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Fallout 76 I don't have much of a part of the story when it was released in November 2018. Their world was full of tiny little details, but live, breathing characters. Instead, it empowered players by building their own narrative. Some have played the role of beasts, others joined religions. One person decided to try to incorporate this player experience into a story in its own right, turning it into a radio phenomenon that took place in the 1920s.
This podcast, it's called Chad: The New Story 76
"Many of you may be wondering:" Who the hell is this and who these people are, and what are they doing here, "the maker Kenneth Vigue said at a Bethesda Game Days event last Sunday, when Vigue and his team of volunteer actors were invited Fall publisher to show their work.
Indeed, some in the audience certainly seemed confused about what was going on, at least initially. After an hour, Chad detectives were taking their arrows in the middle of the cheese out of a crowded room Fallout 76big fans. Even the live broadcast chat was recorded (that is, when they didn't want it Skyrim 2 trailers).
Chad: Fallout 76 Story, currently in its first season 20 episodes after its launch in January 2019, follows the journey of Simon (voiced by Vigue) and his infamous Chad hero (portrayed by Alexander Luthor) as they leave Vault 76 on Reclamation Day. Simon tries to think of his own business: He builds camps, streams of materials, and kills the lost Scorched who comes to him. But he remains distracted by the thoughtless and selfish Chad. It's a fulfillment Fallout 76 the experience of trying to play it as a one-player game only to jump into an unknown person around your orbit and begin to contaminate your camp.
The idea for the podcast came about while Vigue and his friends were playing in the middle Fallout 76in the area of high school. "We were talking about high school, and I was talking about a typical douchebag bro bully called Chad," Vigue said in an email Kotaku. "Everyone in the group told the same stories about people they knew called Chad." (The name, Vigue said, has nothing to do with that alpha-male stereotype popular in incel circles; never heard of it before the show started.)
While describing Chad as a "sex-driven joke," Vigue says the character was also inspired by the charisma and swagger that may have been produced by Matthew McConaughey's performance. And even though Chad starts off as the co-creator of the series, future episodes reveal complex relationships between him, Simon, and other characters, including scouts of boys, attackers, lead vibrators, and ghouls.
Chad's character change came late last year after he welcomed a little girl named Sudie, whose best friend is a doll. "There is a great Christmas moment when people respond as I hoped when Chad did his first job of giving Susie her first Christmas in 25 years," she said. “Towards the end of the sleep she says, & # 39; I love you & # 39; and without him he cannot make an answer. We had a lot of messages for the fans because they were crying that minute. ”
Vigue believes getting the audience a chance to break into high school is one of the things that helped propel the series into the first 10 episodes beyond the brief, much like the original headline trick. It also reminds us of the delusions of immorality that have laid the groundwork for some of the past Fall the most memorable news games – the ones they weren't available for Fallout 76The abandoned world.
The podcast also includes some 76. last but not least, with the characters making fun of rebawns, glitches, and gags that rely on having a passing acquaintance with the several creative insights that make up the game.
"In the meantime we started joking about a drug dealer that & # 39; s a junkie, & # 39; everybody just nodded," Vigue said of the audience at PAX East. Listening to than e show can feel a bit like shooting a real audiolog in that game and like turning on the radio to hear the broadcast Friend of the Pearls Home
The stories you can create for yourself in the game may be some of the most memorable, but they rarely translate to other players who weren't there to see firsthand. Vigue thinks part of the reason Chad it has gotten viewers because of how it bridges the gap between the experience of personal sports and the art of getting around organized narrative.
The show attracts a favorite audience Fallout 76 and those who do not. “Why Fallout 76 The players, the meta comments are the players who experience this game, boats, and even quest lines (in) the first person is interesting and exciting, ”says Vigue. “It’s made for people who love it Fall, but I don't like it 76. in fact, I think they take my good wink-wink comment throughout the meta as something that's already a joke in the wrong light than we do. "
Fallout 76 it will eventually find its own collection of new stories and characters of blood and flesh when it is too large The Wastelanders the update arrives in April. Instead of competing, Vigue sees it as more food for her and others ChadThe players.
“The Wastelanders it will mean a new chapter for us in terms of introducing new threats, heroes, friends and civilians, ”he said. "It introduces a new conflict for our party to fight, which will require Simon and Chad to work together to deal with each other." Until then, players who had been exhausting were all Fallout 76sound logs are always turning to the first year of Chad to make their journeys feel less lonely.