so comfy bros.I love exploring the wasteland in my leather jacket, righting wrongs with my desert eagle like some western drifter.shady sands, junk town, the hub, such great locations. Even exploring abandoned vaults and the glow all set to that amazing ambient soundtrack.It's when the late game shit kicks in that I get taken out. I can't stand the power armour or the mutants or the overly sci-fi stuff it ruins it for me, it's escalation for the sake of escalation.I just want my barren post-apocalyptic wasteland, and for my desert eagle to be enough.The scifi should be more about finding the ruins of the civilisation and having no clue what you're looking at, like the pre-war civilisation may as well have been magic or some shit and it's all just myth now. I love how junktown's walls are rusted garbage that on closer inspection were probably high tech shit before the nukes.In the sequels they started having powered cities, cars, fucking VTOLs, what's the point in a post-apoc setting if you're just gonna have all that shit.by the end of fallout 1 you're basically a wh40k space marine in power armour with a heavy energy weapon destroying a rogue AI's military base where he's breeding hulks, it's so jarring.leather jacket. Desert eagle. Once that stops being enough I'm out.
>>12888967>exploring abandoned vaultsThere are a grand total of three vaults in this game, including the one you start in.
>>12888980yes anon, great observation there, very worthwhile contribution.
>i hate getting strong in RPGs!!!nobody is stopping you from going into the endgame with combat armor and a mid-to-high tier weapon, as you get all of this on the lower levels of The GlowYou only need to kill one room of robots (the rest you can kill while they are deactivated) but if you manage to get emp grenades you can devastate them even with <20% Throwing skill. Also Rad-X is additive so 1 Rad-X gives you 50% rad resistance for like 3 real-time hours while 2 will give you complete radiation immunity for 3 hours.
>>12888967>it's escalation for the sake of escalation.That's how RPGs are, yes
>>12889052you miseed the poin entirely. he wants more mad max, less gay ass psuedo star wars crap
>>12889063then don't play Fallout? what did he expect when the cover of both games have a futuristic armored helmet on them?
>>12889063thanks anon, you get me, rare in this autistic shithole of a website
>>12889056>and that's a good thing!escalation bullshit trope needs to end, it's just lazy. An rpg should be focused on its world, its story and its characters.Take Shadowrun Dragonfall for example the closest games we have to classic fallout; I finished that with a team equipped with tactical gear and small arms, because for all its ott fantasy elements, even frigging dragons, shadowrun is a low-power grounded world.even rpg granddaddy gygax always lamented that when his parties got to the "literally killing god lmao" stage they'd all lose interest and start again so they could go back to killing bandits and goblins.I enjoyed fallout most larping as mad max/the man with no name, just a random badass gunslinger who'd shoot up a raider camp and rescue the cute tomboy.Stomping around a fully-operational military base in space marine armour firing a laser cannon having spent almost the entire rest of the game taking on starving rapey marauders with a .44 desert eagle is a leap too far.It's like if Road Warrior's ending was he's suddenly in Robocop's armour taking on ED209. It's jarring and reeks of "I guess we need to end this somehow"
>>12889193Just go for a high-crit built and snipe mutants in the eyes with your desert eagle and your leather jacket. You can do it... what, you also want to feel powerful with early game weapons? choose a fucking struggle. FO1 isn't even difficult enough so you can do it anyway.
>>12889065I could have understood if the main villain of the first one was the guy in the helmet. Like ONE fanatic guy has access to restored power armour or something and he intends to become warlord of the area using it and you have to stop him.I couldn't even play the second one more than a few hours since the opening fmv had a VTOL in it and you started off in a retarded literal stone age village and the very next town is basically a fully-functioning city with running water and electricity.Why be post-apoc if you're just gonna skip forward a couple of centuries in time to when it's not even post-apoc anymore?look at how reddit fallout is now with fallout 4 being fortnight slop and the tv show being mandalorian-tier embarassing soi garbage
>>12889204I swear the faggots on this site don't actually read what they're replying to.I don't WANT to fight mutants etc, they don't belong in the post-apocalypse. Ghouls etc, sure, they are very on-theme for a post-nuclear holocaust setting, but a rogue AI/human hybrid breeding mutants to take over the world isn't what I wanted to see in my mad max rpg.
Well, it's Fallout, not Mad Max RPG, it says so in the name>This game didn't fit my pre-headcanon and now I'm angry
>>12889219>anon has never been disappointed with the direction a game/movie/series/book etc took after absolutely loving the first half
>>12888967Same. After returning the water chip it's like a completely different game.
is wasteland the same?
>>12891321this.>"you braved the barren wasteland, survived raiders, ghouls, gangs, irradiated scorpions and returned with the water chip!">"what's that, there is someone out there breeding 2.5 metre tall humanoid monsters armed with gatling guns, rocket launchers and laser guns? You better get back out there and handle it single-handedly! Let's hope there is a secret cult of technology worshippers who live in a futuristic military base that can provide you with power armour and heavy weapons!"The main villain in the game was the vault overseer himself, faggot even says he wants to keep everyone in the vault because he'd be a nobody outside. The ending should have been deciding to smash the chip and force the vault to vacate, with a boss battle against the overseer in his baby high chair.
>>12891321>>12891765Brotherhood of Steel helps you raid the Mariposa Base.Followers of the Apocalypse help you raid the Cathedral.If you choose to do it solo, don't complain that the game didn't throw up a wall to block you.
>>12888967i didn't like late game either mostly because by then the bugs have set in and the game becomes borderline unbeatable
>>12891780I'm not complaining I have to do it solo you illiterate fucking dipshit, I'm annoyed that I have to do it at all.I don't want to storm a mutant-populated military base, I'm not playing a scifi fucking war game I'm playing a postapoc neowestern.
>>12889063I think jagged alliance 2 is what you're looking for
Played a sex mod for the og Fallout back in the day where the vault dweller has a ten inch dick. You could fuck Tandi into a coma with it. Wish I still had it. I wanted to go find the blonde in the Cathedral but the game would crash every time I tried to go beyond Shady Sands and Junktown.
>>12891882It's like complaining about Resident Evil having labs and science areas.>I JUST WANT A HORROR GAME IN A HOUSE!!!
