Fallout 2 is currently No. 8 in todays most popular games!

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MurghBpurn

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At the time of writing Fallout 2 is currently the 8th most popular PC game at Gamespot, which puts it at number 2 in the most popular RPG charts, only being beaten by World of Warcraft!

Who'd have guessed!?
 
At this point it's dropped to 19 in the big list (11 spots in a few hours? Gamers are fickle!) and 3 in the RPG list. However, it's interesting to note that it's the only game in the big list to be released before 2004, with the only exception of one title released in 2003. Come to think of it, that fact makes me think the whole list is fucked up and worthless.
 
Fallout is the greatest roleplaying game of *all* times, I thought everybody knew that by now.
 
I think more people has played fallout2 than fallout1 (outside the fallout comunity)
 
actaully, 90% of the people who think that FO2 was the best, played FO2 before they played FO1. hence they expected too much from the first.

Kahgan said:
I think more people has played fallout2 than fallout1 (outside the fallout comunity)
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that doesnt really compute, my dear kahgan. if someone likes the sequel enough to put it up in the top 10 of best games ever, then logically they would play the first game as well.
 
Member of Khans said:
Ratty said:
Fallout is the greatest roleplaying game of *all* times, I thought everybody knew that by now.
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Indeed
At the time of writing Fallout 2 is currently the 8th most popular PC game at Gamespot
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But why 2? Compared to one 2 just sucks :cry:
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In what ways exactly, excepting that it doesn't completely stays true to the Fallout universe and has too many easter eggs and unfinished parts?

As an RPG I find Fallout 2 to be completely superior to Fallout 1.
 
Member of Khans said:
just one word: story
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Yeah. Fallout story is very sinister and intriguing. But Fallout 2 story is very good too, just not as good as the original.
 
GECK = good? :?

I played Fallout after Fallout 2 and I love it even more because of it. Probably because I'm a Torment fan... :P
 
I think Fallout 2 is the better one, and about the story:

Both main stories are crap, basic save-the-word/vault/tribe from an evil scientist/master/president plots, BUT F2 have many more (and better) mini-quests that tell an interesting story. Like Modoc-Ghost Farm, VC-Gecko, VC-Reno-NCR, Reno-Redding, etc. The towns sorta communicate between each other, giving a realistic and atmospheric feeling over especially VC and Reno. I don't see very much of that in F1, where communications between towns is at it's best caravan rides...

It's hard to explain, as it's a very abstract subject, but I think most F2 > F1 followers understand me.
 
Fallout's story isn't total crap; there lies the difference. As far as the communication, anything relating to Reno, IMO, is a complete shit. Plus, there's the Cathedral-Vats relationship in the original :roll:.
 
Ekarderif said:
Fallout's story isn't total crap; there lies the difference. As far as the communication, anything relating to Reno, IMO, is a complete shit. Plus, there's the Cathedral-Vats relationship in the original :roll:.
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Reno is crap in sense that it feels completely out of place in the Fallout setting. However, it is a very rewarding area in the roleplaying sense, since it offers extreme freedom and interactivity. Four factions, numerous opportunities, great quests, interesting characters... New Reno is a roleplayer's paradise. However, that potential is wasted simply because New Reno doesn't belong in a Fallout game. One of the things that irks me most about Fallout 2 is that such an exquisite scripting job was done for the game's crappiest area. What a waste.
 
I disagree. New Reno had a purpose of being the place where everyone got their vices. Such a thing in a post-apoc world would make a great deal of sense. After all, a fleeting business is done in denial of reality, and that is when reality is not nearly as poor as Fallout's universe it.

FO2 is better. I loved Fallout and I played it first. However, the NPCs werent terribly engaging to me. I mean, the whole Gunrunners-Blades-Regulators seemed rather bizarre. I mean, Gunrunners setting up a place right outside near a Deathclaw nest. They dont help anyone, they just let business suffer instead of doing any sort of cleanup. Also, Locksley and half the Hub was worthless. Props to Lasher though...
 
Fallout had several things going for it that Fallout 2 didn't. Fallout has more unique things in it, and I think they were stretching the engine beyond its limits in certain aspects, but the results were good enough. Fallout 2 feels subtly more predictable in most areas since most of the scripts are more generic. In Fallout, you never knew what someone was going to do. In Fallout 2, however, they staid well within the bounds of what the engine could do well, in most cases.

Fallout 2 does fell more polished, though, and better in an RPG-aspect, inasmuch as there are many more things to make your character interesting, like perks, surgeries, etc. You can level up to your wildest dreams (Anyone actually *get* to level 99???). The Evil path is available, really, if not very easy. I hope I'm making sense here...
 
Fallout will never be at the top of any general list when it's by votes, traffic or any numbers based list. It just didn't sell well enough, and it was too complex (people always buy more games like "mercenaries" and FO:POS than games like Fallout).
 
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