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'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on (www.pcgamer.com)

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"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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[-] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 111 points 2 days ago

Counterpoint, Henry Cavill in The Witcher. Though he left once they started diverging from the source because he knew that it would make the show subpar. And it did.

Knowing the source material can help actors understand more nuance of their character and the world the show takes place in.

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

Pointercount, the lore in Fallout is grossly inconsistent which is not the case for The Witcher.

[-] VerilyFemme 12 points 2 days ago

The lore in Fallout is grossly inconsistent because of a lack of Henry Cavills working at Bethesda.

There's still a chance to retcon stupid shit. I really, really would prefer that outcome to "eh the lore in this RPG series doesn't matter that much.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

You generally need a single person with the vision to maintain consistency throughout the whole series, and as far as I know that was not the case with Falout the games.

[-] VerilyFemme 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely. They switched out creators almost every game. But I would still say that even with the differences between 1, 2, and NV the series still splits pretty cohesively into the West Coast series that tries to build upon the history of its world and the East Coast series that tries to create a freshly-fucked apocalypse with every outing.