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I think obsidian just doesn't know how to give characters SPECIAL stats like how they made Arcade have more Charisma than Ceaser. Probably gave up by the time they got to Ulysses and maxed him out.
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It's a crime how underrated Fallout Tactics is. Barely anybody knows about it, let alone have played it. Even then, Todd officially considers the game "non-canon"(which doesn't mean a lot when the Chicago BOS is quite literally mentioned in Fallout 3 and when Todd considers the TV show canon) so that turns off normalfags even more.
Even if you never played the game, I think you should still experience it, at least. Here is a good video about it that covers everything: The good, The bad, The ugly and the it's troubled development process. I think he only made one mistake, CHR doesn't determine your recruits only your rank does(but high CHR increases your rank faster, so that's partially true)
Obviously, I recommend the game itself as well, especially in this drought of content, but the game IS a big commitment: It is the longest entry, one with a high skill requirement of entry and one that is janky as hell. Due to the lack of QA testing, the late game is extremely unbalanced, like Grimbeard says, and you will likely just be plinking uselessly with your small guns at the enemies as they pulverize your squad with energy and heavy weapons. Still, for all it's faults, there is a genuine oldschool Fallout experience here, and the closest thing we will get to the third proper isometric RPG in the franchise.
Even if you never played the game, I think you should still experience it, at least. Here is a good video about it that covers everything: The good, The bad, The ugly and the it's troubled development process. I think he only made one mistake, CHR doesn't determine your recruits only your rank does(but high CHR increases your rank faster, so that's partially true)
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Normies don't care about what is or isn't canon. That's the kinda shit only people who frequent online forums dedicated to a specific video game care about.
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Honestly reading your post just reminds me why there is such a major divide with the Fallout fanbase.
It's basically inevitable since the series literally changed genres from a 2D isometric turn based RPG to a 3D open world action RPG.
Both appeal to two completely different groups of people so it's pretty much inevitable and somebody was going to be mad regardless of the crappy lore.
This and even Bethesda themselves don't really care that much about their own lore. I mean, I remember reading somewhere that someone asked either Todd or someone else at Bethesda a question regarding Elder Scrolls lore and the answer was basically "Whatever the current writer feels like."
And I imagine that attitude probably extends to their other franchises as well.
Truth be told I don't really care about canon or lore either. I pretty much only care if the story being presented to me is actually engaging or interesting. Gameplay can only carry a game so far if there's no reason to care about what you're doing.
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how it runs on ps3? i dont have any legacy hardware besides that. and i dont think you can find the cd so easy
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I only know how it ran on 360. And it was good because it wasn't done by the branch of THQ or Volition or whatever that fucked up the PC port.
that was ages ago though
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The gameplay itself is fine, the main gameplay loop is actually a really good fusion of Jagged Alliance 2 and classic Fallout combat. Problems arise from the troubled development, but I can't name any Fallout game where that wasn't the case. It's a tradition at this point.
Game balance is the biggest problem for newtime players that won't know it's coming, but the early and mid game is fine. Still a better title to play, in my opinion, than something like Fallout 4 or 76.
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i didnt finish 4 because it started to run like shit the more super mutants you find and the story didnt grab me. i wont touch 76
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Bethesda is so retarded on how they could get an easy cash grab by making a retro remake of the old Fallout engine. We get that the average gaymer wants his cool 3d effects, but indie shit proves that graphics don't matter compared to gameplay. The amount of content they could make for a Fallout Texas game (online or offline) in an isometric form would be a more prominent revenue maker than 76. I could see people going through hours and hours of this map to see how Texas is faring in the southeastern wasteland.
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And also karma determining how lucky \ successful you are at the end. Karma never worked like this in any other Fallout, it just determined how various people react to you.
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Might try it my next run alongside the stewietweak's settings that make it so performing actions while in combat costs AP like opening your pip-boy. I'll have to test to see if draining AP while just moving around would be too restrictive or not. But I do genuinely want to try it just to see how it goes. I probably won't play the entire game with this setup but I might try to beat the main story with it just to see how it goes. Will report back when I begin.
Also I can't help it this classic UI is stupid charming to me. Maybe I'm just autistic but again it's so much more interesting to look at than the default UI. Normally the camera is focused on Doc so the pictures he shows you get cut off unfortunately but this one time for whatever reason it was framed perfectly.
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Hell the fuck no on remakes, everything they touch turns to shit. As for why they don't do it anyway? If they make it like the isometrics, normies probably wouldn't touch it, then again Wasteland 3 did well despite being an isometric even if it was just around 2 million+ players across PC and consoles. For Bethesda it'll probably be too much of a risk, and it would be quite a bit of work to make it like modern Fallout since I don't think it would translate well in a 3D environment without it looking awful and without tons of work they probably don't want to do. They might as well make a new Slopout game at that point to keep those zoomer's attention because "old bad, new good." Doubt they'll go back on their public statement of "fuck that, let's not dig up those corpses."
Side note, I'm starting to dislike Chris Avellone now.
Apparently he found them specifically too silly and also didn't want the player to sympathizing with monsters, same with that faggot Tim and Leonard. Given that I'm pretty sure Tim likes nu-fallout, lol.
Ehh, I can understand that viewpoint, time is our most precious resource after all. But you should give some jankfests a try so long as they aren't notorious for breaking your saves or some unplayable shit, because again...time. Some of the best experiences I had was jankfests.
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It's a 2008 third party PS3 game. As long as you're fine with it running at ~25 fps, I don't remember it being particularly buggy or needing any hard resets at all.
That would be CD Projekt Black, their localization studio before everybody was folded into Red to force Witcher 2 out the door.
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In Tactics, Karma effects which ending you will get if you plug your brain in the Calculator, he is right about that. Similarly, in New Vegas you also get slightly different slides for the ending depending on your karma, at least for House.
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Everyone says Fallout 4: London is great, any truth to that?
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It is decent, definitely a proper Fallout experience, but not quite as good as what people were expecting. History is repeating itself, New Vegas had New California and Fallout 4 has London, both are unfinished and unpolished but both have something good to offer if you're willing to look into them. Both are definitely better than Fallout 76.
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I dunno about New California offering anything really good. It's linear, too huge in terms of gaming space (it's really nice they got all this territory created, but you can't leave this much empty space in a game, unless empty space is a point, which it's not), the story is like 14yo worte it. Just my opinion.
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It plays and feels like a proper oldschool Fallout game translated into 3D. The start is the best and it peeters out as it goes along, but that's because it is quite literally unfinished, like London. Exploring is worthless and there is few worthwhile sidequests, but what's there is pretty good. I don't think anybody really praises the story, it's there to explain why your character is able to continue their game in Fallout New Vegas proper.
It's a neat little stopping gap between Fallout 2 and New Vegas, if that's what you're looking for then New California is a perfect mod. It shouldn't really be treated as a DLC sized expansion, because it's not. It's got plenty of issues, but most of them do just stem from being unfinished, it definitely should have spend more time in the oven.