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Please stop releasing more DLC my Bank account can't take anymore

Fallout One is, to be honest, kinda short. But then again it's not even a gigabyte.
The first game of the Fallout series holds a warm place in my heart as the first isometric game I've ever played, and even the first turn-based game I ever played. Being 12 at the first time of playing I begged my dad to buy it because I loved 3 and new vegas, only to try it and realize ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is so different. I died to rats at the very beginning because I didn't know I needed to manually equip my gun and knife, beautiful. I was shot dead at junktown because I didn't see the dialogue telling me to put my gun away and then died again because I didn't know the big red button was the holster button.
Fallout 1 has no backseat tutorial and I didn't know what the hell a game manual was at the time. I loved it. Every new thing I found was like a hurdle I jumped over and while I sometimes needed to look stuff up my dumb little 12-year-old mind would often forget what I was looking up in the first place and just watch something like pewdiepie or whatever.
It does need to be stated that Fallout one is the most alien of the series. The game only really brought the tools to the table but didn't use them to make the sculpture, that was Fallout 2's doing. The tones here are different from what you'd expect going in after 3 and new vegas. It's more grounded, serious, and gritty and though there are some moments of goofiness I couldn't become a porn star that saved the world like in its sequel.
I love Fallout 1, I truly do, but it is not the best Fallout game, and if it was under any other name then it would just be another post-apocalyptic RPG that took itself seriously. What made the series a staple was its developers, its stories, and its sequel.
Fallout 1 is a short game, and I loved it.

Fallout 2 was what brought the current tones and themes to the fallout world. While the first often took itself seriously with a few comedic aspects (lvl 1 intelligence character my beloved) fallout two made the game literally bigger and more fun. The map is bigger, with more factions and cities, more choices, pretty sure more perks, more random events, and the laying of the foundation the first game only set up.
The themes of modern fallouts are well on display here, the dark yet goofy tones of the series is what makes this game a more memorable experience than the first game. I remember going through the crime-ridden city of new reno, talking to a drug dealer and a few gang bosses at war with each other and thinking about the pure violence and danger this city sees on an almost daily basis... then I wandered into a movie studio and became a porn star under the name "The Polish Hammer".
Can this kinda mess with consistent tones? Kinda, learning something horrible happened to people you love only to get an event where you see a cow was crushed by basically Godzilla wasn't the best series of events to keep a sad or engaging story. But that only really matters when that specific scenario happens. My only complaint is sometimes this game is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥' vague. I spent a long time just going around the new shady sands thinking Vault 13 was a concrete location, nope. Needed high perception, Vault city hated me and I'm also pretty sure they didn't have it anyways, I also had too low of a perception to follow animal tracks leading to the vault. Did I know any of this? No, I had to look up to see I kinda soft-locked myself and needed to do a lot of grinding. Still love the game though.
The goofy, horrifying, and oddly horny world of Fallout 2 is a wonder to walk through and experience. Yes it's definitely not something people are used to now in terms of gameplay (unless you really love the Wasteland series) but if you enjoy the modern games the story will keep you playing far enough to see that this game is only usurped by New Vegas with mods (new vegas without mods is just below this though, reaaaal close)

Wake Up, dominate the continent, be all-powerful, die of old age and play as your heir, immediate rebellion from one of your 11 brothers backed by every vassal you have, lose, die, repeat.

hehe engineer turrets go brrrrrrrr

just bought this game 2 days ago for $15. Logged on the day of posting this review to see it just went on sale for $10.
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Fallout new Vegas, the god of the fallout games, is not as good as you hear it out to be.
New Vegas now is held at such a high bar that newbies to the game might end up coming along with that bar in mind only to be disappointed that the game is not a god.
I will start with he cons of the game and move to the pros.
1. The game is buggy
No ♥♥♥♥, the game was made in a year, but that doesn't pass the amount of bugs are still in the game. Most of the said bugs are crashes and physics errors that, while still sometimes minor, come in full force. I've had problems where when I die it crashes, when I cause an explosion it crashes, and sometimes when I'm in the middle of walking in the desert it crashes. I've had problems with physics where I'll fall through the ground, where I'll pass through a wall and then fall into the void, and sometimes something random will happen with the physics.
2. The combat is bad
Yeah, it still is. The combat mechanics just still fall, like many said in Fallout 3 "It's Morrowind with guns."
3. It can feel... Empty
This falls under every Open world game really, but it can feel empty unless you have a specific place to go to or a quest to follow.
Now, this can feel small (no ♥♥♥♥) but you have to realize that these points fall under the entire game and the consistency of them can feel like a river.
Now onto the pros
1. The story is amazing
With the addition of (mostly) morally ambiguous factions the choice of who rules the Mojave is something to think over, the side quests are also great with many of them keeping the feel of a Fallout series (Zany but morbid).
2. The overall feeling of the game fits the style
With the game now being in a western desert (and now therefore officially it being a cowboy game) it changes from the deathly cold green of the Capitol and makes it a warm and barren brown.

This game is held as a god among men when compared to other games and people need to learn that when you do such a thing you set a standard so high that the game will look like ass to a person who listened to everything you said, and if you have to fix the problems of a game with mods those problems still stand because the newbie does not have those mods.

Overall I enjoyed this DLC, though its kinda like this
It's not as funny as Old World Blues
Its not as challenging yet fun as Dead Money
And its not as intriguing as LoneSome road
But it still keeps an, OK, feeling to it, the characters, are, simply put, good, their well put together and make you want to learn about them yet they dont really have developement unless you focus on them specifically which is what ♥♥♥♥♥ it up, Joshua has no real big part of the story until the end an small parts of the beginning and Daniel doesnt really exist , and as well, it's too short, hell, shorter than old world blues and theres only four main quests in that one, but one thing that would really hold it up is if they made "The Father"s story mandatory, like you had to go through all his caves and find the body to show the people the story.
Overall its an ok DLC, not good but not bad, like bread without butter.

Overall, this is one of my favorite DLCs New vegas has to offer, its main story, though extremely short is fun and comedic, but its real meat lies in its side quests with optional areas and quests.
In a longer sentence, the main story is, in my opinion, too short and needs more variety in its campaign but is still fun to play nonetheless.
Its optional stories is still where it lies in its amazingness, It always keeps a comedic feeling in it with a sad feeling under it throughout the entire thing, it somewhat makes you forget you're stuck in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ place where the enemies are people in the same situation but werent lucky to keep their sanity.
Overall the DLC is fun and god though it still has its problems, overall I'd give it an 8/10, main story too short, but the characters and side quests make up for it.

Overall this dlc is a gamble over the people who like it. This dlc is more of a survival horror than compared to new vegas and its other dlc. Overall I love it, the new atmosphere is amazing, yet the change in it is somewhat sudden, as the only entrance you get to it is an ominous radio signal and radio at the end of a hallway. Besides the sudden change its an amazing dlc, its story is great and well put together with it adding to more of companion stories. The atmosphere (and I know I said this many a time) is astounding, its survival horror feeling is grand with its cold areas, odd enemies who only get worse when you learn what caused them to be enemies, the story of the in-dlc companions adding a more sad atmosphere around them, and not to even mention the pre-war story with its beauty and astounding reasons for what's causing everything in the dlc. the pre and post war stories weave into each other to make a beautiful grand theme of greed and punishment.
Overall, its a good dlc.