Fallout Windows, Linux, DOS game

that was quite a post, sutter! :D

Nostalgia galore in this oh so beloved and enjoyed joy of a game to have and own and play and gloat over before playing again and again and then again replaying and still keep replaying the thing for the sake of good and compelling stuff, addictive too, so tread carefuly.

This game should have come with a big sticker on it, perhaps big enough to wrap itself around the whole box it originally came in, a warning, a very huge and necessary warning, because litte did those who bought it the first time, the big monster they were innocently carrying home and more innocently still as they placed the silver disc in their shuddering cd drives ( the prospect of long and large portions of cd spinning while many long hours of play turned to half days and sometimes and for many a player entire days, consumed, devoured into pits of time).

Fallout was and still is one monster of a game, followed by fallout 2 which is a huge monster of a game, both games are incredibly addictive and replayable and there is the trouble with them, one can never have enough of it, for anyone who has never played it and innocently installs it in their machine, their first reaction to it must be like: " Whoa is this what people have been raving about? well the graphics sure suck amd what with the palette used, couldn't the designers have come up with a more colorful choice of colors, something more vivid perhaps, duh ?" and on this new player will venture himself on the character screen, choose this and that for his liking such as strength over stamina or what not and play a little with the choices made and slowly the game begins to settle in and once it does it simply won't let go, that's how dangerous it can be to anyone's social life.

The addictiveness to this game and its themes stems from the depths of our collective conscience regarding it's main theme, war and the dreaded nuclear big one, i know what it was to live under the shadow of an all out on the verge of bursting big WWIII war which would put an end to our ways as taken for granted, i remember for i spent my childhood and most of my youth under that dark cloud, what it did to me and my personal character only God knows, but i remember the terror of my nightmares, it used to be that ghosts and vampires were the subject to my toddler self but it soon was swept under and replaced by a more vile and child opressing fear than that of romantic notions of the gothic, war; war was iminent, at any moment, bombs could be dropping from the skies launched from as far as thousands of miles away or mere hundreds from any submarine surreptitiously hidden near our sea coasts and shores.

The terror, my terror was real and so was that of any child who knew what was going on, we would never admit it before others of course, everyone was tough and buff in the playground but i can imagine even the bullies ******* in their pants if they had enough brains to judge just what a barrel of octillion megaton tnt stick our planet was strapped to.

It could have been just that, the cold war, but not only did we know about teh big nasty bombs, we then also knew the effects, the devastation of nuclear war through documentwaries on the subject and the many films projected in our schools as early as the seventies maybe even sixties, in those films what impressed me and others was the burns a nuclear explosion could cause on anyone near enough to see a blast full on, even the radiation was something we could already grasp the concept of. I never felt that kind of opressing fear anymore, not since then.

(So it makes me laugh outloud when politicians coment about computer and video games being the scourge of our youths, banning many a computer/ video game from the market just because it depicts violence, PEOPLE WAKE UP, THE EVIL IS IN YOUR WAYS OF DOING POLITICS NOT IN THE GAMES PRODUCED OR YOUTHS PLAYING THEM, MAYBE IF YOU CARED LESS FOR POWER AND MORE ABOUT OTHERS AND POVERTY, MAYBE WE WOULDN?T HAVE TO HAVE BOMBS TO BEGIN WITH AND THEN MAYBE OUR CULTURE WOULDN?T BE SO GEARED TOWARDS VIOLENCE, IT?S NOT WHAT THE YOUTH iSE PLAYING YOU POLITICIANS SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH BUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO PREDISPOSE THE YOUTH TO ENJOY IT SO MUCH, PEOPLE OUR CULTURE IS WHAT WE MAKE OF IT AND WHAT WE MAKE OF IT IN TURN CHANGES US TO SERVE IT IN ITS WAYS, THE SAME WE DEALT IT WITH, sO STOP WARS, STOP VIOLENCE AND MAYBE THEN OUR YOUTH WILL STOP PLAYING VIOLENT GAMES, GEAR TEH CULTURE TOWARDS PEACE AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW, IF NOT... WELL, THERE'S ALWAYS FALLOUT

So what am i reminiscing about here and for what purpose?

Well, you see, culture is something we can't escape no matter what we get ourselves through, and this game hooks you so much because it has all to do with humanity and what we've gone through up to now, the theme, the story which is plausible enough and believe me, in such a scenario worse things than deathclaws and mutants could very well be ambushing you in any cross country walk.

Fallout oozes style and culture, more like pop culture actually but in the grand scheme of things and from teh point of view of survivors fromwithing a couple hundred years ionto teh future, believe me either pop or classic culture there wil be no difference to people there so culture i say. From the monopoly style character drawing of perks and abilities which is a main draw to our liking of teh design, because at some point or another almost anyone of us has already played or seen someone playing monopoly, so yes this was very clever as a main draw to the game and i believe it wouldn't have been as successful if it were drawn any other way, so you see, culture, we like things familiar to us and those are easier to get addicted to as well, tp the 50s style signs and billboards adverts and overall lettering style, it all reeks of pulp fiction and old sci fi comics almost anyone surely have known about and seen.

This game is great and i bet it will be replayed again and again well into decades to come and i can tell you graphics and style and gameplay will keep people interested long into the future.

I can also tell you that if bethesda is to change the graphical style into something sleekier or cleaner as to rebuke the grittier look of teh original, i bet that will put fans off for certain, now if they use their 3 D oblivion engine like revamped and adding to that nice and gritty all round textures to bring in the the whole fallout effect in 3 D, all the swearing and dirty slick wordage too and as long as it can be ran fast, count me on as a buyer, if not, well, no matter how good the game otherwise, it still won't be fallout to me.

best game ever !!

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I will never forget this game. I'm sure that no-one who ever played it ever will.

A fantastic RPG - still THE best one out there.

10/10 - but way too short, man. We needed more than just the East coast...

W00t love this gameit was and stiil is the best

After all of these years no game impresses me more then Fallout, its style, look and charm is perfect for any RPG'er who's sick of slaying dragons.

I say grab your combat armour and 9mm, its time to kill some deathclaws!

Fallout pwns I just reinstalled it after a few years, I forgot that Hellboy was in this. ;)