Some fat guy in a casino told me to kill the mayor of a city so I did it, no questions asked, that's what I like about this game.
Fallout is everyone's favorite Todd Howard franchise not made by Todd Howard about the world if nuclear warfare happened. From what I've seen this is every middle-aged man's favorite game so I thought "Why not check it out" while expecting the most rotten-aged game of all time, and what I got was somewhat that with some neat stuff as well somewhat like an old cheese that you can still eat but damn it smells!
Like anyone playing this game past the release of Fallout 4, I had to learn how this game works and it's not really easy since as much as Fallout 1 gets praised as the most novel RPG of all time and whatnot, there are not many guides or video talking about this game, so it always makes me feel like Fallout fans are all talk but doesn't actually play the freakin games, lol.
So after learning how this stupid game works, I had to go through one of the most awful quest lines of all time, which obviously is the Water chip quest. I believe that the Water Chip questline is terribly designed because WHY would you hurry the player in a complicated game with barely anything to guide him around? Thankfully the quest isn't all that hard to figure out, but in a game that focuses on letting the player choose the outcome of what they want to do or become is pretty weird, it just ends up making any eventual replay of the game just a linear slog through Necropolis.
Now I'd like to say that I've never got the true ending of Fallout 1 so yes my opinion is worthless now I only go to the point where I meet Master and I either kill him (He destroys me) or I sell my soul (and vault) to him for the bad ending, honestly I wouldn't have minded playing more but the random encounters ruin the game for me, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY?! I wanted to do the Brotherhood of Steel questline but it required me going to the glow, but as I was going there I pretty much couldn't spend 1 second without triggering an encounter, I can't tell if the game was broken or not and it's not because I thought the encounters were hard, on the contrary, I kept getting the same boring raider and monsters, again and again, it was BORING! And once I got there I needed a rope because obviously, you need a fucking rope everywhere. So I just went back to the hub and never came back to this shitty location.
So it's fair to say that this game isn't flawless, the combat is fine but it can be really slow, the looting and inventory management with a companion is really tedious, and walking from point A to point B with the billion encounters is awful, and the story isn't really interesting, yep, that's right.
I think the water chip quest is still somewhat smart because it forces you to explore everywhere and meet all kinds of people, but the people aren't really interesting I find that most missions tend to be "I'm X and you need to kill Y for me" which is kinda fun honestly I love killing people for money but it's not much of a story, the second part of the game always seemed dumb to me like the Overseer randomly going like "Oh yeah there's a bad guy now I just know there is go find him to get the credits rolling". Not saying that Master is a bad character, he's really cool like most weird creatures you can find in this game.
There's plenty of unbalanced stuff in the game, the perk and skill points are a mess, you can pretty much cheese the game with a laser weapon, the merchant sucks and the economy is kinda broken, the game feels like its holding itself with shitty ducktape and a small gust of wind would break everything (Like a CPU if you know what I mean)
I respect this game a lot for bringing so much to the Fallout universe but it's not a super fun game to come back to, I really wish this game would get a remake, and not necessarily a 3D one, but rather something that balances the game and make it more fun to explore and learn about the world because I do feel like this game has incredible lore but getting to know it just by playing the game can be painful.
I may plan on going back to this game just to finish it but at the moment I'd rather see how Fallout 2 does thing since people seem to like that one a lot better.
Fallout is everyone's favorite Todd Howard franchise not made by Todd Howard about the world if nuclear warfare happened. From what I've seen this is every middle-aged man's favorite game so I thought "Why not check it out" while expecting the most rotten-aged game of all time, and what I got was somewhat that with some neat stuff as well somewhat like an old cheese that you can still eat but damn it smells!
Like anyone playing this game past the release of Fallout 4, I had to learn how this game works and it's not really easy since as much as Fallout 1 gets praised as the most novel RPG of all time and whatnot, there are not many guides or video talking about this game, so it always makes me feel like Fallout fans are all talk but doesn't actually play the freakin games, lol.
So after learning how this stupid game works, I had to go through one of the most awful quest lines of all time, which obviously is the Water chip quest. I believe that the Water Chip questline is terribly designed because WHY would you hurry the player in a complicated game with barely anything to guide him around? Thankfully the quest isn't all that hard to figure out, but in a game that focuses on letting the player choose the outcome of what they want to do or become is pretty weird, it just ends up making any eventual replay of the game just a linear slog through Necropolis.
Now I'd like to say that I've never got the true ending of Fallout 1 so yes my opinion is worthless now I only go to the point where I meet Master and I either kill him (He destroys me) or I sell my soul (and vault) to him for the bad ending, honestly I wouldn't have minded playing more but the random encounters ruin the game for me, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY?! I wanted to do the Brotherhood of Steel questline but it required me going to the glow, but as I was going there I pretty much couldn't spend 1 second without triggering an encounter, I can't tell if the game was broken or not and it's not because I thought the encounters were hard, on the contrary, I kept getting the same boring raider and monsters, again and again, it was BORING! And once I got there I needed a rope because obviously, you need a fucking rope everywhere. So I just went back to the hub and never came back to this shitty location.
So it's fair to say that this game isn't flawless, the combat is fine but it can be really slow, the looting and inventory management with a companion is really tedious, and walking from point A to point B with the billion encounters is awful, and the story isn't really interesting, yep, that's right.
I think the water chip quest is still somewhat smart because it forces you to explore everywhere and meet all kinds of people, but the people aren't really interesting I find that most missions tend to be "I'm X and you need to kill Y for me" which is kinda fun honestly I love killing people for money but it's not much of a story, the second part of the game always seemed dumb to me like the Overseer randomly going like "Oh yeah there's a bad guy now I just know there is go find him to get the credits rolling". Not saying that Master is a bad character, he's really cool like most weird creatures you can find in this game.
There's plenty of unbalanced stuff in the game, the perk and skill points are a mess, you can pretty much cheese the game with a laser weapon, the merchant sucks and the economy is kinda broken, the game feels like its holding itself with shitty ducktape and a small gust of wind would break everything (Like a CPU if you know what I mean)
I respect this game a lot for bringing so much to the Fallout universe but it's not a super fun game to come back to, I really wish this game would get a remake, and not necessarily a 3D one, but rather something that balances the game and make it more fun to explore and learn about the world because I do feel like this game has incredible lore but getting to know it just by playing the game can be painful.
I may plan on going back to this game just to finish it but at the moment I'd rather see how Fallout 2 does thing since people seem to like that one a lot better.