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'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 months ago

"Like, where do you draw the line between what's true and what's not true?" he said. "What we tend to do is, the most truthful thing is what people saw on the screen, right? That's the most truth. And then things that are written officially along with the games are kinda second truth. And then, other things that are written or done outside of that—spin-off things, or somebody answering on the internet—those things are kinda third place.

...Huh, what??? I can understand him wanting New Vegas to have lower priority in terms of canon in comparison to games made by Bethesda, but why the hell would he want a TV show's canonicity to be above the actual source material, and the one that they themselves made on top of that?????

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think the "most truthful" thing encompasses the games too. It comes across as "whatever the players do is what is canon to them" and "along with the games" means things alongside the games, not the games themselves.

Kinda like the game manual saying x character was killed in the previous game or something but you as a player never let that happen. Your canon is the true canon, not what is written.

That sounds much more like a todd thing to say.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

It's so weird that the vault dweller would punch Preston in the face 37 times, but it's canon.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

Ok, that's fair. The article might be omitting context with that quote.

[-] Auk@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago

I read that as saying what people saw on their screens while playing the games was most truthful, not as a reference specifically to the TV show.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't think screen specifically means TV, I think he's talking about the original works like the games, tv shows, movies, being in first place, as opposed to material that comes with those original works, like instruction manuals, press releases, which is a second priority in terms of what canon is, and then Q&A sessions or, and this is when I'm also confused, spin off games.

Now, if spin off games means things like fallout shelter, sure. If spinoff means New vegas or Fallout 76 , that would be more surprising to me.

I need to watch the source video to know better, but life.

EDIT : nah, it seems he means gimmicky tie ins like fallout shelter.

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