My Experience with Fallout 2

[Niska]

See, just recently there was article here on The Escapist about people these days not being able to handle old cRPGs. Congratulation, you fit that group. You were most likely raised alongside games that had extensive tutorial sections that for good hour or more explain every little mechanic of the gameplay that for me are just reincarnation of Clippy, the annoying MS Office assistant. Can't be helped really.

cRPGs like BG, IWD, P:T, or Fallout were made for the story and atmosphere loving crowd, not the twitchy shooty/hack and slash types. Maybe it's just not your boat.

Don't forget Arcanum!

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

I have a similar problem, i loved fallout 1 and 3 and im hoping im gonna love new vegas, but fallout 2 doesnt really interest me for some reason

 

[The Ambrosian]

I got the Fallout collection (Fallout 1 and 2, and Fallout Tactics), but Fallout 1 didn't seem to run properly on my computer for whatever reason,

If you want to private message me...I should be able to help fix that for you.

 

[JPH330]

to access vats, press the weapon button (the picture of the weapon your holding) until you see a CIRCLE WITH A DOT IN IT. click it, and click on an enemy. to change hands, click the red button. hopefully that will help.

I already knew that, that was easy enough to figure out by myself.

 

[Littaly]

Out of curiosity, just how old do you think I am?

Like 12, right? No more than 14 for sure.

 

[JPH330]

to access vats, press the weapon button (the picture of the weapon your holding) until you see a CIRCLE WITH A DOT IN IT. click it, and click on an enemy. to change hands, click the red button. hopefully that will help.

I already knew that, that was easy enough to figure out by myself.

then what do you have issues with?

Well if that's really as simple as it is, then I guess I don't have issues.

 

[number2301]

You've had a vaguely similar experience to me in Fallout 2. For reference, I'm 26 and grew up on the likes of Frontier, Elite and Civilisation but bypassed RPGs until very recently.

My main criticism of Fallout 2 wouldn't be the lack of a decent interface (that isn't the game's fault really given its age) but the lack of tactical combat. There are far too few options to require any real tactics or for you to genuinely influence the combat once you're in it. To a large extent the outcome is decided by your stats and gear and that just isn't fun for me.

For tactical combat done right see XCom, any of them.

I do mean to get back into Fallout 2 at some point, I just got frustrated in New Reno during my playthrough and gave up.

 

[Cousin_IT]

The best way to experience fallout 1 & 2 is to read the fallout wiki instead.

 

[Zombie Shakespeare]

One major point I can agree with that you made is that the interface is awfully complicated for those of us who don't or can't read the manual. It took me at least half an hour to figure everything out, but after that I really never had any problems.

As for the combat, there was very little strategy in my game for the first few hours, at least. Around the time I got to The Den, specifically, when I was fighting the leader of the slavers with the help of Sulik, things got difficult. I only had a low-grade pistol and Sulik's sledgehammer at that point, so it was hell breaking in and even worse breaking out. It was also a lot of fun, and I felt great shooting the last slaver in the dick until he died to celebrate.

I had my character designed pretty much the same way as you, also. I didn't run into many problems with that. With the man at the end of the first dungeon, there was an option to convince him that you didn't have to fight, and in 90 % of the encounters after that, I had similar outs to conflicts.

I enjoyed it a lot. I guess it just comes down to taste. I tend to enjoy older games almost, if not just as much as current generation games. Even if you don't like it personally, I think most people should be able to appreciate Fallout and Fallout 2 for what they are. The emphasis of the game is really placed on setting and characters, and I think they did some really fantastic things with the games. And Tactics to a certain extent, I suppose.

One final note: I feel that age is mostly irrelevant here. I'm sixteen and I like it. I've met people in their twenties and thirties who hated it.

TL;DR: Oh well.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

See, just recently there was article here on The Escapist about people these days not being able to handle old cRPGs. Congratulation, you fit that group. You were most likely raised alongside games that had extensive tutorial sections that for good hour or more explain every little mechanic of the gameplay that for me are just reincarnation of Clippy, the annoying MS Office assistant. Can't be helped really.

I don't think it's to do with the games people were raised with. I'm 30, have been gaming for over 20 years and far prefer a game with a clear, straightforward tutorial. It prevents annoying trial and error.