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.
Of course, gotta milk the success of the show for all it’s worth. Amazon is gonna fumble the bag so hard if they try to keep cashing in like this.
What do you call it when even the shark has jumped the shark?
Sharknado?
Enshittification comes even from previously unseen angles.
This feels a step above. Dysenterification?
Breaking news! Zenimax is still completely out of touch with it’s fan base.
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?
Todd Howard cannot hear you for he is too busy CHIMing.
Reality TV. Reality TV never changes…
It’s cheaper to make hollywood slop than video games.
Good news everyone, we created the Torment Nexus reality TV show, from the game “Don’t create the Torment Nexus”
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.
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
What if we made it Vault 68, 69, or 43. No psychological torture required for any of them. That or if you really want to fuck with someone we have Vault 77 or Vault 12, Vault 12 would be particularly vile since then you’d have to be in Bakersfield.
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.
Reality show
a series of games
If you want a reality show, just drop people into one of the weirder vaults and that’s it.
Real life vault 106 let’s gooooo
Vault 108. Only one actual Gary, but everyone needs to pretend to be Gary. The exact rules need some thinking but it shouldn’t be too hard to come up with something.
shut up todd.
“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”
I had to check what community I’m in, still can’t believe this is not the Onion.
Ew
