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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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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Good. Other than the first two, they’re awful.

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[-] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Is he saying “this is a fallout game you don’t get to play”? Instead of making this into a game, it became a tv show?

[-] chocosoldier 2 points 3 days ago

that's okay, i didn't even make it to the end of the first episode. the show feels obnoxiously far up its own ass so this fully tracks.

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[-] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 3 days ago

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.