“No, I haven’t sat down to play the games,” said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. “And I won’t. I won’t. I won’t play the games. I’m not interested.”
The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn’t want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.
“All of a sudden, I’m looking at this world from a very different perspective, and as something on a screen in which I am an avatar in. I don’t believe that I’m an avatar. I believe The Ghoul exists in the world. I believe that Cooper Howard exists in the world.” he said.
“The best way that I can serve this world and serve the fans of this game, I think, is to go to work every single day and believe the circumstances that I’m presented with,” Goggins said.
If he is dedicated to the world and his character, that’s sufficient. Hes a fantastic actor. buuuut…
I would suspect that him playing the games would not make him “think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game.” but I’m not Walter Goggins. Realistically, hes just not into video games with major story campaigns and doesn’t understand they’re just a different form of story telling media. He’s thinking of video games as exclusively as an avenue of competition, mastery, or challenge.
So I think hes wrong, but I don’t know that it matters that materially.
I was looking for this comment. 100% agree. It’s fine if he doesn’t want to play the games but his reasoning doesn’t make sense.
My thoughts exactly.