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Posted 2007-06-23, 04:07 PM
The Fallout series (1 and 2) are some of the best turn-based RPGs available for the PC.

If you haven't played them, I highly recommend checking them out. They're a riot.
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Posted 2007-06-23, 04:59 PM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "The Fallout series (1 and 2) are some..."
My brother and his friend were addicted to them.

Fuck that. I've got not-being-fat to do.
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Posted 2007-06-23, 07:32 PM in reply to slaynish's post starting "My brother and his friend were addicted..."
Ive just installed both of them, and watched the intro for Fallout 1 (saw the F3 trailer the day it was released, and it took my interest straight away).

Tomorrow I'll start to play it - can't wait.
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Posted 2007-06-23, 08:26 PM in reply to Lenny's post starting "Ive just installed both of them, and..."
Fallout 1 wasn't quite as humor-laden as Fallout 2, but Fallout 1 was certainly beyond great at the time of its release. Fallout 2 simply outperformed Fallout 1, which was already a great game.

Honestly, I have yet to encounter a gamer who didn't like the games if they had tried them.
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Posted 2007-06-23, 08:55 PM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "Fallout 1 wasn't quite as humor-laden..."
Anyone know where to snag 1 n 2 for free? lol
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Posted 2007-06-23, 09:14 PM in reply to timmay1113's post starting "Anyone know where to snag 1 n 2 for..."
I think that would constitute Warez, which I think is a bannable offense to post.
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Posted 2007-06-23, 09:16 PM in reply to Vollstrecker's post starting "I think that would constitute Warez,..."
hmm nevermind then. Ill just stick to my boredom.
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Posted 2007-06-23, 11:40 PM in reply to timmay1113's post starting "hmm nevermind then. Ill just stick to..."
I found a dual pack with both games at Best Buy for $10. Course, that was years ago. I'm sure you could find them for sale online somewhere. Life as a gamer is truely incomplete without the Fallout games. They brought the concept of "sandbox" gaming to the PC long before GTA III hit the PS2. Sure, the graphics and turn-based battle system may seem dated now, but the content of the games is purely fantastic.
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Posted 2007-06-24, 04:54 AM in reply to Vault Dweller's post starting "I found a dual pack with both games at..."
It'll be very interesting to see if Bethesda can pull off the black humour in F3. It's pretty much given that they'll have the whole sandbox thing sorted.

And taken from Wikipedia:

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A cover story in the magazine Game Informer revealed that:
  • The game will use both first-person and third-person perspective.
  • Main character creation is implemented by specifying the character's childhood. The character's mother dies in labor in a Vault hospital, after which the player chooses the character's Traits and general appearance during the father's DNA analysis. Afterwards, the father removes his surgeon's mask to reveal a face much like the one chosen by the player for the character.
  • As a child in the Vault, the character receives a book titled "You're Special", whereupon you'll set the character's 7 primary aptitudes. The character receives training weapons and a PIP-boy during childhood, and the player's performance in various tests determines the rest of the attributes.
  • Skills and Perks are similar to those in previous games: the player chooses 3 Tag Skills out of 14 to be the character's specialties, and the character will gain a Perk every other level.
  • The Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., will remain basically unaltered. Various actions cost action points, and both the player and enemies can target specific body areas for attacks, inflicting specific injuries. While using V.A.T.S., real-time combat is paused creating a combat system that the Bethesda developers have described as a hybrid between turn-based and real-time combat.
  • The game will maintain the same level of gore. All gory deaths in the game will be shown in slow motion. One of the featured screenshots is of a super-mutant's head exploding in great detail.
  • The game will revolve around the same three standard character archetypes and gameplay approaches of the 'Combat Boy', 'Stealth Boy', or 'Charisma Boy'.
  • The game will feature a new health and radiation system. The player can measure an object's radioactivity and gauge the effect it will have on the character.
  • Karma titles, similar to those from previous games, will grant Xbox Live Achievements on that platform.
  • The number '101' can be seen on the back of several characters' Vault suits, likely signifying an important role, perhaps as the character's home, for a Vault 101.
  • Characters will be able to create small blasts by targeting nuclear generators and using nuclear catapults.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 05:25 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "It'll be very interesting to see if..."
I do hope they actually fix the radiation system. It always seemed kind of vague in 1 & 2.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 08:56 AM in reply to Vault Dweller's post starting "I do hope they actually fix the..."
I'm sad to say I've never played either of these games. I'll have to check them out, as I've heard that they are magnificent.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 10:18 AM in reply to Vault Dweller's post starting "I do hope they actually fix the..."
Well I played a few hours of F1 on Sunday - I've got 94 days to get the water pumpy thing.

To say it's such an old game, it plays fine on this computer (apart from the odd moment when the screen goes black and the picture only appears when you move your mouse over it), and it's surprisingly good fun.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 10:33 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "Well I played a few hours of F1 on..."
Isn't it interesting how old games eventually stop working on newer computers?
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Posted 2007-06-25, 10:35 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Isn't it interesting how old games..."
Can't say I've ever had them stop working, but I've had lots of problems graphics wise. A few seem to just jutter their way along, merrily ignoring the rest of the world.

One thing that surprises me is how some games that are ten or so years old, actually have the options for big resolutions - for example, Populous: The Beginning and Ghost Recon seem to be able to go up to the 1600s.

I'd imagine that a lot of games would have trouble running on Vista, though.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 10:44 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "Can't say I've ever had them stop..."
I know for some old DOS games you have to have a dosbox to run them.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 10:50 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "I know for some old DOS games you have..."
By the way, I found a couple downloads for packaged Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 combined, not legal but if you know where to look they're super easy to find(and have lots of seeders too(hint))
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Posted 2007-06-25, 11:00 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "By the way, I found a couple downloads..."
That's probably the one I, ahem, didn't download on Friday in a couple of hours. It isn't 1.09gb, by any chance, is it? Because that's definitely not the one I, ahem, acquired.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 11:42 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "That's probably the one I, ahem, didn't..."
Well there's "Fallout; The Ultimate Collection" which is 3.49 Gigs, but I also see the one you're talking about which is simply just Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 that is 1.09 Gigs. Not sure what exactly the Ultimate Collection is, probably Fallout: Tactics or whatever else they have.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 11:53 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Well there's "Fallout; The Ultimate..."
From what I've read and heard, any games other than Fallout 1 and 2 aren't worth playing.

Don't know if Voll or VD can back me up on that.
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Posted 2007-06-25, 12:21 PM in reply to Lenny's post starting "From what I've read and heard, any..."
Haven't played Tactics. I heard conflicting reports about it. Then there was the abominable console game "Brotherhood of Steel," which, from what I understand, was simply a bastardization of some of the topics/themes of the Fallout universe in an isometric overhead shooter format (also didn't play that). I definitely give my seal of approval to the first two games, with the caveat - save often and in different save slots. There are some glitches that can be quite irritating, so it's nice to have multiple points from which to reload the game.
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