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?
"fallout" computer game series
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Finished the first Fallout but not the second.
Owen
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I've spent far too much time playing Fallout II. Never finished it, but it was still a ton o'fun
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.SomeKid said:
However, the best computer RPG ever had to be Planescape: Torment...
That was one rich, detailed and intersting story.
thisisdenny
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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
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
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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...
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
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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"
owen said:
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
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Fallout 1 and 2 are my all time favorite games. They are amazing.
F2 help.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Brother in Arms
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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
Latley I have been playing UFO aftermath, a game alot like fallout. Mostly a combat game though.
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jeff-10
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Fallout, blah. There just rip offs of the greatest RPG ever made, Wastelands. Damn, I really loved that Commodore 64, almost as much as my Vic 20.
Damn, I really loved that Commodore 64, almost as much as my Vic 20.cslinger
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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
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Fallout was NOT a ripoff of Wasteland. It was an homage.
I still play Wasteland, Fallout 1, and Fallout 2. Awesome stuff.
After you get married you can pimp out your spouse in Reno.
I still play Wasteland, Fallout 1, and Fallout 2. Awesome stuff.
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After you get married you can pimp out your spouse in Reno.
lawson
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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.
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
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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
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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.
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