespread praise overseas because the plot faithfully restores many elements of the game. However, there is also a short plot that caused fans of the series to express ” “Canonical Conflict” controversy finally led to Bethesda’s design director and chief screenwriter coming out to calm down.

This report will briefly mention some plot content, so fans of the series are advised to read it at their own discretion.

The live-action series “Aftermath” is set in the year 2296. The heroine “Lucy” (played by Ella Purnell) leaves Vault 33 in Santa Monica, California, and sets foot in the wasteland after the nuclear disaster. The World, after being aired on April 11, has a Rotten Tomatoes review rating of 94%, and audience reviews of Popcorn as high as 86%, which can be said to be recognized by the majority of the audience.

However, just after the episode aired, the tragic current situation of “Shady Sands”, the capital of the New California Republic (NCR), was revealed in the middle of the plot. This city was mentioned in the 1st to 3rd generations of the “Afterlife” series. and, important strongholds with a population of more than 30,000 people.

However, the prosperity of this city can no longer be seen in the film. In the subsequent plot, a timeline on the blackboard triggered heated discussions among players – 2277, the fall of Shasa Town. The year 2277 happens to be the time point of “Distinction 3”, but because the game’s story background takes place in the “Capital Wasteland” on the east coast of the United States, there is no mention of the NCR.

On the contrary, the side story “Earth: New Vegas” launched by Obsidian Entertainment three generations later took place in 2281 in California and Las Vegas on the West Coast of the United States, but this work did not Mentioning the situation regarding the fall of Shasa Town, the “mushroom cloud” on the blackboard was speculated by many players to be a nuclear bomb.

In the past, Bethesda CEO Todd Howard once interviewed foreign media Vanity Fair The interview revealed that “we regard this series as canon”, so many fans are confused that the time of the fall of Shasa Town is completely unclear.

Therefore, after the series was aired, fans began to complain on the Internet that the setting of “The Fall of Shasa Town” was inconsistent with official history. At the same time, the scene about New Vegas at the end of the series also became a topic of discussion. Foreign media and some fans even criticized It was proposed that “Bethesda intends to use the story of the album to overturn the past official history that was not produced by Bethesda”, and the pros and cons of the discussion became the focus of a war of words in overseas forums.

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However, not long after this topic spread on the Internet, Emil Pagliarulo, the design director of Bethesda Studio’s “Remnant” and the chief screenwriter of the 3rd and 4th generations, spoke out publicly. He first clarified the story timeline of the series and emphasized his commitment to the official history in a tweet. The seriousness of the story.

“Occasionally I’ll see statements like, ‘He doesn’t care about the lore.’ That’s crazy. Just ask anyone who’s annoyed by my strict adherence to the story. Errors and inconsistencies make me It’s very uncomfortable, and that’s how the story should be.”

at last,Emil Pagliarulo When asked by a fan whether “New Vegas” is part of the canon, he decisively replied: “Of course it is, we have no other ideas.”

Of course, at this stage, the content revealed in the series still does not clearly explain how Shasa Town has changed during this period. What happened to NCR at the time of the series’ story may become the foreshadowing of the next season’s story.

The “Fallout” series has been released on Amazon’s streaming platform Prime Video on April 11, 2024. It is another video game adaptation film and television work that has been highly praised overseas after “The Last of Us”.


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