I was just wondering if the older fallout games like 1 or 2 are worth getting before New Vegas comes out or any other fallout titles? Thanks.

You can Fallout 1 free on GameTap, You have to pay for Fallout 2 though.

(Fallout 1 was pretty fun from what I've played though)

$19.99 for the classic trilogy pack at Walmart. Runs on older OS's fine, gets butchered on Windows 7. Never could find a way to get the colors to look right.
Er...Are you sure this should be in the New Vegas section and not the Fallout General section?

It was running pretty badly on my Windows Vista as well.

Short answer: YES!

Slightly longer answer: HELL YES!

Answer you are looking for: YES! If you are a patient person, and can play long enough to get used to the game mechanics and adjust to a more challenging RPG experience, you'll get a very good understanding of the game's history, as well as crucial information and backstory on many of the factions, locations and characters that will be present in New Vegas.

Windows 7 works fine for me. You just have to run it in windowed mode. Also, for the 2nd one, getting Killaps patch will add some options that will get rid of it.

If you're getting it just so you'll be up to date on the story, I'd just read the wiki. I would highly recommend the games though. You can get both at gog.com.

Deffinetly mate. I loved every minute of them

Got them off steam, and they never failed me on Vista. For good background info, they sure will help to understand the current state of things in NV (NCR for example)

Theyre very good. Get them.

If you're patient enough to get used to the game mechanics, yes. Unfortunately, I am not, so I won't be able to experience the originals any time soon.

I'll make another vote for getting them. They're great games.

For the earlier posters: what kind of problem are you guys having? I have the Fallout Trilogy. I"ll sometimes get rainbow like shadows around everything when I load these games up. Nu_Clear_Day had a solution I tried and it works pretty damned good. Try alt-tab, to go to your desktop, then alt-tab again to go back into the game. This always clears the problem up, though it may take a few tries. Hopefully this helps!

I have windows 7 and I am patient so it sounds good. How long does it take to play?

Would also just the first two be okay or would tactics be good to get also.

First two alone are fine. Tactics canon status is still kind of in question. That is to say the events of Tactics may or may not officially have happened.

It will probably take you some time to play through the first time, especially if you avoid using Wiki or these forums to get answers.



Feel free to PM me if you have any questions, I'll look it up for you and try to feed you the information in a way to avoid spoilers. I'm sure other users would be willing to help out as well, always awesome when new people are exposed to the originals.

If you avoid major spoilers for all 3 games... it could take weeks, maybe months.

Fallout is also highly re-playable. I own them since 1998, that's 12 years already and still enjoy them. Especially FO2 thanks to Killap's restoration project.

Tictacs was a little later since 2001 or something.

Short answer: get the unofficial patch, and edit the "graphics" part of the ddraw.ini file from 0 to 4. Works great.
I've heard it can screw up the cutscenes, but I haven't noticed any problems.

Read the manual (skim it, read important parts) to get a grip on the mechanics of the games. Neither has an ingame tutorial, so this is really important. People get impatient and skip an important quest then complain that the games are hard to get into (redding is teh hard).

Otherwise, remember to patch up and get the widescreen mod (and do a full install). For Fallout 2 Killap's unofficial patch is really great.

YES. I myself bought them about a month ago and I loved them. I f you will take the time to get used to them, they are deffinentally worth playing. :tops:

woo hoo didn't know that Bakersfield is a city in Fallout. Totally cool.

You can buy the Fallout Trilogy from Amazon.com for a little over $14. To hell with Wal-[expletive deleted].

Press F1 for an ingame tutorial. It's not much of an tutorial actually but very useful for learning how the game mechanics work.

You know - I'm a very big fan of the original games, but to be quite honest I don't think they're the sort of games that I'd without reservation recommend to anyone and everyone. Even for that time period, there was a very specific demographic they were aiming those games at, and I don't think it's necessarily to everyone's tastes. I do think that, even if you aren't a fan of those specific gameplay conventions and their manifestations, that there really is a lot for a RPG fan to like, at it's core. There are some very fundamentally "pure" roleplaying concepts being played out in those games. But it really is a matter of how much you're willing to play the rest of the game to get to the real "meat" of the epic roleplaying experience that is Fallout 1 and 2.

Because no matter what, I think a game still has to stand on it's own as a game, as an overall gestalt. If you don't like the combat, or how your explore the world, or the interface (or let's be fair, the graphics really are starting to show their age at this point,) then I can only imagine it would be quite a struggle to power through all of that just to get to the chewy nougat that is the interactivity and "immersiveness" of the world put forth there.

I think there's a lot to love, there, about the original games. I think even now there's a lot that pretty much all the major RPG companies could learn from Interplay's approach. As a monument to that epic goal, I think Fallout 1 and 2 are very noteworthy. As a game, however, it comes down to how much fun you're going to have with it. And that's something that I don't necessarily think is going to quite cut it, for a lot of people. I'd say that it's probably worth the money to check it out, if you have some spare money lying around - but I also wouldn't particularly say that everyone who's played Fallout 3 owes it to themselves to play the originals. Because there's probably a lot you may have liked about #3 that doesn't really have any relevance in the previous games. They're both RPGs, but they represent rather different approaches towards that common goal.

The reason I am curious about playing is especially since New vegas is supposed to be like the first two I don't want to miss any homages or anything like that. I really want to play for the storyline only. I mean I still play super mario and Day of the Tentacle so I don't think graphics is the problem. I am not much into fighting games (I think 3 had just the right amount and it wasn't difficult) so that is one thing I am afraid of.

Bakersfield is a bit funny. The in game text definately referes to it as Bakersfield, however I understand its location on the map is actually closer to Barstow - My understanding is this was a late change to balance the map a bit.

I think you'll be okay with it. Just ask here if you get stuck.