Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Fallout Season 2 Ep. 1 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

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cast for Wednesday, December 17th. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, a.k.a. New York Game Awards nominated, aka new jacket, Poppy. Blessing. Eddie O. Yay, June. Good day, Greg. Tell me about this jacket.

Chat out, insert coin. They sent it over yesterday. Appreciate it, appreciate it. We love insert coin here. Cyberpunk, which is not one that I guessed immediately. Yeah. I saw it come in and I was like, let me see the back. Is this, so this is one of the gangs and the, one of the, you so, yeah, one of the factions. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I would never, I mean, I, if you showed it to me and I had to guess I'd eventually get to cyberpunks, but yeah. I honestly thought it was fallout. Oh, God, I wish. I mean, I love cyberpunk as well. Does IncerCoin do swallow stuff? This is one where I forget if I even requested this. I forget, like, where, how I got this jacket.

Sure, sure. Because usually insert coin, if they have something to send, they'll send it out an email and be like, hey, do you want this? And I'll always say yes. I will never say no to something from insert coin. Of course. They do great stuff. We love you, insert coin.

They do fantastic stuff. They didn't pay for this. We're just saying it. Yeah. And so like, I got it in. I was like, I forget even if I had an email exchange with anybody about this. And I was like looking at it for a while. I was like, I had no idea what this is.

And Roger was the one that saw there's the tag that's inside of the jacket. I was like, oh, this is a cyberpunk. So here's what they got for fallout. I'm not seeing a cool jacket immediately. We got we got pajama pants, nukechic pillows. And you like the nukeola pillow. Yeah. Did you sleep on that?

I mean, it wouldn't, it would be like a couch pillow? When Jen. No, that's not right. Where that's your wife's name you? That is my wife. How do I get into the story? Puzzle Quest 3 came out. And I love PuzzleQuest.

And I love Puzzle Quest 3. They sent a package of like one of the press packs we always get, right? And one of the things in there was like throw pillows for a couch of the gems from Puzzle Quest. Oh, that's fine. And Jen hated them so much that she whittled it down somehow to just the one blue one that was relegated to my couch downstairs in front of my video game stuff. and somehow from that moment which was I think before Ben but maybe when he was just an infant Ben keyed in on that pillow and now has it in his room

and so I am often sleeping on it in his bed or reading a book on it so I think about that that could be a new cup to cola pillow pillow and there we go what is the Atorake's jacket what does that say okay so that's the one I have was it Al de Caldas Altacaldas racing jacket Which I don't I've never worn I remember the valetian jacket but I kind of fuck with it

I like it. It's one of those things, you know, Instagram hits us up and says, would you like anything? We say yes. I say yes. Gary requested stuff.

Gary got a, he asked for the, the track pants for yakuza, but he got a jacket. So maybe it's the same, maybe, you know,

maybe shipping errors in your favor. You just looked open and they're like, all right, cool. They meant to send this to Gary. No, no, no,

you asked for something else, but you ended up with that. I mean, I'll take it. I love it a good jacket. Now, Ponton says it's the Pan Am jacket. Is it not?

No, right? jacket isn't it small doesn't she have like it's am i miss him remembering pan am jackie the men's fit for it i love pan am all right i love pan am too i love pan am trying to fight for no no pain him wears a red jack oh no well no that's not that's not the same thing that's not the same faction i guess though yeah yeah yeah okay pan am jagg will be cool yeah digress we're not here to talk about cyberpunk we're not here to talk about insert coin we're here to talk about

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Topic of the show. Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Toss. Blessing. Greg. It finally happened. It did. Fallout season two premiered last night, 6 p.m. an earlier time than expected with episode one, The Innovator.

Again, spoiler-free start to the conversation here. What did you think? I enjoyed this episode as a season premiere. I think my one hang up with it, and I wouldn't even call it a hang-up because I understand why it's this way, but it felt kind of slow. Oh, really? For me, it felt like I don't feel like I'm all the way pulled back into the Fallout universe yet. But I'm not counting out that like the rest of the season will probably do that. Yeah, you got seven more episodes.

Yeah. And I think part of, I think on the, to flip that, I'm also kind of impressed with the show's ability to pick up where it left off. Yeah. Because this almost feels like I'm in like the middle of a season. Like it almost feels like a slow episode in the middle of a season. But I think that's just because season one was so with, rich with events, rich with intrigue, things to do, characters to pay attention to.

And they start us off, reintroducing us to Ella Pernell's character. reintroducing us to Walton Goggins character, right, and getting us in there. Interested to see that we didn't get any of Maximus this episode. I thought that was fascinating. But, you know, I think you want to give time for the other storylines here to breathe and develop before we get into that later in the season. And so overall, I'd say I had a good time, not necessarily an exciting time. So what's your score?

Are you staying down on the sevens there? I guess then I'll say seven out of ten, yeah. But a good seven out of ten. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Of course. Yeah. And I think, again, it's always funny to review episodes. You know what I mean?

you never know where they're going to go or what's going to pay off. It really is a season thing to review. We had access to the first six episodes of this, so we could have done this, but it's like, no. We need all eight of them. And like, why would that benefit you as a content person? I'm not with you at all. I say it's a nine.

I had a nine. I thought this is amazing. Nine out of ten for me. I was so happy to be back here. As you know, I'm not a big watcher. If I have the free time, I want to be playing video games, right? And so there's been a few things that have come and gone.

that I know I enjoyed the first time around, like, Peacemaker. Peacemaker debuts, I watched the season premiere, and I've never gone back to season two. Not because I thought it was bad or anything else. It's just like, oh, I didn't get the enjoyment out of that first episode that I did out of video games, so I haven't. So even getting to fit this into the schedule, I was like, okay, like, I remember I loved fallout season one. Will I love fallout season two? And I thought we jumped right back into that world. I thought they immediately paid off on some of the things they did, the cliffhangers from last year, right?

Where is her dad going? I mean, we know Vegas, but what's he going to do there? You know, how is he going to go for the ghoul here and Ella hanging out? What are they going to be up to? And then the Mr. House stuff, I thought having that flashback to the, we were not getting into that stuff. Actually, sorry, sorry, sorry, close, close to everybody. It was not a big deal. It's like the first scene of the show, but it doesn't matter.

I thought they did a great job of paying off on the threads I remembered, which I thought was also interesting. Paying off on the threads I remembered because when they were doing that, here's what happened last season. And I was like, I don't remember. I mean, not that I don't remember, but like, oh, I guess it. it did happen, but it's not, I was very much left with her dad left, we're going after her dad, like, if you were like, what happened to Maximus? I would have been like, I think that's part of what makes it tough to pick back up is that it's a show with so many details, but I don't absorb all the details necessarily as far as every single thing that happens in the plot, right? Like you

mentioned, we leave with the big things. We live with, okay, where are we going from here? And so to to be thrown back into it, I have to, I think it is just that period of having to adjust to being like, oh yeah, okay, there's this thing happening and okay, what's her relationship with the ghoul again? Oh, I guess, yeah, okay, this is where we're starting off with it. Okay, cool. Like, it's a lot of just reacclamation. Yes. Reclamation.

No, that is... Reclamation. Reclamation to the show. And so, yeah, I think it puts me in an interesting place starting off this season, but also, like, to my seven, right? Like, I feel like, maybe you need a seven to get you to an eight or nine. Sure. Yeah, well, I mean, it's hard to start and then go.

And, like, you know, it's a similar thing of maybe we get to the end or get to episode seven. I'm like, oh, fuck, that's nine. This wasn't really a nine. But I was, I guess I'm more than anything amazed of how much I enjoyed it. And I wanted to later on, and of course we'll talk more later about details, right? I do like some of the stuff they introduce as far as what we're focusing in on this season. Like to talk about the production, what the show I think does really well, which is stay true to some of the gruesome aspects of fallout.

Sure. There are some things that happened in this episode where I'm like, damn, that's fucked up. I'm all about it. Like I love seeing this type of violence and gore on TV. Like, I like when we go there. I think too, like I got this out of season one. But season one started from such an interesting place for us. Us as viewers, us as fallout fans, where it was like, all right, cool, is this going to be a shitty TV adaptation?

Is this going to do it? And as, you know, I talk so much about in the reviews and talk conversations about season one of like, man, when they have like the fucking med pack that's from the game on the table, when they have the ride away. Like, they did such a great job of doing this. All that said, it still felt to a degree like a story that was happening in that universe, but not necessarily tied to that universe. If that makes sense. I don't know if it does. The way this one starts paying off on stuff, we already know they're. going towards Vegas from the end of that one, so that's not a spoiler for you.

It felt so much more like, oh, this is happening in Fallout Canon, which I guess never matters to me. I'm not that guy. But season one could have felt, I felt could have felt like it was, okay, this is just something happening. Is it fan fiction? Is it not? Whereas this one, it's like, oh, man, I feel like we're really leaning into.

No, no, no. This is the Fallout universe you know and love. And there's things here that have happened or not happened. You played all the way through New Vegas. No, I didn't. That's the thing I've talked about before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You? I've started New Vegas. I've played it several times. Yeah, like, I've also started multiple times. I think I've played maybe the first, I'll say like six or seven hours.

Like I've done some of the main quests and like I've had some big moments in that game. But I don't have the same like, I guess, nostalgic tie that a lot of people have in New Vegas. So I was going to ask you like, do you think that enhances what we're getting out of here? I think it's, I mean, because I've played double digit hours of New Vegas. Okay, yeah. So it's not like I've, I've never, you know, and that's, over years and anyways. Yeah. I think so and I think some of the things they tease a little bit in the opening.

Like I'm excited for them to get to New Vegas because I've been to New Vegas. And not that I could, you know, draw you a map from memory or something. But like I know the touchstones and I know what it's supposed to look like. And I think that's going to be a fascinating part of it. Because my big thing is Mr. House, right? Yeah, of course. Where I don't have that big of a connection to that character for as little New Vegas as I've played. And so I'm, to your point of season one, feeling like a story that exists within that world,

but you could almost treat it as fan fiction. You can almost treat it as, oh, this is a different, it's literally like a different part of the country than we usually get, because oftentimes we're on the East Coast for fallout. And so it feels a bit more siloed in that sense. This season being a bit more connected to events that we've gotten in the game characters that we know. Like, I feel like that's going to do so much for people who have played that, but I'm so fascinated to see how the Mr. House stuff hits for people who might not be as familiar. I thought this is not a spoiler thing, so don't take it this way. I thought maybe we would talk a little bit. Spoilers will be after the ad break.

But originally when we pitched this episode, I was like, maybe we talk about the game stuff there. Because I think there is a conversation, spoiler-free to be had about that. Of, like, not only do I find this episode amazing because of everything contained in it, how much I love these characters. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Even her brother, right? It's like, oh, man, I missed you. I don't remember missing you, you know what I mean? Like, to finish that episode and be like, man, you know, when Jen and I started it and she was like, I don't remember any of this. You know, the recap stuff.

I was like, we should rewatch the first season. And now I'm like, damn, Are we about to rewatch all of season one to get back to see, you know what I mean, and like continue on with season two. But more importantly, same thing I said last time around, same thing we of course all saw with Circana stats and Bethesda stats last time around.

I can't get over how much watching the show makes me want to go play the game. Like it's like, it is such an insane thing of watching that and immediately being like, I think while I was watching at my desk, I clicked over and I was like started downloading 76 again on PlayStation. And it's like, damn and that but then it's the whole thing of new Vegas I'm like I've never gotten over that hump

to go all the way through and that includes playing it like in the timeline like I you know I played I was at IGN for fallout three I was at IGN for new Vegas like I was I gave it the college try then and I love these games I love Bethesda but to come to a game like new Vegas that is so dated at this point you get in there and I am like well should I just play 76 then the psychopathy me is like if I'm gonna put should I just go play starfields I guess that a remake. Because yeah, I had the same thing

where I went after the first season, I started up playing New Vegas again. And it was just the archaic nature of it, right? Like that's an older video game

and it's tough to go back to after I played so much of fallout four. But you know, people wouldn't say it's as good as New Vegas you know, still my office. Ivy Thor, V.I.

says crazy how well New Vegas holds up. Does it? I, like, and I'm not throwing stones at New Vegas at all. It's just the fact of like, I started, my most recent playthru was on,

I don't remember, which trip back from Montreal. So I had like six hours on the plane with it, maybe five and a half, four or whatever, somewhere in that. A lot, though, and I jumped in and I made the character and I was playing it, but I never, the whole time I was playing, I'm like, ooh. Yeah. And I mean, I know I'm the guy who tells you when you play Starfield, like you were stupid to think it was going to be game of the generation. It was going to be a Bethesda game. But it's still a modern Bethesda game where this one is, I feel so empty.

And so, and it's just like, okay, cool, like, what am I? Like, I don't know. I think for me, like, some of the, some of the big moments I got. to a New Vegas hit, right? Like, there's a part in the video game where you send off the spaceship and that's all the context I'll give to it. But that, I was like, I remember that. Shit, that's crazy.

And I experienced that last year and I still was impressed by that. But I think all the in-between moments, yeah, it's kind of tough to try and exist in that RPG world when we've had so many more modernizations made since then from Bethesda games and like outside of Bethesda games when you want to bring in like Witcher and Baldur's Gate and all these other RPGs. It's tough to go back. Creed in the chat says the storytelling and characterizations hold up. Gameplay definitely not.

It needs so many mods to make it playable. And that's something I was playing on my rog. So it's like maybe I do do that if I want to go and actually jump into this, boot up the razor blade and go get a litany of mods to jump in. And then it's the same thing. And I know this is exactly what we talked about with fall season one, but stick with me. Fall at 76, I still haven't done, you know, Mr. Hawks, of course, is going to stream with us the new Burning Shores stuff with the ghoul from the

and the server's died that day. So we just played skate instead. I hadn't touched it since then. I booted it up and jumped in and it was immediately like, okay, cool. Woof. I am joining this world.

For me, I think it's like 86 or 90 hours into it. And of those 86 90 hours, it's not Starfield. It's not Octopath Traveler Zero where I have a, I have this character that I have a vision for. I know who it, right? It's just like, it's an avatar for me to eat out of the trough of open world,

MMO RPG, like what So it's like, I started it up and I'm not like Man, I need to retake West Virginia. I'm like, well, I got this fucking vault I threw down and I can't get power connected to it inside of it because of not Quest just because I'm so I hate base building and it's like

I don't want to do this either. And that's where I keep talking about Baltimore's Gate 3 where I'm like I need to get some fucking choices going. Listen, if you get into it let me know because I'll get into it too. Which one? Ballard's Gate 3. That's the plan right now for me. My plan is I want to get back into Balders Gate 3. Finish Metroid. finish Donkey Kong, taste the altars, and then into that end of December, start of January

period, do some Bolers, G8 3. One of the things I want to compliment the show on is that I think they're very good about knowing and understanding the facets of fallout that people are interested in and want to see, right? Like, I think the show can identify, like, all right, vaults are important. Yeah. Action is important. Like, you know, the relationship between the.

characters. Like there's something, and maybe this is just the fallout fan in me, when I see dialogue between characters, I can almost picture the dialogue tree. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you know, in that RPG format. And I think the, the, the, I almost called it the game, the show does such a good job of like, I think positioning this as a, an RPG. And I can already see that in the first episode. Yeah, 100%. I think when I slacked you whatever compliment I did, you're like, and it's such an RPG quest. And it totally is, right? Like, what they're doing here, you can see it popping up or open up your pit bull. boy and see exactly what they be telling you to do.

Yeah, exactly. So, well, I'm ready to dive into details, are you? I'm also ready, yeah. Well, then, everybody, let me remind you that this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday, we run you through the biggest topics in games. And if you want to get them ad free, that I do, I don't feel like I did Patreon producers. I must have. I did everything.

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Everyone. Spoilers are a go. All right. We can spoil whatever the fuck we want out of this thing. You can't get mad at us. It's spoiler time. Spoilers. bro. Spoilers, bro is up, okay?

Where do you want to start, boys? The incest support group. What a statement. What a statement. That shit had me dying. Like, that was such. The brother and sister are making it.

Like him trying to have an earnest conversation. Yeah, the brother and sister like looking at each other. So we're going to overthrow this rule or whatever they say. What do you mean? No, we're not going to get rid of it. And then the other lady who's in there like, yeah, I have like a sneeze. Like is that because my dad liked his sister or whatever. or cousin, so fucking funny.

And that's the thing I love about Fallout, right? Like, what is the weird shit that is happening within the vaults? Like, later on in the episode, or I guess that was later on the episode. In another part of the episode, you get Lucy and the ghoul entering into an abandoned vault.

And, like, the conversations they're having as they're going in there, right? Him being like, you know, every time I enter a vault had to make peace with whether or not I'm going to find my wife and my daughter. And, like, you know, the questioning of, oh, what fucked up things happened in here. And then him,

him even questioning the vault that Lucy came from. I think it's all really well done. And like, the vault shit is some of my favorite shit that you can tackle and fallout because it's so creative, so quirky, so weird.

Yeah. And so I just really like those parts. Yeah, 100%. I, I jotted down a whole bunch of different stuff. I thought the flashback opening was great. Yeah.

I think, you know, I'm probably speaking out of turn as somebody who didn't go back and rewatch Fallout season one before this. But I felt like production value was even higher on this one. that they know it's a hit and they're behind it kind of thing.

But the flashback there, right, to Rob putting the fucking things in everybody's head, right? Yeah. This is fucking cool. Like the Robco stuff and then they're blowing up heads and turning people again. I was like, this is just a fun thing. And again, it goes back to, I think something that like, this is going to sound very stupid. Something that's not as fleshed out in the fallout games as I'd like it to be. Obviously, we're always the protagonist and we're always in the aftermath.

So we walk into vaults and we find experiments and we read terminals. That's one thing. To see them being super fucking psychotic capitalist weirdos, right, of like, we're going to do this and we're going to experiment on people. And this is how much we've taken over the land here. You know, even for the ghoul, when he's not the ghoul, to be listening on his wife's call and see the corporate espionage there and them turning. Like, I love that we get a window into that world. We've never been able to get to that degree. Yeah.

You know what I mean? So to see all of that. And then especially at the end to have Lucy's dad go into the vault, make his cup of coffee, walk around. and then see how this vault was working, or the, you know, Robco Industries was working on shrinking it down, right, to be a little computer chip rather than a big thing on their neck.

I'm like, that's fucking cool. And like, I could easily see us as the vault dweller finding these vaults and finding those reports and stopping a mission with it, but to see it in like a prestige format, I think's cool. Yeah, and I think Walton Goggins plays that role so well.

He fucking crushes it. Yeah, he's so good as the goal. And then you see his reaction to everything that's happening in the past, right? him learning that this was the, you know, Baltex thing right going on here. Him, like, driving his daughter and then the alarms, the sirens going off and it being a test,

but everybody's panicking, right? Yeah, he pulled right from the game, the Volt Tech salesman. Yeah. Literally the dude from the hat that shows up in Fallout 4, right, to let you in. Yeah, all the flashback stuff is excellent. And that's, if you had asked me before this show,

hey, like, they're doing, they're going to make a fallout show with a bunch of flashback stuff pre-exp explosion, whatever. I would have been like, no, like, that's not going to work. out. But I think that, you're right. I think that is some of the best stuff. Well, they're doing such a great job, right, of weaving together a story that pulls

directly from that. So we are getting Mr. House and all of them. What's his name? The brain in the jar Bert Spees or whatever. You know what I mean? The fucking guy with his management program. Like, they're doing such a great job. I remember, you know, last season when that was the reveal, right, of that guy who was in executive training, then it was

his brain and he's been, like, oh my God, like, so cool and to keep all that running the way they have. I love it. Were there any references you got from the game? I mean, for me personally, the one I wrote down is fucking pit boy flashlight noise God damn I love that Oh I didn't even notice that

When they why I think it's when they walk into the vault Lucy does the The turns their pit boy flashlight on And it does the same boing Like that you're in the game When you hold circle I was like oh my God like That's fucking awesome

And again that's like What sets this show apart From so many other video game adaptations Where they're adapting it Whereas this they are playing in the world Of Fallout that's been built And like the sugar bombs box And everything else

And it's just like so clearly the game. I'm like, this is fucking awesome. That's why it's so intoxicating and makes me want to go play the game, even though I know I don't know what I would go play and be happy with because it wouldn't be that experience.

Yeah, you just want to live in this world, which I think is such a testament to how good it is. The dinosaur that Lucy starts off in the episode, I'm pretty sure and I don't know if you'd remember this or if chat remembers this, I'm pretty sure that's a thing in New Vegas. I remember climbing into some sort of like maybe it was a dinosaur structure. I remember there being

a quest thing related to that. Yeah, there is one here I'm looking at right now. Dinky the T-Rex. Okay, somebody says it is. Because as soon as I saw that, I was like, that's from the game, right? Dinky the T-Rex is an unmarked location within Novak in the Mojavee wasteland in Fallet, New Vegas.

It also appears in season two of the show. There you go. Yeah, super cool. And again, for them to bring that stuff to life and have that out there, I'm into it. You know, I think that was also cool of like, I would take it for the most part, especially with this, take it as that it comes kind of thing.

Like, I didn't really daydream. about where Lucy and Gould would be on it. So to get them in that interaction and see how they play and see the ghoul who is so hardened and wants everyone just to be killed and get out of his way or whatever to be hanging there and Lucy negotiating, I thought that was a lot of fun, having the dog up there, a dog meat ready to go.

I don't know if this is like just the nerd. It probably is the nerd thing in me and you and us, right? But even in scenes like that, where you're seeing the way Lucy plays it, you're seeing the way the ghoul plays it, I can see the stats. I can see the stat allocation. I can see the exact type of character that Lucy is.

Yeah. I and again just video game nerd shit because we've existed in the game but yeah it's cool to see like oh I know the exact type of RPG character you are and like you know you being this not even chaotic good I guess

like lawful good yeah yeah turning as you're going like super cool uh yeah I thought then in my notes here uh coming off of that and when he finally does come down and they give him the slow motion you know the big iron on his hip song playing over it while the ghoul just fucking takes me

out like damn this show's fucking good And then I was so happy to double back and get not only so much of it, but her brother in the brain in the vault there. Yeah. The whole time I'm watching it and like the just the like unspoken joke of the brain being like at the top of the stairs. It can't come down the stairs, but you can't come out of the stairs. You know what I mean? And then I was like, why wouldn't you just go up there and beat its ass? When he finally does like thank you.

And I'm glad that they did that right, where it was like running through the options of starving and death or this shot that will just kill you or climbing your dad's pod. It's like, why don't I just fuck all that and go up there and get you? And then the releasing of everybody is a great, like, oh, that's an awesome moment. What are we going to get there? Yeah. Like, that's one of those hooks of, like, you know, there's better cliffhangers, if you will, and things that are going on in the show and bigger plot threads for sure. But for me, like, what is going to happen when all these management types come out of that

and go? And is it, as we not expect, but kind of expect, like, is that where the ghoul's family is? Is that the one they've been put in? Is that where his wife and daughter are going to be? Now, a question. Have you watched further ahead at all? because you mentioned that we got screen. No, no, no, no, I haven't.

So that means I can ask you questions because I watched a little bit ahead so I can't speculate on things. Chat, I mean, I want you to know how much we sacrifice for you. Yeah. Because whenever we get screeners for a TV show, it's a garbage viewing experience, right?

There's no captions. The color balance and sound balance is always bad. It's got big watermarks over it. But Bless and I did that for season one, episode one for you because we thought we'd be able to review this yesterday. But then the embargo is you can only review the entire season yesterday,

but give no spoilers or comments. And I was like, that doesn't make much sense for a review. So we'll hold off still today. So that's what we did for you. Yeah, like I started watching a little bit ahead. And then like we talked about it and we're like, let's just review episode one. And I was like, thank God.

I don't want to watch any more episodes with like the screener version. What do you think is going on with Maximus? Because we got zero Max Smith's episode. Again, I think for as much as I loved the show season one, I forgot so much of it. So even the whole confrontation at the end, I remember it so much. as Lucy, the ghoul, her dad, that woman, and their mom as a ghoul, right? Yeah. And so when they did the recap and it was, oh, yeah, Maximus was there.

Oh, yeah, they kissed. I forgot all about that. I forgot that happened at all. He got knocked down and then he got up and cheers. So I assume he's risen to a, I mean, I know it's not that much time has passed. It seems in the world. Yeah. Maybe weeks, maybe months.

I assume he's being treated as the big hero. He's got a regiment underneath him. He's probably in a position he doesn't want to be, but he's doing the best he can, trying to find Lucy, I imagine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm so fascinated because, like, even for as far as I watching the show, like, there's not much I can really speak to,

but yeah, I'm curious to see, like, how they bring it all together. Mm-hmm. That's what I'll say. Do you know already? No. I don't. Would you tell me? I mean, not here.

What do I put? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so I put down, yeah, the brain versus the kid being a great one. I thought Goggins versus his wife was also great. I loved him running home, getting Janie packed up, running out, and then being told, no, you got to go back. And you got to kill Mr. House, because you have this. this celebrity that'll get you a meeting with him in a way I couldn't.

I was like, oh, that's an interesting stakes, let alone then to have him cooking dinner, right, and her come in and that wall separating them and then both putting their masks on. You know what I mean? Neither of them happy. Neither of them want to do this to the other person, or at least who they thought the other person was coming in and doing that. That was nice. How would you rate the head explosions with the little device on the back of the right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a big fan of a head popper. I love a head popping on a TV show. I thought that was great, too, of like going through. that vault and be like, why would they make a vault for communists? No, this is turning America's into communists or whatever. Goofy-ish shit like that was just so fallout. But when the dude wakes up

on the chair, right? Yeah. And he is like, and she's like, hello? What do you need? And he's acting all weird. I'm like, that is straight out of the fucking video game. Super scary. Yeah, the note I jotted down that I want to make sure is this quote of when the brother lets all the people starts thawing everybody, right? Where he goes,

planes are hard. Chaos is easy. I was like, I really like to see this society in these vaults break down and these people wake up from the illusion that this is how it should be and throw all these wrenches into the works. Yeah. I love the show too, man. I'm excited to see where we all net out and what goes from here and where we're going to go from here and what's going to happen next and yada-da-da. But then it's just going to be the same thing. I get, do we have to play New Vegas? Is that the thing? I don't think so for all the reasons we mentioned. Like, it's just tough to go back to.

But also like, I don't know. At this point, I'm kind of with you because I'm like, do I read a synopsis in New Vegas? Do I read? Because I want to learn. more about Mr. House. Like I want to learn more about... I don't remember. I mean, I... Like, even as we get into the New Vegas areas, right? Like, are we running into the same factions?

Are we running into the same, like... Caesar folks. Yeah. Chat. I need you to sound off, all right? Put in the comments of the YouTube video because that'll be the easiest. What are the mods I need to go get

to make New Vegas awesome, awesome? Because I know it's a great game, period. You know how much I love these, period. But if I was the... delay my Baldersgate start and go do a new Vegas run. That's where I would need to figure it out. That's what I need. People are saying YouTube lore videos.

That's never as much fun. No, but it'll get the job done. If you just want to play more Fallout, you just play more Fallout 76. Like, that's your thing, right? That's weird. But again, like, Fallout 76 is a game we came back for that expansion. Enjoyed it. I enjoy it.

I'm not shitting on anybody's work. over there. It's not fallout. Okay. It's just not like, it is obviously, but it's not the, hey, here is a single player RPG, you're making your character, you're making choices. Here are these really hard. Like to jump back

into Fall at 76 right now, right? I'm left with the same place I was with the DLC that was before that I forget that we came back for, right? The other giant expansion, where it's like to get to making a choice, I'm so cognizant of playing a game. Like the character I've made in Fallat 76 doesn't feel like

a character where I'm role playing is anybody. It feels like I'm going through a fallout amusement park. Yeah. So I'd rather it be that I sit down like I did with Outer Worlds 2, do a character sheet. Here's my new Vegas character in why they are a courier, what their background was, try to set

it up and kind of lean in the way I did with Outer Worlds 2 of like, cool, this person is just going to be lock pick, stealth, garbage and everything else that sucks, but it'll give me these options to really fuck around with in this world, right? I feel like that That's the game.

I'm sitting there making up. Who's my Shifty Vegas courier that would then be on a revenge mission? What did they announce? Didn't they, aren't they porting or remastering Fallout something? The rumor is Fallout 3 is getting a remaster like Oblivion.

Okay. Oh, like oblivion. I love Fallout 3. Didn't they announce something else happening alongside the show? And Fall Out 76's D. Didn't Fallout 4 get like a PS5 version? That's what I'm in general that jazz.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which like... It's the normal thing. Like, we can dial this back to when season one hit and was humongous and we were all like what a fucking mistake not to have three remastered four remastered or new vegas remastered right yeah and so like 76 saw surgeon players i said when i did the preview of the 76 ghoul missions and the bounty hunter stuff hey

hats off to that game for leaning in and them having something for new players but again i'm not trying to serve new players as much as fallout fans right now if that makes sense where it's like 76 is great but like I really feel like to get the most out of playing more 76, I would need to roll a new character and I would need to commit. It's like I've put way too much into 76 to do that. I assume you wouldn't want to go back to four because you've already played four. Yeah, four and three I know quote unquote so well. Yeah.

Three, if I, if the re mastering of three is happening, I will be so happy because I don't remember much from three outside of the big story. Liam Neeson out there, what up? And then my favorite robot from the White House. I'll leave it at that. Yeah. So to get back in there and. have, hey, this is, I would have a great, I would have so much fun remembering as it went,

but that would be a new experience. Fallout 4, I feels too recent. Not to mention again, what do I hate about 76? Fucking building my base. So I don't want to go back to Fallout 4 and fucking build my base and have to do that shit. And granted you didn't have to. But here's the thing. Look at Starfield.

When a mechanic is put into a video game and I don't have to do it, that brings down the video game experience for me. Because I'm like, well, why did you put this fucking thing in the game that I don't want to do? And granted, you know, everybody wants to do something different in video games. But I think while I admit our base building isn't our most favorite thing. Sure, sure, sure. All of games. They put it in there so they can master it for Starfield where they mastered it.

I'm being sarcastic. But yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat of, or in a similar boat where I fought four would have been the one for me to go back to you except for the fact that I've played so much fallout four. Like I beat it. I went back and I played the other endings. Like, you know, I've experienced that world. I don't feel like going back to that Boston. Even Fallout 3 having played it further. a while back ago, right?

But like, I still remember enough of it. You know what I mean? Like, I'm in the same boat as you of that same White House thing. You know, I remember in love, the Liam Neeson,

water. Like, those are the big bullet points there. Yeah. I see and I don't think, oh, and also Megaton, is that the name of the first town?

You know, yeah, yeah, megaton and like the choices to make there. Like, I want something new. And I don't want that to be 76. And so I'm just in a weird place where,

like, Raven for Fallout. Yeah, New Vegas also... Maybe these mods people are going to give us. It'll make it. It's like, and I don't even mean to shit on it, I guess. Maybe I was also, this is always, you know, whatever, I'm making a million excuses here of maybe the plane wasn't the environment to get re-immersed in it.

But it still was like, I did a lot of stuff when I ran around it. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Like, it's such a fine line for any Bethesda or Bethesda Jason, I know Obsidian, an RPG. Yeah. Where it's like, at some point, if the veil gets moved and, I'm just checkboxing requests.

Well, I can do that any game. Why am I not doing that in Starfield? Why am I not doing that in Outer Worlds 2 where I still never finished my second playthrough, right? Like there's still stuff to do there. Now, getting back to the show a little bit, what do you want to see from the rest of the season? I know we just talk about Maximus,

but getting back, I guess, the overall picture of it. Um, a great question. I want to see what Lucy's dad's up to the most. I want to see if he's going to, to get an answer, right? He does that call at the end there, nobody responds. Is, you know, what, this is back into the endings of New Vegas and stuff of like, all right, cool, so what's happening on the other side of that call? I'm excited to see where we are with that. I'm excited to see their reunion in what happens there. I imagine, like, there's honestly not a

thread with the exception, maybe of Maximus, because I just don't remember. And I also, the brotherhood never interests me. I mean, the end of brotherhood in season one. The jarhead stuff is just never my thing. So it's like I'd rather be away from all that or get him out of there. And then they can chase him, which I guess they did season one. So it necessarily makes sense. Yeah, it's crazy because the Power Armor stuff in Fallout has always been so cool to me. But like I don't think I've ever gotten into like the Brotherhood of Steel side of like the fallout stories. And especially season one didn't really do that for me.

I didn't like Maximus until the second half of the season. And I think that's just because he was hanging out with Lucy, right? And we got to see like that. Well, that's what kind of opens up, right? Yeah. trying to get more. Not to mention, again, the ending of that season one, right?

Whether she's like, nobody survived this. He's like, I did. And he comes out of the refrigerator as a little boy. You're like, oh, what a great way

of tying him back into this whole fucking thing with her father and her story. And even when they go into Vault 4, I want to say, and like they're talking in what she's like, do you want to have sex? And he's talking about his penis exploding or whatever.

Like, there's such a comedy to that character when you partner him up with, somebody who's just from a completely different world because that's one of the things i love about fall too is that like everybody's kind of in their own world right the goal is fucking like he is on the streets he's been through the rough like he's like he is genuine post apocalyptic he's seen the worst yeah maximus he is from this very organized corporate like structure and then you have lucy who's just from a different world so when you combine them i think that's the best of what the show has to offer

and see to pull a thread on that right that's where i've been with 76 where I was like debating if I go back and play more because of the Ohio content and all this jazz. If I make my character a ghoul, do I write my own story there? That I came out of the vault like Lucy, but I've been out similar to what

ghoul says in the show, right? Of like, you're just, I'm you. I'm just further down the line or whatever the exact one is, right? Maybe that's how I rephrase my fault 76 character that did I go off and chase all this jazz, blow up my stupid vault that I can't power because I don't know

what the fuck I'm doing. I like this over here. Probably Preston H says, Hot take. The Megaton bomb. Quest isn't as great as people say it is. It boils down to do I genocide a town for the sake of being good or blow it up for the sake of being evil.

Here's what I would say about that, probably Preston H. You're not wrong. Most of the choices and why I think people love New Vegas so much compared to three is the idea that New Vegas is more gray. It's not necessarily good, bad, which is always, I think, kind of annoying in video games, good and bad. But the thing you're missing for why Megaton has this reputation that it has is that that just didn't happen.

Yeah. Like that was the thing of, first off, Fallout 3, when everybody, I'm this old that when everybody went and previewed

it at that E3 it came back, everyone was like, we got it, we are booking nonstop appointments for IG and you have to go play this. This is unheard

of what this game is doing. It's open world. You can go anywhere. You can do anything. So we went and it's fallout. And then it was this idea that yeah, there's a sound megaton

over there that you can blow up or you can't. The story moves on. And people are like, what the fuck are you talking about? You know, I mean, now we take it.

for granted, right? Spoilers slightly, slightly for the outer worlds too. There's a very similar thing in there at some point where you can get out of this thing quick or you can do this thing and if you do the quick thing, you're going to destroy a town. And it's like, that's really cool, but now it's been done. And so now it is that whole thing of like, I think Megaton reverberates through the industry and conversations because it was like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Really? That's amazing. And this kind of game and it keeps going. Yeah. I think you're 100% right. I do miss games having the, like, meter that tells you how good you are versus how evil you are. Lightside and Dark Side. Yeah, the Light Side and Dark Side.

Because you're right, that we kind of evolved past that and like Fallout was, and like Infamous, I believe, right? It had the same thing as well where the more evil things you do, right? You like, that is your character evil now. But we then get to New Vegas. We then get to Witcher 3 is when I'll bring it again, where the choices are so gray. And you are painting a more intricate picture of who your character is. and that's cool and that's better storytelling and stuff. But there is an inherent fun, I think, in a game rewarding you for being like, I'm going to destroy everything, I'm going to be mean, I'm going to be the villain.

Like, I wish games would bring that back a little bit. And I would, not counter, but I would toss, you know, credit in a tip of the hat to steal one of your nobler pictures. Two outer worlds, too, for that, where it is like, hey, we're a shorter RPG. So you can make more black and white decisions and feel like it's hanging off, right? my argument of playing Cotor and even playing infamous was like, okay, cool, as I'm doing this, you almost, oh, and Mass. Effects a great example, too, with the Renegade Paragon system. It was like, all right, at some point, you might as well just ask me to say,

are you good or bad? And then you make the choice for me. Because it's when I, like, Kotor was always the thing of, whichever way you've gone when you're 30 hours into the game, maybe that's an exaggeration. But, you know, when you're hours and hours into the game and they pop up a, it's like, I'm not even reading them anymore. Like, I'm evil, right?

It's like when you play a sweater, right, a Knights of the Old Republic, no, Star Wars, the Old Republic, thank you very much. Like me and Kevin, I always joked about that too. I'm just like, why even give me an option? Like, I'm evil. I'm the Sith or I'm not, you know what I mean? Like, what are we talking about it?

Yeah. Yeah. So I appreciate a gray one, but then that becomes, yes, a much more heady, intricate, character-driven experience, which I don't mind. Yeah, and I definitely prefer that overall. I think there's just like an inherent fun sometimes. And maybe it's more difficult with serious storytelling.

I almost picture like a rationing clang game, not literally rationing and clank, but like a game that's like that's like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blow shit up or build shit up. Like, you know, I think it's fun to be like, I'm going to be destructive today. Yep. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough.

I'm excited for more of the season, bless. I am too. Is it? We're just weekly from here now? We're just weekly. I love that. No three, like two or three episode drop at the beginning? Nope, just a one.

Interesting. Yeah, I know, right? I think this goes all the way through February now, which is crazy to say out loud. Yeah. It means we'll probably be back with more conversations around it. Hopefully, I would like that if this does well, then yes. And if this does shitty, we'll never talk about it again. Exactly.

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