Nah, I hadn't seen that. Looks pretty interesting. Yeah, Fallout 1 and 2 had many similar elements, I am told. The random events in 2 were like running into a group of Knights who were "Looking for the holy hand grenade of Antioch"
, and finding a "crashed whale" out in the middle of the desert. It also turned out that Richard Dean Anderson voiced one of the Fallout ONE characters, I believe. I don't think it was in two... In any event I heard about it and didn't see it for myself.
I had a stockpile going at one of those nearly-infinite sized lockers at Navarro, Rigil, where I was trying to collect at least ONE of every single weapon in the game. Melee, energy weapons, projectile weapons, everything. I even had that Red Rider BB gun
One of the easter eggs I never completed was finding all the "Cat's Paw" magazines. I think you had to find 10 of them, and then go back to the Cat's Paw place in New Reno and they gave you something. I never figured out what it was. I also had a game glitch (they fixed it later) where, during a boxing match when you became a boxer in New Reno, it froze up. That made me mad, I lost a whole character b/c of that... Cuz I couldn't get past it, my last save point was inside the ring and I couldn't get out of the fight
Let's see, what else... Oh, after I beat everything I decided I would try and kill every single character in the game, except the NPCs (non-player characters, those who run around in your gang with you). So I dropped them off at a town called "broken hills" so that they wouldn't get pissed at me (if you kill people unprovoked, most of the NPCs will either fight back at you or run off cuz they think you're crazy). I was able to wipe out everybody in the game (except of course the travellers, or bandits, or Hubologists, or Scorpions, or Geckos or whatever that you would run into in random encounters), except... I found out that the random, street-walking people in New Reno would reappear after you changed screens. But I got "vilified" every city in the game
And there were always little secrets that I never figured out, or little quests that I never succeeded in, in the game. That's what made it so vast. I still never got into those damn "Brotherhood of Steel" buildings where you'd supposedly find an incredible armory.
I think the coolest part of this game had to be the car that ran on fusion power cells and had a trunk where you could fit 50 rifles and shotguns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, plasma weapons, thousands of dollars, hundreds of pounds of spare fuel, a dozen dirty magazines, more drugs than a pharmacy, 15,000 bandaids, and a crowbar for good measure.
My fav. thing to do in the game, by far, was to steal from people. Cuz you could walk up and look at what they have like you're trading, but take what you want and if your stealing and stealth traits were high enough, you got away with it. And then, if you DIDN'T get away with it it was equally funny. You'd be in a store, checking through the cabinets, and you know if you're caught b/c the game would BEEP at you and a little button would indicate that you're in combat mode and the proprietor would pull out a shotgun and fire at you
Man, I gotta go find this damn game again...
