/vr/ - Retro Games

Is fallout 3 retro now?
That was when the series became actually playable.

>>8663636
Nice b8

>>8663629
my favorite parts were probably necropolis and talking to/fighting the master. i also liked exploring the world in early game, coming across places like shady sands and junktown with atmospheric music and memorable npc interactions
honestly, the one part of the game i didn't like was the bos. it felt like the writing there was way more trope-ridden than the rest of the game

>>8663629

we all know NV is the only playable fallout game, everything else is absolute dogshit

>>8663629
Unironically, my favorite part is doing caravan escorts. Caravans are an integral part of economy in Fallout lore and yet only 1 and 2 really lets you be a part of it, not even NV. Aside from that, I love getting power armor because you're essentially a god at that point, not even Deathclaws can seriously harm you without a crit.

>>8663629
The crashed UFO with the picture of Elvis and the ray gun. I used that fucking ray gun near the end of the game because it did a lot of damage early on.

>>8663836
Thankfully in the 3D games there's the UFO events too. Really adds a lot of fun to the game. In 4 there's too damn many imo.
>>8663629
What's the story behind this? Was there a giant deathclaw in the old games?

>>8663629
Infiltrating the Cathedral. Fallout 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, but I don't care for 1 nearly as much.

>>8663841
Fallout was originally going to be about time traveling and dinos, this was a nod to that.

>>8663854
Tim Cain originally wanted to make a game about aliens invading Earth too

I kinda liked taking a bunch of Psycho / Buffout and going on a killing spree.

Exploring The Glow was cool too.

>>8663629

I tried playing this game and sucked at it. Tried playing 2 and sucked at it. I wish I paid attention to these games when they first came out.

>>8663636
>Is fallout 3 retro now?
released 1 year too late

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14YwGjmjhh2cLHLxfWkyeyUEtgiD25aZE/view

Play it with my Katja sex mod

https://timedwatcher.blog
spot.no/2018/12/fallout-1-sex-text-because-sexout-was.html

Remove the space in blogspot

I like Boneyard and The Hub, not sure why people aren't as big of fans about it

>>8663920
fucking kek

I never played Fallout 1, so my favorite part was where it inspired a sequel, because I DID play Fallout 2 and it was great.

>>8663854
Oh that's cool. Thanks for the info.

>>8663636
You're baiting but I have to admit 3 is my favorite even though I really enjoy 1 and 2. I have probably spent more time playing 3 than any other single player video game. There's not even that much to do in it, I just love the atmosphere and walking around the wasteland shooting mutants and looting shit.

>>8663629
My favourite part was finding out about the Brotherhood of Steel, gaining entrance into their bunker and getting Power Armor training. I've been a sucker for the BoS ever since, despite how differently they are portrayed in other games.
The part I remember the most, though, is killing the Khans early and selling all their equipment for caps. Coming from Junktown with Dogmeat and a submachinegun helped me a lot.

>>8663724
Doesn't NV have you escort a caraven or am I thinking of something else? I know there's something related to caravans in there but it's slipping my mind.

>>8665008
Honest Hearts starts with you escorting a caravan. There is also the Crimson Caravan questline in the main game.

The only gun you need

>>8665065
based

>>8663629
Seeing the Glow for the first time. And the Cathedral, of course. F1 had the best atmosphere by far, in the entire series. And the best antagonist.

Nekropolis and the glow were frightening back then.
My fav part is the music, desert wind to be specific, and the nekropolis music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bgH2NdXju8
Scary af, atmosphere level over 9000, unmatched till today
Fallout 1 and 2 are the best games ever made

>>8665065
>not fast shot with the Smitty special while agility maxxing

>>8663629
Playing with an awful character build nobody should play and the developers having fun with that. Load up a new file and change your intelligence to zero, or watch this video.

https://youtu.be/8CPijQ_LLGQ

>>8663629
>favorite parts
the part between the beginning and the end

>>8665118
>You have taken a large dose of radiation

when i found out on like 4th playthrough you can repair/science the Red shields to turn to Yellow so Dogmeat takes no damage

>>8663910
i don't think actual human beings talk like that

Spoilers for FO1 in this blog post.
I stopped playing FO1 close to what I presume is the end, and I feel bad I never finished it. I was in the bottom of the cathedral, and there's a bunch of mutants and monsters down there, notably higher difficulty than other places I've been. There's a hallway where I have to make a left turn to go north, and a mutant (or maybe two) at the far end around the corner. If I step around the corner, he blows me away in a couple rounds. I haven't found any item or weapon that lets me get close to him or finish him first. I don't feel like grinding or combing the game world for some extra piece of gear just to get past him.
So, it's the only game that I've never finished because I just hit a wall. I'm sure I missed things (I don't have power armor and feel like I should have had it before now) and am maybe doing something out of order, but I don't recall having a quest hook to go anywhere else. It was a fairly neat experience, even though combat was slow as shit and could be pretty annoying getting shot in the back by your own allies, but I'm a little bummed I missed out on the ending. Very unique, and had that old-school "let the player put their hand on the stove" approach.
FO3 was very unpolished and tedious. I dropped it shortly after persevering through that god-awful alien abduction DLC thing.
Are FO2 and NV really the best ones?

>>8666564
FO1 is the shortest and tightest of the 3, if you burnt out on that I doubt you'd finish (or enjoy) FO2. NV fits between both, though it's just as unpolished as FO3, and a big part of the appeal is its continuation of the FO1/FO2 storylines and characters.

>>8666564
All you had to do was take a hit of psycho

>>8666589
Is that Harvester? I wouldn't say I burned out on 1 exactly, since I was mostly enjoying it up until the end. But the gameplay wasn't the selling point, and the idea that I'd have to go re-explore areas or grind to move on killed my enthusiasm, since both options felt like they'd be tedious and open-ended, since I wasn't sure what I would need to achieve in order to get past the guy.
>just as unpolished
I'm really sensitive to coherency of design and quality of writing in games, so I probably won't play it then. I didn't know it was a continuation of FO1/2 though, I'll keep that in mind if I try FO2 and like it. Thanks for the info.
>>8666598
I never used any chems, but this does seem the place. Not much harm in trying to use some in this case, I'm sure it would be fast to go pick some up from somewhere and give it a try. Thank you.

Why don't we have a whole fallout remake or the like in fallout van buren?
No hardcore fans left

>>8665718
>mfw no rope in the inventory
>no face because the radiation melted it.

>>8666564
There are ways to get to the master without fighting your way to it

>>8666682
Because Bethesda hates 1, 2 and NV.
Multiple devs have said this. They even get mad that people still play 1, 2 and NV to this day.
They wish people forgot about them.

>>8666564
Getting power armer is easy. Go to the glow to join the brother hood then see power armor on the 2nd or 3rd floor.

>>8663629
Tandi is best girl

>>8667602
I didn't vote for her

>>8667602
At least thats one good thing if WWIII starts in current year. More likely to get tomgirls then ftm's

>>8667602
i killed her and massacred her village

>>8663887
I think I got destroyed my first playthrough too. It's also easy to forget that you really need to read the manual for these games before/during play, which I kind of forgot my first time.
Give it another shot if you're interested, since a second playthrough with the benefit of the mistakes you made the first time will be much better.

As for OP and my favourite part, it's so hard to call. There were a lot of great moments. I actually really liked Junktown for some reason. It was fun scrounging for weapons and finding your first companion as you were still putting things together early on.

>>8667559
Which is wierd because I'm pretty sure Todd himself doesn't hate them, he had nothing to say but positivie things about New Vegas on release and despite how much of a bridge burner he tends to be, Chris has never said anything bad about Todd. I wonder who at Bethesda hates old Fallout.

>>8667559
I wonder why? Surely there's little harm in these games having a following considering how niche they would be by now. I doubt any normie is going to try it and then look down upon the new games.
Maybe it's a personal thing between the developers and publishers?

>>8663629
I like the earlier parts the most. Vault 15 is probably my favorite. How you need rope, the little hidden items and compartments, the basic but still kinda scary enemies (rats of increasing size). The game focuses less on details as it goes it seems to me.

>>8670330
oh, and the glow
the glow was great

>>8670306
because the early games are good, and shit like new vegas just makes bethesda look bad

>>8670330
>>8670334
rope dungeons best dungeons

>>8663712
that would be 4. NV's map barely has anything on it.

>>8670352
But why care when Bethesda's games make a bajillion dollars anyway?

>>8670398
they have bad reputations online; that hurts sales
yeah they make a lot of money but you have to understand how these "people" think

>>8670405
If they really cared about making games people love as much as profit, why release such ugly, buggy messes?

>>8670408
I think skyrim was good, but the fallouts are just there to rake in money. If you look at the steam stats, most buyers only play the game for a very short amount of time, thus the games being super frontloaded and unfinished. So, they know they only have to focus on the first hour or two in order to rake in the retardbucks.

>>8670423
>I think skyrim was good
TES games are also their baby so they clearly put a lot more work into it than Fallout. Even then they're buggy as shit.

>>8670352
But that's what I'm saying. Fallout 1 & 2 might be great games, and have more love and attention put into them than FO3 or 4 but if you put 95% of gamers in front of them, they'd just say it looks old and ugly and is too weird and then they'd go back to Fallout 4. It's not like these games are a threat of any kind to the new market.

>>8670431
Unironically it's probably an insecurity thing. They go to RPG codex or here and see people shitting on there games. They get into arguments and it makes them hate the older ones

>>8665118
Probably the glow for me to as well as seeing that the boss and who was responsible for all the mutants was some really weird and creepy organic machine computer thing called the master. Great dialogue to from it. 1 story seems better than 2 to me.

>>8667559
I see nothing wrong with this honestly. They bought the franchise so they can do what they please with it now.

>>8671347
>They bought the franchise so they can do what they please with it now.

>>8671347
>They bought it so that means you can't criticize their actions!

>>8663629
>What was /vr/'s favorite parts of it?

Making it to the Hub with my two pack mules (Ian and Tycho) in tow. Traded in a ton of stuff taken from that first bandit gang for books, the combat rifle, and combat armor. Lots of cool things to do in the Hub once you're geared up.

Hearing about Richard Grey and then reading logs about him and his team's exploits.

Sneaking into the Cathedral.

>>8667559
Probably because the Fallout 1 and 2 devs are a bunch of washed up hacks.

>>8671347
you on the left

>>8670394
>that would be 4
>NV's map barely has anything on it.
this HAS to be fucking bait

>>8663629
That convincing illusion that you can just go anywhere and make any kind of choice in the story. And that dark thriller atmosphere