Fallout review: Worth playing in 2023? You mean the best post-apocalyptic RPG ever? Of course! 

just stopping by to say, ABSOLUTELY! I just played through it again a week ago and it's still just as amazing as it has always been! One of my top 5 games of all time!

Top-3 RPG of all time: 1. planescape torment 2. fallout 1/2 3. BG-2

I remember my "Casino Royale" character, that had gambling as a tagged skill. With high LCK, AGL, INT, you get the James Bond archetype. Imagine my shock, that Gambling was not a lame duck skill, but actually useful and a pillar of the build!

The original F1 and F2 are, for me, the best games I've ever played. I agree with everything, but I feel the music does deserve a 10. It makes the game one of the most immersive to this day and I do listen to it when falling asleep - so much dark ambient has been inspiried by it!

I still have not finished Fallout. I got physical copies almost fifteen years ago when I was a teen, but I think I gave up after you meet Lou Tenant (vague to avoid spoilers). But the voice actors they got for Fallout-holy cow. To name just a few-Tony Shalhoub, Richard Dean Anderson, Brad Garrett, David Warner, Frank Welker, and-in my opinion one of the most recognizable voices ever-Tony Jay. There's nothing quite like quality voice acting in a '90s video game.

There's also a fan-made mod called "Fallout 1.5 Resurrection" which is set between FO1 and 2. It's a full campaign and really well done (and tough). I highly recommend it, it runs on the FO2 game. The original Fallout is still one of my favorite RPGs to this day, clunkiness and all.

Incidentally enough I just finished it a couple days ago, for the first time... and I really loved it, currently I'm playing Fallout 2 and liking it even more.

I just played it this year, and glad that I did! I seldom play a game where I have to prepare and plan. Classic Fallout was so refreshing, especially with It's setting.

I loved your intro!

Play Fallout Fixt. Best version. Music in fallout is exactly the music the lead developer listened to while working on it. It`s heavily based on Brian Eno ambient works.

Worth playing in 2023? HELL YES. First Fallout games and New Vegas would be worth playing in 2077! And beyond... if there will be beyond, heh. Fallout 2 was my first RPG ever back in 2000. Was kinda shocking experience to young guy who never played anything except some NES action-platformes, early FPS (we called 'em 3D Actions at the time) and couple of point & click adventures. Still one of my absolute favs and always will be. So, time to watch this awaited video...

I have to say that Fallout looks and feels *really* old these days. So much that it actually adversely affects the experience. But it is still a masterpiece and I wish it would get some polish in its visuals and controls but stay otherwise completely unchanged. "You get 1000 xp for sneaking into the military base without getting caught". I wonder how many other players got that one back in the day, given that "wasting" points on sneaking wasn't exactly popular. But the game not only made it possible to be a sneaky character and be rewarded for it here and there, no, it explicitly acknowledged that my playstyle was valid with comments like this. I only recall one other game that did things like this, and it was a game from the same developer: Arcanum. Too bad that one hasn't aged well either.

1:20-ish Thank you. This is why despite my love for the series, I don't consider the Final Fantasy (or even most JRPGs) as RPG. Not on that explanation, anyway. Also not sure if you did this on purpose, but I always felt that some of the beats of Fallout 2's main story are similar to JRPGs. You're the chosen one of your village, you have the blood of a special person from the past, you're out on an adventure to save your village, you unravel the stories of the old and more advanced past, your village got attacked and the stakes goes higher, the main villain is bent on destroying humanity, and so on. I had a thought to add a JRPG-style, happy-go-lucky map theme to lampoon those similarites. Of course, these are not exclusive to JRPGs but compared to other Fallouts and even to big names of cRPGs like Baldur's Gate and The Elder Scrolls, these beats are less close to those games than to Breath of Fire or Golden Sun. Or perhaps because this game was one of the first cRPG that I played after growing up playing JRPGs.

One of the very few games that allows me to role play my fantasy of being a child murderer, a misogynist and a savior of the people 😊

This series of games in the Fallout tactical RPG genre are definitely a masterpiece and a product of their time. In the 90s it was still the wild west of the gaming industry without any clearly defined genres, fanbases, trends and big companies. Every video game was a new experience and most people kids not quite used to mature video games like this one. I played it for the first time in the early 2000s and then i played it again in the 2010s. For me this game was a hit and miss because it demanded a lot of time which i didnt have at the time due to life and work. I think i missed the age boat on this game becaues when i was in my 20s i could not afford a PC and in my 30s i no longer had the time or the patience to give this game a good try. As an adult gamer i have to say i am spoiled with good UIs and clear quests and objectives and i simply do not have the time to follow a game for which you have to do some extensive research and follow outside guides just to figure out a quest line. I also dont have the time anymore to invest in learning such an extensive game, but i would love to see a remaster at some point. But i will still remember this game with nostalgia and will always appreciate it's charming graphics and the unforgettable UI blip sounds which are a hallmark of these Fallout games. TY for a great review as always.

If a computer game has an animation for an NPC scratching his ass and smelling on his finger, you know it's a masterpiece.

fallout 1&2 changed the way I played RPGs for the rest of my life. I wiped out a village and had a integrity check in real life and said no I am not going to do that anymore. Since then I have tried to play my games as if I was really there, real life in a way. it makes me think about my decisions a little more.

One of my favourite games of all time 🙌🙌🙌 time to see if my opinion is valid or not

I like how classic Fallout has a perk to explain the difference between "Hi, nice to meet you" and "shut up you dumb idiot!"

Outstanding review. Fallout was lighting in a bottle. Everything came together just right (except the clunky inventory system). It's the first game I got really into back in the day, and I've been looking for a buzz like that ever since! Fortunately, New Vegas exists...

Such a great classic game. I have to point out however that charisma has very little to do with anything in the original Fallout. Having low charisma doesnt lock character out from almost any conversation. High speech skill with low charisma makes almost all the doors open. Because of that charisma is absolutely the most useless stat in this game.

50:53 in regards of animation quality, I believe you might find this interview with Leonard Boyarsky worthwhile. He KNEW what he was doing while putting effort and resources into them. (worth watch in entirety, but I've put the timestamp for convenience) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ztJFPcelWuY.html

yeah new content from my fav creator!

I don't know if it was the case then, but GoG ships both the classic and censored versions when you buy fallout 1 and 2. Your download is both

I swear to God if I see one more video saying is x really popular franchise game worth playing in x year I'm going to blow my brain out the original fallout series is always worth giving a shot since it's usually free

Bout damn time. I've got nothing really, nailed Fallout 1 pretty much. Now you're wrong about Marcus, Boone, Raul, Dog/God, Christine, Dean Domino, follows-chalk, Lilly, Dogmeat, rex, ede, nick valentine of course.

great video as always. a few comments: 1) i also think it is unnaceptable that we have only a censored version available without any other choice. 2) as a sound designer myself I'd say that partial voice over are sort of mandatory if you don't want to compromise the quality of the text on these types of games - it is an opinion. Voice acting everything is too much costly, on every regard, and even on biggest releases we see that lines are removed due to the voicing everything responsability design choice.

Great review as always, my friend!

I do miss playing a good/real RPG... I don't have much time nowadays and I hate playing a couple of hours only to play the following week and not remembering anything 😂

As always, awesome video, Alex!

yes, i remember that... i was there 1000 years ago - fallout my 1st rpg ever. 2nd was baldurs gate1 ;) btw. F1 is still awesome, this music makes best ambient & climate best ever!

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I have way more problems with it but i still consider a solid game Flaws i have with it are with how unbalanced some skills are such as Big guns being quite bad aside from the flamer, first aid being inferior to doctor or outdoorsman being outright useless, its still possible to finish the game with any of those, but its definitively a handcap. I also dislike how theres no restrictions for resting aside from a few areas in which you cant, which lead the player to restore HP constantly without having to care about resources You can also steal the weapons from almost every enemy in the game, meaning you can exploit it constantly, making combat encounters pathetic (something they fixed at fo2) The economy sucks and itemization isnt all that great, usually lacking great economical goals and loot being trivialized sometimes by the fact you already having acess to better equipment progression-wise (for example, you can get The ap pistol in the hub, same place you get acess to a .223 which makes the AP one useless) And yes, writing feels a bit clunky sometimes, but the endgame aged really damn well. Only thing i would disagree with you is that no game in the series did companions justice. Atleast if we are mentioning dlcs Dead money crew is just way too fleshed out to the point i had to reset the dlc from the start in order to save dog/god, i really felt like i knew those people and this is rare coming from fallout.

I'm surprised that the rant about RPG took so long to appear on this channel. ^^ Unfortunately it's "old man yells at clouds" now, since the RPG tag is as useful as "action adventure" nowadays... Thanks for this almost one hour long video on a game I will probably never play because I'm not that into post-apo and I could stomach finishing arcanum only for the story & setting (and because magic is easy/convenient mode). Maybe playing New vegas will make me change my mind, if I ever get to it. Nice to see the "A-MA-ZING" come back, anyone know who's the actress ? Looks a bit like Winona Ryder but it's not her I think

Right. The games are a masterpiece. Kinda like this video.

So damn worth the wait!

It's a bit clunky, but still a good game.

Now I need to play the first Fallout game finaly...cause if I don't...that means I'm gay :(

You named your character Alexandra in that japanese game!!! hahaha and then you get mad when I make fun of you at work! 😂

Short answer, if you can get past the clunkines

80th!

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When did they rename Fallout: New Vegas to Fallout?

10:03 --> 10:04 what. da. fvck.

FO1&2 needs remake

Sí, totalmente, la palabra RPG la han prostituido muchas compañías para atraer compradores, lamentable.

Lore of Falcom's Trails series is even deeper and more extensive. With 10+ games and almost 20 years of constant development.

Game looks terrible on my system but looks ok here. WTF.

Reality: the game can be completed using only 2-3 viable builds.