"No, I haven't sat down to play the games," said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. "And I won't. I won't. I won't play the games. I'm not interested."

The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn't want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.

"All of a sudden, I'm looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don't believe that I'm an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world." he said.

"The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I'm presented with," Goggins said.

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[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean…Fallout isn’t a great game. It’s too “Rockstar”/console driven in my mind. Looks absolutely amazing, but the some of the bewilderingly rigid character mechanics completely break immersion for me.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Are we talking Fallout 1 specifically?

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think I tried 3 and 4?

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Play 1, 2, or NV. Much love.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

1 and 2 are extremely different games though. The top down 2D games are nothing like 3 and later iterations.

You aren't getting less rigid mechanics in 1, 2 or NV than ypu do in any of the other games so if that's OP's problem nothing in this IP will be an improvement.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Well, they said their problem was rigid character mechanics so all I can assume is that levelling their character didn't get them where they wanted. I personally haven't had a NV run where Courier Six wasn't a complete badass by the end. And yeah, 1 & 2 are extremely different, which is why I'm recommending them to a person who didn't much care for 3 & 4.