I know this really sounds stupid but the ending of a computer game actually got me down in the dumps. To those of you who haven’t played Fallout and don’t want the ending spoiled stop reading right now.
At the beginning of the game you find out that Earth has had a nuclear war and advanced civilization survived in underground facilites called Vaults. Your vault’s water purification system has broken down and you need to go out and find another before the water runs out. Anyway after you bring back the needed parts that isn’t the end of the game. During your travels you find out about an army of mutants that will wipe out humankind unless something is done about them. So you go back out into the wasteland and what happens when you erradicate the mutant leaders?
This is the cool part. The narration tells you the fate of each town you visited during the course of the game. Depending on the choices you made most of these are pretty happy endings. Finally you make it back to your Vault and hte leader, the guy that sent you out to begin with, has decided that you’ll be a bad influence on other residents of the vault. So he explains that you’re a hero and they he kicks you out into the world all alone.
What a depressing ending. You don’t even get to find out what happens to your intrepid hero. I suppose everything must have turned out ok because there was a sequel. Oh well I suppose I shouldn’t burden y’all with this but it is called “mindless” pointless stuff I must share.
But if you’re really unhappy with that you can kill the overseer. Not quite as icky as the Lieutenant dying, but pretty good.
Or so I’ve heard. Because I’d never kill innocents, oh no.
On a slight tangent, can you get happy ending movies for the cultists and somewhere else, I think it’s Junktown? Because I always get told they’re all dead, no matter what I do.
d00d, this is so bizarre. I’ve been a PC gamer for years, but I’d never played Fallout – I had played Wasteland, its inspiration, on the Apple IIE years before.
I just bought Fallout last week, and it blew me away! Great game, and deserving of most of the raves it receives. I plowed through it pretty quick, then played twice more.
Based on Fallout, I just bought Fallout 2 yesterday. It’s gonna be a while before I get anywhere with it though. Big game.
I bought FO 2 for 10 bucks. It would have been a deal at 50, IMO. Great, great game.
Basically, from what I remember, the hero from FO 1 leaves the Vault after being rejected and founds a town up north called Arroyo. Lives to a ripe old age, has a family, that sort of thing.
You can probably find FO1 and FO2 packaged together for about $13 if you look for it. The games were re-released together not all that long ago, since Interplay knows a winner when it sells one.
As far as justifying it to Astrogirl, hmm. Tell her she can go and fool around with other guys while you’re plowing through the games. Or make it a shared experience – you play, she gets under the desk and “plays” too.
These are all terrible suggestions, but they’re all I can think of. Please ignore me now.
Fallout was released in Korea by SSangYong as part of their value series. It is packaged without a box (just the CD case), all documentation is in pdf format, and I got mine for about W6000 although since you’re in Seoul you can probably get it cheaper.
In short, it’s not expensive, and there’ll be no great amount of evidence to let Astrogirl know that you’ve made a new purchase.
Unless you are a big fan of packaging art, buy the new game and put it in some old game box. Also good for the newer games who have cheap packaging - I have several Civilization packages in the old (5 1/2 floppy) box. Astrogirl only sees same old boxes..
Re: the water chip, in Fallout 2 you find a vault not far from the one from Fallout 1 that has a box full of water chips and a note left on one of the computers about how they got some orders mixed up, instead of the GECK they got the other vault’s replacement chips.
