RE: Patch
What annoyed me more than the invalidation of the save games with Fallout 2 was the promise that Interplay would make a convertor for the save game files. They even claimed they had the codework done and were waiting on the programmer to make a cleaner interface.
Then time passed, and Interplay made a statement saying they didn't have anyone who knew enough about the code to write such a utility since the programmers of Fallout 2 moved on to other things. So, naturally, Interplay posted a link to some character editor and just said to cheat your way back to where you were.
That's just plain lame.