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I am a crusty fallout player who has experienced all games from FO1 on, and I'm one of those people who like Fallout 1, Fallout 2 and New Vegas better than 3 and 4 by a long shot. After 76 I expected that every brain cell behind this property had died. I was also not looking forward to following some bland Everyman hero instead of the kind of builds people actually make in the games that let you roleplay- and BOY was I wrong.

The Lucy and Norm from the vault are exactly like the INT builds I favor, the morally bankrupt gunslinging ghoul, Goggins, is almost one for one the kind of guy I made for a fresh New Vegas run to spice things up after I got tired of being a Science Hero. The Brotherhood is a faction I'm actually burnt out on and tired of- I think I'm in the fan minority here but I rolled my eyes whenever the brotherhood was shoehorned into a plot line.... So Maximus was a revelation for me. He's perfect. He's an exact spotlight into everything wrong with the Brotherhood, which they breathed new life into by making them morally grey and screwed up. I really liked them showing a wide eyed kid admiring a shiny idealized Brotherhood he made up in his head... only for the helmet to be ripped off in the rudest of ways. I also like how he's flawed and less than he appears, but that seems to go for everyone involved with his faction. He's actually interesting to watch and I thought it was impossible for me to give a fly's fart in space about anything Brotherhood.

I love Lucy too, it's nice to see someone wide eyed and inexperienced who isn't a wimp by a long shot. Her brother, Norm, is also great. If I was honest with myself he acts how I'd probably act stuck in a vault, he's oh so wonderfully and terribly relatable. I love checking in on him and the wonderfully creepy people watching him from time to time.

One note: as I said I'm an old fan who expected to hate this and so far it's nuked my expectations harder than it nuked Shady Sands. I don't really get the people who had a fit about this- it made sense and this is a dark setting. Even as a huge New Vegas fan I don't understand the canon fears either- New Vegas is an old game you can still boot up any time. I'm glad the show isn't completely shackling itself to old Lore like Bethesda does- that's what's been making the newer games so bland. With any luck they'll hire some writers for this for the next actual game and quit focusing on shovelware like 76.

This feels like it was written by someone who actually plays games or at least did their research. The MC is a guy who hunts and exploits glitches and unlike a lot of the protags I see for this kind of thing he isn't a sad friendless loser, which is a nice change of pace. He actually has friends he chats with across games who each have their own weird approaches and playstyles. I liked the understanding the writer has that games are communal. The people who are breaking this game have a history of doing the same kind of thing across other games.

They're good at games because they test each other in competition and swap ideas. The protagonist wasn't born special, he's someone with a long standing hobby of playing unfair games and using solid meta understanding or exploits to get through them.

The world of the game itself is interesting, and actually sounds like something I would enjoy playing. It leaves the game's main story a mystery and then drops hints at it instead of front loading the viewer with infodumps over explaining everything like a lot of anime do. I think the show is building a mystery on the real life side on why the game works the way it does, and I'm interested in seeing how that pans out.