[carlrodd]

i just read the headline about gatling guns guarding a nuclear lab in california, and it made me think of the "fallout" series. for those unfamiliar, the setting of the games was a post-apocalyptic california, old-west feel mixed with humor, technology, 50s apocalypse paranoia, mutants, and LOADS of firearms. you really need to do yourselves a favor and check out the games if for nothing other than the abundance of what i remember to be accurately drawn firearms and ammo. the game goes as far as to make the different ammunition have vastly different effects on targets, damage-wise. brilliant. and the game is just about completely open....meaning you can do whatever the hell you want. anybody ever played them?

[Uncle Buck]

Finished the first Fallout but not the second.

[SomeKid]

Played and beaten Fallout 1 2 and Tactics.

Fallout 1 was the best RPG ever. Had some bug issues, but still best RPG ever.

[owen]

I've spent far too much time playing Fallout II. Never finished it, but it was still a ton o'fun

[Werewolf]

Played and beaten Fallout 1 2 and Tactics.

Fallout 1 was the best RPG ever. Had some bug issues, but still best RPG ever.Played Fallout 2. If it were a 5 Act play then I got about half way thru Act 5 and came up against a wall I just couldn't beat. Gave up.

However, the best computer RPG ever had to be Planescape: Torment...

That was one rich, detailed and intersting story.

[thisisdenny]

I enjoyed playing all the fallouts, but I don't think I ever finished fallout II - it was just too big.

System Shock II was another really great game. It was kind of a first person shooter with RPG aspects like experience and point systems for weapons and technical skills and such. It had very good weapons too w/ several different types of ammo that varied greatly in their terminal effects to different types of enemies. Oh... but... I never actually finished it though because towards the very end it got REALLY weird.

I swear that I usually finish a game all the way through...

-Denny

[seansean]

Never played fallout, but I just started playing an mmorpg called merchant empires...
http://advancedpowers.com/
This is just the generic link, I don't get anything if you click on it...seems like a fun game so far...

[Thefabulousfink]

Hands down some of the best computer games ever made! For those of you who aren't into RPGs they temper it with an easy interactive system, loads of tonge-in-cheek humor, and hidden references to just about every sci-fi and horror movie ever made. One of the random encounters is a crashed UFO, squished underneath it is a corpse whith an ID badge that says "Mox Fulder":D

[carlrodd]

I've spent far too much time playing Fallout II. Never finished it, but it was still a ton o'fun


they had another...'brotherhood of steel' i think. i constantly want to get back into fallout two, but the 1st part in the village is just unbearable.....walking around with a ridiculous spear fighting scorpions and rats and all that.

[MrTuffPaws]

Fallout 1 and 2 are my all time favorite games. They are amazing.

[SomeKid]

I admit, F2 was incredibly long, with very tedious parts. I actually uninstalled it once or twice before finally going to gamefaqs.com and getting some detailed help on who to kill to win.


Brotherhood of Steel (Tactics) is great. Not so much RPG, but a whole lot more action.

The game had a wide assortment of guns, which looked like the real life versions, but I don't quite think they did the kind of damage real life ones would. For some reason, I think an aimed shot from an AK to the eye won't do only 12 damage and leave a small mark.

[bdutton]

I loved the fallout series.

In Fallout 2 you can go to a small town with a farmer who has two children in it. I think it was called Redmond.

Anyway... if you have enough charisma and say all the right things you get to bed the fathers daughter OR son regardless of the sex of the character you play. Weird... sounds like post apocalyptic Massachusetts. After you bed one of the two siblings the father forces you at the business end of a shotgun into the Church and you end up married.

I don't recall which Fallout it was but if you have extreem luck, you can wander the wastes and find cool stuff. Once I found a crashed Star Trek (Original Series) shuttle and a working phaser on one of the dead red-shirts.

What a cool game.

[carlrodd]

Weird... sounds like post apocalyptic Massachusetts.


hahahahahahaha!

[DukeNukem]

Yep, played Fallout to completion a couple of times. Have Fallout 2 but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

Haven't been that many games that have really grabbed me over the years. Really liked the old game Syndicate(lots of good toys in that one, the flamethrower is especially fun.) Been obsessed with the Thief series(no guns but a pretty versatile set of bow and arrows) for the past several years and have replayed those many times.

[Third_Rail]

FYI - Bethesda Softworks (www.bethsoft.com) is in pre-production on Fallout 3.

See here. (http://www.bethsoft.com/news/pressrelease_071004.htm)

[cordex]

I loved Fallout 1 and 2. Absolutely great games.

[Brother in Arms]

The Fallout games are great! I havent played the brother hood of steel tactics yet, Id like to get a copy of it. I can't wait for fallout3!
Latley I have been playing UFO aftermath, a game alot like fallout. Mostly a combat game though.

Brother in Arms

[Danus ex]

http://www.groundzeromod.net/

A Fallout-ish mod for Doom 3.

[SomeKid]

I don't hold out much hope for F3. It was announced years ago, then nothing.

The wierd scenes (like finding aliens) were awesome. I beat F1 with the alien blaster I got WAY early on. Cool space guns, ah such a good game.

[jeff-10]

Fallout, blah. There just rip offs of the greatest RPG ever made, Wastelands.:D Damn, I really loved that Commodore 64, almost as much as my Vic 20.

[cslinger]

AMEN JEFF-10, I was wondering if anybody remembered that Wasteland was the first and IMHO the best, although I completely enjoyed the Fallout series.

[CypherNinja]

Fallout was NOT a ripoff of Wasteland. It was an homage.:cool:

I still play Wasteland, Fallout 1, and Fallout 2. Awesome stuff.

Anyway... if you have enough charisma and say all the right things you get to bed the fathers daughter OR son regardless of the sex of the character you play. Weird... sounds like post apocalyptic Massachusetts. After you bed one of the two siblings the father forces you at the business end of a shotgun into the Church and you end up married.


After you get married you can pimp out your spouse in Reno. :evil:

[lawson]

i was just playing fallout 2 today. my favorite game series of all time, though the guns are a little innaccurate.

i love the thousans of references to movies and such. i've played the game at least fifty times, and i still find new stuff each time.

[Mulliga]

Played Fallout 2. If it were a 5 Act play then I got about half way thru Act 5 and came up against a wall I just couldn't beat. Gave up.

The same thing happened to me.

To keep this thread gun-related, Fallout 2 had lots of strange guns - I believe they even had a P90, which would certainly NOT be very common in a post-apocalyptic USA.

[cracked butt]

Fallout? Ok for a few hours of entertainment, got bored with it quick. Best RPG ever? I guess some people have never played Morrowind or Baldurs Gate or a host of other really good cRPGs.

[CleverName]

Only cRPG I ever beat was KOTOR (1). Had me addicted for about a week or two back in HS until I beat it.

And I thought all that THR played was 5-year-old bargain-bin FPS games.

[SeanSw]

Fallout 1 and 2 was the best $10 I ever spent. I lost one of the discs but if it was still available I'd pay for it a second time.

It had something small to do with my interest in firearms.

[Chris Rhines]

Been looking for a copy of Fallout. Played Wastelands through to completion many times - great game. The spear trick was a little funny, though.

- Chris

[Hatchett]

Fallout was one of the all-time great computer RPGs. Fallout II took it even further by adding tons and tons of extra content, much of which people are still newly discovering to this day, but some of Fallout II actually did what I feel was ruining a classic. At times, Fallout II seemed almost like a Mel Brooks parody of the original because of all of the pop-culture referenses and jokes. Both, however, were quite spectacular.

The firearms in Fallout were a little cheesy, if you ask me. The most common handgun was a 12-shot "Colt 6520" 10mm pistol with a revolving cylinder on the back, while the second most common was a Desert Eagle. The most powerful handgun in the game was clearly meant to look like the blaster from Blade Runner and was described as a handgun made from a .223 rifle, and it somehow did more damage per shot than a .223 rifle. And for some reason there was also a Broomhandle Mauser in there too.
They just seemed a little too sci-fi and not enough post-apoc, if you ask me.

[wingnutx]

Fallout II and Fallout Tactics are great.

Baldur's Gate II is still my fave though.

[wingnutx]

oops nevermind

[atek3]

I played fallout 1, 2, and tactics. Fallout one was my favorite RPG (yes I played KOTOR and baldur's gate II). Fallout 2 was goo except the origional release was crazy buggy. I stopped playing video games a while ago but I'd play fallout 3.

atek3

[iapetus]

The most powerful handgun in the game was clearly meant to look like the blaster from Blade Runner and was described as a handgun made from a .223 rifle, and it somehow did more damage per shot than a .223 rifle. And for some reason there was also a Broomhandle Mauser in there too.
They just seemed a little too sci-fi and not enough post-apoc, if you ask me.

That seems quite a common feature in computer games.

Halo became a lot easier when I realised that the pistol was more powerful, longer ranged, and more accurate than the assault rifle.

And in Deus Ex, where the weapon stats were given in game, was something like:
10mm Handgun: 10 damage
7.62x51mm Assault Rifle: 3 damage
30-06 sniper rifle: 25 damage

[grimjaw]

I only played the first Fallout, but enjoyed it. Couldn't get enthusiastic about the others, though.

jmm

[LynnMassGuy]

I've played all the great PC RPGS's. Fallout series will always have a place in my heart. Great Vibe. Maybe its time to replay. I love at the bginning of Fallout II when "A Kiss to Build a Dream on" plays over old safety clips.

[Werewolf]

Fallout? Ok for a few hours of entertainment, got bored with it quick. Best RPG ever? I guess some people have never played Morrowind or Baldurs Gate or a host of other really good cRPGs.Played all of those plus many others. Still think Planescape: Torment is the all time best with Fallout running a middlin' close 2nd.

[G36-UK]

After you get married you can pimp out your spouse in Reno. :evil:

I removed her brain at Sierra Army Depot, then told her dad, who promply died of a heart attack, and left her brain next to his body. :evil: :evil: :evil:

Anyone else seriously crave a Gauss Rifle?

[Medusa]

F1 was a ton of fun, can't find F2 anywhere, though, have a neutered copy of it and have desired a full version for years. Man, I'd love that Gauss rifle, or Bozaar, or G11! The armourer in New Reno had a M60, but the 7.62 ammo wasn't that plenty, though.

[Elmer Snerd]

Halo became a lot easier when I realised that the pistol was more powerful, longer ranged, and more accurate than the assault rifle.
And in Deus Ex, where the weapon stats were given in game, was something like:
10mm Handgun: 10 damage
7.62x51mm Assault Rifle: 3 damage
30-06 sniper rifle: 25 damageHalf-Life was that way too. The Glock did more damage per shot than the MP-5. The .357 revolver was disproportionately powerful to the point of overkill(no pun intended), the game "compensated" by allowing you to carry only 36 rounds for it.

[benEzra]

Anybody remember the old TSR book-and-dice game Gamma World? Sort of like D&D, but set in the future.

Halo became a lot easier when I realised that the pistol was more powerful, longer ranged, and more accurate than the assault rifle.
They fixed that in Halo 2; the H2 pistol is pretty weak.

The rifle in H2 has a magnified optic and 3-shot burst, but I wish you could switch it to semiauto.

BTW, did you know the sniper rifle in Halo is modeled after a real gun?

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/ntw20_2.jpg

Mechem NWT-20 in 14.5mm. The real thing is a bolt-action with the mag on the left side, but in Halo it's a semiauto and feeds from the bottom. Also available in 20mm.

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn55-e.htm