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Fallout Questions about Fallout / the Fallout series

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Hey,

I grew up on Baldur's Gate (the original), and Diablo. I always liked the gameplay style, humor etc of BG I and II; I for whatever reason never got around to playing Fallout. I recognize BG was developed by Bioware, but it was published and had a lot of help from the people who constituted Black Isle, who developed Fallout.

My questions are:

1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?

2) What can I expect going into them?

3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?

4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?
 
Vatnik
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1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?
BG2 and Fo1 are my favorite games and they're very similar.
Fallouts 1-2 blew my mind, so I sent my grandma to the open-air market of pirate CDs and asked her for "something similar to Fallout". She brought me BG2. It was the best present I ever got.

The only difference is Fallout doesn't have a full-fledged party. But you will learn to appreciate it. Party is for Sword & Sorcery kind of camaraderie in adventure. Fallout is thematically about loneliness, so it fits. Even though technically there's joinable NPCs (very few in F1, more in F2), I play without them.
Also, Charisma matters here.
Don't want to spoil anything else, you're good to go.
 

Lemming42

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1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?
The combat and RPG systems are entirely different but if you liked walking around talking to people, exploring areas and solving quests, then they've got similar gameplay.

2) What can I expect going into them?
Just start with Fallout 1, the less you know about it going in the better. Be aware that all the Fallout games are very tonally different from each other to the point where they often don't even feel like they're taking place in the same universe; you might enjoy all of them or you might only enjoy one, but Fo1 is a great game on its own.

3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?
I'd say yeah, just play all the games in order. You'll have to play them yourself to know if you like them or not.

4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?
I thought it was terrible but, like everything, try it yourself and see what you think.
 
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1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?
Probably yes, but Fallout's combat is not very advanced. It's a pretty basic yet functional turn-based combat inspired by X-COM, with a single controlled character and optional party-members.

You should also play Fallout Tactics after 1 and 2.
2) What can I expect going into them?
Awesomeness is what you can expect.
Any more would be spoilers.
3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?
I disliked FO3, didn't play FO4 yet (ought to), currently playing Fallout 76 and kinda like it, but it's a pretty casual-ish experience to me.

The difference between the Interplay and Bethesda Fallouts is thus: The Interplay/Black Isle Fallouts were meant to emulate a PnP RPG Experience on the computer, and the Bethesda Fallouts are open-world Action RPGs in the vein of the TES games. Hell, they're pretty much Fallout Total Conversions built on the bones of their TES games.

Note that I didn't include Fallout New Vegas. New Vegas was published by Bethesda and has a style similar to the Bethesda Fallouts, but is made by Obsidian and full of people who used to work at Black Isle and developed the older ones. So in many aspects, its a lot more like 1 and 2, more of a hard RPG experience.
4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?
Oh boy, now THERE'S a minefield of a question.
I enjoyed the show for what it was, myself. It does have some dubious canonicity moments.
The characters in it are likeable and fun, and it really does the visuals right.
 
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The only difference is Fallout doesn't have a full-fledged party. But you will learn to appreciate it. Party is for Sword & Sorcery kind of camaraderie in adventure. Fallout is thematically about loneliness, so it fits.
I don't know, FO1 is definitively about loneliness, but FO2 isn't. Which I think provides an interesting contrast between these adventures.
 

Just Locus

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1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?
Fallout 1 incorporates the GURPS ruleset into its system, meaning there are no classes like in Baldur's Gate, and your character progression is much more freeform. Still, the gameplay shouldn't feel too dissimilar to BG besides the lack of a full-fledged party and that Fallout 1 is turn-based instead of RTwP.
 

agris

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Hey,

I grew up on Baldur's Gate (the original), and Diablo. I always liked the gameplay style, humor etc of BG I and II; I for whatever reason never got around to playing Fallout. I recognize BG was developed by Bioware, but it was published and had a lot of help from the people who constituted Black Isle, who developed Fallout.

My questions are:

1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?

2) What can I expect going into them?

3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?

4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?
Play fallout 1, use the Fallout1in2 edition for easy mode setup, disable all the features that are non vanilla content but keep widescreen mode, and dig into resources to figure out how to play it in 960x540 analogue to your aspect ratio if you aren’t 16:9.

Don’t screw that part up, the game doesn’t hit right at modern resolutions.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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I bet you watch FO TV using THIS! YOU DEVIL YOU!
IMG_4953.jpeg

vault-girl-from-fallout-with-nsfw-version-and-miniatures-77mm-3d-model-358e14625d.jpg

https://www.otonajp.com/vault-69
 
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Laz Sundays

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"Hey I liked apple, will I like tomato?"

Both are universally considered good, but they have nothing in common. Nothing. Fallout is turn based, different fantasy, style, system, different feel to it..

I'm sorry, I'm trying hard to figure out what type of autism is behind these questions. What happened, you watched the show and liked it? You're not gonna like it anymore after playing Oldout, since there's a high chance you will like the games. They're good.
 
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Losus4

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1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?

Yes

2) What can I expect going into them?

More carpal tunnel issues

3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?

Yes, F3 and FNV are both excellent, F4 is worse than both but still a decent looter shooter

4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?

No form of media is worth watching in the decline
 

Yosharian

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Hey,

I grew up on Baldur's Gate (the original), and Diablo. I always liked the gameplay style, humor etc of BG I and II; I for whatever reason never got around to playing Fallout. I recognize BG was developed by Bioware, but it was published and had a lot of help from the people who constituted Black Isle, who developed Fallout.

My questions are:

1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?

2) What can I expect going into them?

3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?

4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?
Assuming this is not a troll, have you been living under a fucking rock for the last 20 years?
 

blessedCoffee

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Hey,

I grew up on Baldur's Gate (the original), and Diablo. I always liked the gameplay style, humor etc of BG I and II; I for whatever reason never got around to playing Fallout.
Why the sudden interest? The 1st season of the live-action game adaptation came out a while ago.

Let me guess, Epic Games? :cry:

My questions are:

1) As someone who enjoys BG, will I enjoy Fallout 1 & 2 in terms of gameplay?

2) What can I expect going into them?

3) Are the Fallout games that were made by Bethesda worth playing?

4) Is the show worth watching for people who liked FO 1&2?
1-The combat systems are not really similar. I don't get why you made this question.
Maybe if the Fallout 1 staff weren't forced to discard "GURPS" it'd be a similar experience (who knows how the final product would be like), but the developers had to scratch that plan...

2-Restarting the games (character building failures), "losing" battles thanks to the foolishness of your companions (well, you might have defeated all hostile creatures, but a companion got killed because he/she refused to flee from the battle. Reloading time!), a lot of quicksaves/quickloads to pickpocket non-playable characters stealthily, inefficient micromanagement (try to memorize all the hotkeys, at some point). Jokes that play on references to movies/TV series/etc, inside jokes, and if you plan to create a low intelligence character, expect hilarious reactions from the other survivors.
Gore.
A lot of floats, during and outside of combat. Some of them only appear if you do targeted attacks.
A lot of slangs. Everyday language. More prevalent in the second game.
Not many songs, they're mostly "ambient" tracks done by Mark Morgan. It's not like the newer entries, where you can tune in one of the stations. But I dig, he did a good job.

3-I'd prioritize playing all those total conversion mods for Fallout 2, before considering playing Fallout 3/4/76.

  • Fallout 1.5
  • Nevada
  • Sonora
  • etc.
 

SixDead

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So, uh... Where is the water chip? I know I must nuke the Cathedral to win the game, but where will I get the chip?
You find it in the Necropolis.
But I visited it, and there was nothing. Ghoul manager didn't want to talk with me, and I couldn't visit the upper part of the town.
Also, I'm so sorry that in my 30+ I'm playing Fallout in the first time. It is an RPG sin.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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I wanted that Vault overseer's desk as a mechwarrior to walk around the wastes.
WHERE'S MY MECH?
WHERE'S MY MECH?
WHERE'S MY MECH?
 

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