Fallout 1/2

[Occutell]

Hardcore mode basically tries to make you into a masochist gamer with post traumatic stress disorder.

[NeoZeedeater]

I couldn't get into Fallout 1 and 2 back when they came out. After playing through 3, I went back and they became some of my favourite RPGs ever. 3 and NV are great but I consider 1 and 2 to be the better games. They're more strategic given the higher difficulty. The newer games give you many too resources, have annoying scaling, etc..

[KitsuneNight]

Hardcore mode basically tries to make you into a masochist gamer with post traumatic stress disorder.

ill play some mindless soul sucking grinding jrpg if i want that
a dragon quest or something

[GeckoYamori]

I impulse-bought Fallout 2 in 1998. It became one of the most absorbing game experiences of my life. I had tried the demo of Fallout 1 in 97, but not enough to really get a good feel for it.

I didn't like the Bethesda sequel. I was actually one of the few Fallout fans being optimistic about it before release, but then I played it and sure enough it turned out much more like an Oblivion reskin, with most of the shortcomings Bethesda have come to be known for. A lot of the atmosphere is killed by the compressed, single seamless world. The wasteland feels more like an artificial Disneyland facade, compared to traveling great distances across California through a world map in the original games. The plot of Fallout 3 also felt like a poor amalgam of the first two games, with the water macguffin and the Enclave president feeling like an uninspired mixture of The Master and the president from F2.

Bethesda games are known to be lifted tremendously by the mod communities though, and I think there might be enough overhaul mods out by now that actually lets me enjoy the newer games. I've been waiting for a Steam sale to snag F3 and New Vegas.

[KitsuneNight]

horses for courses
i like fallout 3 and nv better
didnt feel it for fallout 1 and 2
i dont care for strat games so fallout tactics is out

and bos is an inbetweener

[The Jackal]

I impulse-bought Fallout 2 in 1998. It became one of the most absorbing game experiences of my life. I had tried the demo of Fallout 1 in 97, but not enough to really get a good feel for it.

I didn't like the Bethesda sequel. I was actually one of the few Fallout fans being optimistic about it before release, but then I played it and sure enough it turned out much more like an Oblivion reskin, with most of the shortcomings Bethesda have come to be known for. A lot of the atmosphere is killed by the compressed, single seamless world. The wasteland feels more like an artificial Disneyland facade, compared to traveling great distances across California through a world map in the original games. The plot of Fallout 3 also felt like a poor amalgam of the first two games, with the water macguffin and the Enclave president feeling like an uninspired mixture of The Master and the president from F2.

Bethesda games are known to be lifted tremendously by the mod communities though, and I think there might be enough overhaul mods out by now that actually lets me enjoy the newer games. I've been waiting for a Steam sale to snag F3 and New Vegas.

The only thing I truly didn't like about New Vegas was that you couldn't play after the main quest/story's ending, it was credits and nada, but that was a small nitpick. I enjoyed the game immensely, and that was with no mods (on 360, but point still stands, the vanilla game was good enough for me).

[KitsuneNight]

fallout 3 pulls that same shit trick unless you have broken steel installed

[madmax2069]

I played fallout 1, 2 and I enjoyed them.

I also enjoy playing 3 and new Vegas. Heck most bugs and glitches make the game funny as hell.

Nothing like blowing a mutants right arm off to disarm him, save and work your way up only to die. Reload and start hearing what sounds like tin cans falling, or bouncing. I look over only to see the dismembered arm dragging the weapon away.

Or shoot the weapon out of a enemies hand, see it fly out of his hand like a rocket and nail one of his team mates in the head and kill him.

The AI is mostly retarded, if you can do it just right you can get the AI to run off a cliff and commit suicide.

Sometimes the bugs and glitches will outright piss you off.

[GeckoYamori]

Speaking of retarded AIs... one of the aspects I miss the most from the original games is that if your intelligence was 3 or less, your character was literally retarded, and everyone treated you like it.

[Occutell]

Speaking of retarded AIs... one of the aspects I miss the most from the original games is that if your intelligence was 3 or less, your character was literally retarded, and everyone treated you like it.

[Tripredacus]

My only memory of Fallout was installing it on my old computer. Then I ran out of hard drive space before I got to play it... or it wouldn't play due to lack of space or something like that. So it put it in the Recycle Bin. Then I tried to empty the Recycle Bin. In case you want to try for yourself, if you have say... 8MB free Hard drive space, 600MB of stuff in the Recycle Bin and Windows 95, it is IMPOSSIBLE to empty the Recycle Bin.

I haven't tried it since, but now that I have hard drives larger than 1.3GB I might give it a shot.

[evilevoix]

About 4/5 months ago, I came across Fallout New Vegas for the 360 going for a good price, so I picked it up and payed for it. This was my first Fallout game, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

About two weeks after nabbing NV, I managed to find Fallout 1,2 and Tactics for the PC in the same shop, although I bought it, I put it aside with the (massive) pile of games I've still yet to play...until now.

Just installed the first game, and after a bit of Googling to get the game working (Hi-res patch blah blah blah), started it up. Wow, it's N.O.T.H.I.N.G. like New Vegas - don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, it holds up pretty well even today, but I didn't expect it to be turn-based.

Played about 5 mins and it's pretty good! Really, really good! Anyone wanna through their opinions in on the game, like if the second game is better or not?

Check out the Original Fallout 3 on the 360. Get the Game of the Year edition to have all the DLC. The game rules and I did EVERYTHING in that game.