Game News The original Fallout trilogy gets Bethesdized, re-released on Steam

[Infinitron]

Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Fallout; Fallout 2; Fallout Tactics

It's been over half a year since Interplay's license to sell the original "Fallout trilogy" - Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics - expired. The games were removed from all digital distribution sites as soon as that happened, although Bethesda promised that they would eventually return to Steam (but not to GOG, god forbid). Well, today they've done that, just in time for the Steam Summer Sale. From the official Bethesda Blog:

Fallout Classics Return to Steam

Your favorite Fallout Classics are back. Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics are now available for purchase on Steam individually for $9.99 or in the Fallout Classics pack for $19.99.

Some details to note:

• All three games have Steam Cloud enabled for save games.
• Fallout 1 & Fallout 2 can be launched in either default or classic versions. Default allows for high resolutions and Classic is the original, unmodified release.
• Fallout Tactics is unmodified. Multiplayer works with direct connect.
• While Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 can run on Windows 8, Fallout Tactics is not Windows 8 compatible.

I've tried the new versions out myself, and from what I can tell the games appear to be unaltered other than the addition of Mash's well-known hi-res patches for Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, Sfall for Fallout 2, plus a Bethesda-style pre-launch splash screen menu and updated readmes for all three of them. The Interplay logo, "By Gamers, For Gamers", "Brian Fargo Presents", it's all still there. Not too bad, actually. Don't hold your breath for a GOG re-release, though.

 

[Excidium]

Herve vs Bethesda, which is better and why? DISCUSS!!

 

[FeelTheRads]

Herve vs Bethesda, which is better and why? DISCUSS!!

Cancer vs. AIDS, which is deadlier and why?

 

[Kem0sabe]

GOG gave all these away for free...

 

[karnak]

Capitalism in our times has turned into some ridiculous shit of gigantic proportions of stupidity.

When I was a kid games magazines used to offer a disk, containing demos of upcoming games (PC, Amiga, etc).

Nowadays software houses put these demos on Steam, call them "early access" and people pay $ to play the said demos and do the beta-testing, performing the cores that were supposed to be done by the developpers themselves. :S

Smart move, heh?

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Anybody who doesn't already own these should save their money and take their credit card, form it into a shiv, and stab themselves in the kidney.

 

[Nihiliste]

Easy questions with easy answers

Herve vs Bethesda, which is better and why? DISCUSS!!

Anyone but the greasy frenchman

Cancer vs. AIDS, which is deadlier and why?

Prostate cancer > AIDS > Lung cancer

etc.

 

[felipepepe]

Da fuck Bethesa did?

 

[Excidium]

They didn't even use the corrent font, the heathens

 

[Metro]

We all know Todd Howard developed FO1 and 2.

 

[Gondolin]

Da fuck Bethesa did?

Revert back? De-fucking-cline of English.

 

[J_C]

GOG gave all these away for free...

Yeah, who cares about this re-release?

 

[Infinitron]

Da fuck Bethesa did?

Looks like you had a mod installed before the update? Install it again.

 

[Ramireza]

There was a Fallout 1 and 2?!

Is this F2P?

EDIT: ROFLOL 2D in 2014, wat a bat remahke!

TBH : Is this real? This shit looks like Excel to me.

 

[Jigawatt]

Your favorite Fallout Classics

Just who the fuck is Bethesda supposed to be talking to? Fallout 3 fans who wouldn't touch 1 & 2 with a 10 foot pole, or people who already own the game and wouldn't give Beth one red cent after what they did to Fallout?

Who am I kidding, fucking idiots will buy them for Steam XP

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

What about censorship? Do these versions have children?

 

[Ivory Samoan]

Bewildered by the Bethesda re: Windows 8 incompatibility with Tactics.

Very Un-Rad(scorpion) like.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Wonder what bethesda fans will think of that....

 

[catfood]

Wonder what bethesda fans will think of that....

Yeah right.

 

[imweasel]

your hard earned potato goes to Bethesda.

plus a Bethesda-style pre-launch splash screen menu.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

your hard earned potato goes to Bethesda.

plus a Bethesda-style pre-launch splash screen menu.

What's wrong with supporting Bethesda? After all, they've made Skyrim which is great for what it is (in vanilla state, it's orgasmic with mods). If you disagree and didn't spend atleast 100 hours on it you're a tryhard/newfag/edgy/hipster.

Anyway, fuck people who buy this.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Screenshots of launcher please. I don't care that much because I have them on DVD from when Interplay were still alive and kicking, and I got the GOG versions too, but it would be interesting to see what Bethesda did.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Screenshots of launcher please. I don't care that much because I have them on DVD from when Interplay were still alive and kicking, and I got the GOG versions too, but it would be interesting to see what Bethesda did.

Check the other thread about this you lazy cunt.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...logy-receives-bethesda-update-on-steam.92394/