The Fallout Restoration Project includes 1,3, and 4 of these 4 listed items below here which I will show then I have a question:

1. Killap's Unofficial Fallout 2 Patch - "This patch has been in production for several years now and it fixes well over 800+ bugs left in the game since the official 1.02 patch."

Optional: 2. Fallout 2 Restoration Project - "The purpose of this mod is to add back into the game all the content that was originally planned by the Fallout 2 devs."

3. Fallout 2 High Resolution Patch - Adds higher resolution support.

4. Sfall 2.13 - "A set of engine modifications for the classic game Fallout 2 by Interplay. Includes fixes for bugs in the original engine, allows fallout to run correctly on modern operating systems, and adds additional features for modders."

Now my question, if I've never played Fallout 2 should I just download 1, 3, and 4 for a "true" experience of the vanilla game, or is it cool to just download option 2 of the restoration project and play Fallout 2 with all the bonus stuff? How should I do it?

If SFall's major benefit is to allow the game to run on modern systems, I'd think it would be less useful for GOG's version.

I think the Restoration Project adds in all the other stuff, but you guys have convinced me to go ahead and do it with all the better additions. Thanks!

It has lot of other options and features including fixes that would otherwise require game engine modification/hacking so it's pretty much essential as well. Doesn't Killap's fixpack also come with Sfall (I know Restoration Project does)?

The Restoration Project includes all the other stuff, SFall and Widescreen, etc.
I don't know about just the fixes.

I would play the game first with only the original patches (and read Per Jorner's FAQ/Walkthrough) or with Killap's patch.

Do your second or third playthrough with the Restoration patch. It restores a lot of cut content, but IMO, some of that content was cut because it wasn't good, not because they ran out of time. In general, the Resto patch is of moderately lower quality (the Asylum is way too cluttered, for instance) and it changes a variety of things, even some things that didn't necessarily need to be changed (like moving the Solar Scorcher's location from the Guardian of Forever encounter to a quest-specific-Myron-specific dialog choice in the EPA) and the like. There's a separate walkthrough in the style of Per Jorner's for the Resto patch, which you may also want to read.

The Resto patch is good, but I would NOT recommend it for a first-time player. You should enjoy the game in its original glory before you go making major modifications to it.

Hm, another good opinion. Of course, if I installed the resto-pack but haven't yet played it I have to uninstall everything and re-do the process. Sigh. Might be worth doing.