The press cycle for Amazon’s upcoming Fallout TV present is in full swing, and a aspect impact is that we’re already getting some morsels of details about upcoming video games. Co-creator Jonathan Nolan not too long ago claimed that the upcoming sequence was primarily “Fallout 5,” which set off some alarms for folk for some purpose.
“Our sequence sits in relation to the video games because the video games sit in relation to one another. It’s virtually like we’re Fallout 5. I don’t wish to sound presumptuous, however it’s only a non-interactive model of it, proper?”
The quote made the rounds as avid gamers anxiously assumed that the present was one way or the other going to take the place of an official Fallout 5 sport from Bethesda, although the studio has already tacitly confirmed its existence and that it’s set to reach someday after the subsequent Elder Scrolls sport, which implies it’s nonetheless a few years off. If something, Fallout obsessives ought to maybe think about themselves fortunate to be getting something resembling a Fallout 5, for the reason that present’s inevitably going to fill the hole between now and the distant launch of the subsequent precise sport.
Nonetheless, Nolan has since tamped down the rumor mill, clarifying that the Fallout present just isn’t the truth is changing the subsequent sport, and is definitely steering properly away from it. In a follow-up with Den Of Geek at SXSW 2024, Nolan confirmed that the present, which takes place a few decade after the newest chronological installment (Fallout 4, set in 2287) is solely its personal unique story that’s at the very least partially knowledgeable by what sport sequence’ director Todd Howard has instructed him to not do. Why? As a result of “we’re going to try this in Fallout 5,” in response to Howard, who says he has shared particulars of Fallout 5’s eventual story with the present’s creators and successfully known as dibs.
With that flag firmly planted, co-showrunner Graham Wagner joked that that they had as an alternative made “Fallout 6.” The purpose, on the finish of the day, is that the very cool-looking present does sit someplace within the canon and chronology, however not at the price of any future video games that you simply aren’t going to see for a decade anyway. So for now, settle in with the present and Fallout 76, which is supposedly in a higher place as of late.
