This game was the first western RPG I played and a favourite of the genre. That said, I was feeling the fatigue of playing this game for the fourth(?) time. It’s satisfying to shoot people in the eyes for 95% accuracy and critical them to death but big fights with a lot of different chess pieces take a lot of time with how everyone has to move around. Maybe that’s why I quit halfway through this playthrough, but even when I picked it back up I figured this would be the last time I played this game.
Unlike all the other times I played this game, I went for an evil character. Thing is, there’s a lot more things to do if you are trying to be the good guy and they’re usually more complex to. There are some cool things you can do if you go the evil route, but they are rare– even in this Restoration Patch that I installed. It’s also hard to keep a low karma rating when you come across so many evil gangs that will ambush you and you have to wipe them out to defend yourself.
There’s a lot of classic CRPG jank too like say you choose the wrong dialogue option and then a person turns hostile and then all their friends and neighbours turn hostile and suddenly you can’t talk to an NPC you need to thus locking you out of a quest. It’s the kind of game where you have you finger on the quicksave and quickload buttons a lot. If you drop important items, it’s possible to lose them forever. The mechanisms of Fallout 2 are very fragile. This is also a game where death is permanent including on your allies.
I’m complaining a lot about a game that I love quite a bit. Maybe I’m coming off Fallout 2 with a lot of frustration but it needs to be said that the game’s a vast RPG with lots of interest quests and rich mechanics. The character building is pretty good and the world is a joy to explore, even if a lot of the dialogue writing and humour doesn’t hold up well and would be outclassed by Fallout: New Vegas. If this playthrough was my last, I wish it would have been a more pleasant experience, but that can’t take away all the years of loving this game.
Unlike all the other times I played this game, I went for an evil character. Thing is, there’s a lot more things to do if you are trying to be the good guy and they’re usually more complex to. There are some cool things you can do if you go the evil route, but they are rare– even in this Restoration Patch that I installed. It’s also hard to keep a low karma rating when you come across so many evil gangs that will ambush you and you have to wipe them out to defend yourself.
There’s a lot of classic CRPG jank too like say you choose the wrong dialogue option and then a person turns hostile and then all their friends and neighbours turn hostile and suddenly you can’t talk to an NPC you need to thus locking you out of a quest. It’s the kind of game where you have you finger on the quicksave and quickload buttons a lot. If you drop important items, it’s possible to lose them forever. The mechanisms of Fallout 2 are very fragile. This is also a game where death is permanent including on your allies.
I’m complaining a lot about a game that I love quite a bit. Maybe I’m coming off Fallout 2 with a lot of frustration but it needs to be said that the game’s a vast RPG with lots of interest quests and rich mechanics. The character building is pretty good and the world is a joy to explore, even if a lot of the dialogue writing and humour doesn’t hold up well and would be outclassed by Fallout: New Vegas. If this playthrough was my last, I wish it would have been a more pleasant experience, but that can’t take away all the years of loving this game.