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Another TV show based on computer games.

Ceffer says

Another TV show based on computer games.

Yes. And while it was excellent fanporn for those of us who played it...particularly Fallout 1 - Fallout New Vegas, that very aspect of it makes it pretty unwatchable to those who never played the game.

Paramount did a better job dealing with that problem when they made the HALO TV series. I never played that game but was able to follow the show. But the HALO fan base was pissed by the changes necessary for Paramount to do that.

Perhaps Amazon tried to avoid such a backlash and went to far.

Computer games due to their length can spin dense and elaborate mythologies (or predictive programming, if you will) that might be hard to translate into TV series.

Yes. This game is set in an alternate retro future too. Which was confusing enough for the gamers. They didn't explain it all to viewers of the TV series.

I watched a few minutes. Aside from the predictable ethnic implantology and current mandatory tropeisms (Yawn), it's a bit hard to tell where it's going. I'll try to stick with it for a bit later.

I never played the original game. It was a kludge on the old macs, but I'm sure the updated versions are much better on the consoles.

I finished this in bits and pieces when I was bored with other crap. It turned out to be good, managing to sidestep the usual Netflix type woke cow patties to end with a very strange heralding of our present situation with the Illuminati insanity (predictive programming?).

It started out as sci fi black comedy, wound up on a strangely profound note. The people financing the vault shelters bomb the surface into oblivion to secure their investments and manage their brave new world (sound familiar?). However, the surface survives and mutates around them.