Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics free on GoG for two days

[Watcher]

http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series ... promo_2013

Gog is allowing you to get Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics for free for two days. That's right, you get to own them permanently for free just during the next 48 hours. All you need to do is register an account and they let you download a .exe that you can then burn to a disk or put on a thumb drive and it installs as many time as you want.

 

[PvtRichardCranium]

I got like, seven games for 16 bucks because of the sale. Also, Fallout Tactics, the best Fallout game (don't argue with me on that) is free. For 48 hours. GOG is basically like the greatest thing ever for PC gamers now.

 

[Watcher]

I got like, seven games for 16 bucks because of the sale. Also, Fallout Tactics, the best Fallout game (don't argue with me on that) is free. For 48 hours. GOG is basically like the greatest thing ever for PC gamers now.

My recommendation of Fallout Tactics on Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/recommend ... game/38420

 

[Surtur]

Im totes on this shit.

 

[Foulmouth]

Also, Fallout Tactics, the best Fallout game (don't argue with me on that)

Blasphemy !! People who like Fallout Tactics are traitors to the cause and will die brutally when the bombs drop.
(still at least you didn't say Brotherhood of Steel)

 

[Uzumaki]

I got like, seven games for 16 bucks because of the sale. Also, Fallout Tactics, the best Fallout game (don't argue with me on that) is free. For 48 hours. GOG is basically like the greatest thing ever for PC gamers now.

It is physically impossible for you to be more wrong; you are at the absolute threshold of wrong. If you were any more wrong it would split the very seams of reality. Please, for the sake of all existence, you can't let yourself slip even one theoretical-particle's width further wrong or it will erase all of existence in a reverse big-bang.

Have you even played Fallout 2?

Edit: Thanks for this by the way, these were my favorite two games in high-school (and their ignorable spinoff). I got the original Fallout for my 14th Birthday and my parents had something to do that day so I was home alone and nobody could tell me I was spending too much time on the computer. It's still one of my favorite birthday memories.

I played the demo for the original Fallout more than I played most full games I owned.

 

[Overcast]

Too bad I bought the first two games about a year before this.

Ah well, this means that more people get to experience these games.

 

[c-no]

Too bad I bought the first two games about a year before this.

Ah well, this means that more people get to experience these games.

Yeah, if people think New Vegas or 3 were good, they don't know how great Fallout is until you play 1 & 2. Just saying.

 

[exball]

Too bad I bought the first two games about a year before this.

Ah well, this means that more people get to experience these games.

Yeah, if people think New Vegas or 3 were good, they don't know how great Fallout is until you play 1 & 2. Just saying.

Are you saying New Vegas was bad? We might have a problem here.

 

[c-no]

Too bad I bought the first two games about a year before this.

Ah well, this means that more people get to experience these games.

Yeah, if people think New Vegas or 3 were good, they don't know how great Fallout is until you play 1 & 2. Just saying.

Are you saying New Vegas was bad? We might have a problem here.

Compared to Fallout 1 and/or 2, yeah New Vegas was bad and you wanna know why? Because, can New Vegas let your character become a made-man or a bright shining star in New Reno? Can New Vegas give you the feeling of urgency in finding a key item or location with a consequence that can mean life or death? Can New Vegas give you dialogue with a sergeant who thinks you are a moron? Can it even have you aim at the eyes or groin of a human enemy? If so tell me where.

 

[Luna]

Fallout 2 was by far the best in the series, but I mean, I still like 3 and New Vegas.

 

[c-no]

Fallout 2 was by far the best in the series, but I mean, I still like 3 and New Vegas.

Same here, 3 and New Vegas are fun but Fallout 1 & 2 were better, especially since they have some things their successors didn't. (count down timer for the first, titles and other things in the second such as boxing champion.)

 

[exball]

Fallout 2 was by far the best in the series, but I mean, I still like 3 and New Vegas.

Same here, 3 and New Vegas are fun but Fallout 1 & 2 were better, especially since they have some things their successors didn't. (count down timer for the first, titles and other things in the second such as boxing champion.)

That and you can become a pornstar in 2.

 

[Watcher]

count down timer for the first, titles and other things in the second such as boxing champion.)

When I think of things Fallout 1 and 2 did well the countdown timer or titles isn't something that primarily comes to mind. I typically think of the strategic gameplay, or the RPG elements, or the writing. In Fallout 1 and especially 2 there was a large amount of moral ambiguity in the game's plot. Fallout 3 had none of this, wheras New Vegas had this in spades.

I understand much of the hate toward Fallout 3, but generally speaking whenever I talk to people who dislike New Vegas it usually boils down to "It's not a top down isometric game". New Vegas had much of the same developers as Fallout 2, and was basically a reimagining of project Van Buren. The Fallout 3 Black Isle couldn't get published.

I know I might get a lot of hate for this but I like the direction Fallout took. As notgreat as Fallout 3 ended up. Bare in mind it could've been a fuck of a lot worse. At the very least Bethesda did their homework with regard to the lore (like all the guns being from the 50s, all the music being 50s, all the technology having vacuum tubs etc). While they did fuck up parts of it, at the very least a company like EA or Activision didn't buy out Fallout.

 

[Surtur]

There are certainly worse companies than Bethseda out there. Skyrim had no tacked on multiplayer no on disc dlc, and while not the best Elder Scrolls it was still a lot of fun

 

[Overcast]

Compared to Fallout 1 and/or 2, yeah New Vegas was bad and you wanna know why? Because, can New Vegas let your character become a made-man or a bright shining star in New Reno? Can New Vegas give you the feeling of urgency in finding a key item or location with a consequence that can mean life or death? Can New Vegas give you dialogue with a sergeant who thinks you are a moron? Can it even have you aim at the eyes or groin of a human enemy? If so tell me where.

New Vegas allows you to band together the BoS and NCR, have the Boomers rain bombs on the Legion, bring a bunch of Enclave veterans together to slaughter the Legion, allows you to live in a place with talking appliances, dump nuclear waste into the Legion's camp, have sex with the man who shot you, kill him afterwards, and (if you're into that sort of things) eat his corpse afterwards, sabotage and blow up the Brotherhood's bunker, and it allows you to be the fucking ruler of New Vegas.

I really like 1 and 2, but New Vegas was the game that got me into the series, and glitches aside, I see it as a fucking awesome game and my favorite in the series.

Besides, I like to use Fast Shot whenever I play the older games anyway.

 

[Uzumaki]

At the very least Bethesda did their homework with regard to the lore

Umm... no they didn't. They included just the bare minimum of Fallout elements for it to even qualify as the fan-fiction it is. The Brotherhood of Steel are unambiguous good guy shining knights? Fallout 3 had stylistic similarities to the original series, but no connection to the setting (other than being "after the bomb" and having similar gun models).

The real issue with Fallout 3 is the ending and the re-playability. If you can't beat it a dozen times in a dozen different ways then it's not a Fallout game. It doesn't have a Fallout style ending, just a really half-assed imitation of one. Fallout 3 does a passable job of tricking you into thinking it's Falloutish the first play through, but you quickly learn on your second game that you actually had almost no impact on the story.

Edit: It's not just the broad strokes that they failed at either, 3 is a poorly thought out game in the fine details. For example: the only way to get a decent amount of negative Karma in the early game just so happens to kill the early-game low karma companion?

 

[Watcher]

At the very least Bethesda did their homework with regard to the lore

Umm... no they didn't. They included just the bare minimum of Fallout elements for it to even qualify as the fan-fiction it is. The Brotherhood of Steel are unambiguous good guy shining knights? Fallout 3 had stylistic similarities to the original series, but no connection to the setting (other than being "after the bomb" and having similar gun models).

It could've easily been this

 

[Uzumaki]

At the very least Bethesda did their homework with regard to the lore

Umm... no they didn't. They included just the bare minimum of Fallout elements for it to even qualify as the fan-fiction it is. The Brotherhood of Steel are unambiguous good guy shining knights? Fallout 3 had stylistic similarities to the original series, but no connection to the setting (other than being "after the bomb" and having similar gun models).

It could've easily been this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... _cover.jpg

"It could have been worse" =/= "they did they homework with regard to the lore". They screwed the pooch on the lore hardcore, and it's clear they didn't give a shit in the first place. They wanted the prestige of the Fallout name for their new Elder Scrolls derivative, not to continue the series. It's a miracle so much of the Fallout 2 team decided to show them up using their own engine. When they make 4 they're going to go right back to not giving a shit, because they don't.

 

[Luna]

The Brotherhood of Steel are unambiguous good guy shining knights?

Yeah, but they're actually considered to be a splinter faction of the Brotherhood, while the Outcasts are actually the regular Brotherhood. They also aren't on friendly terms with ghouls, so I mean they aren't entirely without problems. From what I understand though Fallout 3 was kind of rushed through production because they were told they had to do something with the license, which is also why they chose to isolate it from the location that the rest of the series used.