does the time limit in fallout 1 eventually disappear?

yes, i would love to get myself into another awkward situation as meeting super muties way too early and being put in jail and trying to escape in my pajamas! it really isnt my idea of fun, AT ALL! i keep encountering this crap in both F1 and F2, i really need to remember to keep multiple save files...
 
His obliviousness to the most obvious of things has several times convinced me that he's not really this clueless, that he's actually just messing with us. I just can't believe that it's genuine. I've seen many players who just didn't understand a thing, and I remembered those days when the many nuances of the Fallout series TOTALLY escaped my notice ("Wait, you mean there's something I can DO to stop those children from looting me without killing them and becoming a Child Killer? Whaaaa?" Mind blown...) so the more users I see asking the same questions doesn't ever surprise me.

But it's never been THIS bad. I just don't know what to make of it. If it really is genuine, then I suppose it's commendable to place one's self so far outside of their comfort zone to try something else that was recommended to them. It just... It REALLY feels... totally unreal.

Is there GECK support for the first two games? How do I make the outdated popups go away? I have questions for FO1. I have questions for FO2. - Are all these different threads REALLY necessary? One is enough, because they all share the same common thread: "I need help and I have questions about FO1 and FO2". That alone is plenty.

zegh8578 said:
All what dude? Are you having a bad day?
If you have paid attention to the thread, you'd see that OP more than welcomes hints and pointers, even down to spoon-feeding spoiler-level. By telling him some general sound advice, you rush in to blast everyone with the "explore openly, and don't listen to anybody's advice!", the dude wandered himself into Mariposa.

Don't go around hopping in front of people, telling them to disregard "all" that someone else has said, it's a dick move and you prooobably know it
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Don't feed the trolls.
 
Meh, why not just roll w it. I'll give people the benefit of doubt untill a moderator changes things. So far, so good, in that regard. I've seen people cause all of Klamath to attack them for rapid-clicking through the dialogue with the dog.

Plenty of us relied on Per's guide to fully explore the game as well, temptation just takes over sometimes. Different play styles.
 
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I'm not saying anything should be vatted... barring the same angry trolls, anyway. I'm just saying that spamming unnecessary posts is an eyesore and that in spite of typical "this is new to me, I don't know what I'm doing" scenarios, a total absence of common sense is still outrageous, and there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that.

Making mistakes and being that person who only had one save is not the same thing as using modern game logic on an old game. We were all beginners at one point. But that doesn't explain the habitual lapse of common sense.
 
Be a bit less harsher will ya? But I see what you mean. I reckon it's a (filthy ;)) Casual who is trying the first two. SO CUT HIM SOME SLACK! Let him ask questions. We want more people playing FO1 and FO2, not scaring them away.
 
SnapSlav said:
I'm not saying anything should be vatted... barring the same angry trolls, anyway. I'm just saying that spamming unnecessary posts is an eyesore and that in spite of typical "this is new to me, I don't know what I'm doing" scenarios, a total absence of common sense is still outrageous, and there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that.

Making mistakes and being that person who only had one save is not the same thing as using modern game logic on an old game. We were all beginners at one point. But that doesn't explain the habitual lapse of common sense.
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Unnecessary posts? This forum is dead! Let us encourage people to post instead of being dicks and run them off.
 
I used Per's guide, like a bitch :(
(for FO2 anyway, and not for first playthrough - but only cus I wasn't aware of the guide during my first play)
 
zegh8578 said:
I used Per's guide, like a bitch :(
(for FO2 anyway, and not for first playthrough - but only cus I wasn't aware of the guide during my first play)
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I didn't look at the guide thoroughly until recently. It does take a great deal of the magic away from the game.
 
TorontRayne said:
zegh8578 said:
I used Per's guide, like a bitch :(
(for FO2 anyway, and not for first playthrough - but only cus I wasn't aware of the guide during my first play)
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I didn't look at the guide thoroughly until recently. It does take a great deal of the magic away from the game.
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I had played it allready, I was just hungry for details, secrets, completion, I'm aspie too, so that probably plays a big role - I enjoyed scowering through his very detailed guide, and trying to get my game to match.
To this day it hasn't ruined Fallout for me :D

And even then, each game since (I only used his guide once) felt new, and I always felt as if I found something new, if only just a dialogue option that cracked me up. First time I got that guy in Modoc to cut his finger off - for then to tell him I'm only joking... I dunno if that's in the guide, but I hadn't seen it before, always choosing the safer option. Combat initiated, and I laughed so I cried, while cursing the game, since I hadn't saved in a while... :D
 
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zegh8578 said:
TorontRayne said:
zegh8578 said:
I used Per's guide, like a bitch :(
(for FO2 anyway, and not for first playthrough - but only cus I wasn't aware of the guide during my first play)
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I didn't look at the guide thoroughly until recently. It does take a great deal of the magic away from the game.
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I had played it allready, I was just hungry for details, secrets, completion, I'm aspie too, so that probably plays a big role - I enjoyed scowering through his very detailed guide, and trying to get my game to match.
To this day it hasn't ruined Fallout for me :D
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Oh, you better believe I consulted the guide at some point after my initial failure and refusal to look at it. On my recent game I actually made a character that was competent enough to do what I wanted him to do though. Plus I save scummed a lot. :)

Now I'll have to finally complete that Iron Man run I have always wanted to do. A 100% run actually. That means finishing most of the quests as opposed to rushing straight to the end.
 
I only ever tried one iron man run of FO2, I reported it here in an appropriate thread for it, and my effort was utterly pathetic, killed by Kaga, just outside of Arroyo, by a single critical spear-strike, so lame...

What I have tried twice however, is a retard-run, and I always end up in SF, usually a bit despairing by then, cus I'll be level 6 or so, so... I abandon it, and do something else
 
i have had the games for a few yrs, i found the 2-pack jewel cds at walmart, however at the time i had a run down win98se cd, and never really had a chance to play them properly, not even knowing there were patchs for screen resolution and restoration patches and whatnot. the fallout 1 and 2 forums are dead on gamefaqs.com, and the supposedly complete guide available on there doesnt give you all the information you might need for choices you might have made instead of the choices the writer did. and up until recently, thanks to a forum post on fallout 2's gamefaqs board, i never heard of this place. but the forum had this listed under the link to the killap patch, and that was how i learned about there being ANY fallout forum that was still active for the older games.

when i tried to play the fallout games in the past, i never got far due to getting surrounded by a horde of enemies on a map encounter and getting killed off. this is my first time actually trying to play the game and story. for whatever reason, i prefer 1 save file over multiples. i cant stand cluttery files, this occurs w/ console games and handhelds as well. it is probably my aspergers kicking in.
 
Reminds me a bit of my initial dealings with Morrowind, one of my favorite games by now. My dad was gifted a bundle, physical one, of several games. Most of them were uninteresting to me, I am very picky. I liked Ghost Recon, which was part of the bundle, while I honestly thought the Morrowind disc-art looked lame, at the time I eyerolled hard at LOTR and such as well. Eventually I actually felt bad for it... :D The lame elf on the cover, the lame name "morrowind" wtf, the wind-of-tomorrow?
I decided to give it a chance, purely out of thinking mocking thoughts about it... :D

Hated it on first try, I didn't understand anything, all the mechanics were wrong, combat was horrible, and I was overwhelmed by the ammount of loose items laying around, spoons and napkins "I cannot possibly loot ALL this D:"

Set it aside, then it just kept bothering me, w its lame elf and lame name, untill I gave it another shot, and for some reason, just clicked! Loved it ever since :D
 
i played morrowind on the xbox orginally, i didnt even know what it was and i had gotten the version w/ the dlc included. i would love to get the elder scrolls collection for pc just for that game and all the dlc. it has disappeared from my local walmart though, which is annoying. i liked morrowind more than obblivion.

like you fallout 1 and 2 keep bugging me and i keep playing to try to make sense of it, when i first played morrowind i had no idea what i was doing either, dont feel bad.
 
OOH MORROWIND!!! My first RPG, followed by KOTOR 2 and then Fallout 1/2. I have a gift... of being able to play games I have never played before decently. I was never lost in Morrowind or any other game. Ah Morrowind... that beautiful land... RUINED BY F*CKIN BETHESDA!!!

My hate of them is spurned by other games.
 
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