Gamers Of The Apocalypse 54
The Escapist's theme this week is 'retro-style games', and Russ Pitts (one of the gents behind Gamers With Jobs) has a piece on post-apocalyptic gaming. Entitled 'Duck and Cover', it touches on games with that fallout flavour. From the article: "The desolate imagery and desperate sense of hopelessness in the face of unimaginable tragedy make Fallout a difficult game to finish (especially for a Day After Kid), but it is precisely the ending of this game that makes every moment of pain and frustration worthwhile. Watching the Fallout's ending cut-scene rendered me utterly speechless. I literally could not summon the words or thoughts to describe my emotions."
Re:Fallout 3 (Score:1)
Don't get me wrong, I loved Morrowind, and I loved Fallout, but I worry anytime someone buys someone elses baby and tries to run with it.
Re:Fallout 3 (Score:3, Funny)
You said it, brother. I tried that once and it turned out to be an fbi sting operation. Boy, was that ever a mistake.
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Enjoy!
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Why does every game like that have to be riddled with scantily clad females? Sheesh. You'd think if you lived in a place with sandstorms and hostile chemicals, you would wear at least a t-shirt that didn't have holes all through it.
Other than that, looks like a good game!
Re:MMORPG needed (Score:1, Offtopic)
Personally, I like my females scantily clad, or not clad at all. Assuming they are good looking, of course. Margaret Thatcher has my permission to remain fully clothed at all times, thank you very much.
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*WARNING* I don't play any MMORPG's. I do play Planetside. A bunch. So my opinions might be tainted...
The game is pretty. The landscapes are cool. Its obvious that the designers put a ton of work into it. I couldn't get too far on the beta weekends; I think I got one toon to level 9 (I have a family that keeps interfering with my online life...). I made it out of the tutorial and the n00b zone, and was exploring the slightly-less-n00bish zon
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May you all have mercy upon our poor server.
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Re:This isn't the RPG Fallout is it? (Score:2)
He missed two great ones (Score:5, Informative)
2) Burntime [the-underdogs.org] is another people might enjoy, it's a challenging mix of post-apocalyptic RPG and RTS.
Re:He missed two great ones (Score:1)
It was great for its time. The cut scenes were great and there were three different endings for the three factions you play: The Survivors (Humans), The Evolved and the Series 9 Robots.
Too bad it was released right about the time StarCraft came out. Poor multi-player support killed it too.
I still play this game from time to time. Really gives you that post-apocalyptic feeling.
It still has a huge (albeit dwindling) fanbase. http://planet.kknd2.com/ [kknd2.com]
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Fallout 2 (Score:5, Interesting)
Somehow, with all it's 3d skill/stat/level/3cd/2expansion, Morrowind never could hold a candle to this rpg. I'm now itchin to reinstall it:)
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Actually, I'm 100% sure you could not beat Fallout 2 with H2H combat. I didn't really try, but the two options to beat the game were to use speach skills to talk a group of soldiers into defecting and fighting the last boss for you... Or... Fighting the boss with every know weapon to mankind. Mostly rockets, grenades, and anything else th
Re:Fallout 2 (Score:4, Interesting)
Heh, you're wrong. It's entirely possible to defeat the end baddie in hand to hand combat with a mega power fist and lots of criticals. I did this about two weeks ago.
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Now throwing weapons might be a true challenge. Really, what do you do until you get the grenades? :) (Haven't played the game in about 3 years)
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It is entirely possible to complete FO2 using H2H - it's lots of fun too. First thing - aimed attacks on the arms
It's what I love about the Fallouts - you can play any way you want. Combat, diplomacy, good, evil, theft (for the most part)
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Try Fallout as a melee character, get the super sledge and smack the living crap out of stuff. Totally fun!
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Day after kid (Score:2)
Re:Day after kid (Score:3, Informative)
My guess is that he was a kid when that movie first aired, which had a powerful impact on a lot of viewers back then, thus making him a "Day After" kid.
Ridiculous /. moderation strikes again (Score:3, Insightful)
Not everyone on Slashdot is from the U.S., and not everyone on Slashdot is old enough to remember some of the events in 1983 that woul
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Come on, this guy is no Troll (Score:1)
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Never got tired of... (Score:1)
one of the really annoying things about Fallout 2 is it allways seemed to crash more towards the end of the game, kinda like it didnt want me to beat it, maybe thats just bad karma for all that reloading from different saves to get critical hits...
Interesting read, nothing new. (Score:1)
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Fans have significantly patched Fallout 2 (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway, the user community has slowly but surely reverse engineered most of the Fallout games with the intent of making mods and fixing bugs in the games. The release of the Fallout 2 Mapper (thanks to many of the former team, especially Chris A) help accelerate the process.
One of the great things that came out of their effort has been a few mods that fix most of the gameplay bugs in Fallout 2. Fixed Items, Quests, Dialog options, NPC's, missing encounters, and so on. I personally replayed the game last fall with Seraph's Fallout 2 patch, and _WOW_, what an improvement.
My recommendation: If this article made you think you would like to replay Fallout or Fallout 2, head on over to http://www.nma-fallout.com/ [nma-fallout.com] and dig up one the latest patches and play the game as the designers had intended it to be.
Fallout + Xcom (Score:1, Interesting)