Amazon Is Making a Fallout Shelter Competition Reality TV Show (engadget.com) 25
Amazon is expanding the Fallout universe with Fallout Shelter, a ten-episode reality competition show where contestants face survival-style challenges and moral dilemmas for a cash prize. Engadget reports: Prime Video has greenlit a unscripted reality show titled Fallout Shelter. It will be a ten-episode run with Studio Lambert, the team behind reality projects including Squid Game: The Challenge and The Traitors, as its primary producer. Bethesda Game Studios' head honcho Todd Howard is attached as an executive producer. Amazon's description of Fallout Shelter is: "Across a series of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas and moral crossroads, contestants must prove their ingenuity, teamwork and resilience as they compete for safety, power and ultimately a huge cash prize."
[...] The name echos the free-to-play mobile game Bethesda released in 2015. Fallout Shelter lets people build and improve their out Vault-Tec residence, managing the resources for a growing cadre of underground survivors. It seems pretty likely that there will be some type of tie-in between the game and the show, but any details about that might pop up closer to when the program is ready to air. It's currently casting, and no release timeline has been shared.
[...] The name echos the free-to-play mobile game Bethesda released in 2015. Fallout Shelter lets people build and improve their out Vault-Tec residence, managing the resources for a growing cadre of underground survivors. It seems pretty likely that there will be some type of tie-in between the game and the show, but any details about that might pop up closer to when the program is ready to air. It's currently casting, and no release timeline has been shared.
What's the moral dilemma (Score:2)
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the game gives you incentives to make some ruthless decisions for the sake of efficiency. that's endgame sort of stuff, though, you don't need to if you play casually. for me the game stopped being fun way before reaching endgame.
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The Soviet shelters allegedly had a sign on the outside of their bast doors, which was only visible when they were shut down from the inside.
Apparently it said "If this door is closed, try to find cover in the terrain folds of the nearby area."
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involved in building a fallout shelter?
Do you risk running out of food, or do you "eliminate" a few of the less productive members of the shelter, perhaps considering turning them into food in the process? That's just off the top of my head from a mixture of my admittedly limited Fallout knowledge, and a plotline from the sci-fi series The 100. I'm sure the show's producers will have plenty more of that type of moral quandaries for their guests, hopefully minus the actually eating other people. Unless they think that'd up the ratings.
Fallout Shelter, the reality show... (Score:2)
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Ya, don't really see the point beyond IP branding. I mean sure, sexier than throwing money at the homeless and watching them battle it out, but it's not like you'll be battling rad-scorpions.
Maybe it will allow someone their 15 minutes, but unless you are deciding whether to exile someone because disease, how is this Fallout?
Re: Fallout Shelter, the reality show... (Score:2)
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I think Seattle has the copyright on bum fights.
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Fallout supplied by Sandia National Labs.
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You mean it's not provided by Vault-Tec?
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bit late to start working on your fallout shelter (Score:2)
Trump has been President for a year. What the fuck have you been doing?
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> all the migrants suddenly coming in.
If you mean "the surge" a few years ago, that's Don's own doing: Don advertised them to come, saying "Joe will just let you in". The world watches Trump on TV also, that fucking oddball is entertaining. But Joe's border policy wasn't notably different from prior Presidents such that blaming Joe for the spike doesn't add up.
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Nah, this is a long time obsession with billionaires and likely the idea came from the top. I had a whole book long ago, before Trump was involved by an expert who consulted with the wealthy wanting to plan their survival ... maintenance of their wealth if everything collapses; and perhaps they were aware of the upcoming housing collapse which could have created a great depression... or other factors.
The problem with all their ideas as the expert pointed out; they needed staff to lord over which maintained
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I realize it's the TV series tie-in (I haven't watched it, play the original games a lot), but I thought it might bring some levity to take the idea of needing a literal fallout shelter in the current political chaos.
As for the wealthy. Everything is going according to plan. If the housing market collapses then the people who still own property will be renting it to others. We already have some tech companies building company housing that is bundled with your employment contract. The kind of dystopia that y
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I only know from the comments some TV and video game thing is going on here; I rarely watch TV or video games. Instead I read about stuff like why the wealthy who decide to fund TV or games are interested in this imaginary situation where they are at the mercy of the masses they've been legally stealing from all this time.
In the past, you had serfs who believed somehow you deserved to rule over them and maybe are not as bad as the other evil pricks -- because one of them has to be their master. Not a lot of
They should call it (Score:1)
"Surviving Donniggeddon"
Incest, then? (Score:2, Insightful)
The name echos the free-to-play mobile game Bethesda released in 2015
The game where incest isn't supposed to occur but sometimes does anyway? Not just cousin stuff, either.
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Those vault dwellers were horny little suckers, too. You had to make sure that you didn't leave a male and a female vault dweller in a barracks together for more than 45 seconds, or you're getting a baby vault dweller quickly!
Cool (Score:3)