Playing Fallout 1 For The First Time...

[Arcanoix]

Yes, despite hypocritically claiming I've played it, I played the demo. Having found a copy of the Fallout Trilogy (1, 2, Tactics) at Wal-Mart lastnight with a $19.97 (lawl, irony?) price tag, I couldn't pass it up.

Now where is the damned rope to climb down the elevator shaft of the other Vault?

 

[Shoelip]

Wal-Mart carries M rated games?

EDIT: Oh right sorry, you wanted help. Go to the small town of shady sands just a bit south east of Vault 13 and you can buy rope.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Now where is the damned rope to climb down the elevator shaft of the other Vault?

You need to bring your own rope to get down to the second level of the vault. Perhaps you remember passing a town on your way to Vault 15?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

You'll need more rope as you progress through the game. Although it can be found in a handful of places, in most cases you'll have to buy it from shops.

 

[Satori (original)]

Don't forget to Rad-X before entering The Glow, that's a bastard area for first timers.

 

[Pliskin]

you can buy rope.

There's also one just lying around in SS, if you know where to look.

 

[Carceri]

Don't forget to Rad-X before entering The Glow, that's a bastard area for first timers.

Don't mind him, he's jerking with you. A rope is all you need.

 

[Fowyr]

Shady Sands have two ropes for free.

Spoiler

First on gate guard, second in toilet

 

[Andhaira]

Don't miss out on tactics. Its a good game too. Graphic and animation wise its the best of the bunch.

 

[Helton]

Tactics is great until, I think, second or third mission with Super Mutants starts to get boring.

 

[someone else]

Super Muntants in tactics is more fun than beastmasters, now those are boring.

 

[snoek]

I really hated the robots.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Don't miss out on tactics. Its a good game too. Graphic and animation wise its the best of the bunch.

The sound was quite good too, as I recall. Too bad they don't make 2D games anymore, since some, like Tactics, were really quite attractive and haven't aged a day in the past decade.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Tactics is great until, I think, second or third mission with Super Mutants starts to get boring.

The first two missions in the Super Mutant campaign are, in my opinion, the highpoint of Tactics. Especially the "defend the Cathredal" mission. I can understand your frustration because of the bugged M2 Brownings, though.

(For those unfamiliar with the bug, the M2 Brownings have a very high chance to causing critical hits at long ranges. You'll know this because your teammates start dropping dead.)

Other awesome moments in Tactics include the "Riddick" special encounter (good luck with that one), the "Bonus" mission and the early mission where you infiltrate an abandoned underground bunker. One of the few instances in Tactics where you get a "choice and consequence" moment.

But be warned, Tactics is bugged. Save early, save often.

 

[elander_]

That mission where you are supposed to fight mutants carrying those weapons is to be played with the armored vehicle. You can snipe the mutants from a distance and they can't arm you when inside the vehicle, but the vehicle will take damage so you need to bring a mechanic to repair it occasionally.

 

[Zomg]

The bug with machineguns in Tactics is that "missed" bullets get a good chance to autohit anyone standing near the target. So if an enemy is shooting at long range at one of your guys while another of your guys is three steps from him, the the bystander will get splattered in seconds even if the enemies would have no chance to hit him if they were trying to. Therefore you twink out one guy to kill at long range and just have him prone-snipe everyone to death by himself in the gayest manner possible.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

There is no rope compass and no popup with fontsize 300 which tells me where to find a rope, thusly the game sucks and Oblivion is the best RPG ever.

 

[Satori (original)]

There is no rope compass and no popup with fontsize 300 which tells me where to find a rope, thusly the game sucks and Oblivion is the best RPG ever.

Did he bitch about not being able to find rope? No. He simply enquired as to its whereabouts. Go fuck yourself.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

Wasn`t directed at him. Wouldn`t make sense.

 

[Satori (original)]

My apologies for the rudeness.

 

[skyway]

There is no rope compass and no popup with fontsize 300 which tells me where to find a rope, thusly the game sucks and Oblivion is the best RPG ever.

Did he bitch about not being able to find rope? No. He simply enquired as to its whereabouts. Go fuck yourself.

So much butthurt. Compensating for you Oblivion love?

 

[Melcar]

Someone should mod a quest compass on the original Fallouts.

 

[Kron]

Playing Fallout for the first time was just... magical.
Finding out what the bottle caps were, trading and getting your first guns, arriving to the brotherhood station, the glow...
*sniff*

 

[Dark Matter]

My first time wasn't that memorable to be honest. I enjoyed it more on subsequent playthroughs.

 

[Melcar]

Yeah, the first time wasn't that great. It was like when you have sex for the first time with the cheap hooker down the street and fail to go all the way due to performance anxiety, after which you proceed to beat the shit out of said hooker. The second time is much better thought.