I think it would be really cool if someone started writing novels about Fallout. There's a lot to work with and I think countless stories could be told about people in the Fallout universe

No

I'll read them, provided the canon is consistent.

What? Why? :/

Not everyone likes reading I guess.

Maybe depends I don't know? Are we talking about a regular novel or a graphic novel? I'm not a huge fan of graphic novels... If its a regular novel with a good story and is consistant with the canon then yes. Depends who writes it also, idealy it'd be written by the same people who created the series.

Well, not a graphic novel, a regular novel. I was thinking like, Star Wars has like hundreds of books that are canon and about different things all written by different authors, I was thinking it would be cool if Fallout started doing something like that :happy:

No.

Games can tell much more through lore in-game if the developers aren't lazy.

If there were any books to read, they should be in-game. They already do a nice job through computer terminal entries and innuendo, they just need to do more.

A graphic novel as detailed as "Fun Home" would be nice though.

I would love to read a few Fallout Novels but I wouldent like any based in the future after the latest game (like if a Novel is based after new Vegas) and just have them based in between games like perhaps a novel based on how the NCR first reached Vegas and how they started war with the legion or Lyons trek across america reaching the capital wasteland and setting up the events of FO3 (finding the citredel, the super mutants, the fighting in the pitt and the BOS members becoming the Outcasts)- though can see the problem with this idea in that it would need to make up alot of new places and problems in middle america when games could have a setting there later on.

I'd buy the first one and read it.

Yes I most definitely would like to read novels set in the fallout universe, and I find the suggestion that you can fit more lore into a videogame than a book laughable.

That's like saying you can't fit more of your like story into your own actual life than a book.
Do you not understand how much data can fit onto a disc? What are you not getting?
You should play a game like silent hill, with so much depth a book could never do it justice.


You sound like the old guard; afraid of embracing new things and admitting that the old way is not the best way.
I bet you have vinyl as well, lol.

I would vote yes... But only if the novels weren't centered on previously unseen characters and how they affected major events in the universe, like most other "Universe-expanding" game and film fiction.
I'm not interested in reading about Enclave troopers running around on the Oil Rig before it's destroyed, or learning about a patrol of NCR whose heroics make it possible for the Courier to defeat the Legion, etc....

If the books were a series of tales (shorts would be ideal) that simply exposed the reader to the MANY different types of settings and characters and situations that can exist in a post-apocalypse world, then I could get into that.

Hmm, name a videogame that's got as much depth as, say, War and Peace, Crime & Punishment, or any great novel?

And anyone who knows anything about hifi knows that, ultimately, vinyl sounds better than digital!

As long as they get a decent writer, who knows a lot about the Fallout Universe, a series of novels might be worth reading.

There are far too many writers of similar "Extended Universe" spin-off books that are clearly ignorant of the source material and are too lazy to do the research.

I would like to see a couple of novels based off of Fallout. I am a big fan of the Mass Effect novels by Drew Karpyshyn, being that I like the series. With that said, there is no reason why Fallout novels couldn't be good. Provided that they get a good writer to do them. Consistent lore though please. I don't want any of that alternate canon that throws previously told lore to the way side. I want one consistent universe.

You read Ghost Recon novel? Think it is canon?

Can't say that I have. Only the Mass Effect and Halo books really. Both of those successfully created back story for characters and lore brought in from the source material. I can't say anything for Ghost Recon though.

Yes I do know how much data you can fit on a disc & it is a finite amount. There are no such limits that apply to books, you just print more pages. I have played silent hill, many many times and many of the games and I agree that they are fantastic games. But a book with the same story, written by an author like James Herbert who could do the story correctly, would be so much better than the game. I really can't believe that you are suggesting that a bit of dialogue and some atmospheric music can truly capture Harry Mason's desperation and abject terror when first of all his daughter goes missing and then, the bizzare, monster infested town that she has gone missing in appears to descend into hell itself around him.

You say that I sound like I'm afraid to embrace new things, well this isn't true. But just because something is new and shiny it doesn't always mean it is better.

Just same characters (Scott Mitchell and his team from the game) in a new seperate adventure. Doubt it's canon.

I would much prefer any other form of media. I'f you've been acquainted with the Star Wqrs novels you know they're a mess. They introduce unnecessary characters and concepts, establish multiple continuity problems, and frankly I wouldn't be caught dead reading one in public. This is not to mention that an action/visual oriented series such as Fallout lends itself much better to a medium with actual imagery.

In short, absolutely not. It would most likely devolve into generic sci-fi drivel along the lines of the Star Wqrs novels.

Good question i think it wouldnt be bad.

Some Star Wars novels are good. They are just a mixed bag, like most things.

It would be a nice thing if the stories covered some of the areas you don't see in the games (other countries, the war before the bomb drop etc) i'd read them

If it was consistent with canon and was good of course. One thing I think would be awesome is choose your own adventure Fallout books.