Caltrops - Reviews - Re: Review Request: Fallout 2

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by BDR, by request 11/16/2005, 10:45am PST

It took you this long to play the Fallout games? You lazy faggot.

Mischief Maker wrote:

So I bought the 2-game set and my time is more important to me than the $5 that went towards #2. I've heard both that Fallout 2 is Fallout 1 with more stuff and no time limit. I've also heard that Fallout 2 dies the death of a thousand lame Monty Python References.

WHATS THE REAL STORY???

Sorry it's not Tuesday.

I've seen your time, Buddy, and it ain't worth a paper Lincoln. Regardless. Did you like Fallout1? You'll like Fallout2. It's a Black Isle game, so you'll want to patch it even though the doublet pack comes post-patch. I'd link you up, but since you took so long to finally play these decent RPGs, I'm sentencing you to expose yourself to these cunts. Actually, maybe you'd feel more at home here. Either way, it's not any more buggy than any other fucking RPG. But, there is a quirky bit in one of the towns regarding some stupid kidnapping plot. Refer to gameFAGS when you hit that part.

As usual, ignore FABIO, or Zseni, or whoever the fuck that is. Bink's dipshit answer is mostly correct. The Python refs are virtually nonexistant. It does have a time limit initially, I dunno what the fuck everyone is babbling about; it's a lot longer, but it's there. Trust me, I ran it out. The opening screen is excrutiatingly dull, cunting about in some stupid temple to prove your worth in saving your village of brown indigents (while you remain groovily Caucasian) by killing scorpions armed with only a fucking spear. Piss about before leaving town. Take everything that isn't nailed down, but you knew that.

It's so silly easy to cheat in this game. You can go straight south in the beginning more or less. Move in short bursts, wait for a few sweet random encounters that involve two warring gangs of losers. Once one side is dead, take all the dropped shit to equip or sell. Then sneak into the Sierra Army Depot and get power armor. Then go back north, pretend nothing happened and straight up squash any fool in your way. Pump your gambling to over 50% and watch your stack fatten at the tables in Reno. I've lived in Reno, the developers didn't do much to make it look more post-apocalyptic than it already does. Stimpacks are weightless, so I carried about 150 of them into the last part of the game, the only exploit I used. Fuck it, I have special power armor, I think it can handle a gross worth of hypos.

Be either a sneaky fag sniper and have a ball during most of the game when you have buddies (slightly less poorly-controlled than the first), then suffer in the end when you're all alone and everbody knows your name. Yeah, everbody dies, which is different from Fallout1 how? That "special secret armor" or whatever is the best armor in the game and you'd be a drooling imbecile if you didn't put it on. I took Quick Pockets, two extra AP, and Fast Shot, so's I could waltz into the joint, a Bozar in one hand and a Plasma Rifle in the other, find a defendable position and mow down those stupid fucking idiots in the endgame. Use your head - and then your guns - to beat the End Boss (which FABIO didn't).

Anybody who tells you not to play the second is a stupid mindless nitpicking cunt.