Warning: This text comprises main spoilers for the Fallout TV sequence.
The Fallout TV present has been out for a number of hours now, and followers are already taking to social media platforms like Reddit and X/Twitter to debate the present, significantly the sixth episode and the season finale.
Chatter in regards to the present’s eighth episode has already brought about one Fallout sport to development on-line as a result of of what followers think about a possible retcon.
Seen it come up a pair of occasions, so this is a useful little Fallout timeline!
* Bombs drop – 2077
* Fallout 76 – 2102
* Fallout 1 – 2161
* Fallout Techniques – 2197
* Fallout 2 – 2241
* Fallout 3 – 2277
* Fallout: New Vegas – 2281
* Fallout 4 – 2287
* Fallout TV present – 2296— Emil Pagliarulo (@Dezinuh) April 11, 2024
Over on X/Twitter, many are claiming that the present is making an attempt to change the occasions of Fallout: New Vegas, the 2010 motion RPG developed by Obsidian Leisure. Fans are reaching that conclusion partially as a result of it causes rivalry with the Fallout timeline. Fallout: New Vegas is about within the yr 2281 — 204 years after the bombs dropped. In the meantime, the primary season of the TV present is about in 2296 — 15 years after the occasions of Fallout: New Vegas.
The most important battle between the 2 could be discovered within the sixth episode of the TV sequence, which mentions that Shady Sands, the capital of the New California Republic (NCR), was destroyed within the yr 2277 — 4 years earlier than the occasions of Fallout: New Vegas and the identical yr that the NCR fought in the First Battle of Hoover Dam.
Within the present, the NCR has been scattered by the destruction of Shady Sands and exist as a ragtag group making an attempt to rebuild society. The present additionally would not make it clear whether or not that is the total remnants of the NCR or only a small contingent of it. These discrepancies have followers claiming that Fallout: New Vegas has been retconned by Bethesda, which didn’t work on the unique launch in 2010.
Bethesda design director Emil Pagliarulo took to X/Twitter to try to right the report by noting the official timeline, however that did little to fulfill confused followers who identified the discrepancy between the 2.
“Okay cool. It’s simply that in accordance with the present, an, ahem…main occasion happens in 2277 that may undoubtedly have had an influence in Fallout: New Vegas,” one consumer wrote. “The one approach I can rectify this might be to maneuver the date of the occasion till *after* New Vegas, and name it a typo.”
Fallout: New Vegas was created by many of the builders who labored on Fallout 2, grounding it extra closely within the lore developed by the franchise’s unique creator, Black Isle Studios. Bethesda has lengthy sought to place its personal stamp on the sequence going again to Fallout 3, fueling unconfirmed rumors of friction between the 2, although they each now share a guardian firm in Microsoft.
One approach or one other, the timelines appear to be at odds with each other, and Bethesda govt Todd Howard reportedly considers the present canon. In an interview with TheWrap earlier this week, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet instructed the outlet that the crew “wished to be trustworthy to all of them and never contradict them as a lot as doable.”
“Oh boy I certain hope the Fallout Amazon TV present pays homage to the older Fallout video games and New Vegas”
*Monkey Paw Curls* pic.twitter.com/1GA3pif0OT
— SuperMadz (@madis259) April 11, 2024
Is Fallout Season 2 teasing a transfer to New Vegas?
Earlier than the credit minimize to some snippets of New Vegas, nonetheless, we see Hank, the daddy of the primary protagonist Lucy, staring off into he distance New Vegas earlier than it cuts to the credit. This second has some arguing that the glimpse of New Vegas is definitely a tease for the second season.
Although Prime Video has but to announce a second season, it feels all however confirmed given the overwhelmingly postivie suggestions from followers and critics mixed with the very fact the present was awarded a $25 million tax credit score from the state of California if the sequence opts to relocate filming from New York State to the Golden State. It looks like we’ll know quickly sufficient how Fallout plans to deal with New Vegas going ahead.
In our overview of the primary season of the Fallout TV sequence, which we awarded a 9 out of 10, my colleague Matt Purslow wrote: “A brilliant and humorous apocalypse stuffed with darkish punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence, Fallout is among the many greatest online game diversifications ever made.”
For extra on Fallout, take a look at our season one ending explainer.
Taylor Lyles is a Reporter at IGN. You may comply with her on Twitter @TayNixster.