Dead Riverdragon

Has anyone here played Fallout/ Fallout 2? These must be the games most true to the post-apocalyptic tradition exemplified by King's 'The Stand', Brin's 'The Postman' and Matheson's 'I Am Legend', and they're absolutely cracking games (if often painfully non-linear) to boot. Produced by the team behind traditional role-playing paragon 'Baldur's Gate' (and I believe anyone who challenges the latter's supremacy is a fraud) the Fallout games (yet another is purportedly in production) are amazing, if supremely bleak views of a post-nuclear world, with brilliantly mature plotting and storytelling inferior only to the Baldur's Gate and certain Final Fantasy games, and all this despite a relatively primitive non-character based plot. I urge everyone to pick up one or both of the games, both of which will be selling for a pittance these days. Incidentally, I played Fallout 2 first, found myself none the worse for missing the first game, and in playing the latter was surprised to find both shared the same engine and were much alike (save Fallout 2 had many more .223 FMJ pistols...KERBLARGH!)...buy Fallout!

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Foxbat

Fallout/Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics - wonderful games (although I never managed to complete any of them but had many fun hours trying).

I'm not surprised you felt you didn't miss much by starting on Fallout 2 - it was definitely the best of the bunch. These games have got what must be the best/funniest/most artistic intro ever. Sometimes I just fire it up to watch the intro again.

Yes. Definitely buy Fallout (especially now it's on budget). These games are an absolute steal at any price.

Vodstok

The mood and atmosphere of the fallout games always ruled. I loved it in the first one if you managed to get the armor from the brotherhood of steel. you were pretty much invulnerable at that point. I also always liked the dark sense of humor.

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