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Todd Howard Rules On Whether The ‘Fallout’ Show Makes ‘New Vegas’ Non-Canon
Paul Tassi Senior Contributor
Apr 18, 2024,09:36am EDT
There is really only one prominent controversy when it comes to the release of the new Fallout show, its affect on another West Coast Fallout story, New Vegas, the 2010 Obsidian spin-off.
Fans believe that several things, including Shady Sands being destroyed in relation to the proclaimed Fallout show timeline, means that the events of New Vegas are non-canon. Now, Bethesda’s Todd Howard has stepped in to make an official declaration about all this. Here’s Howard speaking to IGN about the timeline:
“We’re careful about the timeline,” Howard said. “There might be a little bit of confusion in some places. But everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened. We’re very careful about that.”
And about the bombing of Shady Sands?
“All I can say is we’re threading it tighter there, but the bombs fall just after the events of New Vegas.”
So, while he admits there is some confusion there, the declaration is that yes, New Vegas is canon and no, the Fallout show was not specifically designed to make it non-canon, as some have theorized Bethesda wanted New Vegas out of the timeline as a game they still held some sort of resentment towards because Obsidian made it instead.
That always seemed far-fetched and whatever Bethesda’s opinions on New Vegas (it’s been almost 15 years, I think they’re over it) the end result is that the game is still canon with the show, and the show is canon to the entire series. And if you have seen the show (spoilers follow) the final scene is a shot of New Vegas, and season 2 is no doubt going to use that as a significant location with no doubt a number of tie-ins to the game.
Recent sleuthing has unearthed that the show also seems to have declared a specific “multiple choice” ending for Fallout 4 as canon, given that you do sort of have to pick one to move the story forward. The Brotherhood airship seen in the show has been confirmed as the same airship from Fallout 4, meaning either the Brotherhood wiped everyone out in that game, or the Minutemen ending was used instead in a variation where the airship was not destroyed.
Fallout will continue forward as a TV series for at least a few years, is my guess. But it’s clear fans are going to be having these sort of debates forever, right down to every detail.
There is really only one prominent controversy when it comes to the release of the new Fallout show, its affect on another West Coast Fallout story,
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