How 'Fallout' Reflects Hollywood's New Approach to Game Adaptations

It was good because the people making it were competent. That's really the long and short of it.

The Fallout series released in the same year as the 2nd season of that awful Halo series, and Phil Spencer is basically saying they'd do it all over again if asked.

They don't have a magic formula, they got lucky with their choice of showrunner is all.