Fallout 2

If you have the patience to endure the abysmal 'trial' and early game then the game opens up into an enjoyable, tactical open world RPG. There are some good ideas in terms of characters, settings and quests along with quite a few paths to victory. The writing throughout is thought-provoking and engaging and it combat really shines in the late game feeling very satisfying. The only problems is... It's clunky AF. The UI is attrocious and especially when you first start out you'll really struggle to even know what you can interact with, and how to do it. Although this does get easier as you acclimatise, it never goes away. This is simply due to the age of the game. And the biggest problem: The early game only really favours one build and although it's *possible* to survive the early game without a hefty investment in melee skill and strength/endurance abilities, you won't enjoy it. It's ages until you get a ranged weapon that's worth a damn, or any decent armour and you can forget about a charisma/stealth/technician build, you get no opportunity to make use of it until the mid-game at best. And although you absolutely can benefit from those skills, opportunities to use them remain few and far between. This game feels like it punishes creative character builds until at least the mid-game, at which point your skills and equipment can back up your idea. The early game pigeonholes you into a melee tank build and, considering the rest of the game, that's a travesty. Other niggles come from obsolete design decisions and poor AI. Honestly - if you want to get this game either to experience it for the first time, or for nostalgia - do yourself a favour and spend your money on Underrail instead. Although the setting is slightly different - Underrail is essentially the same game, just benefiting from nearly two decades of game design refinement. So there you have it - don't play this, play Underrail.

Buy it on steam - at least they have cloud saves and your 30 h of game is still there ;/

Companions keep blocking your way, mainly in closed spaces which make load and load, and load... the game. It is very annoying. Beside sometimes the game freeze for no razon it just freeze and you need to wait until it feels better, i think. Sometimes you need to exit and upload again. (yes, here too). I think the game has more glitches than fallout 1. Its irrelevant if this game is classic when if have a poor experience playing it.

I don't know why so many people rave about this game, it is objectively worse than the first one. The premises are boring and uninspired (a savage from a village), the main quest makes little sense, the starter areas are ugly, boring, full of empty areas and containers, and useless NPCs. The quests feel very superficial and uninspired. The game is poorly balance and shoehorns you into combat builds (not to mention it's ackward trying to roleplay a Science buff coming from a savage village...). Sure it adds QOL features, but is still riddled with bugs and broken triggers. A pale copy of the first game. Been slogging through this for a good 15 hours and just don't have the energy to continue. If your game doesn't capture the player within the first 10 hours, it's a bad game.

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