Sorry if this is a really popular game and everyone has played it, but I don’t really keep up with computer games. Have you guys played the RPG? Is it good?
I’m interested in what you liked about it and what it was like. I’ve heard good things about both the original and the sequel.
Thanks
Yup, and Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. Love them all, they’re great, buy them from Interplay’s online store and keep my company in business.
Mahaloth, I am 39 and was in the queue for the opening of the very first Games Workshop (circa 1978). I love I-F and RPG. I have extensive experience of both. I travelled to Londinium to purchase the original Arctic Computing games for my ZX-81. I am a tad inebriated right now, and apologise for the lack of verbal descriptiveness right now. I will respond at greater length later, if you wish. Here is the highest accolade of which I can I can currently conceive : -
If you were to give me a choice between
a) Playing Fallout 1 & 2.
b) A night of dedicating myself to providing the most sublime pleasure to TruePisces
c) Hi Opal!
I would hesitate at least 4 picoseconds before answering **(b) **.
OK?
Buy them!!!
Buy them now!!!
Or I will kill you!!!
Hope that helps.
Fallout was jolly good, enjoyed it lots. Fun to play with a luck of 10 and the explorer merit, you gety mad cool stuff wandering the wastes. Best if you play paper RGP’s/read sci-fi/cybepunk, as there are lots of in-jokes. Every time I watch one of the Road Warrior movies, I catch more refrences. Black velvet painting of Elvis, anyone?
Fallout 2 is very good…if you want more of the same. Sadly, I haven’t finished it, I can’t get through the last bit, mostly I’ve lost patience with combat. Still, lots ‘o’ fun, just for the refrences.
I love both 1 & 2, and I’ll be gettin’ Tactics this month.
I don’t like fantasy RPGs too much. I stick closer to “real” stuff (like post-Apocalyptic settings). Never got into D&D, but played a lot of Boot Hill and Top Secret and Twilight 2000.
So Fallout suits me.
And I like the combat system, and character generation.
And, finally, the best reason to get 'em…TEN BUCKS EACH, MAN!
If you don’t have these games already, you must get them yesterday.
Currently, they’re selling Fallout bundled with Fallout 2 with no manuals. It’s your money, jack, but personally I would spend the little extra and have the manuals, which are part of the Fallout experience.
I agree with Johnny Angel, the manuals are some of the best in video game history. I have never been as prepared for a game experience as when I read Fallout’s detailed description of nuclear bombs and explosions. Both games are full of humor and the manual are an extension of that. As an aside, I recently bout the Fallout 1/2 bundle from Interplay, and it contaned both in their full retail packages, which was very cool.
Okay, I purchased the package where they come together. I didn’t know if it would have the manuals or not, but I’m gonna take the gamble. Is there somewhere I can get game instructions online? I need to know how to play if I’m going to play them.
Fallout 1 & 2 were goodly–Tactics doesn’t hold much interest me from what I’ve heard. When I ran into a battle I simply could not get through with keeping my faithful houng Dogmeat alive (not a spoiler, it’s not a scripted sequence or any such), I felt more sadness and rage at the loss of a character than any other game previous made me feel. And it made clearing out the supermutants responsible from their base a furious joy. If I could have, I would have tortured the last one left alive. Slowly. Screw the fragile future-of-humanity-dangling-by-a-thread crap–they KILLED MY DAWG! Ah, memories.
Drastic, did you find Dogmeat at the Cafe of Broken Dreams in Fallout 2?
Ah, yes… Fallout. Many goodly hours were spent wandering the wastelands.
Ah…great stuff. I recently played through FO2 and was very, very angry with myself for not getting it earlier. Beautiful game–haven’t played many games that gives you so many cool things to do and so many options on how to do it.
I’ll second all the other opinions, even though you already bought the games: Two of the greatest games ever made.
And good news: Black Isle is currently working on a fantasy RPG using the Fallout engine. Also, several of the people responsible for Fallout left Black Isle to form Troika,which will (hopefully) soon be releasing Arcanum, a Victorian/Fantasy/Steampunk RPG.
Scott
Playing Fallout right now as a MOF. Loving it too. Bought the combo pack from amazon for ten bucks, what a deal. The manuals are included on the disks in pdf format. Hint: print them at work.
Roger that, TPWombat, the Cafe made me smile. The godforsaken post-armageddon wasteland will do fine with Dogmeat as an ultimately immortal returning force.
I want a Fallout 3 that features, as the previous, one character, but with his faithful hound a more central portion of the game. With spiffy AI complex training of the beast, similar to Black & White but done more, ya know, post-nuclear. And advancement in abilities and perks for him. And nifty Dogmeat-centric equipment. Picture the joy of reaching endgame with Dogmeat a highly trained lethal instrument, with a rogue Brother of Steel-designed canine powered combat armor and cybernetic implants.
A fellow can dream.
How many here played(or can name) the game that fallout was the unofficial sequal to? There are references to it in fallout in several places. Aparrently the was some legal problems with making it a direct sequal.
Wasteland. It is in my all time top 5 games. I still vividly remember raiding the the Citadel, finally making it far enough in to find the meson cannon, and firing it off for the first time and completly annhiliating a whole group of robots…
(hehe that would make a hell of a euphamism, at least up until the annhilinating the robots part ).
I managed to keep Dogmeat alive through the whole game, but I’m afraid poor Ian bit the scene during the gauntlet up to the Master.
If you’re interested in Wasteland, you can download it as abandonware from this site:
http://www.iamapsycho.com/fallout/downloads.htm
I’d like to play through it, but I didn’t have it at the time it came out, and now I’m so spoiled by auto mappers, I can’t stand to have to bust out the graph paper.
I wish I still had a copy of that one. I spent so much time on it. I remember finding that computer in the game that had wastland II on it, hopeing the sequel would be out soon. Great game for its time.
Mahaloth, congrats on purchasing one of the finest RPG experiences of all time 
WARNING: Before you play Fallout 2, check out the Interplay site for the latest patch. One of their patches fixed so much stuff that previously saved games were not restorable!!!