Fallout 1 is a horror game in disguise.

[Mother 3]

The whole atmosphere reeks of death and decay. Disturbing ambient soundtracks, and horrific enemy designs. The whole game has a nihilistic feeling that mankind has damned themselves to hell.

[Hopper]

Yep it's great. For me, the only other game that felt the same was Dark Earth which was released at about the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CptOvWThi8U&ab_channel=barbarianbros

[The Chosen Chad]

The whole game has a nihilistic feeling that mankind has damned themselves to hell.

Not really, more like the people who went in technological dark age and strugle to recover. Fallout 1 has more hope than people give it credit.
The BoS, the Followers, the Hub, Junktown and Shady Sands are prime exemple of groups and towns recovering slowly but surely.

[Mother 3]

Originally posted by John Cassidy Joestar:

The whole game has a nihilistic feeling that mankind has damned themselves to hell.

Not really, more like the people who went in technological dark age and strugle to recover. Fallout 1 has more hope than people give it credit.
The BoS, the Followers, the Hub, Junktown and Shady Sands are prime exemple of groups and towns recovering slowly but surely.

I could have said there is still hope, it's just the whole disturbing vibes kept me from thinking that

[The Chosen Chad]

The most disturbing thing I found in Fallout is your first encounter with a deathclaw and seeing this creature litterally slicing your followers apart before turning against you with the shilling track of Mark Morgan. Or some character background and story especially in Necropolis, otherwise Fallout 1 feels like more a sci-fi wild west at least until you investigate on the Master and his Army, thats where the really disturbing and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up things begins.

[Revolucas]

Originally posted by Hopper:

Yep it's great. For me, the only other game that felt the same was Dark Earth which was released at about the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CptOvWThi8U&ab_channel=barbarianbros

I was trying to think of the name of this game for years. I remember playing it at my friends house along with Fallout, when I was 12.

[b4ss]

I don't think it can ever be replicated, I recently played Wasteland 3 at a friend's house and I loved what I played but coming back and starting my Fallout 1 playthrough was just a whole other world.

While there may still be hope in some cities, in the moment Fallout 1 does an amazing job of telling it like it is. Desolate and depressing. The composer nailed the assignment. Not far in to Fallout 1 but I can assure you there's nothing quite like it.

[Revolucas]

Originally posted by b4ss:

I don't think it can ever be replicated, I recently played Wasteland 3 at a friend's house and I loved what I played but coming back and starting my Fallout 1 playthrough was just a whole other world.

While there may still be hope in some cities, in the moment Fallout 1 does an amazing job of telling it like it is. Desolate and depressing. The composer nailed the assignment. Not far in to Fallout 1 but I can assure you there's nothing quite like it.

I got a similar feeling to playing Fallout when I played a Ukrainian developed game named S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. A different genre, but similar tone and atmosphere.

[b4ss]

Originally posted by Revolucas:

Originally posted by b4ss:

I don't think it can ever be replicated, I recently played Wasteland 3 at a friend's house and I loved what I played but coming back and starting my Fallout 1 playthrough was just a whole other world.

While there may still be hope in some cities, in the moment Fallout 1 does an amazing job of telling it like it is. Desolate and depressing. The composer nailed the assignment. Not far in to Fallout 1 but I can assure you there's nothing quite like it.

I got a similar feeling to playing Fallout when I played a Ukrainian developed game named S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. A different genre, but similar tone and atmosphere.

STALKER is stellar, I played early into the chronological start game and enjoyed SOME of it but mostly just revel in the Raycevick video about his modded experience with it.
In case you haven't seen it.

Originally posted by halloween lover:

S.t.a.l.k.e.r. and fallout both made me feel like I was constantly being hunted by something while playing during the first playthrough

STALKER did a great job at making me feel like prey and maybe I opted into Small Guns too much but I didn't feel the same way as in Fallout, maybe NV but 1 lets you get away with a lot assuming you have a good build, as hits are a roll of the dice not decent aim.

[Revolucas]

Originally posted by b4ss:

Originally posted by Revolucas:

I got a similar feeling to playing Fallout when I played a Ukrainian developed game named S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. A different genre, but similar tone and atmosphere.

STALKER is stellar, I played early into the chronological start game and enjoyed SOME of it but mostly just revel in the Raycevick video about his modded experience with it.
In case you haven't seen it.

I'm actually the author of the Call of Chernobyl mod, haha.

[The Chosen Chad]

Originally posted by Revolucas:

Originally posted by b4ss:

STALKER is stellar, I played early into the chronological start game and enjoyed SOME of it but mostly just revel in the Raycevick video about his modded experience with it.
In case you haven't seen it.

I'm actually the author of the Call of Chernobyl mod, haha.

ur mod suck :^)
jk, thanks you're doing god's work

[Frankgarmen]

What I love about the game is this sense of impending doom. Even when starting out in a cave punching rats the music and tone of the game always had the hair on the back of my neck standing up. It was fascinating and tense to explore new areas. What other game makes staring at cross-hairs moving slowly on a 2-D map this intense? I also love that despite the dark tone and violence, there is a lot of hope and humanity. The end goal of the villains is to create a society that can prosper together and allow those who refuse the Unity to live in peace once they are in charge. Obviously it's more complicated and deranged than that, but I could feel that they honestly wanted to live in a better society and that plot keeps moving through the second game and New Vegas as Super Mutants are forced to live in a world that hates them when all they wanted was to be the same. It's genuinely heartbreaking to talk to Marcus in Fallout 2 and hear him talk about the creation of Broken Hills and how his best friend refused to turn into a Mutant to live along side him. Now he lives on alone trying to create the world he had envisioned with his friend.

[V]

exactly why i love this game so much, masterpiece both 1 and 2.