Fallout's Aaron Moten 'forbid' himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who's actually rolled a character in the Wasteland

Still image from Fallout series on Prime - Maximus out of his power armor

(Image credit: Amazon)

Walton Goggins, as is well-established, has not played and will not play Fallout. That's absolutely fine—Goggins does a great job playing The Ghoul in the Fallout TV show without familiarity with the game series, and I doubt playing it would make him any better. Still, I hope people keep asking him about it, just because I enjoy hearing his highfalutin, actorly reasons for abstaining when I'm personally damn near certain his real reason is being a 54-year-old man who doesn't play videogames.

But what about Aaron Moten, the actor who plays Maximus and known gamer (he's an Ocarina of Time guy)? Surely he's played Fallout, right? Right?

Which is pretty much what Goggins says, too. I suppose their thinking is that interacting with this world—which has to feel 'real' to them in some sense—as a bunch of polygons on a screen might diminish it in their heads and that would translate to the screen. I'm not entirely sure that holds water, but I guess that's why I'm not an actor. One of the reasons I'm not an actor.

Ella Purnell in a Vault suit — (Image credit: Prime Video)

I think I've cracked it. I bet Moten saw someone spend 3 hours modding their New Vegas playthrough only for it to not work and decided he had better things to do with his life. Fair enough, Aaron.

Anyway, that's two of the Fallout show's three leads swearing off playing Fallout. What about Ella Purnell, the third? Oh, you bet she's played Fallout 4. Give it a few more seasons, and she'll have incredibly strong opinions on GURPS.

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One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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