Amazon’s Fallout TV series has pushed the timeline of the game series considerably past Obsidian’s Fallout New Vegas. In the years since we made our way through the Mojave, Sandy Shores has fallen and the region is in disarray, but did our choices matter?
For Fallout Season 2, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet explained that the series is purposefully not picking any canon ending as the true ending of Fallout New Vegas to ensure that everyone’s choices still matter to some degree.
With the Fallout TV show officially part of the universe’s continued canon, which game creator Tim Cain has backed, Robertson-Dworet told GamesRadar that picking any singular ending would ruin the idea of choice within the video game.
“The discussions [Bethesda’s] Todd [Howard], [executive producer Jonathan Nolan], and [co-showrunner Graham Wagner] and the whole creative team had was that we wanted to avoid making one particular ending correct [from] any of the games,” the showrunner said.
“We wanted, wherever possible, to basically say that any player’s experiences and the choices they made might have happened leading up to the show,” he continued.
This means that things will be left vague as to what actually occurred during the events of New Vegas. With almost every faction in a weakened state in Fallout Season 2 compared to Obsidian’s RPG, your choices can still have occurred, but what happened after is up to the show’s writers. However, even the writers expect there to be some inconsistencies due to how many choices players can have in the game.
“Of course, there might be moments that contradict that [choice],” the showrunner said. “But that was our intention – because we didn’t want to contradict anyone’s experiences playing the games.”
“That’s why we very intentionally set our show years after the events of the games,” he continued. “For example, this season of Fallout takes place about 15 years after the events of Fallout: New Vegas, and we tried as much as possible to avoid saying any canonical ending is real.”
With 15 years between Fallout New Vegas and Fallout Season 2, a lot has happened. The Battle of Hoover Dam has come and gone, the NCR is in shambles and the Brotherhood of Steel is increasing its presence in the region. War never changes, and war has plagued the region since the Courier’s adventures in the Mojave.
“Vegas is not exactly as you remember it, because naturally, in the wasteland, there’s constantly shifts, right?” Robertson-Dworet concluded. “There’s warring factions trying to kill each other, take over each other’s territory every day. So things would not remain the same over 15 years. Some things fans will recognize as very much the same, but other things have changed. I hope when they say we have changed things from how it was in the game, they understand there’s an implied story there we hope they think is delicious and fun.”
Fallout Season 2 releases on Amazon Prime Video on December 17, 2025.
