Fallout

Amazon just released a new TV series based on the hit Fallout video game franchise, and while TV series or movies based on video game franchises have not always honored the source material, we can only hope this one meets our very high expectations.

I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 and Diablo 4 and, man, if you'd told me around 25 years ago that the two biggest games of 2023 would be a Baldur's Gate game and a Diablo game, I probably would have actually believe you -- which isn't something that could be said of most series.

While video game adaptions are nothing new, we're about to get an almost overwhelming slate of games translated into movie and TV versions.

I have pretty weird tastes in video games, I suspect.

I keep thinking about the Forsaken following Battle for Azeroth.

When Fallout 76 isn't breaking apart or generally being a disappointing game, there are some brief moments of joy — mostly in the strange things its players are up to.

Look, I'd love to tell you that Fallout 76 was an Overwatch crossover where Soldier 76 shows up in a Vault and saves the Wasteland, but it's not happening. We're not going to see Omnics fighting Super Mutants, or find out that the Institute were behind the Omnic crisis, and we're certainly not going to see Talon agents battling Brotherhood of Steel forces. God, the fanfic writes itself.

Maybe I’m just weird, but I’m very very very serious about wanting another Diablo 3 expansion. I want some of the things left unresolved resolved, Blizzard!

Did Leah’s soul end up trapped in the Burning Hells? If so, when do we get to go save her? What happened to her was the kind of injustice heroes are supposed to do something about, and after both her grandfather and father got screwed over by Diablo, it’s about time someone in that family caught a break.

Anyway, this is The Queue. I want a new expansion, or even news about Diablo 4. Don’t let this franchise wait another 9 years or so like you did between Diablo 2 and 3.

 

How urgent is your main quest when you spend all your time meandering along the way?

It's the end of the world as we know it.