Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
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You’ve just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization. Talk, sneak or fight your way past mutants, gangsters and robotic adversaries. Make the right decisions or you could end up as another fallen hero in the wastelands…
Steam User 42
Fallout's a great RPG and here are 7 spoiler-free recommendations to get the most out of the game, before you play for the first time:
1. Don't underestimate the "Luck" stat; some of the issues I had with the game stemmed from a low Luck allocation during character creation. In my experience, it made the game "harder" in a way that really wasn't interesting and was instead frustrating. If you enjoy difficult games like I do, I can't stress enough that it doesn't make the game more difficult in a good way. I don't think it's necessary to have a high Luck stat, but avoid having it at 1 or 2 like I did
2. Read the manual before you play the game and refer back to it while playing. It's an older game and isn't tutorialized (for the better, I'd argue). There are a lot of mechanics that the game expects you to be familiar with from the get-go and your experience will probably suffer if you ignore the manual. The original physical copy of the game would've come with it; but now the game is distributed digitally, it is very easy to forget it exists and start the game without it, when you're instead expected to read it.
3. Don't start with low "Strength". Similar to the Luck stat, starting with a low Strength stat just made the game a lot less interesting. It doesn't have to be high, but the game doesn't explicitly explain some things about the Strength stat and starting with low Strength (in my case, 3) really hurts some aspects of the game. Starting with 4 or even 5 Strength would've made my initial playthrough far more interesting.
4. Cap the framerate. I have a high-end system and I experienced a lot of weirdness throughout the game that, upon seeing others' playthroughs, I don't think was supposed to have existed. Stuff like enemies being out of place, breaking some sequences or creating unintended scenarios. It's clear the development team for the game carefully crafted many situations and having them break sucks. I'm unsure if my framerate defaulted to uncapped or if it synced to my monitor's refresh-rate, but either way, it may have been very high.
5. Embrace the resolution and aspect ratio of the original game. The game seems to have been made for older aspect ratios like 4:3 and lower resolutions. While there are options to play in higher resolutions and modern aspect ratios, it made the user interface (UI) troublesome for me and the game would appear stretched. Much of the gameplay is dependent on interacting with the UI and so it's very important that the UI is easily accessible and legible. I'd avoid playing in "1920 x 1080" or higher and perhaps go for a lower 4:3 resolution instead. You'll know it's not right if the main menu buttons don't take up a large amount of space on the screen.
6. Use a journal or notebook to set to create small to-do lists and quest reminders. It's such an expansive game that I found it's really easy to pick up quests from random people all over the place and then forget to return to it later or forget what you were supposed to be doing and who's involved. I'm not sure there's really any sort of quest log in the game — for the better, I'd argue — but there's a lot of enjoyment to be had in the game from diving into side content and actually completing it.
7. Don't save scum. There are so many possibilities and outcomes in the game that it may be very tempting to save and reload to either test scenarios or ideally play out situations. Fallout punishes you a lot and sometimes in ways that are a bit unfair, but this is very much in line with the game world and likely falls within the artistic vision for the game. I'd really recommend just rolling with the punches and if there are things you're interested in exploring after the fact, then save them for extra playthroughs. A game like this gains a lot of value from its replayability and I'd argue that you're probably not getting the full experience if you only play it once, anyway.
Enjoy!
Steam User 37
Originally, I started out writing a very passionate essay on why this game is so good, while I procrastinated writing an essay for my history class. But after writing it, I realized it sounded a little pretentious and not really necessary. So here's my updated version: Game good, game fun. You buy game.
Steam User 35
It's kinda like Star Wars in that no matter how good some of the sequels were, and how much I love it, part of me kinda wishes the Fallout series ended with the first one. Not even close to perfect, but nothing beats the first playthrough. Steeped in atmosphere, awash with interesting artistic direction, this is a game made by people with genuine vision. Everybody needs to play it. It's not even that hard, back in the 90s it was assumed your average gamer could just jump into a game like this with nothing but a manual and their wits. World's gone soft, I'd say.
Steam User 25
Fallout 1 is great. It just has a feel that none of the other games manage to replicate. There’s nothing quite like it.
Although unfortunately you might need to install some patches since there are some annoying bugs (unusable inventory, broken quests, etc.). I personally recommend installing the TeamX Patches and nothing else.
Steam User 26
Raw-dogged this game without reading the manual. You can pretty much do everything with just the mouse. But for the love of god, do not torture yourself by clicking the arrows when bartering up to 999 caps. You can type those in. Oh and also, rats make me crazy.
Steam User 20
As a big fallout 3/New vegas fan, i wanted to dive deeper into the lore. Definitely a learning curve on the mechanics and controls of the game. But with some youtube videos i was able to learn pretty fast. Very different from what i was used to but i really enjoy it!
Steam User 18
My dog got atomized by a security field in Mariposa. I killed several roaming traders, and gave my vaults location to the Master because I'm just a nice guy, just for him to dunk me into a vat of FEV and murder all of my friends and family.
Good game. 8/10