Fallout series

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My favorite NV moment
Trying to prevent the NCR President assassination.
At that dam tower waiting for that Legion assassin in the crowd
Use a energy weapon to kill the assassin
Had that perk that causes chain reaction explosions with energy weapons
Everyone in the that event area dies in an ashy mess.
 
Me when I found I could fuck everyone over and take New Vegas for myself on my first playthrough:

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I just started playing the original Fallout and I can see why the story is compelling and how the game is interesting. I never knew of it growing up or anything, just got a nice copy on GOG and it is turning out to be satisfying!
 
Y2KKK Baby said:
You disgust me, Canuck.
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Legion: Philosophy of history spergs

Ancap: Creating a clusterfuck even with a good courier

NCR: An actual government that protects liberty by being incompetent

House: Actually ok but what if he dies?
 
Apoth42 said:
Legion: Philosophy of history spergs

Ancap: Creating a clusterfuck even with a good courier

NCR: An actual government that protects liberty by being incompetent

House: Actually ok but what if he dies?
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The Legion: Believes in Caesar and not his ideas and will fall apart after he dies

Ancap: I imagine all the problems it causes could easily be fixed by the Courier doing some extra quests after the ending

NCR: Has the same problems as the old world but is a better option than being crucified, raped,or eaten for most people.

House: House rubs me the wrong way. The fact he punishes people for disloyalty in some endings like Primm and the Kings for accepting NCR aid despite never trying to resolve their problems shows me his goal is to preserve his ego more than humanity.

Y2KKK Baby said:
>Implying he doesn't have le contingency.
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He probably should have used it after I opened his pod because a smiley face told me to.
 
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Kiwi Jeff said:
It's a shame that people can't get into them nowadays
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I think what people miss is you're supposed to use your imagination, I find the old school graphics charming, but you're supposed to embellish them with your imagination.

That's kind of a lost art, when games required you to use your imagination to fill in the blanks the graphics couldn't show, sort of like reading a book and for anyone who's too used to modern games that can simply show you everything I can see why it might be hard to go back.
 
ICameToplaY said:
Never played 1 and 2. How does it differ to the present fallout games?
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Firstly, the game is presented in an isometric view. You control the character like you would in most late 90s RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment (basically just click on the map and your character goes there).

The combat system is turn-based as well as grid-based. Characters are allotted action points to move around and perform actions such as attacking. Action points are based on your character's agility, so if you have more agility you have more action points.

Because the game is turn-based, this means your combat stats are extremely important in dictating how effective you are in battle. If you have a low Melee Weapon stat, you aren't going to be landing a lot of hits, and if you have a high Small Guns stat, you'll have a great chance of hitting your mark (though how far you can successfully hit is going to depend on your Perception stat). You'll have to take into consideration what build you want your character to be if you want to specialize with certain weapons.

This isn't really a problem in 1 where the game generously gives you some starting weapons based on your build, but it is an issue in 2 where you start out with a spear and your bare fists regardless of whether you're specializing in either of those, so you'll have to suffer through until the second town where you can get your first gun (either that or just avoid everything if you put enough points into Agility).
 
I've played and beaten all four main entries to the series and F4 was the only one that made me want to play it again. Just finished my first playthrough at just shy of 361 hours and didn't last 24 hours before making a new character.

It's hardly the best one story-wise but it's the one that doesn't make me exhausted after playing it for an hour. The modding community keeps breathing new life into it and it indulges my kleptomania. Also a few characters were surprisingly better-written than I'd anticipated, Hancock being chief among them.
 
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