Fallout 3 Trailer

[Elessar]

Anyone play Fallout 1 or 2? Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel was stupid and nothing like the other two, if you played that and didn't like it, don't judge the rest of the franchise on it...

http://www.gamespot.com/video/918428/61 ... -trailer-1

[Rigil Kent]

Looking forward to this game, even though it means I'll have to get this turd of a computer upgraded. The first two Fallout games are some of my all time favorites, and I have many fond memories of running around, exchanging bottlecaps for leather armor with the faithful Dogmeat at my side.

The only thing that would be even better is if they redid X-COM, using modern equipment and the like. Now that was an awesome game...

[CX]

What's the game about?

[Rigil Kent]

It an RPG set in a post-apocalyptic future. In the first one, your characters leaves his "Vault" to try and locate this device so the underground shelter can continue to operate. Naturally, he has wild adventures after leaving said Vault.

[CX]

First person or third person?

[Elessar]

The first two were third person, turn-based. Fallout 3, from what I can tell, is supposed to be 1st person.

I didn't play Fallout 1, Rigil, I've only heard what it was like and about and that, other than some functionality and a little graphics enhancement, it was similar to Fallout 2.

Fallout 2 was (to CX) about a guy from a tribe in a village in northern california called Arroyo who was trying to find the G.E.C.K., or Garden of Eden Creation Kit, that was supposed to revive the soil, water, air, etc, to make a post-apocalyptic nuclear nightmare become a livable, farmable paradise. So the main quest of the game is to find the G.E.C.K., but like RPGs, it had side quests and you had all your character stats to increase as you levelled up.

Rigil after I beat it on normal gameplay (which took FOREVER), I used a character editor to play a cheat game and go through and beat it again, lol. It was so funny to watch a "Haymaker" punch knock somebody's torso in half

I can't possibly describe all the things you COULD do in the game. For its time it was EXTREMELY open ended and that's what made it so fun. There were also a number of secret areas and I'm not sure if I ever DID find ALL the NPCs that you could bring along in your little gang, but I found most of them.

To my count, there were 3 dogs you could get in Fallout 2, Rigil... Dogmeat (from the random encounter where you find the Cafe of Broken Dreams where all the characters from Fallout 1 who didn't make it into Fallout 2 hangout, hehe), the Pariah Dog (which is another random encounter), and the Robo-dog, which I think you find at the Navarro base and have to repair somehow ( I don't think I ever found out how to repair him).

I'll never forget, till the day I die, how funny it is to see a big tall indian guy named Sulik, wearing a leather jacket, make a running jab at a woman with a sledgehammer and hear her go "WHUH!" as she smacks the pavement

oh and I couldn't agree more, Rigil. They need to remake X-COM: UFO Defense big time

[Rigil Kent]

The main character in the second game was descended from the main character of the first one who founded that village. Honestly, it's been so long since I played either one of them that I barely remember the plots apart from random events throughout. For example, in the first game, there was this random event while you're traveling overland where you could find a British police box out in the middle of the California wilderness that disappears, complete with the Doctor Who sound effects. Or you could find a crashed spaceship and acquire a ray gun (that ultimately ran out of juice).

Man ... I think I may have to see if I can't get ahold of that game again ... I remember playing X-COM not that long ago and enjoying it. Hey, Elessar, have you seen This? It's a new total ripoff of X-COM, but I've been thinking about getting it...

[Elessar]

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...

[Rigil Kent]

Try http://www.squakenet.com/ I just downloaded the first Fallout and am gonna play it again...