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Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck (S.P.E.C.I.A.L).

The series will not only test dwellers’ core attributes, but also their loyalty and alliances. It’s a game of power dynamics, popularity and social strategy which will ultimately result in a huge cash prize, but do you have what it takes to be the most S.P.E.C.I.A.L?.

I am sort of speechless, but for all the wrong reasons.

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 111 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Enshittification comes even from previously unseen angles.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 days ago

This feels a step above. Dysenterification?

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 80 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A reality show vault? Not even Vault-Tec had any experiments that were that cruel.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] teft@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

Or vault 81. One side had a full community to be tested on and observed, the other side had scientists watching the experiment.

It’s just a shame hardly any scientists showed up. They’d have had some great tv to watch after starting their molerat experiments.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah... this seems pretty on brand really.

Actually, it seems really well themed, a messed up reality show is exactly the kind of thing you might find in a vault. The thing to remember though, is that Vault-Tec is supposed to be satirical... Bethesda should not become Vault-Tec because that would be unethical... Right Bethesda... Right?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Todd Howard cannot hear you for he is too busy CHIMing.

[–] gole@lemmy.zip 51 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good news everyone, we created the Torment Nexus reality TV show, from the game "Don't create the Torment Nexus"

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

I'm half expecting Peter Thiel to say "maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we're at it" in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Games getting turned into a massive franchises tend to put me off of the entire thing

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. This makes me really dislike Fallout now.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

fallout 1 sucks now because 30 years later they made a reality show

yeah i dont get it

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

I think it's more like "I can't enjoy fallout 1 anymore knowing what it eventually became".

I don't agree but I get it.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

Reality TV. Reality TV never changes...

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What do you call it when even the shark has jumped the shark?

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just get people to agree to live in crowded vaults and have them sign a waver accepting any and all psychological torture performed on them. That's a functional Fallout reality show.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

that's just real life at this point, with algo social media

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Of course, gotta milk the success of the show for all it's worth. Amazon is gonna fumble the bag so hard if they try to keep cashing in like this.

Breaking news! Zenimax is still completely out of touch with it's fan base.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

"Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise"

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago
[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is it just me or does this feel tone deaf?

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[–] matthewm05@ttrpg.network 12 points 4 days ago

It's cheaper to make hollywood slop than video games.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 26 points 5 days ago

Lmao the Steam Post has 0 likes

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Plot twist: Nuclear war happens while contestants are in vault

[–] markz@suppo.fi 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A vault made of plywood and gaffer tape

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Well, the contestants are S.p.e.c.i.a.l

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So Big Brother then. With a theme.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Exactly what I thought.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My fav season was 2028 when the dwellers failed the 'stealthboy raid' task and they released FEV into the vault

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[–] Rinn@awful.systems 12 points 4 days ago

I had to check what community I'm in, still can't believe this is not the Onion.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

shut up todd.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reality show

a series of games

If you want a reality show, just drop people into one of the weirder vaults and that's it.

[–] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Real life vault 106 let's gooooo

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Vault 108. Only one actual Gary, but everyone needs to pretend to be Gary. The exact rules need some thinking but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with something.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.

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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This is like designing a Game of Thrones fighting game.

You can throw all the clever nods you want into the product. You can read the source material to high heaven and spend all the time in the world perfecting it. You can hire the best and brightest fighting game devs to come in and design the best game ever.

Fundamentally it will never work. Game of Thrones’ charm is in its politics, feeling of isolation, and world building. There’s no way to bring anything out of that in a fighting game. As soon as you put Renly against Joeffry in a match to the death anyone that’s a fan will just look at the product befuddled.

For this reality show you’re taking a franchise that’s known for its single player experience and tight top notch writing for both the games (at least 1 and 2) and tv show and stripping that away in favor of a format that encourages none of that. All it’s going to be is some weird challenge with loser kids going “OMG I WASNT EXPECTING THAT!!” and “What. The. Fuck. “ for 30 minutes. It’s not going to be good. And it’s gonna be a shit stain on the franchise.

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's fucking stupid. Why? Who asked for this? Just make the damn games. Maybe I'm biased because I think this sort of thing is unentertaining trash, but I legitimately don't think that Fallout fans like this sort of thing.

[–] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This isn't for Fallout fans. It's for people who watch Netflix/Prime and saw the Fallout show. Reality shows are pretty popular on these platforms (Beast Games is #2 on Prime right now) so that's who they're going after.

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

So... They're inventing Big Brother, but with lore?

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Swing and a miss.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Sounds like Fallout-themed Squid Game.

Also, Bethesda is not going to make a new Fallout game while Fallout 76 keeps printing money. Same with Elder Scrolls Online. The amazing thing isn't just how far Bethesda has fallen, it's how many people keep propping them up.

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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Testing SPECIAL with games seems boring. They should do a multi layered social deduction game instead, where everyone has different goals, lies to another and nobody really understands what is going on until the end.

So some contestants are actors, and think they know where the show is going, but they are tricked as well.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

the show is ok but this is dumb i don't like it

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm bummed there's no good single player fallout after fallout 4.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (6 children)

And Fallout 4 was kind of mediocre.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Agreed, but it is a great platform to mod the heck out of. I recommend Wasteland Reborn, if you're looking for a stable modlist.

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