Been starting up game obsessions again since I finally got system with a graphics card.
Of course I've been using that card to do terribly modern things like play Vampire: Bloodlines, which, if you install some version of an unofficial patch, becomes a really, really amazing game. It's similar to old Fallout titles in what your options for any given situation tend to be: combat, social, lockpicking, stealth, hacking. Most involved quests will require more than one.
Closer to Fallout 2 than 1 in that the sexuality goes to the place where you can tell this is being made by adolescently-minded males for adolescently-minded males, although the rampant bisexuality of the female characters is not a terrible fit for the genre. It's the absence of that same option for male NPCs that is more glaring.
Not like any Fallout at all in terms of setting, and in terms of the combat being really pretty terrible. This is not a turn-based/real-time thing so much, it just feels off. I understand why guns are so weak in the game, but not why more work wasn't put into having the melee combat be more interesting.
Story seems generally pretty amazing so far. Have a feeling that if this had been made with Troika as an in-house department of Valve, rather than just licensing the Source engine (and apparently never getting Valve's AI code), it could be among the best all time. This, (minus the release bugs) could be, I think, a best-case scenario for Bethesda's Fallout 3.
I don't know why I ended up saying Fallout so many times in that post. Or posted that many words about a game everyone's either already played or will never play, ever.