Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
An episodic style could absolutely work for Fallout, Star Trek Strange New Worlds is episodic and also fantastic. But if anything episodic shows depend even more heavily on character interaction because the plot gets basically wrapped up at the end of every episode. Aside from the occasional two-parter or season finale, you aren't gonna be excited for the next installment because you need to know what plot thing happens next, but because you're invested in the characters.

Which kinda means you need a very strong, drama generating core cast, quite possibly am ensemble. CRPGs aren't written this way, because the purpose of companions isn't to be co-main characters, but to give you cool people telling you how awesome you are and provide some more fun stuff to do.
I feel like we’re arguing on the same side of this. There isn’t a strong main character so they can either try to make one (what they appear to be doing) or go with an ensemble cast.

The problem is that Hollywoods record with main characters for video game movies is spotty at best. Their ability to come up with compelling plots in video game worlds is worse. So I would be much more optimistic if they were doing a “Tales of the Wasteland” style anthology show that let’s different writers do single episodes while leading into the existing world building heavily.