Thanks for that perspective. I know that all the references to game locations and items cause my brain to spike, but if you’ve never spent hours searching for Issue #12 of Grognak the Barbarian, you probably wouldn’t even notice or care when he pops up on the TV in the background.
I really hope that non-fans enjoy the series as it is, because nearly every video game to film adaptation has to bastardize the original idea to make it more palatable to the general public, and the result is usually disappointing to the fans, and mediocre to everyone else.
If Fallout can be this true to source, AND appeal to the general public, video game movies might stop being such a joke. We’re looking at you next, Borderlands, but I expect that will be less like Fallout and more like Street Fighter.