Fallout Trilogy

[Wanzerfan]

Well, Bethesda in their infinite wisdom decided to finally rerelease the first three Fallout games that came out on the PC on one DVD.

• Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
• Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
• Fallout Tactics

I just started the first game and, well, am haveing a blast with it. I'll give a full review when I get further in the game.

Due to legal reasons, the company have to issue the game with the Interplay (Atari) and the Black Isle Studios (most of the employees went on to form Obsidian studios) names attached to the box.

[kanedaestes]

Sorry man but a mod is going to move this to the science fiction forum for this is for Macross Games only.

[Wanzerfan]

Silly me, When I read Games as the title of this forum, I thought it covered all games.

Oh well, move away.

[Vostok 7]

Well, Bethesda in their infinite wisdom decided to finally rerelease the first three Fallout games that came out on the PC on one DVD.

• Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
• Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
• Fallout Tactics

I just started the first game and, well, am haveing a blast with it. I'll give a full review when I get further in the game.

Due to legal reasons, the company have to issue the game with the Interplay (Atari) and the Black Isle Studios (most of the employees went on to form Obsidian studios) names attached to the box.

*BZZT*, Bethesda had nothing to do with it. Bethesda owns all of Fallout, but Interplay was recently rebooted and has rights to sell the original games (anything pre-FO3), with Bethesda's blessing (though rumors are flying that Bethesda may kick Interplay totally out of the picture - Interplay has no rights to Fallout anymore but was licensed by Bethesda to make a Fallout-based MMORPG, however they haven't started work on it and don't seem to be intending to so Bethesda is starting legal proceedings to pull the plug. How this will effect the previous titles is anyone's guess). The new Interplay website has been selling FO and FO2 and FO:T for a few months now, they just put it on CD.

So it wasn't for legal reasons, it was because it was really Interplay. I assume Black Isle was on there simply because they were the developer.

However, I don't know why they call it the "Fallout Trilogy" when Tactics isn't considered canon in the FO universe and isn't a direct sequel of any of the FO games. I assume it's just a crappy way to get publicity from FO3.

I never played the original games, but I love FO3 so I picked up the set just to check out what the hype was about. I appreciate the old fans saying FO3 "isn't Fallout", but really, I feel FO3 is better in a lot of ways. First person 3d makes it more "personal" in my opinion. This is why I also enjoy Bethesda's Oblivion when I'm not generally a RPG fan.

Vostok 7

[taksraven]

I love Fallout Tactics.

Taksraven

[wolfx]

I already have all games so i dun think i need this?

And yeah i do like Tactics despite what ppl say about it. I thought it was pretty cool that the BOS went rogue and in one of the endings accepted mutants and numbered much more than the original BOS. Guess the rogue BOS idea was recycled in FO3 as Outcasts.

[F-ZeroOne]

Theres a website called "Good Old Games" where these games can be downloaded individually:

http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/

I've just downloaded Fallout 2 from there after playing 3 for weeks. Its been ages since I've played a game like that!

[Wanzerfan]

*BZZT*, Bethesda had nothing to do with it. Bethesda owns all of Fallout, but Interplay was recently rebooted and has rights to sell the original games (anything pre-FO3), with Bethesda's blessing (though rumors are flying that Bethesda may kick Interplay totally out of the picture - Interplay has no rights to Fallout anymore but was licensed by Bethesda to make a Fallout-based MMORPG, however they haven't started work on it and don't seem to be intending to so Bethesda is starting legal proceedings to pull the plug. How this will effect the previous titles is anyone's guess). The new Interplay website has been selling FO and FO2 and FO:T for a few months now, they just put it on CD.

So it wasn't for legal reasons, it was because it was really Interplay. I assume Black Isle was on there simply because they were the developer.

However, I don't know why they call it the "Fallout Trilogy" when Tactics isn't considered canon in the FO universe and isn't a direct sequel of any of the FO games. I assume it's just a crappy way to get publicity from FO3.

I never played the original games, but I love FO3 so I picked up the set just to check out what the hype was about. I appreciate the old fans saying FO3 "isn't Fallout", but really, I feel FO3 is better in a lot of ways. First person 3d makes it more "personal" in my opinion. This is why I also enjoy Bethesda's Oblivion when I'm not generally a RPG fan.

Vostok 7

Interplay was the company that was renamed ATARI when they bought that company out. That's why we haven't seen the Interplay name when Neverwinter Nights came out.

Edited May 15, 2009 by Wanzerfan

[akt_m]

Fallout 3 was ok, i still liked the prequels better, tatics i found to be boring.

[Warmaker]

Fallout 3 is a great game but it didn't quite capture the feel of the older games. Anyways, since someone brought up the Fallout Trilogy games having hit the street, it seems to have done surprisingly well as a package. Maybe because of old fans seeing this trilogy again and snagging it up since their originals are long gone. Maybe new fans due to Fallout 3 want to see what the dealio was with the older games. Maybe both.

[Wanzerfan]

I'm playing Fallout 2 right now, and am wondering if there's a time limit to the game. I've already gotten the third Arroyo Dream cutscene, and am wondering how many more of them occour before Arroyo finally dies out.

By the way, I'm the one who broke the news about the trilogy being released on DVD-ROM.

Edited May 20, 2009 by Wanzerfan