Fallout 2?

Hey all. I was wondering whether or not to get Fallout 2. I played Fallout 1 a few years ago and it was alright but I never finished it. Fallout 2 looks like a bigger version with a ton of improvements but I've read in a few places that it has a lot of fourth wall breaking stuff. Is this true or is there only like one or two little throwaway lines that are just being exaggerated?

 

check it out on www.gamefaq.com I go there for any inside info on most games.

 

Been a few years since playing through it, but I don't immediately recall anything particularly jarring about it that'll yank you out of your immersion in the game (if that's what you're concerned about). If you asked me, I'd tell you it's the greatest of the great RPGs. Definitely better than 1. I would say that the Water Chip is a more memorable main quest than the GECK, though now that I think of it, they're both pretty interchangeable as far as execution goes.

 

Get it. 'nuff said.

 

Yea, basically. I don't like stupidity no matter how clever the developers think they're being. I saw a picture on google pictures from fallout 2 where a woman was saying she was a rejected design from fallout 1 and that kind of threw me off.

I always figured the water chip quest was just an excuse to get you out in the world. I wouldn't really call it memorable (unless it broke down again or something, I never finished the part of the main quest where the head vault guy told you to find the mutants).

 

The only real fourth wall breaking stuff is in the random events that occur depending on how lucky you are.

And hey, Mark Hamill's Joker broke the fourth wall all the time, and that made him awesome.

 

Man did you take a wrong turn or what.

 

^ You took that completely out of context.

 

Fallout 1 was greater in terms of atmosphere, Fallout 2 is greater in terms of possibilities, both games deserve a gunmetal statue for being so epically awesome. Either get the game right now and play it or start building the fucking statue. Your existence has no meaning without you doing at least one of those things.

 

The "immersion breaking" stuff are in random encounters which are optional and meant to add humor to the game - like easter eggs. The game itself with the main story is more awesome and legendary than Barney Stinson.

 

I think the rejected FO1 woman was in an inaccessible area of the game you couldn't get to without cheating. It might be the same place you can watch your "ancestor" fuck up the Water Chip, thus setting the scene for 1's plot. I remember some pretty whacky encounters in the wastes, but nothing I actually thought was stupid, or that repulsed me from the game. One popular, albeit extremely rare, encounter was the Holy hand grenade and the Monty Python reference (of which there are many throughtout) accompanying it, but I thought that one was also left out of the original game and couldn't be encountered without cheating.

The Water Chip MQ was better, imo, because it directly impacted the original Fallout setting: You've been crammed in a vault like a pack of rats for years with other people, the water chip breaks and the survival of your pathetic community is endangered by the threat of an increasingly exhaustable amount of pure water. Your're sent out into the wastes for the first time, in search of a new chip with the fate of the vault on your shoulders with only a few months to succeed.

The GECK quest just seemed like a more boring, rehashed version of the Water Chip: your village is dying, you're sent out into the wastes to find the GECK which will save the village, only this time on a time limit that never actually expires. And you're supposedly starting as a savage decendant to the original Vault Dweller from 1. The catch, though, is that game really opens up once you get past the lackluster intro level. The allies you can acquire are very memorable and entertaining, and the dialogue with them is classic. The settlements were designed really well, too. One of my fondest memories of FO2 was getting into a big shootout outside one the casinos in New Reno that spilled over several street corners and claimed the worthless, disease-ridden lives of an entire harem of prostitutes in the crossfire.

 

hmm... thanks for the info.

 

I heard Fallout 2 is just Arcanum with guns.

 

Fallout 3 is what you really want to play.

And keep an eye open for Fallout: New Vegas, which will no doubt be equally monumental.

 

Fallout 3 has a really bad main story. The only good thing about it is traveling through the wasteland, it has a good feel.

 

About as much effort as they put into acquiring voice actors. I'm seeing patterns.

 

To be fair, the voice acting wasn't that bad. I mean, Fallout 1 managed to score MACGYVER, but Fallout 3 got Liam Neeson.

Granted, neither choice is actually that great. It would be better to find people who specialize in voice work than A-list stars. After all, that's what they're trained for. It's like hiring a carpenter to help you cut down trees.

 

well as far as real voice actors go, Crispen Freedman is amoung the best, his voice can be heard on 17 animes and over 40 games.

 

I would maybe try to go for those with film and original animation experience (some anime work is good, but it suffers a bit if the characters aren't actually yours).

I think you should check imdb some time, though. 57 works is about half the resume that some of these other guys have.