Poseidon wrote:
FWIW, Fallout 1 and 2 (as well as other Interplay titles) are coming to Steam today.
I think I might pick them up once I get back from vacation.
I really liked Fallout1, not much bad to say about it. Be sure to download a widescreen patch or else the game will look shit.
FO2, not so much. It was not a bad game, but it just wasn't as good as FO1. First off it was much more difficult than the first one in the beginning, and much easier toward the end. Getting the Hardened Power Armor and Turbo Plasma in FO1 made you a fucking badass, but in FO2 getting the Advanced Power Armor and Pulse/Gauss Rifle made the game boring. Also FO2 had no respect for the cannon, almost all the new guns in the game were real world guns, I have no clue what the FAL, P90, Jackhammer, L85, G11 and M60 are doing in a game set in 2243, they were just so out of place it killed the game a bit. Also the Wasteland is a bit too, civilized now. In FO1 everyone's only concern was staying alive, but in FO2 there is enough stability that shit like politics and economics are larger plot drivers than mere survival. I was also turned off a bit by all the sex in the game, it was like they were pandering to horny kids, now sure there is sex in FO1 and FO3, but in FO2 you had a stat that ranked you on how good you were at sex and how many people you've fucked, I felt sleazy playing parts of the game. Also the best part of FO1, the ability to defeat the end boss by using your INT and CHR stats to convince him to kill himself, was absent. Also the end boss, who was an Enclave Super-Mutant with special Power Armor, was not really part of the game's plot like FO1's Mutant Master.
Now that said FO2's plot is just as good and the combat is vastly improved, and there was much more and better humor than in FO1. It was by no means a bad game and you should play it, but it just lacked the feel and charm of FO1. I feel that FO3 actually felt more of a successor to FO1 than FO2 was, despite having completely different gameplay, being set in a different location and not even being a direct sequel, it still felt like it had more in common with FO1 than FO2 did.
tl;dr Miggle is going to kill me.
