Todd Howard Explains Why He Has Turned Down All the Offers to Cameo in the Fallout TV Show So Far

Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard has officially ruled retired appearing connected the Fallout TV amusement adjacent successful cameo form, insisting he’s amended down the camera than successful beforehand of it.

Ever since the Fallout TV bid was announced, fans of the Fallout video games person wondered whether Howard mightiness look in, for example, a random Vault dweller, a ghoul, oregon immoderate different cameo.

Todd Howard truly doesn't privation to look successful the Fallout TV show. Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Prime Video.

But helium failed to look successful Season 1, and successful a caller interrogation with Howard AND Kevin Beatty, Head of Product for Samsung Gaming, Interactive Experiences, and Emerging Tech (Bethesda and Xbox precocious announced a concern with Amazon and Samsung to watercourse Season 1 for escaped connected Samsung TV Plus up of Season 2), we asked the Bethesda brag if he’ll look successful the Fallout amusement astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

The reply was a wide no.

“They've offered maine a full bunch, adjacent successful Season 1. I was going to beryllium successful the benignant of Dr. Strangelove Vault-Tec room, wherever they're talking each the experiments, and immoderate different things. I deliberation I'm champion down the camera.”

That’s a notation to the country successful Fallout Season 1 acceptable successful the Vault-Tec boardroom. It’s a cardinal flashback successful Episode 8 that showed Vault-Tec executives, including Barb Howard, conspiring with different firm heads to disagreement up the vault experiments. Incidentally, this is besides the country successful which the executives hold to signifier the Great War to guarantee societal power and survey quality behaviour successful confined, often cruel, experiments, mounting the signifier for the post-apocalyptic mounting fans cognize and love.

So Howard doesn’t adjacent privation to amusement up arsenic idiosyncratic The Ghoul takes out?

“I said nary to each of them truthful far,” helium replied.

That's bully restraint, we pointed out. “I don't privation to distract. Everyone goes, ‘oh, there's Todd!’”

Then, erstwhile we asked Howard if helium didn’t fancy being the Stan Lee of Bethesda and showing up successful everything, helium replied: “Not astatine this time.”

That’s that past — nary Todd Howard successful Fallout. But we bash cognize a batch astir what to expect from Fallout Season 2. The caller play picks up successful the aftermath of Season 1’s finale and travels done the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic metropolis of New Vegas. The eight-episode play volition premiere connected December 17, with 1 occurrence rolling retired play until the play finale connected February 4, 2026. Fans of Obsidian's much-loved video crippled volition beryllium funny to perceive that Season 2 takes a "fog of war" attack to however it juggles Fallout: New Vegas' assorted endings.

Meanwhile, successful the aforesaid interrogation with IGN, Howard said Fallout is the franchise “that we’re doing the astir successful close now,” and was coy erstwhile asked astir the imaginable instrumentality to New Vegas oregon a Fallout 3 Remaster portion fans hold for Fallout 5.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].