Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 ( Worth it ? )

[RZ]

I've played all the fallout games, except for Fallout 1 and 2. Have any of you played them and if so, are they still worth playing today ( for the lore at least? ). Or are they just too old?

[potato]

ain't nothing better than the og fallouts and never gonna be topped

[Wokelander]

Mechanically they're not great but the lore is the good stuff

[alex010300]

If you want more fallout just go ahead and play F1 and F2. Just be prepared that the playing experience will be different.

[LonelyIzzy]

Most definitely.

[Turncloak]

F1 F2 and Fallout Tactics are far superior to Bethesda's Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas, and whatever else they will make in the future.

It's a turn based RPG genre so slightly different. The sound effects of weapons and the numerous combat and death animations in the old games are some of the best I have seen in any game, something the newer games failed to capture is that satisfying impact of shooting someone > hearing the weapon sound > Impact > gore filled animation, we're talking half a person's rib cage getting blown off, getting turned into a puddle of goo from a plasma rifle, or setting them on fire.

The atmosphere and the story is just way better also, F3 just heavily borrows and reuses the original ideas of the first games.

[Turncloak]

I made no mention of low intelligence, maybe you're just projecting.

[alex010300]

Originally posted by Turncloak:

I made no mention of low intelligence, maybe you're just projecting.

Can't use the other words or the mods will close this.

[Löthar Storm]

Originally posted by alex010300:

Can't use the other words or the mods will close this.

no, they just ban you for using the R word.

[Lucifronz]

They're isometric tactical games. It really depends on your personal tastes, but I personally find them to still be very fun. There's a tiny bit of clunkiness to them, but nothing more than you would expect from games that old and they are surprisingly not as dated as you would think.

The controls make sense, is what I mean. It's all pretty intuitive and where it arguably isn't, you quickly learn to adjust. Like right-clicking to toggle between examine, attack, and move.

I do recommend using a guide if you start to run out of time, though. It can be very hard to find where you're trying to go in the first game alone and the sequel can be a real pain in the ass sometimes, but I enjoy them despite that.

[alex010300]

Originally posted by Cadaver Synod:

Originally posted by alex010300:

Can't use the other words or the mods will close this.

no, they just ban you for using the R word.

Hey, you said it not me.

[alex010300]

Originally posted by Lucifronz:

They're isometric tactical games. It really depends on your personal tastes, but I personally find them to still be very fun. There's a tiny bit of clunkiness to them, but nothing more than you would expect from games that old and they are surprisingly not as dated as you would think.

The controls make sense, is what I mean. It's all pretty intuitive and where it arguably isn't, you quickly learn to adjust. Like right-clicking to toggle between examine, attack, and move.

I do recommend using a guide if you start to run out of time, though. It can be very hard to find where you're trying to go in the first game alone and the sequel can be a real pain in the ass sometimes, but I enjoy them despite that.

Didn't stop me playing it, it also made me wonder what's so big deal about Fallout 1 and 2 that some fans are screaming about.

I just played it once at each game, completed it and leave it.

[matt]

Fallout is one of my favorite games ever. Younger gamers might think it didn't age well, but it lives up to the nostalgia whenever I replay it. I also really liked Fallout 2 until I replayed it several years ago. It struck me as being much less mature than the first game, like a bunch of edgelord teenagers wrote some of the quests. The constant pop culture references were really stale, too. Still a good game but not in the same class as the original. Check them out if you like classic isometric turn-based games. If you don't, I guess you can just read the wiki to learn the lore.

[Cliff.uckingBooth]

If you want top rpg from top down view and you like postapocalyptic theme, then you must play it.

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by matt:

Fallout is one of my favorite games ever. Younger gamers might think it didn't age well, but it lives up to the nostalgia whenever I replay it. I also really liked Fallout 2 until I replayed it several years ago. It struck me as being much less mature than the first game, like a bunch of edgelord teenagers wrote some of the quests. The constant pop culture references were really stale, too. Still a good game but not in the same class as the original. Check them out if you like classic isometric turn-based games. If you don't, I guess you can just read the wiki to learn the lore.

It was a lot more "in touch" back when it released with the humor and all. Still, Fallout 2 is maybe my favorite of the series, probably because that's where I got started when I completely blindly exchanged my Tomb Raider/Unreal double-pack Xmas gift for that cool box with the mean looking power armor on the front. Kinda wish I still had that box.
I also appreciate the historical value of ithaving deeply inappropriate things in it that would never work today, game development was crazy in the 90s

[Lucifronz]

Originally posted by matt:

Fallout is one of my favorite games ever. Younger gamers might think it didn't age well, but it lives up to the nostalgia whenever I replay it. I also really liked Fallout 2 until I replayed it several years ago. It struck me as being much less mature than the first game, like a bunch of edgelord teenagers wrote some of the quests. The constant pop culture references were really stale, too. Still a good game but not in the same class as the original. Check them out if you like classic isometric turn-based games. If you don't, I guess you can just read the wiki to learn the lore.

I always felt like Fallout 2 had serious balancing issues. I could get through Fallout 1 just fine, but Fallout 2 I felt like I was dying way too often, particularly in the beginning, even when trying to set up builds where I'd last longer. Not to mention there were way more situations where I'd mess up and ruin a questline by making the simplest mistake. I actually never finished Fallout 2 the first time I played it because of its difficulty making the final mission just downright impossible for me to get through.

But even still, the Enclave and Frank Horrigan alone make Fallout 2 pretty interesting.