• Kefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        I built a small guns and speech character just like the one I used to beat fallout 1. Little did I know my character lives in a primitive tribe and won’t have access to any guns or friends for a long while.

        I honestly gave up after getting slaughtered two dozen times because my fragile guns character lives in a society where she has to fight with a spear all the time. How did she survive long enough to reach the start of the game?

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      Fucking same. I got my copy for free when I bought Baldur’s gate, I got shredded by the little rats just outside the vault and never touched that game again.

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      The trick is to gtfo of town after completing the awful tutorial, beeline to the bottom of the world map until you start encountering people in purple robes fighting against people without purple robes, scavenge the loot from the dead, and sell everything to the vendor at the nearest town. I think one of the vendors sells power armor lol. Do this until you have enough equipment then you can begin last-hitting the survivors for xp. Farm off the survivors until you feel you are strong enough. With this cheese, you basically walk out of it with power armor and various late-game weapons on top of being overleveled.

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    There were three Fallout games, right? There was also some weird alpha version of New Vegas set in Washington DC for some reason, but it was kinda boring. Then some silly spinoff games with like multiplayer and base building or something. Who ever played those?

    • There were three Fallout games, right?

      Yes, the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 versions of Fallout: New Vegas (2010).

      There was also some weird alpha version of New Vegas set in Washington DC for some reason, but it was kinda boring.

      Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) freedom-and-democracy

      Then some silly spinoff games with like multiplayer and base building or something

      Minecraft (2011) pika-pickaxe

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      some weird alpha version of New Vegas set in Washington DC for some reason, but it was kinda boring

      you take that back right this instant

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      Fallout 1, 2, tactics, Brotherhood of steel, Van Buren (never finished or released), fallout 3, new Vegas, shelter, 76 and 4.

      But if we’re being real there was three games: 1, 2 and New Vegas. Everything else is like those books that didn’t make it into the bible

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        Everything else is like those books that didn’t make it into the bible

        wasn’t there one that had a branded soda product placement instead of nuka cola

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          BOS Airships, radroaches, probably some other stuff I’m forgetting.

          Edit: the nuclear cultists living in a shantytown assembled around an unexploded nuke.

          Edit: brains in jars being used to control an army of robots that’ve accidentally been tasked with killing everyone due to a flaw in their logic.

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    Was just admiring my original copy of it earlier. I bought another copy off of GOG since it was about a pound on sale, which is a bargain compared to (a) connecting a working cd-rom drive to any of my computers (b) running the damned installer on Linux © fully patching it up to work.

    Fallout 1 is much more consistent with better lore, but 2 has a lot more ‘game’ and is more fun to play. Fight me.

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    Fallout 2 is fulla proto-reddit humour imho. And the reason most people who’ve played glom onto Frank Horrigan, or Vault City, or infiltrating Navarro Oil Rig is if they tried to think too hard about some of the other bits, their overburdened cringe receptors would explode.

    Go on, make me re-enact a scene from Monty Python again, see what happens fucker.

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        Trish, Alexis de Tocqueville called America “The Great Experiment”. What can we do, as citizens, to improve on that experiment?

        Uh, well, uh, I think America is the land of the free, which is a wonderful thing, and also the brave, where people can live. And nobody can ever take that away from you, and it never gives up. But the high birthing rate of immigrants frightens me! No offense to anyone out there, but if it were up to me and my family, I would actually call it our-merica, and not their-merica! Thank you.

        [raucous applause]

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      Lot of Fallout “fans” never played the classics

      Myself, I’ve played every single Fallout games

      Even the ones that aren’t good

      Especially the ones that aren’t good

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        Especially the ones that aren’t good

        between Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics, which are you throwing in the heap of despair and which are you preserving?

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          I’d say so

          It’s a little clunky and being directly inspired by Wasteland means it’s deliberately antagonistic towards the player sometimes (don’t pick Big Guns or Energy Weapons as a tag skill, put some points into them later)

          But they’re fondly remembered for a reason

          They’re good

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          I played it recently using the mod Fallout Et Tu which is a nifty QOL mod which I can recommend even new players try, that virtually recreates the first game in the second games engine, which fixes a lot of the problems one might have with Fallout 1, like for instance without the mod if a companion or NPC box you into a corner you might just have to load a save if they don’t move.

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      they are older games that came out exclusively on PC in the 90s, so most fans of the series haven’t played them, even though they’re arguably better than the more popular sequels, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, which released on home consoles.

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    Yes I played them, yes I used a trainer to be level 8000 with four trillion HP, yes I beat every enemy to death with my bare fists, this is peak fallout gaming.

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      Kicking a guy and he slides off the map. Punching another guy and his body explodes. I did this as a kid.

      Also finished Arcanum this way. Still a lot of fun being basically a divine being effortlessly solving every problem.

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        The best thing in Arcanum was finishing certain plot quests that gave you a “fate point” or whatever. This fate point could then be used to get a critical success on one attempt at something. So then you’d go up to the Bad Boss Guy, use the point for a crit to pickpocket his armour off of him, put it on yourself, then fight him as he’s standing in his underwear