ryanderoche: I just bought Fallout 1 and 2 yesterday...

ryanderoche: I've been playing Fallout 3 a lot since it came out and from what I can tell, Bethesda has stayed as true as possible to Black Isle's vision.

bono: Just finished playing fallout 1 (well the story line at least) and I just have to say, why don't they make games like this anymore.
Fantastic storyline, long gameplay, extremely polished, ron perlmen and the best video game ending history!!!
Too bad Bethesda ruined Fallout 3... Oh well, now, on to Descent 3!

moonfear: If you like F3 so much that you are playing third time, then there is good chance that you will not like F1 and F2, those games are totally different from this bethesda "creation"

m.r_lewis: Congratulations on finishing fallout! That was an amazing game in many ways.
I heartily recommend Fallout 3, given my perspective: specific game elements, like limited perks, aren't important to me. I expect sequels to mix things up, but what I wanted out of Fallout was atmosphere. Fallout 3's character's talk like retarded monkeys, and typically you respond in kind, which certainly impacts you caring about them quite so much, but they still manage to convey humanity. More importantly, they actually seem to regard you as a person, rather than as some sort of mystical "quest finisher" which I was pleasently surprised by. Previous fallout games had always left me feeling isolated and alone in regards to the world, which got to be a bit of a downer at times. One of the first things Fallout 3 makes available to you is a home in the wastes...makes you a part of the capital wasteland. And the wide open spaces...Fallout 1 and 2 basically skimmed over the whole "lifeless desert" aspect of the wasteland: you were booted into a screen that lifelessly transported you to another town, occasionaly broken up by random encounters. But to travel from town to town in Fallout 3 is a glorious and humbling thing, as the "blank space" is anything but. Ruined, ancient homes seem haunted by their very ordinariness in this strange place. The ancient skeleton of a chinese invader near a radio, still broadcasting a faint propaganda message.
So yeah, as an rpg, it could use some work. But as a work of art, and as a member of the fallout universe, I think it did an outstanding job.

m.r_lewis: Congratulations on finishing fallout! That was an amazing game in many ways.
I heartily recommend Fallout 3, given my perspective: specific game elements, like limited perks, aren't important to me. I expect sequels to mix things up, but what I wanted out of Fallout was atmosphere. Fallout 3's character's talk like retarded monkeys, and typically you respond in kind, which certainly impacts you caring about them quite so much, but they still manage to convey humanity. More importantly, they actually seem to regard you as a person, rather than as some sort of mystical "quest finisher" which I was pleasently surprised by. Previous fallout games had always left me feeling isolated and alone in regards to the world, which got to be a bit of a downer at times. One of the first things Fallout 3 makes available to you is a home in the wastes...makes you a part of the capital wasteland. And the wide open spaces...Fallout 1 and 2 basically skimmed over the whole "lifeless desert" aspect of the wasteland: you were booted into a screen that lifelessly transported you to another town, occasionaly broken up by random encounters. But to travel from town to town in Fallout 3 is a glorious and humbling thing, as the "blank space" is anything but. Ruined, ancient homes seem haunted by their very ordinariness in this strange place. The ancient skeleton of a chinese invader near a radio, still broadcasting a faint propaganda message.
So yeah, as an rpg, it could use some work. But as a work of art, and as a member of the fallout universe, I think it did an outstanding job.

moonfear: hmmm you mean those super uber dialogues, sometimes with more then ten word ? Oh, poor fallout 2 with only 5 MB of text, or you mean deepness in those dialogues, like go there and ugh ugh, do quest ugh ugh. Regarding RPG, you mean this new super duper extra special system which desn't have any influence on game ?
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EyeNixon: It only takes one look at Vault 87 for you to realize that Bethesda doesn't know much about Fallout canon, not going to spoil anything, but there's no explanation as to why that Vault exists and why it has the "program" it does.
I mean, Vault-Tec housing a product by West Tek? How silly can you get.