SpinelessGhoul

The original Wasteland remains the most memorable RPG for me. The quality of the writing puts many more recent games to shame.

Loved the super old 80s apocalyptic games - started out with Roadwar 2000 (and its sequel, Roadwar Europa). Wasteland remains perhaps the most memorable game of my childhood. I still have the original five inch floppy version somewhere, and the accompanying paragraph book (this was EA's "copyright protection" waaay back in the day). Aside from these, I loved the Leisure Suit Larry series as well as Space Quest. If I recall correctly, the latter two also had questions at the start of the game that determined your age and thus allowed you to access to the (then) more risque game content. Dune 2 and the original DOS version of Civilization also bring back fond memories.

Sorry, just realized this perhaps should have been posted in the spoiler-safe forum.

Ever since the first Fallout was released in 1997, it was called "the spiritual ancestor of Wasteland." I grew up with the original Wasteland and it's what got me hooked on the Fallout franchise (yes, I'm old). Since then, I have loved picking out Wasteland homages (intentional and coincidental) found inside the series. If we stick just to Fallout 3, the references to Wasteland include: (Reilly's) Rangers, Brick's reference to turning muties into "thin red paste" and the bomb worshippers in Megaton - referencing Servants of the Mushroom Cloud. Anything else?

First posting to this forum. I just finished all the main quests in Fallout 3 and am now trying to find all those places and objects I never got around to seeing. Someone once informed me that at the very top of the Bridge Tower in Rivet City there is a hatch and a hostile turret. Having gone up there, I noticed a red tick, signifying a hostile presence, but no actual turret. Does anyone know anything more about this?