Fallout - An LGR Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2015
- Time to talk about the original entry in one of the most iconic series of all time! Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game from Interplay in 1997.
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Fallout 1 OST
"Vats of Goo, Vault 13, The Hub, and Khan Base"
• Fallout 1 Soundtrack - Ігри
Man, that packaging...
I hate how every game on the shelf nowadays is in a standardized plastic box.
Back then, you had some real creative minds in the art department.
Agreed. I genuinely miss going into stores that sold software, it was just an overload of awesome art and design.
Witcher 3 did something right. While it may not be like the old ones it is at least better than the shitty, boring modern boxes.
+Lazy Game Reviews I love physical media like VHS tapes and big box computer games. Tapes are coming back!
i like the extras too,games these days,you have to buy that vault dweller survival guide for maybe 50$ these a days
I like steelbooks a lot. Even making a normal case metal is rad
i think the original fallout games would do really well on mobile and tablet devices,turn based rpgs are great for those platforms and a whole new generation of gamers would get a chance to play them, bethesda should really consider porting them over.
I like that idea!
Tablets would work better than phones. I''ve used PCs with smaller screens.
+Sandy Kandy I think if you get dosbox you should be able to play it on android
+itaybron hello, they are playable on android for years already
+Sandy Kandy
It's a fantastic idea, and the controls would be stupid-easy for all the old-school RTS games as well.
The only problem, though, is that the majority of hardcore gamers have scorned mobile games. For a truly hardcore game to gain a fraction of the players of any other would be as likely as Sega releasing another game console.
The first 2 fallout games are so fucking good
thx for the recommendations.
New Vegas is great too.
irllcd13 oh hell yeah.
I love Arcanum. It's such a great game!
Well, if you already are talking about the first fallout games, I think you forgot fallout tactics.
7 years and you haven’t done a fallout 2 review?!?!?!?!?
At least dogmeat doesn't shoot you in the back when they get a chance... I'M LOOKING AT YOU IAN!
+Domo The Russian Yeah, don't give him a submachine gun. :D
Gábor Koszper I can't... He was died a heroes death when we were saving Tandi from Raiders :( (Killed them all in the end)
+Domo The Russian Ian is nothing, I mean NOTHING compared to Marcus! Since I learned the consequences of having him in my team before EVERYONE wore their own power armor, I know that first thing me and him have to settle is selling that god damn minigun of his ASAP.
milczyciel I Haven't got that moment yet. I think I'm in the Hub right on and taking my time with game and stuck a little bit
Domo The Russian Aah, well then - Marcus is the super mutant companion from Fallout 2, so you don't have to worry about him. For now >:)
ah good old Fallout, this was the game that first got me into RPGs and I will always love it for that
I wish I had played this back in the day. I would have loved it then, but I don't seem to have the patience for clunky old UI and RPG pacing these days.
this and fire emblem got me into rpg along with final fantasy
@@alexmcd378 you know i absolutely get that, but you will get comfortable with it faster than you'd think.
I recommend giving fallout fixed a try. It helps a lot.
I only played it for the first time last year. It's old, but it's still incredibly impressive, in lots of ways. You won't regret it if you persevere.
Same. And the first game to introduce me to old swing and blues music...
same here also wat got me into modding
classic pc gaming boxes were awesome. thanks for bringing back the memory
Coffee Fresh I miss them and want them back.
It has reached a point where if you buy a game box, the game isn't even on the fucking disc.
Coffee Fresh I grew up in Pakistan where all PC games were pirated and therefore had no boxes, only jewel cases. Then in 1998 someone I knew went to England and brought me Red Alert: Counterstrike. I was the happiest kid in the world that day.
what i love about fallout1 is that it's an RPG that uses you're character to see into the world. while most rpgs are about the character being the hero of the world.
JamesPlaysGames95 Uuuh
In a Way yes in other way no
I think Planescape Torment fits your description even better than Fallout 1
JamesPlaysGames95 don't you save the world in fallout 1
Tuxic no not even close
Being a hero which helps and sees the world>>>being able to see the world.
That Vault Dwellers Survival Guide is STILL the best game manual I've ever seen.
Have you ever got you hands on "Sudden Death" - a magazine for pilot mercenaries in the alternate future of "Strike Commander" ? Albeit that future beeing situated in the past BY NOW, that thing ist the absolute top notch of manuals for computer games. I framed my original copy...
It even has 3 or 4 delicious recipes on the end
I've never felt as much overwhelming love for a game as Fallout 1. The only other game that I've enjoyed even a similar amount is Deus Ex.
that makes me want to try this game cuz i fucking love deus ex
Clint proving he’s been ahead of the game again and again.
I have such nostalgia for Fallout 2. It's the main reason I enjoyed New Vegas more than Fallout 3.
Same
+Forrest Kayson Yeah, exactly this. I can't explain the thrill I got when going into NV and hearing some of the same music samples from the first two games. Not to mention the feeling I got when I first found Jacobstown and Marcus.
fich01 I think my friend, who had never played the second Fallout, was in the room when I met Marcus. They were very confused when my first words upon meeting him were "That's the same voice actor!"
+Forrest Kaysen Marcus was voiced by Michael Dorn (Worf) of Star Trek the Next Generation in both FO2 and NV.
Of course. Nostalgia.
While I like that Fallout 2 improved the gameplay, I prefer the story of the first game more. That alone makes first game my preferred choice.
I can understand that. It's a similar reason I enjoy Fallout 3 more than New Vegas. Gameplay is much improved in NV, but the story, setting, and atmosphere of the F3 grabbed me much more.
+Lazy Game Reviews Same here Clint, same here. The setting of NV didn't grab me that much either, mostly because I've never liked Wild West like settings. Amusing since I went from NV to F3.
Well that and I've oddly had more glitches and problems with NV than F3. Which signifcantly impacts how I feel about the game.
+shadowkiller855 Pleb? You fucking profligate. You are not fit to use the words of Caesar!
***** On a serious note you people do realize that Bethesda as all rights to Fallout now? And that they are making four? So I don't even want to hear your opinions of four when it comes out, because it is 'NEW" and equals satan. Give me a break.
***** So you're saying that it's immune to criticism because they can make it? Come on. George Lucas had rights to make the prequels, so I guess that all those Star Wars fans should be thankful that he even bothered to do those, ungrateful fucks.
Fallout 1 was a bit more consistent in tone than Fallout 2, so I don't find it surprising when I hear someone say that they think that it is better than the later parts. Personally, I think Fallout 2 is the best in the series, but I've met several people who disagree with me on this one.
+AFnord Myself included. Fallout 2 was beyond just being too funny for its own good, its villain was a fucking kid's cartoon type of villain. You get the first game, which has a number of references, yeah, but its otherwise a dark, quiet game with really well-realized characters, and one of the best villains in gaming (and, in my opinion, in entertainment in general)... then you get F2, which makes a joke or reference in damned near every conversation, introduces out-of-place enemies (Wanamingos, for one), a weak satire of '90s American politics for villain, and it's all just weak stuff. They made a few improvements to F1, but they ARE small.
Fallout 1 wasn't just infinitely more consistent in tone, it was pretty much a better game in most every way, with the exception being the few small improvements F2 made. People talk about how Fallout 3 was fucking retarded, but honestly, I don't think Fallout 2 was much better.
+Aedan Clarke Fallout 2 was bigger, and that's the main reason for why I prefer it. It quite simply offered more of the good stuff, but yeah, many of the references went out of hand. Fallout 3 suffers from other issues, like how it fails to include essential parts in its world building (water is a big thing in the story... but no-one (apart from a few beggars placed right outside of towns) seem to have an issue with it. Food is still scavenged from 200 year old shopping malls because no-one has tried to grow their own food or something (how exactly does that work?)). Fallout 2s biggest failings was that it was being too silly, Fallout 3s were that it was being serious, yet it was serious only because it told you why it was serious, not because it was able to show you why it was serious (while I think the big robot thingy at the end was stupid, it's really a minor issue compared to the glaring flaws in its worldbuilding that the game has).
+Aedan Clarke Because Fallout 2 was way less linear, I think. Fallout 1 pretty much had you dashing for the water chip before you could really enjoy the sandbox as much as you could in 2, and it seemed like 2 had more options to explore. It was bigger, it was meatier and yes, it was probably more silly, which may be why a lot of people who played it when they were younger might look at it as standing out a bit more. Fallout 1 was definitely darker, with realistic depictions of what societies may look like after such a massive catastrophe and I love it almost as much as I love 2.
It's a pity we never really got the original Fallout 3 as intended (Van Buren,) as what was documented certainly seemed like more of a return to the tone of 1 than 2. It did set New Vegas up rather nicely and introduced us to the Legion, which sort of never fully got fleshed out as much as they wanted to, due to time constraints in NV.
+Aedan Clarke " its villain was a fucking kid's cartoon type of villain." I dunno. I always found Frank Horrigan intimidating, even as an adult. The first glimpse of him you get is a mutant five times your size murdering a family in the middle of nowhere, as a grim foreshadowing of the Enclave and what they represent. When you finally meet him, his talking head comes out of nowhere and you're dragged into combat with this overzealous, convicted monster. Then there's his death animation...
+AFnord Fallout 1 all the way. Fallout 2 had bigger areas, but for me the use of those weren't utilized properly: Klamath was one big rat city, San Fran was almost all about two rival gangs, etc. Well, New Reno was great, but still...
Also, of the Fallout 1's time limit: I understand that some people hate it, but using caravans and a little forethought what places visit in one go help a lot to save time spent wandering the wastes. (I actually drew a logistics map on paper on my first playthrough to optimize the movement in World Map, so I could finish quests as quickly as possible.) I can't describe how stupid it felt in Fallout 2 that at first the tribe's starved for months if not years, and the same again being guinea pigs to Enclave."Oh, I'd like to help with G.E.C.K, but I just have to bang Angela. Maybe next month, OK?"
Clint, I have to agree. I've always felt like Mark Morgan's soundtracks to both 1 and 2 were some of the most atmospheric game music ever created. I still listen to both OSTs to this day. It may be the wave of nostalgia I had when I first played them back when I was a teenager, but I feel like they hold up to anything considered modern AAA.
I sometimes put the Higwayman on youtube on repeat.
Dreaming myself away to cruising through the wasteland.
Vic in the passenger seat, Dogmeat in the backseat with his head out the window, tongue lolling in the wind. The dry desert air feeling almost cool as it rushes in though windows and rust holes, the dry-rotted upholstry creaking as we roll over a bump in the sand. The one working song on the sound system playing over and over again.
In the distance is something that could be a caravan heading to New Reno, or maybe it's a band of raiders. Maybe it's just a mirage.
Frank Morgan is amazing. His background music is so good and atmospheric. It brings every scene and town to life. There might just be a few dozen NPCs in a town, but the music makes it feel alive. I could gush forever about how much it brings the entire game to life.
Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are two of the games that have aged the most gracefully of nearly ALL the 90's games. They are true pleasures to play today as they were back then. The turn based combat was so simple, yet elegant and well made. The violence just passing into gore, but not making it a gore-porn game. The character interation EXACTLY how it should be - No visible speech check, but options that appear if your speech is high enough. You never truly know if a character can be reasoned with or convinced through words before you actually TRY having a diplomatic run of the game. In fact, Fallout 1 is the kind of game that can be finished practically without ever firing a single weapon.. though you don't REALLY get to explore the full game then. You can't speak with beasts, for example.. so you'd have to avoid them. But it's so funny that the endgame boss CAN be beaten by just speaking with him, though it takes a hell of a lot of attention to detail to be able to do that unless you have the cookbook just beside you. Fallout 2 is somewhat less so, but what can you do when opposed by zealots?
All in all - Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are masterpieces. Easily some of the best games made in modern times. I suggest them to anyone, no matter if they are not truly into violent games. They are just so good.
Come on bro there are pleeeeenty of 90s games that aged gracefully. That was a pretty insane decade for gaming
@@Gameprojordan There are for sure, but graphically and mechanically the games holds up to this day as its own "style".
I still play Might and Magic series for example. Theme Hospital. Death Rally. Heroes (all of which have a style that is artistic and hand crafted which foregoes the need for graphics). Baldurs Gate. StarCraft/WarCraft. There are WAY more, but these were the ones I played the most and still find in me to play today.
I still hold a button on Fallout 1 & 2 as being the most well aged and possible to pick up for anyone that never actually played them back then. Whether that be because they weren't born yet or were too young.
A while ago I played the game with a stupid character. What was just a quick gag-session for half an hour turned into a nonstop ten-hour playthrough! That's how great this game is, even though I revere Fallout 2 as a better game in every aspect.
I wish more games let you be stupid. I love playing Arcanum like that, too. It's hilarious!
nobel 11 interplay knew their shit
Try playing a stupid character in Fallout 2 or Arcanum. It's like playing a completely different game.
Yes! Yesterday morning I made a stupid character just to mess around and next thing I knew it was 4 AM and I had beaten the game
I like how Bethesda reused that "vault dweller survival guide" info book idea for their info book in fallout 3's disc case
I have to say I agree with mostly everything in this review except for one thing. I think the timer at the beginning of the game make it more engaging in 'roleplaying' aspect like when I talked to the water merchant who offer to send emergency water supply (thus extend the timer) I had to consider between saving my own money for more stim (It's dangerous world) or caring more about my fellow citizen in the vault.
erastale zzzzzz
The music of Fallout 1 and 2 is just fantastic always putting you on edge.
It builds atmosphere and it never feels safe even in a vault. Also the villain is in my top 5 of all time.
Alot of 1 and 2s music was reused in New Vegas. They were the best ambient songs in the game too IMO, even before I knew they came from the original two games
I played this after playing 3, with all the fan patches of cos, loved every second of it. apart from party members getting me stuck in a corner -_-
+Digger318 I never really play with party members in Fallout 1, in 2 you can push them out of the way and are much more useful there. Which means Charisma is the worst Special stat in my opinion.
+Digger318 actualy with patches you can say them to "move the fuck out of the way"
+Digger318
Fallout 3 used to be my favorite game. but when fallout 4 get announced, I played fallout 1/2. and now I changed my mind about fallout 3.
+Александр «Zeon» Потоцкий You can also do it politely :)
Angelo Cruz
but polite is not fun
PSA: Always install the fan patches when playing Fallout 1/2, they fix so many issues with quests as well as bringing things like kids back into the international versions of the game (they were made invisible instead of being removed so they can still steal your stuff and be quest important in Fallout 2).
Hope you review Fallout 2 as well, that game was rather educational for a 12 year old back in '98. Still got the strategy guide my parents had to import which includes a fair amount of stuff that got changed at the last minute.
Just started playing the first Fallout a couple of days ago, I do not like turn based games but this game is starting to finally grow on me, and holy hell is it difficult.
Fallout 2 is much better. And the turn-based combat is definitely better in that game. It benefits from all the lessons learned from developing the first game, and player feedback.
@@AKCFTW I skipped over the 2nd one not gonna lie, I did like the first game though I just can't imagine sitting through it again with all the turn based stuff.
1.3M views, published 8 years ago. - probably never thought this would come up in someone's feed. I finished the Amazon series and bought the game on PC this weekend, even having played it on PS4. Ron Pearlman?? Did not recognize that! Enjoy your channel.
Dude. I so want to get that nuke packaged Fallout collection. That is so cool!
The Side Quest Gamer Review Show its back again on fallout Instagram
I like Fallout 1, But I personally just LOVE, LOVE... Fallout 2.
emi same
I've only ever beaten Fallout 1. I didn't like the slow start of Fallout 2 and wasn't as motivated to beat it.
fallout 2 is basically fallout 1 with a bigger map and more story
Spit Dragon tactics was good
@@Bumra
FO2 was too big. I get tired and just want it to be over. FO1 is a neat little game with a realistic good story. And the ending is epic!
I listen to the first 2 game's soundtracks even when i'm not playing them. So incredibly good its mindblowing.
Me too, they bring back alot of memories too.
Hey, here's a guy who considers Fallout 1 his favourite in the series. You found one.
I finished the first half of the game, time to talk down the master.
Me too, Fallout 1 is the best in the series, followed by NV and then 2.
Rexma my opinion is exactly opposite
Actually, the first Fallout is the only one i genuinely enjoy. Fallout 2 is too lively for me, and the transition to 3d kills it for me personally.
Here's another.
Excellent video Clint, as always. :) How about a Fallout 2 one?
+The Sentinel I feel like that might already exist? Maybe? I might be making that up, but I thought he talked about it before.
+The Sentinel Followed by all other Infinity Engine games...
...I'm patient, I can wait
You are such a incredible reviewer!
Thanks!
+Lazy Game Reviews hey where did you get the video of the making of fallout1
I remember stumbling across this channel and being amazed at the knowledge this man has. What a gift
I've been waiting for this review for over six years... It was glorious and well worth the wait.
You removed my retro goggles and made some critical points (hits!). Thank you very much.
Awesome, glad it was worthwhile :)
"the ability to kill children". SOLD!
You can punch, shoot, or stab them in the eyes or groin, if you want. And when you strike them, you actually hear childish whelps of pain. When you shoot them with lasers, their bodies are torn in half. When you unload a burst from your submachinegun, they're torn to pieces. Think of RoboCop or the fourth Rambo film for comparison.
and yes, that even applies in the "censored" version. They just made the children invisible. But you can still kill them with grenades if you notice where they are.
Its more immersive if you are allowed to by the DEVs than artificial invincibility (like in FO4 - I had to use a MOD to revert that and allow me to headshot-snipe them all. If I roleplay a psycho GF with a sniper, I should be allowed to all the way.)
@@Thagomizer First of all, psychopath on me. Second, the only reason Bethesda doesn't add the ability to kill children is because these days Fallout is a mainstream game. Black Isle could get away with killing children because at the time it wasn't considered mainstream. If Bethesda were to add the killing of children in a game, Fallout would get pulled off many shelf's globally. Hell even Call of Duty is scared to add children to kill even in that one mission "No Russian"
@@succubusnirriti913 we would all like to have everyone be killable as a feature in all games but theres these things called morality, human rights, public press and lawsuits that is stopping 99.99% of developers from doing so
Anyone else think that the more often LGR says GURPS the funnier it gets?
+MrFutago87 Always sounds like a burp to me.
+MrFutago87 When Fallout was still pre-release and they were only previewing it Magzines, they always used to call it "GURPS Fallout". I had no idea what GURPS meant, so I kept calling it "GURPS Fallout" all the way through Tactics.
+MrFutago87 GURPS was actually a pretty awesome role-playing system. I used to play in a futuristic GURPS campaign back then in the 90s, but you could use it for anything from medieval, to post-apocalyptic and cyberpunk campaign settings no problem. It's been a long time, but I remember Fallout's system being very GURPS-like, although not identical.
John Tsiombikas Yeah, my brothers and I used to play a system called Lords Of Creation that I guess wast he same thing. It was about being able to move from scenario to scenario, not being limited by the setting of the rules.
+John Tsiombikas I still play GURPS weekly with my friends
LGR one thing I've always loved about Fallout is the fact it's a world where the 1950s Americana aesthetic and SCIENCE, like atomic power everywhere, was what the pre-Great War world was like. It's not just post-apocalyptic, it's post-apocalyptic in a world where computers were the size of a room and cars still had fins and such.
That retro-future aesthetic that is omnipresent in machines and computers in Old World ruins just is so cool.
I remember playing FO2 for the first time somewhere in 2001.
"Oh man, look at that guy on the cover, in futuristic armors and big gun, that game must be fun!"
And then you start in the Temple of Trial, with spear and almost no clothes, punching big ants and scorpions.
Then I played FO1 somewhere in 2007. Way more consistent atmosphere, not that long for a RPG, great NPCs... somewhat I missed Master and finished the game.
I played a lot of old games (pre- 2000) in 2005 and later and had no problems.
Seems like being adult turn people into geezers that can't learn new stuff no matter what.
Logical Phallusy I see you everywhere in comment sections criticizing fallout 4
Fallout 1 is definitely my favorite Fallout, don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved Fallout 2, but I always preferred 1.
+Metalstar The Master would be a great reason why.
Master is probably one of the best characters in any of the "Unity" science fiction trope examples, he's just so nuanced and well written as a character.
GURPS licensed was dropped when Interplay met with Steve Jackson with an early Fallout build and he was very unhappy with how violent the game was and didn't want his GURPS associated with it. also one of the official first major patches removed that timer :)
btw, great video and channel.
I DIDN'T KNOW RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON WAS IN THIS GAME. It even looks like him, awww.
This game is still been played today ...There is online conversion mod of this game it been up for many years and still a lot of players playing ...
So if you love this version Fallout but completed it and looking for some thing more then Serach for FOnline Reloaded
I always wondered what the proper term for this perspective was, but was too lazy to look it up. Thanks for educating me, Mr. Not-So-Lazy Clint!
No problem, sir!
The first two games don't have a cavalier projection it's a diametric one.
I think I first played this in 2012, and it was wonderful.
Do Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura next
Second that motion!
I still think the first Fallout is the best Fallout.
Ok boomer
Fallout 2 is a tiny bit better but I still play the OG fallout more tho
Tru
In terms of writing, yes. But in terms of gameplay, it's really not aged well. It's slow, and fueled entirely by RNG.
I would love to see more reviews of other Interplay CRPG games. Like Planescape Torment, Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale. Also Interplay is just screaming for a tech tales episode.
I really hope Obsidian Get to make another Fallout game, similar to New Vegas. Fallout New Vegas felt like a Proper Action-RPG like Deus Ex & Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. While I liked Fallout 3 & 4, it felt like action game first, and an RPG second.
Mind if I say... this game is hard as hell and most characters still scare the fuck out of me
Those characters with animated heads scare me more than anything. They remind me of the Starcraft cutscenes.
Korbis Barkly Fallout 2 is a breeze if you straight away leg it to San Fran, talk to the Brotherhood of Steel agent, leg it up to the military base, take all their armoury stuff and then bring the Vertibird plans back to the BOS agent.
Boom. Tons of experience and access to the best weapons and armour in the game at level one.
Niall Reid That's all really awesome handy stuff to know, but saying "It's easy when you do one specific series of things that doesn't coincide with easily 90% of all the characters you could and would think to roleplay, and generally make the whole game inorganic as could be -- _Then it's totally easy!"_ Doesn't make the game not still generally unfair and hard as balls 😂
Niall Reid That's all really awesome handy stuff to know, but saying "It's easy when you do one specific series of things that doesn't coincide with easily 90% of all the characters you could and would think to roleplay, and generally make the whole game inorganic as could be -- _Then it's totally easy!"_ Doesn't make this roleplaying game not still generally unfair and hard as balls 😂
PhyreI3ird Well jokes on you!
I like to role play as guys who take ambitious, career driven runs to San Francisco.
Nice! Finally someone picks up on the cavalier oblique.
Hats off to your thoroughness, Clint.
Is Clint ever going to do Fallout 2?
I asked you to review this on Reddit about a year and a half ago, and you said you were working on it. Glad to see it happen. :)
Love ur gaming reviews.. Like how you show a wholesome aspect surrounding d game like its history, the games that came before it, and your exclusive coverage of the packs that the games came in etc!!!👌👍
So glad you did a Fallout review! Hopefully you could do a Fallout 2 review soon. I think that was the best one back in the day. Great video!
I miss these games, the ability to shoot children was kinda neat, you could be a real bastard and this was reflected in how npcs treated you. Of course when Bethesda took over their bleeding heart asses made the npcs unkillable without mods and by fallout 4 there was no karma system to speak of and your actions had no real consequences.
Diablerie Tandino pssst hey. Ya wanna buy some new vegas?
Korbis Barkly they were going to give it. to them but since fnv only got an 84 theu didnt give it to them it had to get a 85 or higer.
They had to get a 85 on Metacritic to get a bonus. They were never going to give or sell the franchise to Obsidian.
Oh i thought they get the franchise.
I hope they get to make another one. I really enjoyed FNV.
Dude, I love your reviews. You're probably the most detailed reviewer on here and you're super chill and positive. Subscribed.
we need a retrospective on this retrospective soon
For me, it's second (after planescape torment) best game I have played. After tactics, they weren't the same. I really like 3 and NV, but they doesn't make me feel the atmosphere like 1, 2. And you're hearing it from person that started with 3!
+Spazz Maticus Tactics was a good idea with slightly poorer execution. I DID enjoy it though, since tactical strategy RPGs were pretty big back then. You had Missionforce: Cyberstorm, Mech Commander, Fallout Tactics, a full array of them on console, etc, I think they just tried to trend hop a little. It was interesting, but it didn't have the same creative muscle as the main games.
+Spazz Maticus Same. Started with 3, but 1 and 2 are just so beautiful in their own unique way. Can't beat that atmosphere.
I love the 2 first games, but Fallout New Vegas is the best for me, it's like a love letter from the original Fallout creators xd
I can't explain what it is, but there's a certain charm to the original two Fallout games that the new ones don't have. And that's not any kind of nostalgia, because I played the Bethesda ones first. Fallout 3 and 4 feel so gray, drab, and ugly to me, and even though the first two games are still post apocalyptic wasteland survival games, there's something in the aesthetics I just find a lot more inviting. They're more doomy and ambient; they sort of have a Quake vibe going on. Or Thief: The Dark Project. I guess I'm just a sucker for anything with that 90s industrial kind of feel. The new games still have Vaultboy, they pay great respect to the lore, and copy the specific designs of everything to a T, but there's something in the overall atmosphere that's just missing to me. Does anyone else feel like that?
Jack Homeier Compared to what a lot of other secondhand IP holders do, Bethesda treats the Fallout series very well. You can tell that they're fans of the original games. For better or for worse.
I have always described this feeling like this. The fallout 1 and 2 wasteland is has a mythical primal feeling to it that none of the other do. Every nuked out city is a sacred place to the old world, every husk of of a skyscrapper is a shrine of the Old Gods.
New vegas is definitely worth a try if you havnt played it, its not made by Bethesda but its ten times better than 3 or 4 in my opinion.
I haven't played any of them but I somehow feel the same... Maybe it's something about the perspective and general presentation? I don't know.
The Quake thing is there though
Loved your review! This will be so useful for everyone that gets into the series now!
I recently fired up the first game on a trainride and then transfered the saves so I could finish the playthrough. It's still so great! Although it is a LOT smaller than I remember, mostly because I have played a lot more of F2 than F1.
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Ah! fallout (2), daggerfall, and baldur's gate where my top3 favourite RPGs during the 90s. The atmosphere, the freedom, the game-breaking bugs and their save-game breaking patches (especially for the first 2 games on the list). Awesome times.
+John Tsiombikas hows Planescape? didn't bug too hard, but the fighting was very very silly. that said, it had absolutely supreme writing. good times.
I miss games coming in boxes like that.
Buying a game was an event and the game itself seemed more substantial.
25th Anniversary Today!
This entire review just had me beaming. Thanks so much for doing this!
Finally! The fallout review. Been waiting so long! Also, Tony Shalhoub played the voice of Aradesh (The leader of Shady Sands). I think a few other (now) big time stars played some voices in Fallout before their time in the lime light. Such an amazing game seeping with atmosphere. I REALLY miss the gothic-future feeling the old, isometric, Fallouts had in comparison to the new ones. Man, so many memories with this game.
Anyone else wish that in fallout 3 that you could side with the enclave.
Prime Zone YES!!!!
At least in the original Fallout you could side with the super mutants and get a win immediately.
"Why yes you can punch a rat in the balls if you want to !" This Line cracked me up.
this game managed to hit the nail on the head with pop culture references. they didn't know it yet but so many pop culture references from their game would see a rise in popularity long after the game's time. back when this was made, the only doctor who was the original seasons, and while they were super popular, they weren't NEARLY as popular as the new doctor who's (not saying one or the other is better, just observing :P). in addition to that, they got the whole "mad max" thing going on, and what series just got a new movie??? :P. man they so struck out with this game. fantastic job :D. and great review lgr
The BEST Fallout 1 Review this man has found!
I just bought this game because of you, I'm a huge Fallout fan and I can't call myself diehard until I play the first 2. Got them both complete for a steal.
The death animations were always so punchy, this video definitely highlights that. Unlike a lot of modern games (and even Fallout 3 to some extent) shooting someone with ridiculously high-caliber bullets, even the basic pistol seemed powerful. This IS a world where 10mm was standard issue, and it's definitely fitting with the violent atmosphere.
Fallout 2 fixed a lot of the gripes on the first one and yet manages to do another amazing story in the wasteland. It's easily one of my all time favorites.
Watched after seeing the Fallout series on Amazon. I think i watched this video years ago, but it's worth watching again. I've gone back and started playing all the FO games.
Damn do I miss the days of when a game manual could be taken to the bathroom.
This is one of the few channels where I watch one video then 4 hours go by..
The best review of the legendary game. Thanks LGR! Oooh, I remember playing parts 1 and 2 in 1998 and 1999 on my K-6. Memories.
My Favorite game series of all time. I don't know what I'd do without Fallout.
Same
LGR you monster! Why would you kill Mrs.Stapleton!?
She is the unending source of knowledge you fool!
Anyways anyone who wants to play this should install the Fallout Fixt patch.
Its still in alpha but it already fixes and also adds lot of stuff that make the expirience a lot smoother.
When are you going to do fallout 2 review ?
_The future._
The future is now.
BulletsFTW 2077
BulletsFTW yeah. I need to know before buying it. LOL.
+No Dignity not to mention a sweet death claw companion
Man I missed out on boxes like that, always like to see this older stuff
Fallout and Diablo came out the same year and I bought them both on release. I had so much fun with those two games. Great memories.
Fallout 1 is by far my favorite game in the series. The original team (Tim Cain, Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky) absolutely nailed the atmosphere and created an immensely coherent game that is still (re)playable to this day. Arguably, F2 had some cool areas (like New Reno) and features alot of improvements (better companions), but at some point I thought the in-game jokes (Knights of the Round Table) just went overboard, and the world felt less consistent as a result.
Anyway, thanks for checking out this classic. Just trying to ignore the last comment that you'd be hard pressed to find people who prefer F1 over later games in the series..such as F3???
Oh and by the way: the reason why Steve Jackson no longer wanted GURPS affiliated with the game was the level of violence.
+MrLarsKoch I felt the same way. It was harder to get into F2.
And then there is always that classic Easter egg where if you go to the police station in The Hub and kill a man named Kenny the other NPCs say “oh my god they killed Kenny those bastards”
I've listened to OST from Fallout 1 and 2 on my player, some tracks are so good and wakes good melancholia in me.
I would love to see Fallout 1 and 2 with F:Tactics graphics and some of it's mechanics (like drivable combat vehicles, real time combat with overwatch, improved item management, IMHO improved SPECIAL, interesting "economy" aspects, to name a few). Or HD remake.
It seems to me that at least 90% of the Fallout world was established in the first game. I was surprised how little Fallout 3 adds onto what came before.
Why fix what isn't broken?
+Donnie Russell II It technically adds a lot compared to the differences between the first 3 games; especially comparing the first two. There are times were i really cannot tell the difference between the first and second based off of minor gameplay and looking at it.
The Lone Wanderer
I still enjoyed it none the less.
+Tiber Maxson how did it break the lore?
eh
Fallout 1 is truly amazing in term of storytelling, lore and gameplay. I love the turn-based combat system even though many people think it doesn't age well to compare the later installment, but I find it is a unique and brilliant design. Not to forget to mention the moral choices are ingenious in fallout 1
That artstlye is just pure *chefs kiss*!
I wish more games would go for this 2d/3d-mix or whatever it is
This channel is a time machine
Every video I see, I feel like I'm back in the 90s
Please try Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. It's a fantasy RPG with some of Fallout's game mechanics (point of view, turned-based solo combat, no classes) with a dark 19th century, steampunk theme.
Arcanum was full of bugs back in the day crashed a lot
@@badtuber1654 It's a flawed game but still worth doing. There's also community patches for it.
@@BifronsCandle yeah I remember I wanted to play it but it kept crashing
Finally, my favorite game of all time !
8:16 I can attest to that.The very first time i played it was last month and i loved every second.
dude your articulation is excellent in these game reviews.
Watching this review again as the first 3 Fallout games are Free on Epic games today👍
I just completed my first play through a couple weeks ago, and man you hit the nails on the head. Granted I played _Fallout Fixt_ for the bug fixes, but there were still minor issues. I was half way through the game before I realized some of the tiny artifacts on the ground were obtainable items, and the camera angles in some areas really hindered your sight. Your helper AI isn't the brightest either. Constantly standing right in front of me or my line of fire, and I learned saving a lot is key to this game. Other than that it was amazing, and I had lot's of fun!
Also, fuck that Mother Deathclaw!
Ah yes, this brings me back. You my friend always give me a trip down memory lane. This game was pure crack for me. After playing wasteland for an amount of time i will not mention, this was the new high for me. Good God if only i could have gotten paid to play this game. Fallout 2 was of coarse memorable with the car and TRUNK !! But this game will always have a place in my heart as an all time GREAT. I was unaware of the full collection offered, thank you sir. Always love your videos. I could go on and on but i wont.
There are very few channels anywhere with a like-dislike ratio as this channel. It's an amazing work.
Super Mutant: HAHAHA you call this pain?
Super Mutant then dies a couple seconds later.
Fallout 1 is a fine 99-year scotch. The flavor is intense.
Seriously. It set the stage for a pent-ilogy. Fallout 1 is huge for creating the whole retrofuturistic atmosphere to start with, along with the flavour and mechanics that came with it.
Hey man! I recently discovered your channel and i'm already hooked!
Very in depth review of one of my top favorite games.
Cheers mate!
Awesome, thanks! Hope you continue to enjoy :)
I miss electronics boutique in the UK when they had big boxes for PC games, the WoW section deadicated to that game alone. And then creative labs sound cards, joysticks, graphics cards from Voodoo with their over the top awesome boxes.
Then your PlayStation 1 and 2 section, Xbox, GameCube oh man what time to be alive for gaming back then and I also loved the late 80s and whole of the 90s too