A new Fallout review!

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 3:44 pm

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It's quite out of the ordinary, but there's a brand new review of Fallout on the internet. Yeah, the first Fallout... not number 2, and no... not Tactics - we're talking the original here.

<a href="http://www.quandaryland.com/" target="_blank">Quandryland</a> are the fine folks responsible, and not surprisingly, our beloved Fallout earns a very, very good review. Here, have a taste:<blockquote>Like all games at the top of the RPG pile, Fallout presents a very strong story line, and a fantastic dialogue system. In fact, the dialogue system in Fallout is even superior to that found in Planescape: Torment, and that's saying a lot! Dialogue choices are limited by your IN and CH, and there's also an element of luck involved in that you may only get important plot-steering choices as the result of a successful 'dice roll'. Some of the more important people you talk to are presented as 'talking heads', and it's a lot of fun to drop a clanger and watch them frown at you, or to see their face light up when you tell them a good piece of news. All the dialogue is subtitled, so you'll never miss out on anything important that a character says. During the course of the game, up to a half dozen of these NPCs that you encounter are willing to join your party (number limited by your CH).

And of course, what seemed like a relatively innocuous quest to find a replacement water recycling controller chip soon turns into an overarching quest for the sake of all humanity, as what you tell the overseer of your travels in the outside world leads him to believe that there are sinister forces at work in the wasteland...</blockquote><a href="http://www.quandaryland.com/2003/Fallout.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read more of it... and be prepared to play through the game again afterwards. Spotted at <a href="http://www.rpgdot.com" target="_blank">RPGdot</a>.

bbill · Post by **bbill** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:17 pm

thats weird i installed fallout just before i read this, got throguh the first cave then went online for a bit and saw this hmmmm

i should start to wear my psychic nullifier stop things like this happening.........

Red · Post by **Red** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:41 am

Um... he's saying that "more then a dozen NPCs are willing to join you"... That would be in FO as there's at tops 4 NPCs that can join you in FO1...

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:07 am

"up to a half dozen of these NPCs that you encounter are willing to join your party (number limited by your CH)"

I think he means the amount of NPC's throughout the game that are willing to join you. Not the amount at any given time.

Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:09 am

Red wrote:Um... he's saying that "more then a dozen NPCs are willing to join you"... That would be in FO as there's at tops 4 NPCs that can join you in FO1...

Actually, what's quoted up there is: up to a half dozen of these NPCs that you encounter are willing to join your party.

Half a dozen is 6. Up to half a dozen would be less than 6... So he's about right.

And there's five, not 4.

Ian
Tandy
Dogmeat
Tycho
Katja

EDIT: Is this the part where we put the big "owned" in fancy font and multi-coloured letters? :)

Red · Post by **Red** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:18 am

Actually "up to half a dozen" means up to 6... meaning 6 or less - so he's still wrong, although it does seems of less of a descripancy...

And I disgress as I keep forgetting about Katja... Poor little thing, by the time you find her she's usually pointless...

Course there's the point about the fact that Tandi isn't really supposed to be a real "follower" NPC...

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 4:18 pm

Have they changed anything major for the Mac port?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:47 pm

Well, better late than never I guess. The review could have offered some screenshots too instead of those random blurry images.