Fallout 2

You can kill kids with machine gun! You can kill kids with grenades! You can roast them with flamer! Melt them with plasma! Turn them into ashes with laser! ... even give the gun to bunch of kids playing army and they will shoot each other! Fallout 2 is perfect...

If you will play 1 old-school RPG in your life – Fallout 2 should be it. Be warned, it will suck very hard in the first few hours, the graphics is best experienced with a good tweak of High Resolution Patch and if you endure long enough, you may get permanently spoiled to expect way-too much from all the other old RPGs that mostly are nowhere as good. Why is this game relevant? 1. BADASSITY – in this game you to go from a primitive tribal to a walking tank in the most awesome way seen in any game, ever. In the beginning, you will often find yourself fleeing for survival, but, if you develop your character right, by the end you will actually be able to massacre cities as a one-man-army. 2. Heap of Gore Technology™ – even if you do not support violence in games, this game is special. The vision statement of Fallout has “Mega levels of violence” as its number one point, and it sure shows in the nearly cartoonish end result. Despite the pixely graphics (in 256 colors!), the sight of a critical kill with bits and pieces flying everywhere is something you will most certainly enjoy and remember. 3. STYLE – The universe of this game is legendary, the intro video ending is Epic (turn up the volume!), even the manual deserves to be read as a novel. 4. TURN-BASED – the game is great to relax on a side like when you are too tired for anything else. 5. An actually GREAT RPG – under the old skin, it really is a great RPG by any standards. Far too many really old classics were actually broken or terrible games that were only relevant in the context of their day. I highly recommend to try different character builds! [ As a disclaimer Fallout 1 is very similar to the 2nd, but the second game is slightly better in every regard and it is not crucial to play the 1st one first (especially as you may want to re-play the 2nd one many times over anyway). ] There are similar newer games available, but every RPG gamer will remember their Fallout 2 EXPERIENCE till the end of their life!

GOG gets on my nerves more and more. Fallout is another game (previously it was Jagged Alliance) that doesn't work as it should: bugs, game crashes etc. Not cool. Since I'm paying for a game that is supposed to run on Win 10 without a problem, that's what I expect. I have the version that was intended for windows xp in a box I bought a long time ago, so if I would like to run a game that will not be compatible with windows 10, I would install that :/

Fallout 2 is by far the greatest FO game. I have forgiven it the clunky interface, the occasional crash, the slow turn-based combat. None of these could be enough to ruin the writing, which is up there with Planescape Torment and the original Deus Ex, if not better. Not a single quest is a waste of time, not a single conversation boring, not a single minute spent wondering what to do, only which one of the dozen or so things on my checklist to do first. If you're the kind of person who can't suffer the graphics and use your imagination, then fuck off. If you can't handle writing more complex than "Press F to pay respects" then fuck off. For everyone else, this is one of the funniest, most poignant and darkest games I've ever played. It's so fulfilling and draining at the same time that I'll need a break from RPGs for a bit once I finish it. This is a proper role-playing game. I love it. If my profile says I've played 0 hours of it, that's probably because I'm using the FO2 Restoration Patch, so it doesn't track a modded executable, but which I recommend as a must for the first playthrough, and every subsequent other..

Really a masterpiece. I recommend playing with restoration project mod.