Fallout Season 2 Ep. 1 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast – Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 Review

Podcast: Kinda Funny Gamescast
Episode: Fallout Season 2 Ep. 1 Review
Release Date: December 19, 2025
Hosts: Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye, Andy Cortez

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast dives into a spoiler-free and spoiler-filled review of Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 ("The Innovator"). The team, known for their gaming expertise and passion for all things nerd culture, explore how the show picks up after the critically-acclaimed first season, its connection to the Fallout video games—particularly New Vegas—and how it manages to both excite long-time fans and challenge the urge to revisit (or mod) the classic games.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Spoiler-Free Impressions & Scores

(09:00–14:00)

• Andy Cortez praises the episode for picking up where Season 1 left off, though he notes its deliberate pacing:

  "It felt kind of slow...like I'm in, like, the middle of a season. But I think that's just because season one was so rich with events, rich with intrigue...they start us off reintroducing us to Ella Purnell's character, reintroducing us to Walton Goggins's character. Interested to see we didn't get any of Maximus this episode." (09:31)

• Score:

  • Andy: 7/10 – "a good seven out of ten." (09:41)
  • Blessing: 9/10 – "I thought this is amazing...I was so happy to be back here." (09:45)

• Greg Miller relays how even as someone who's not big on TV, this episode drew him immediately back in:

  "I thought we jumped right back into that world. I thought they immediately paid off on some of the things...I was very much left with her dad. Left. We're going after her dad." (10:19)

2. The Challenge & Joy of Returning to Fallout

(14:00–18:15)

• Fallout New Vegas Connections:

  • Discussion on how the show’s move towards New Vegas and Mr. House creates anticipation, especially for those who never finished the game.
  • Both Blessing and Andy admit only partial playthroughs, but acknowledge the show's references and nods for game fans.
  • Blessing:

    "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..." (14:11)

  • Andy:

    "My big thing is Mr. House, right? Where I don't have that big of a connection to that character for as little of New Vegas as I've played." (14:31)

• Desire to Replay or Mod the Games:

  • Watching the show reignites their urge to replay Fallout—especially 76 and New Vegas—but also highlights the friction of going back to dated gameplay:

    "It is such an insane thing of watching that and immediately being like...started downloading 76 again on PlayStation" (16:15, Greg)

  • Modding is discussed as a way to relive New Vegas, but both struggle with the game's aged mechanics compared to recent RPGs.

3. Strengths of Fallout as a TV Show

(19:48–21:00 & 28:42–32:10)

• Capturing the Fallout Tone:

  • Andy and Blessing commend how the show nails the vibe, violence, and weirdness from the games:

    "I think what the show does really well is stay true to some of the gruesome aspects of Fallout...I'm all about it." (12:30, Andy)

  • The hosts love Vault-related stories—especially the dark, quirky experiments.

• “It feels like an RPG”

  • Blessing:

    "There's something...when I see dialogue between characters, I can almost picture the dialogue tree." (20:06)

  • The cast appreciates that the show translates game elements (like Pip-Boy noises and Sugar Bombs boxes) faithfully.

4. Spoiler Section – Detailed Moments & Game References

(27:19–48:00)

• Vault Shenanigans:

  • The "incest support group" scene is called out for being bizarre and hilarious, reminiscent of the series’ classic dark humor.

    "What a statement. What a statement. That shit had me dying." (27:39, Andy)

• Production Value & Flashbacks:

  • Praise for high production values in the flashbacks to the pre-war era, the introduction to Vault experiments, and Robco’s mad science.

    "I thought the flashback opening was great... production value was even higher on this one." (28:49, Blessing)

  • Walton Goggins ("the Ghoul") gets props for balancing human tragedy and post-apocalyptic grit.

• Game References & Adaptation Details:

  • Specific nods noted, including the Vault-Tec salesman from Fallout 4, Mr. House, management AI brains, and notably, Dinky the T-Rex from New Vegas.

    "Dinky the T-Rex is an unmarked location within Novak in the Mojave wasteland in Fallout New Vegas. It also appears in season two of the show." (32:37, Blessing reading chat)

  • "Pip-Boy flashlight noise" gets a special shoutout.

• Comic Relief & Character Dynamics:

  • The hosts love how the show uses running jokes (the brain at the top of the stairs) and character interactions (Lucy & the Ghoul’s dynamic, Lucy’s brother unleashing vault chaos).
  • Quote:

    "Plans are hard. Chaos is easy." (37:49, vault scene)

5. The Eternal Fallout Catch-22: What To Play Next?

(38:00–43:48)

• The crew debate whether they want to revisit New Vegas (with mods), just replay 76, or wait for the rumored Fallout 3 remaster.
  • Greg laments that building and base mechanics in later games (like Fallout 4/76) aren’t what he craves.
  • Andy and Blessing wish for a more streamlined, single-player Fallout experience and reminisce about the unique moral choices of Fallout 3’s Megaton quest.

6. Hopes and Questions for the Rest of the Season

(44:03–51:37)

• Lucy’s Father’s Story:
  • The group is eager to see where the storyline with Lucy’s dad and the Mr. House call goes, hoping for strong emotional payoffs and Fallout-style moral ambiguity.
• Maximus & Brotherhood of Steel:
  • Less interest in Maximus’ current arc, which felt secondary, but some curiosity about how threads will be tied together.
• Desire for More Grey Choices:
  • They touch on Fallout’s evolution from good/bad binary morality to nuanced, challenging decisions reminiscent of The Witcher 3 and Outer Worlds.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On the Episode’s Pacing:
  "It felt kind of slow...But a good seven out of ten."
  — Andy Cortez (09:31–09:41)

• On the Fallout Vibe:
  "There are some things that happened in this episode where I'm like, damn, that's fucked up. I'm all about it."
  — Andy Cortez (12:30)

• On Iconic References:
  "Pip boy flashlight noise. God damn, I love that they...it does the same boing like that you're in the game."
  — Blessing (31:26)

• On Character Dynamics as RPGs:
  "When I see dialogue between characters, I can almost picture the dialogue tree."
  — Andy (20:06)

• Classic Fallout Humor:
  "What a statement. What a statement."
  — Blessing, on the incest support group (27:39)

• On Fallout's Replayability:
  "It is such an insane thing of watching that and immediately being like...started downloading 76 again on PlayStation"
  — Greg Miller (16:15)

• On Moral Choices:
  "Maybe that's what I would need to do...Here's my New Vegas character and why they are Courier."
  — Greg (39:58)

• On the Megaton Quest's Reputation:
  "I think Megaton reverberates through the industry and conversations because it was like, what the fuck are you talking about? Really? That's amazing."
  — Greg (47:14)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• Spoiler-Free Impressions & Scores: 09:00–14:00
• New Vegas/Sequel Connections & Fallout Nostalgia: 14:00–18:15
• Adapting Fallout to TV (“It feels like an RPG”): 19:48–21:00, 28:42–32:10
• Major Spoilers, Vault Humor, & Game References: 27:19–48:00
• Debate on Fallout Games and Mods: 38:00–43:48
• What to Expect, Moral Choices & Grey Areas: 44:03–50:01
• Wrap-up & Calls for Audience Input: 50:01–end

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Final Thoughts & Audience Engagement

The Kinda Funny crew is enthusiastic about Fallout Season 2’s start, praising its production values, careful weaving in of lore, and its ability to rekindle their love for the Fallout universe (and frustration with dated gameplay). They urge their audience to share mod recommendations for New Vegas—and thoughts on the new episode—in the YouTube comments, promising to continue the discussion as the season rolls out each week.

Greg:
"Let me know what mods I would need for New Vegas to make. Take that up to a more modern experience. I would love to know that. But more importantly, let me know your thoughts in the comments below on YouTube of what you thought of this episode of Fallout and what your hopes and dreams are for this season." (50:45)

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Summary Tone:
Casual, passionate, and witty—full of inside jokes and deep-cut references, yet welcoming even to newcomers. The crew’s camaraderie and love for Fallout is palpable, and every insight is laced with the unique “Kind of Funny” charm.

Transcript

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[Andy Cortez]

The one If. So, yeah. One of the factions.

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I honestly thought it was Fallout. God, I wish. I mean, I love cyberpunk as well.

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[Andy Cortez]

It was. This is one where I forget if I even requested this. I forget, like, where. How I got this jacket.

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[Andy Cortez]

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 have 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 cyberpunk.

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So here's what they got for Fallout. I'm not seeing a cool jacket immediately. We got. We got pajama pants, Nuka cola pillows.

[Andy Cortez]

And you like the new cola pillow.

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[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I wouldn't. It would be, like a couch pillow when Jen.

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[Andy Cortez]

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That is my wife. I'm trying to. How do I get in the story? Puzzle Quest three came out. And one. And you know, I love Puzzle Quest, and I love Puzzle Quest 3. They sent a package of, like, one of the press packs we always get right. And one. And one of the things in there was, like, throw pillows for a couch of the gems from Puzzle Quest.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's fun.

[Blessing]

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 cola pillow. And there we go. What the Atara Gave his jacket. What does that say?

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, so that's the one I have was Aldecaldos. Aldecaldos racing jacket, which I don't. I've never worn. I remember the Valentine jacket, but I kind of fuck with it. I like it.

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It did.

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Fallout season two premiered last night 6pm an earlier time than expected with episode one the Innovator. Again, spoiler free start to the conversation here. What did you think?

[Andy Cortez]

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.

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[Andy Cortez]

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.

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[Andy Cortez]

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And I think part. I think to flip that I'm also kind of impressed with the show's ability to pick up where it left off.

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[Andy Cortez]

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 Goggin's character. Right. And get. 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.

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[Andy Cortez]

I guess then I'll say a seven out of ten.

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But a good seven out of ten.

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Yeah. 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. Yeah, 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 10 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. 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. Well, 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. 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. Close, close, close, close, everybody. It was not a big deal. It's like the first scene, 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 of 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 it, but I guess that 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

[Andy Cortez]

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.

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[Andy Cortez]

Like you mentioned, we leave with the big things we live with. Okay, where are we going from here? And so to be thrown back into it, I have. 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?

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Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I guess. Yeah. Okay. This is where we're starting off with it. Okay, cool. Like, it's a lot of just re. Acclimation.

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Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Reclamation. No reclamation. Reactivation to the show. And so, yeah, I think it puts me in a, you know, 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.

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Nine. 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. Like, oh, fuck, that's nine. This wasn't really nine, but I was, I guess I'm more than anything amazed of how much I enjoyed it and

[Andy Cortez]

I wanted to layer 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.

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Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

There are some things that happened in this episode where I'm like, damn, that's fucked up. I'm all. 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.

[Blessing]

Like, I got this out of season one, but season one started from such an interesting place for 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 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. Right 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? Is it? Whereas this one, it's like, oh, man, I feel like we're really leaning into, like, no, no, no. This is the Fallout universe, you know, and love. And there's things here that have happened or not happened.

[Andy Cortez]

You played all the way through New Vegas.

[Blessing]

No, I didn't. That's something I thought about before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You.

[Andy Cortez]

I've started New Vegas. I've played.

[Blessing]

Started it several times.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like, I've started. 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. New Vegas. So I was gonna ask you, like, do you think that enhances what we're getting out of here?

[Blessing]

I think, I mean, I. Because I've played double digit hours of New Vegas. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

You played more than I have.

[Blessing]

Okay. Yeah. So it's not like I've. I've never, you know, and that's over years, and you bump. Anyways. I think so. And I think some of the things they tease a little bit in the opening, like, I'm. 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

[Andy Cortez]

it, because my big thing is Mr. House, right? Where I don't have that big of a connection to that character for as little of 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, right? 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.

[Blessing]

I thought, this is not a spoiler thing, so don't take it this way. I thought maybe we would talk a little. 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, just. You know what I mean? Like, even her brother, right? It's like, oh, man, I missed you. I don't know. I don't remember missing, 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. 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.

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[Blessing]

You know, I played. I was at IGN for Fallout 3. I was at IGN for New Vegas. Like, I was. I. 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 psychopath in me is like, if I'm gonna put. Should I just go play Starfield?

[Andy Cortez]

It's gotta remake. Because, yeah, I had the same thing where I went after the first season, I started up playing New Vegas again.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it was just the archaic nature of it.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, that's a older video game. It's tough to go back to after I played so much of Fallout 4, which I know people wouldn't say is as good as New Vegas.

[Blessing]

You know, still, my IV Thor VI says, crazy how well New Vegas holds up. Does it? I. 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 playthrough was on the. 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, whatever. Somewhere. A lot, though, of like. 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, oof.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And I mean. And I know I'm the guy who tells you when you play Starfield, like, you were stupid to think it was gonna be Game of the Generation. It was gonna be a Bethesda game, but it's still a modern Bethesda game where I feel so empty and so. And it's just like, okay, cool. Like, what am I getting? Like, am I like. I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

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 There's a part in the video game where you send off a spaceship. 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.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But I think all the in between moments.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

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 outside of Bethesda Games, when you want to bring in Witcher and Baldur's Gate and all these other RPGs, it's tough to go back.

[Blessing]

Cree in the chat says the storytelling and characterizations hold up gameplay. Definitely not need 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 Fallout season one, but stick with me. Fallout 76, I boot. I still haven't done. You know, Mr. Hawks, of course, was going to stream with us the new Burning Shores stuff with the ghoul from the in the blah blah. And the servers 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 8690 hours, it's not Starfield, it's not Octopath Traveler 0 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 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. Like I don't do I. I don't want to do this either. Like, yeah. And that's where I keep talking about playing Baldur's Gate 3, where I'm like, I need to get some fucking choices

[Andy Cortez]

going Listen, if you get into it, let me know, because I'll get into it too.

[Blessing]

Which one?

[Andy Cortez]

Baldur's Gate.

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[Blessing]

That's the plan right now for me, my plan is when I get back into Boulder, finish Metroid, finish Donkey Kong, taste the altars, and then into that end of December, start of January period, do some boulders here. 3.

[Andy Cortez]

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.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

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. Like, almost picture, like, you know, in that RPG format. And I think 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.

[Blessing]

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 pip boy and see exactly what they'd be telling you to do.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, exactly. So.

[Blessing]

Well, I'm ready to dive into details. Are you ready?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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[Andy Cortez]

No, you did everything.

[Blessing]

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[Blessing]

We're back. Blessing, Greg, 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, boss? The.

[Andy Cortez]

The incest support group.

[Blessing]

What a statement. What a statement.

[Andy Cortez]

That shit had me dying. Like, that was such the eyes.

[Blessing]

The brother and sister like him trying

[Andy Cortez]

to have an earnest conversation. Yeah. The brother and sister like, looking, so

[Blessing]

we're overthrow this rule or whatever they say. What do you mean? No, we're not going to get rid of it.

[Andy Cortez]

And then the other lady who's sitting there like, yeah, I have like a sneeze. Is that because my dad liked his sister or whatever, so her cousin. So fucking funny. And that's why. 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, I have to make peace with whether or not I'm going to find my. My wife and my daughter. And like, you know, the questioning of, oh, what fucked up things happen in here? And then him. Him even questioning the vault that Lucy came from, I think is all really well done. And like, the vault shit is some of my favorite shit that you can tackle and fall out because it's so creative, so quirky, so weird.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And so I just really like those parts.

[Blessing]

Yeah, 100%. I, you know, I jotted down a whole bunch of different stuff. I thought the flashback opening was great.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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. Now 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?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

This is fucking cool. Like the Rob Co 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 gonna do this and we're gonna 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 in 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.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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. 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 is cool.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. And I think Walton Goggins plays that role.

[Blessing]

So he crushes it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. He's so good as the ghoul. And then you see his reaction to everything that's happening in the past. Right. Him learning that this was the, you know, vault text 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.

[Blessing]

Like, pulled right from the game. The vault tech salesman.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Literally the dude from the hat that shows up in Fallout 4. Right. Though. Let you in.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. All the flashback stuff is excellent. That's. If you had asked me before this show, hey, like, they're doing. They're gonna make a Fallout show with a bunch of flashback stuff, pre explosion, whatever. I would have been like, no, like, that's not gonna work out. But, yeah, I think that you're right. I think that is some of the best stuff.

[Blessing]

Well, they're doing such a great job. Right. Of weaving the other story that pulls directly from that. So we are getting Mr. House and all of them. Yeah. What's his name? The brain in the jar. Burt's Bees 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.

[Andy Cortez]

Were there any references you got from the game?

[Blessing]

I mean, for me, personally, the one I wrote down is fucking pip boy flashlight noise. God damn, I love that they. Oh, I didn't even notice that when they. I think it's when they walk into the vault. Lucy does the. The turns her pip 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 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 in, like, the sugar bombs box and everything else. And it's just, like, so clearly the game. I'm like, this is awesome. That's why it's so intoxicating. It 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

[Andy Cortez]

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 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.

[Blessing]

Yeah, there is one here I'm looking at right now. Dinky. The T Rex.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Somebody says it is. Because as soon as I saw that, I was like, is. That's from the game, right?

[Blessing]

Dinky? The T Rex is an unmarked location within Novak in the Mojave wasteland in Fallout New Vegas. It also appears in season two of the show.

[Andy Cortez]

There you go. Yeah, super cool.

[Blessing]

And again, for them to bring that stuff to life and have that out there. I'm into it, you know, I think it was. That was also cool of like, I am a 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 ghoul would be on it. So to get them in that interaction and see how they play and see, you know, 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.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know if this is, like, just the nerd. It probably is this 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. Like, yeah, I. Again, just video game nerd shit. Because we've existed in the game. But, yeah, it's cool to see, like, oh, I. 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.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like you turning as you're going, like, super cool.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I thought then in my notes here, 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. Yeah, 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.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Blessing]

And I'm glad that they did that right. Where it was like, running through the options of starving to death or this shot that'll just kill you or climb in 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 gonna get there? Ye, like, I really. That 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?

[Andy Cortez]

Now a question. Have you watched further ahead at all? Because you mentioned that we got screen.

[Blessing]

No, no, no, I haven't.

[Andy Cortez]

So that means I can ask you questions because I watched a little bit ahead so I can't speculate on things.

[Blessing]

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. 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 till today. So that's what we did for you.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Like, I started watching a little bit ahead and then like, we talked about it and we were like, let's just review episode one. And I was like, thank God, because

[Blessing]

I don't, I don't want to watch

[Andy Cortez]

any more episodes with like the screener version. What do you think is going on with Maximus? Because we got zero Maximus again.

[Blessing]

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.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And so when they did the recap and it was, oh, yeah, Maximus was there. Oh, yeah, they kissed. I forgot all about that.

[Andy Cortez]

I forgot that happened.

[Blessing]

He got knocked down and then he. 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.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Maybe weeks, maybe months. I assume he's being treated as the big hero. He's got a regimen 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.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so fascinated because, like, even for as far as I watching the show, like, I don't.

[Blessing]

I'm.

[Andy Cortez]

I. There's not much I can really speak to, but yeah, I'm curious to see, like, how they bring it all together. That's what I'll say.

[Blessing]

Do you know already?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I don't.

[Blessing]

Would you tell me?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, not here.

[Blessing]

What did 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 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. 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.

[Andy Cortez]

How would you rate the. The head explosions with the little device on the back?

[Blessing]

Great, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm. I'm a big fan of a head popper.

[Andy Cortez]

I love, I love a head popping.

[Blessing]

You got to have a good head popping on a TV show. I. I thought that was great too, of like going through that vault and being like, why would they make a vault for communists now? This is turning Americans into communists or whatever. Goofy ass shit like that. Which is so Fallout. But when the dude wakes up on the chair, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And he is like. 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 there, for sure. Yeah. The note I jotted down that I want to make sure is this quote of when the brother lets all the people start stalling everybody, right where he goes. Planes are hard. Chaos is easy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the show.

[Blessing]

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 gonna go from here and what's gonna happen next and yada dada. But then it's just gonna be the same. I get. Do we have to play New Vegas? Is that the thing?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't think so. For all the reasons we mentioned, like, it's. I. 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.

[Blessing]

I remember.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, even though, 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.

[Blessing]

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.

[Andy Cortez]

Awesome.

[Blessing]

Because I know it's a great game, period. You know how much I love these, period. But if I was to delay my Baldur's gate 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 not. That's never as much fun.

[Andy Cortez]

No, but it'll get the job done. Because what's the. What's. If you just want to play more Fallout, you just play more Fallout 76. Like, that's your thing.

[Blessing]

Right?

[Andy Cortez]

That's your.

[Blessing]

But again, like, Fallout 76 is a game. We came back for. For that expansion. Enjoyed it. I enjoy it. I'm not shitting on anybody's work over there. It's not Fallout.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing]

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 Fallout 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 expansion, 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 Fallout 76 doesn't feel like a character where I'm role playing as anybody. It feels like I'm going through a Fallout amusement park.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

So I'd rather it be that I sit down like I did with Outer Worlds to do a character sheet. Here's my new Vegas character and why they are Courier. Why what their background was. Try to set it up and kind of lean in the way I did with outer worlds too. 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 around with in this world. Right. I feel like that that's the game of sitting there making up who's my shifty Vegas Courier. That would then be on a revenge mission.

[Andy Cortez]

What did. What do they announce? Didn't they. Aren't they porting or remastering Fallout something?

[Blessing]

The rumor is Fallout 3 is getting a remaster. Like Oblivion.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Oh, like Oblivion.

[Blessing]

I love Fallout 3.

[Andy Cortez]

Didn't they announce something else happening alongside

[Blessing]

the show and Fallout 76.

[Andy Cortez]

Fallout 4. Get like a PS4. That's what I'm.

[Blessing]

All that jazz. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Which like it's the normal thing.

[Blessing]

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?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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.

[Andy Cortez]

I assume that. I assume you wouldn't want to go back to four because you've already played four. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Four and three. I know. Quote unquote so well. 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.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

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 feel is 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 Grant, I know 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, well, admit our base building isn't our most favorite thing. Sure, sure, sure. All I'd get games.

[Andy Cortez]

They. They put it in there so they can master it for Starfield where they mastered it. I'm being. But yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat of. Or in a similar boat word. I. Fallout 4 would have been the one for me to go back to except for the fact that I've. I played so much Fallout 4, 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. I see. And I don't think. Oh, and also Megaton. Is that the name of the first town you. Yeah, Megaton. And like the choices you 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 I have the craving for Fallout New Vegas. Also.

[Blessing]

Maybe these mods people are gonna give us will 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 and I ran around. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Like it's such a fine line for any Bethesda or Bethesda adjacent. I know Obsidian rpg.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Where it's like at some point if the veil gets moved and I'm just checkboxing the quests. I could do that in 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.

[Andy Cortez]

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 talked about Maximus, but getting back, I guess the overall picture of it,

[Blessing]

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 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 and 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.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I mean, the brotherhood in season

[Blessing]

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 wouldn't necessarily make sense.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's crazy because, yeah, 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.

[Blessing]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

We got to see, like, that.

[Blessing]

Well, that's what kind of opens up, right? He kind of get more now. Not to mention, again, the ending of that season one, right, where 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 thing with her father and her story.

[Andy Cortez]

And even when they go into Vault lot four, I want to say. And, like, they're talking and 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 come, 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 Fallout, too, is that, like, everybody's kind of in their own world, right? The ghoul 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.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

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.

[Blessing]

And see to pull a thread on that. Right. That's where I with 76 where I. When I was like debating if I go back and play more because the Ohio content, 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. Like you're just. I'm you. I'm just further down the line or whatever the exact word is. Right. Maybe that's how I rephrase my Fallout 76 character to then 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? 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 Horrible. You're not wrong. Most of the choices and why I think people love New Vegas so much compared to 3, 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 three, 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 non stop appointments for ign. 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. There's a stone 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 gonna 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.

[Andy Cortez]

Ah, yeah. I think you're 100, right? I do miss games. Having the meter that tells you how good you are versus how evil you are.

[Blessing]

Light side and dark side.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, light side and dark side. Because you're right that we kind of evolved past that. And Fallout was. And Infamous, I believe, had the same thing as well, where the more evil things you do 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 back in. 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. That's better storytelling and stuff. But there is an inherent fun, I think, in a game, rewarding you for being like, I'm gonna destroy everything. I'm gonna be mean. I'm gonna be the villain. Like, I wish games would bring that back a little bit.

[Blessing]

Why? And I would not counter, but I would toss, you know, credit in the tip of the hat to steal one of your nomenclatures to Outer Worlds 2 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 paying off. Right. My argument of playing Kotor and even playing Infamous was like, okay, cool. As I'm doing this, you almost. Oh, and Mass Effect's 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, it's like, I'm not even reading them anymore. Like, I'm evil. Right? It's like when you play sweater. Right? Knights of the Old Republic. No. Star wars, the Old Republic. Thank you very much. Like, me and Kevin always joked about that too. 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 here? 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.

[Andy Cortez]

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 Ratchet and Clank game. Not literally Ratchet and Clank, but like a game that's like that.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Blow shit up or build shit up. Like, you know, I think it's fun to be like, I'm gonna be destructive today.

[Blessing]

Yep. Okay. Fair enough.

[Andy Cortez]

Fair enough.

[Blessing]

I'm excited for more of the season. Bless.

[Andy Cortez]

I am too.

[Blessing]

Is it. We're just weekly from here on out?

[Andy Cortez]

We're just weekly.

[Blessing]

I love that. Which?

[Andy Cortez]

No, three. Like two or three episode drop at the beginning?

[Blessing]

Nope, just the one.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Interesting.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I know, right? I think this goes all the way through February now, which is crazy to say out loud.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Means we'll probably be back with more conversations around it.

[Blessing]

Hopefully. I would like that. If this does well, then yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And if this does shitty, we'll never talk about it again.

[Andy Cortez]

Exactly.

[Blessing]

Or we'll just do a Greg way audience. Like I said. Let me know what mods I would need for New Vegas to make. Take that up to a more modern experience. I would love to know that. But more importantly, let me know your thoughts in the comments below on YouTube of what you thought of this episode of Fallout and what your hopes and dreams are for this season. Of course we are kind of funny. We're all about live talk shows and the programming days. Far from done here, Snow Bike Mike is about to drop into that new Arc Raiders content for you. Of course we'll be back tomorrow with kind of Funny Games daily, the games cast and two streams. But for right now, this has been the kind of Funny Games cast where we cover the biggest topics in gaming. If you like that, like subscribe, share, ring the bell, Turn on notifications. If you got Twitch prime, you got Amazon Prime. No, the other way around. Give us your free 30 day subscription. Of course we'd love you to pick up a membership Patreon, YouTube, Apple or Spotify. But no matter what, until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

[Andy Cortez]

Not the show.

[Blessing]

Shake my hand.