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Use a mod to remove the day limit and the experience becomes much better, you can play at your own pace.
Let Larian have a crack at fallout, classic style.
No, unless they ditch their terrible Divinity style of gameplay.
They literally make games like Fallout 1 & 2. What are you on about? Bethesda?
Divinity’s gameplay and emphasis on environmental damage/traps is really annoying. I love the studio, but not a fan of their design choices.
Sry mate your movement is reduced because of the blood of the guy you just killed.
His blood also conducts electricity. An enemy throws a lightning bolt at you that hits all members of your party standing in the blood. It also hits an exploding barrel that has, for some reason, just been stacked there. Your party all dies.
Ah the days of counting your action points and watching that first uzzy crit make a raider dance. If only we could get all of that artwork remade in 4k…
It would be glorious but that level of attention to the art of “dancing” is a dying breed in games, personally a fan of the “one-stop drop shot” and the “fire man shuffle”
I put a lot of hours into Fallout 1. What a great game.
If someone wants to try an updated version of the isometric Fallout games, check out Wasteland 2 and 3. Wasteland 3 has a lot less micromanaging inventory because there is no weight limit. The main difference in gameplay is you control a squad of 4 players instead of one, and you can hire a few NPCs along the way. It’s a different backstory, but the environment is similar with remains of real cities in a post-apocalyptic future. They are all on Gamepass and there is a refreshed version of the 1988 original that can be played on an Xbox or PC if you don’t like keyboards and mice.
Sounds like kenshi with less suffering.
I could never get into the new ones except for FONV since I felt the writing in 3 and 4 didn’t capture the satirical feel of the first two games.
I remember editing the files for that game and giving myself many many action points so I could practically kill every single person in one turn.
Actual hacking when it was cool and not a dick move.
I spent eight rounds failing to reload my gun and died to the first rat
I can see getting killed by a rat, but I don’t know how it would repeatedly fail to reload. Using a gun on rats is a waste of ammo anyway. You don’t need to reload a spear.
Pirate the old uncensored version so you can blow up kids!
Eh. Tried fallout 2 a while ago because the lore is interesting… Boring. Too much grind, too much emptiness.
I didn’t like the 3D Fallouts but I had fond memories of the original two, so I tried to replay Fallout 2 a few years ago. The writing is great but the gameplay has not aged well. Combat is simply tedious, especially against many enemies at once. You have to wait for them to slowly take their turns one by one, then on your turn you often just stand still and shoot once. Outside of combat, there’s a lot of running back and forth which gets quite tedious. I guess I had more patience twenty five years ago than I do now…
I guess I had more patience twenty five years ago than I do now…
yeah, and fewer options back then too. it was a great game; now, it’s a game that was great once heh. Still a classick
I kind of did the opposite but ended up in the same place - I loved the newer Fallouts so I thought I’d give 2 a shot and combat was just so bad that I couldn’t get more than a couple of hours in. I tried it again a couple years later and same thing. I know a lot of people would riot, but I kind of wish they’d remake the exact same story/writing with modernized gameplay so I could experience it.
There are some fan made 3D remakes as mods for FONV and FO4 to poke around at.
Are they decent? Or complete, as in it has the entire main story at least in? I’d be very interested. Played fo1 halfway through when I was playing a lot of the infinity engine classics some years ago, it was great, but a lot of fairly simple QoL stuff was needed for me to finish it. I’m now playing the fo3 and new Vegas in the TTW mod (with the Begin Again modlist) and it has been great with all the QoL stuff baked in. Never played fallouts other than the first before now, kind of amazed it took me so long to give the threes a go, seeing as I’ve had them in my steam library for ages…
Intellectually I know it’s fine. I know there’s plenty of time to complete the game. I just can’t stand a ticking clock counting down, constantly. It makes me anxious and completely ruins my enjoyment of the game. I also have this problem with Stardew Valley where I constantly feel like there’s not enough time and I’m being pulled in several directions at once and I can’t focus on anything. It’s a nightmare.
I know people say it doesn’t matter but I’m the same way with Stardew. I ended up downloading a cheat mod that lets you freeze time because I realized it’s supposed to be a nice, relaxing game, and I wasn’t feeling that way. I don’t use the freeze much, but it lets me enjoy the game without stressing.
That’s less of an issue with the second game, as you can ignore the timer, but yeah that’s part of why I never really tried the first game.
I think its harder to ignore in the second game, since the shaman dude constantly telepathically calls you up like “So uh, you find that GECK yet? Shit’s starting to get kinda bad up here.” Every now and then. The first game just has the post-it note with how many days you got left that you can ignore.
With Stardew, really?
You can start making friends at year 58 if you want, there’s no consequence to anything in that game… You can forget your animals for a year and start giving them love again and they’ll start producing again… It’s a game where each day you can decide to focus on one thing and it doesn’t matter if you forget about the rest…
It took me a while to figure this out during my first playthrough. Once you realise it’s not like harvest moon and there is no end to the game and you can just do what you want for as long as you want, the game became much more enjoyable for me
It’s not about worrying that I won’t be able to do stuff again, just the existence of the ever-looming timer is stressful. And you have to water your crops every morning, and harvest them when they’re ready. You can only plant certain crops in certain seasons. There are requests on the bulletin board that have time limits. Shops are only open on certain days, and I know if I don’t do that thing today I won’t be able to tomorrow because it will be closed. If the timer didn’t matter, then there wouldn’t be a timer.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Stardew Valley. But I stopped playing it, partly because I found it too stressful. Which isn’t great cause people always advertise it as this really relaxing game, and I’m sure it is for them, but I guess my brain just works differently. And I really want to like Stardew Valley more, I want to be able to play it and relax.
I’m not even trying to minmax or anything, I try to take my time, but it doesn’t really work. I can’t just ignore the timer, cause then I’ll pass out and wake up with hardly any stamina.
Edit: Also “you can just focus on one thing” sure, but then what do I do for the rest of the day?
For the rest of the day? Go fishing my dude! 😎
Fallout Fixt mod allows you to increase the time limit and practically disable it, among many other tweaks
You would have hated the original Stardew Valley Gramp Pa, would give you a stern talking too and declare his immeasurable disappointment (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I can somewhat understand though, I like the timer aspect even if I do not like the feeling of being “rushed”. But I understand, you would hate pathfinder:kingmaker though
Fallout 3 my favourite and that new TV shows not bad
I’m replaying the first Fallout since the show release and as much as I love it the controls suck. I would like to see a remaster that fixes that. Graphics are fine to me though.
As someone who started with 3 and is enjoying a replay and low key excited to do the dlcs on that one for the first time, these comments are making me more optimistic about trying 1 and 2.
There are mods to fix some of the bugs and add some quality of life but they’re still pretty janky and obtuse. That being said, they’re still fantastic and engrossing games that are absolutely worth trying.
