Fallout 2

[Preacher]

Warning: Rabid Fallout Fan Coming through...

 

The best thing about fallout was that it was the first modern-ish PC game to step away from the fantasy swords and sorcery settings of rpgs up to that time and still create an engaging crpg with a compelling storyline, an engaging world that is familiar, yet different (post-apocalyptic Northern California, in case non-fallout players are reading this) , a system that was all its own, the SPECIAL system, the gritty, dark humour of the first game continued into the second, coupled with (ruined, some might say) easter eggs, monty python, star trek and hitchhikers' guide references, and so much more...

 

The combat system is a lot like marmite - you either love it or you hate it. Personally, I think it suited the game at the time, but I doubt it'd hold much water in the marketplace now. Shame, really, because doing away with it entirely would enrage the hardcore fallout fans (and believe me, there is nothing worse than a mob of angry fallout fans!)

 

As for fallout 3 - well...don't get me started! We've been waiting for a decent sequel for fallout 2 for nearly a decade*

 

*Fallout tactics was a good turn-based strategy game on its own, but in doing so they completely rewrote the role and status of one of the "factions," the Brotherhood of Steel, and in doing so, invoked much wrath from the fallout community (the devs, Black Isle, actually locked all their forums for about a week because the mass flamings crashed their servers!)

 

I'm not going to rant any more on this, I know Dark0ne's sick of hearing it anyway :P

 

So if anyone wants to check up on the continuing saga, go to No Mutants Allowed and see it for themselves. They're like a one-stop-shop for all things fallout. www.nma-fallout.com

 

EDIT: Sorry if I got off topic there...its like lycanthropy, I just kind of lose it.

 

Btw: Planescape Torment rules! ^

|