The intro they speak of is the phrase “War. War never changes”. That article could have been a single paragraph.
His turns in Fallout are especially interesting because they're his most iconic videogame work, and yet it's only four simple words: "War. War never changes." The intro to each Fallout game spins off differently from there, but those four words are an essential pillar of the series, every bit as thematically foundational as power armor or Nuka Cola.
I’m so jaded these days I can see a writer doing a few paragraphs, and asking an LLM to fluff it up.
"I'm not a gamer," Perlman says in the interview. "I wouldn't know how to put a game—I wouldn't know which game goes into which piece of hardware. I've never played any of the games. The whole Fallout thing is a mystery to me."
Ya, not everyone is going to be into video games. For someone who just does some voice work, that seems pretty reasonable.
... Is it really that confusing that an actor / voice actor can just be like, good at their job, and not be super involved in other things related to doing that job?
Like uh, every mocap actor ever. For every game with advanced animations. Every professional martial artist, dancer, stunt actor, gymnast, etc.
... Who would think they are necessarily all super duper into video games?
How about people who get face scanned or body scanned? Or people who compose music that goes into games, or sing, or perform the music?
... why would they all be super duper video game dorks?
Walton Goggins, who plays “the Ghoul” on the show, also said he was “not interested” in playing the game. Thought it would fuck up his method or whatever. I personally think these guys don’t know what they’re missing. It just seems like the adult thing to them to say pshaw to a video game. If they were in a movie that was based on a book, I bet they wouldn’t brag about how they’re “not interested” in reading it.
I don't really appreciate the anti-literate posturing of this cast. Imagine the cast of Lord of the Rings saying they don't feel the need to engage with the text. Just rich people doing anti-intellectualism to my eyes.
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