“There’s nothing in the works”: Todd Howard Knows Why an Elder Scrolls TV Show Will Fail Unlike Fallout

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Give me the money, Todd. I'll do it. But I'm putting the Lusty Argonian Maid in it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Is it because the lore of the games includes hella fucked up shit like turning a dude's dick into a spear and using it to rape a demon to death?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Too fun, would scare normies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Don't forget the part where they go fight TV in space.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So true, it will only work if in the middle of the series/movie the main character stops under a bridge and jumps to hit their head repeatedly for an hour to power level. And we know the execs won't allow that kind of true art to exist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A save-scumming wizard could be a great main character.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So...Edge of Tomorrow, but with elves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

All you need is CHIM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

So look...as a sometime writer, I'm all for using 12 words when 5 will do sometimes.

But this entire article is just a dozen paragraphs to say "Elder Scrolls doesn't isn't different enough from other fantasy series to standout, unlike Fallout, which was a fresh world on television."

[+] [email protected] -9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Only saw the first episode of Fallout, too violent not enough political drama for me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can't tell if this is satire, but it does get political and dramatic later in the season. Flashbacks to pre-war seen through Walton Goggins who plays the ghoul. The violence though, that does not slow down and I loved it.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But the Fallout show sucked. It changed the lore of the west coast. Hell, why did they pick the west coast? Bethesda had all of the east coast and the fly over states to chose from. But no they picked the place where the OG games took place in. Man, I wonder why.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The main lore change people refer to generally seems to be them thinking it's set decades earlier than it is. Part of the plot of the show is working out why the NCR isn't the dominant faction anymore, and plenty of characters remember it, and used to live in Shady Sands. The status quo changing years after New Vegas was set doesn't mean that the events of Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas didn't happen.

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