I FORCED Myself to Play Fallout 1 

For those asking why I would "FORCE" myself to play Fallout I may have been a bit unclear. I Forced myself to play and finish this beloved game. A lot of times people play older games and drop them. I wanted to play the game using no guides or tutorials and see how that would work, while forcing myself to beat it no matter how hard it seemed. Hope you all enjoyed this video! If you had any thoughts of what other games to check out in the future let me know! Also: I totally forgot this game had VATS system, I just never used it. So... ya that could have helped in a lot of battles.

Man I never get tired of the old CG animations from games like this. They're simultaneously cursed yet charming.

It's actually crazy that you basically had the canon death for Ian based on the Vault dwellers memoirs

13:05 it's funny because canonically that is what happened to Ian, he was killed by a super mutant with a flamethrower in Necropolis.

I like fallout 1 but I still think in the entire series fallout 2 is the absolute best.

Fo1 was my 1st rpg. It will forever hold #1 spot in my heart with all its flaws and ups and downs.

0:11 For anyone interested, the Survival Guide is pretty much required reading to play Fallout nowadays. It's basically a manual, there are no gameplay tutorials in the actual game.

not sure if it was scripted or not but Ian dying to a flamethrower in Necropolis is his canonical death. "It is with heavy sadness that I say that Ian lost his life in the city of the dead. A super mutant burned him to death with a flamethrower. The passage of time is no proof against the memory of burning flesh. His sacrifice was not in vain, as I did find the water-chip buried beneath the city. It was with easier steps that I returned to Vault 13." -Vault Dweller's Memoir. At least now we know how it happened lol.

lol lore accurate Ian death

There’s a mod called Fallout Fixit. I don’t recommend it for first playthroughs, but for a second one it’s fun. It adds a few bug fixes and quality of life improvements, let’s you tell companions to get out of doorways, and fixes/readds a couple of cut/broken quests(off the top of my head I recall ‘Reporting Iguana Bob to the Police’, ‘Finding the Spy in the Followers’, ‘Delivering the Pulse Grenades to the Brotherhood’, and ‘reuniting that boxer guy in Junktown with his girlfriend’ are all fixed). My only complaint is that it cuts what was left of the Mutant Invasion and the 500 Day Timelimit(400 if you sent the water merchants to your vault). There’s also a mod called ‘Et Tu’, which ports the game to Fallout 2’s engine, leading to slightly smoother graphics l, better UI, all that. It also adds back those broken quests and unlike Fixit fully restores the Mutant Invasion, even the parts that didn’t work on 1.0).

Before the launch of Fallout 4 I never heard of Fallout. I got curious and went back to Fallout 1, 2 and so on to see what happens before 4. To this day, Im still playing Fallout and Fallout 2. I find new things every time. Not having a magical compass, the atmosphere, that one's actions matter and have impact makes them far better than any new Fallout game.

Fun fact: If you use the largest install size(I think called Impossible or something), not only can you play the game without the disc, but the ICO on the desktop is replaced by the developers face. This is because they thought no one would ever have the room for the full download, and no one would ever have 32x32 desktop icons enabled. Oh how times have changed. If you intentionally do one of the small installs there’s short loading screens when you enter or exit a screen to read from the disc.

Wow, this Savior guy should play more Fallout games and maybe even other older games like KOTOR. Seems like a cool idea...

Oddly enough, Ian's death in your file is canonically how he does according to the Vault Dweller's memoir in Fallout 2. Fun fact!

The tutorial for this game is in the manual. Along with a bunch of other information, even tells you how to make mushroom cloud cakes and the full effects of a nuclear weapon. The books that came with the games back then were generally mandatory.

13:09 According to Fallout Bible, that is 100% canon event. Poor Ian. The guy with flamer is NO JOKE and will smoke most companions with one shot (they can't wear armor, tho you CAN preemptively feed them Psycho for damage reduction).

Love Fallout 1. Invested countless hours into it as a kid, and still go back and replay it every few years. Great video ❤️

Two things. 1. Play the game again. Second playthroughs are always interesting. Be stealthy where you were loud, loud where you were stealthy, evil when you were good, good when you were evil. 2. If you do play it again, sequel vid. 3. READ. THE. MANUAL. It's fun. 4. The original disc version actually works fine on modern PC. Steam version is censored(no kids) and has some screen issues due to a widescreen patch they stole from an old mod

Modern games are meant to tap into your adrenaline, fear, and reaction time. Your brain can only handle that for so long before it gets old. Fallout 1&2 forces you to read, comprehend, think, and understand consequences that will immediately end the game. 😂... We dont have any luck with a game ever being made like that again

Coming from someone that’s never played a single Fallout game, I’m tempted to play this and only this.

Time for Fallout 2 now

Well, there still IS a timer after you deliver the water chip. Its a hidden invasion timer from the mutants if you take too long, its very long but its there, they invade towns and locations one by one as time goes by.

There is actually a timer for the super mutant questline. It's quite long and hidden but it's there. So if like 14-year-old me, you fool around too much escorting caravans for caps, you get locked out of your game because of that timer!

There's a demo for the game made pre-release set in the small town of Scraphead. It's fun in it's own way.

Zamn! You played the Fallout with the best writing and atmosphere.

If you want to play the 1980's game which influenced Fallout, play the original game Wasteland.

Trying to play FO1 being younger than 40 is truly a feat of dedication. Well done. BTW: The game blew our minds when it came out and started a whole genre. Less than 300K bought it but it was downloaded by the millions.

1. This game is from a time when they expected you to at least give a cursory glance at the 50 page manual they packaged in the box. 2. You don't have to fight the rats. You can walk right past them and out the cave.

Even just the way items show in your inventory, or how an arm & chunk of torso get blown off the vault dweller running from the super mutant, this brought back so much nostalgia

Funny that Ian died so often at that very place that Interplay made it canon. At least before bethesda unraveled it all...

You probably should go to the graphics settings and turn on 2x scaling so the game is less zoomed out.

I love listening the stories of players of this game. I wish I could play it for the first time again, not knowing absolutely anything about the lore.

I love watching videos of people experiencing Fallout and Fallout 2 for the first time.

"I had a gun, armor and my companion Ian by my side. I knew what I had to do I rushed over to vault 15" Biggest mistake my guy xD

Raw dog-ing the desert... lol. Classic

I love Fallout 1 I'll never forget how I got the Lost Hills for the first time. I talked with a guy recently about the Fallout Show on Prime and he only played Part 3 and 4 and he was like "why is the Brotherhood so dark in the TV Show?" And I was like "They send you to a super radioactive place in Fallout 1 just to get rid of you they've always been kinda good but always kinda dark as well."

Harry is the only dumb super mutant we meet in fallout 1 btw

Is this the original CD version or the Steam version? The steam version removes kids(thus making the child killer perk impossible), removes the Mutant Invasion timer, and has some issues with the widescreen they added. Also this game's manual has a full video's of material in itself

First time to this channel. Really loved this vid. Will you be posting a narration of your second playthrough, or perhaps give Fallout 2 a try?

You know, it's funny: I was 17 when this came out, saw ads for it in GamePro magazine and such, but never played it. I even bought it on Steam a few years back and it's been sitting in my library unplayed. For someone who grew up with these older games in the 1990s, it's odd how I just can't bring myself to go back to them. You'd think I was some zoomer in his early 20s from how averse I am to clunky, slower-paced games, but in reality I'm in my mid-40s and should know better. Maybe I will finally boot this up finally.

Also, the inspect icon brought sooo much richness to the game. Also, this was the OG save scumming before you battle a tough enemy or before you steel something

I waited years for a proper sequel. When Bethesda setup black isle in that shady agreement and stole the fallout ip it was a travesty. Got fallout 3 when it released play a few hours and returned it. Honestly you can't compare them to 3 and forward, 1+2 are different genres completely.

This and Planescape Torment are the Goats. It's games like this that got me hooked on gaming. 60yrs old now and on 3rd FO4 playthrough

I foundly remember savescumming so much in Fallout 2 and Tactics. Seeing this interface again gave me nostalgia chills- good times.

I really respect that you gave this game a chance and then played it till completion. It's even better now if you play in high resolution with some of the fixes that are available. I played it when it first came out along with the #2 and Fallout Tactics. 1 will always be special in my heart...the dialogue was some of the best and it was so ahead of its time back then.

Man, Fallout 1 and 2 are so many leagues better than anything Bethesda has made it's scary. Just amazing games.

Oh no, Ian's leg! 5:34

04:35 That death voice over is done by Ron Pearlman, his main quote has become a staple in the series..."War...War Never Changes"....

I started playing this very recently after at least a decade of giving a go for the first time being put off by it and just not playing. In the last few years I’ve really gotten into RPG especially some from the 90’s (Baldurs Gate, Planescape Torment) and I still think this is possibly got the clunkiest UI and on a modern 1080p monitor it really makes it hard to even see what buttons do on the user interface. But also this time it’s clicked a bit more and I intend to finish it!

I also need to force myself playing it! Everytime I look up a video It looks amazing!

There are a couple of ways to get the water chip and still feel like the hero of the wasteland. Imagine if every other game had multiple paths to finish the tutorial mission lol

13:08 ironically this is Ian's canonical death.

This is where a lot of the lore comes from. Stuff that is referenced but you wouldn't know about unless you played it: like FEV and the Master (referenced in multiple Fallout games by Super Mutants), Herold (the ghoul in Fallout 2 Gecko, and Fallout 3 Oasis), the first encounter with the BOS... Fallout 2 is just a pain in the butt as your character is super under powered... Could never finish that one, though this is where the NCR and Enclave factions come into play (also the courier in NV - Lonesome Road explains some of the story).

dude your thumbnail looks awesome, that is cool drawing

fallout 1 and 2 were some of my favorite games growing up. they were up there with FF& for me

My favorite thing to do in the original fallout was to use the steal skill to plant ticking dynamite on the merchants because their entire inventory is in a container nearby them.

Hi MrSaviorHD! Nice video! Glad you played Fallout 1 and I hope you play Fallout 2! Its the same operating system but bigger and better with all kinds of side quests and wonderful little details.

First got Fallout back in the 90s, still play it.

Man, It was so long ago I tried the Fallout demo from a magazine CD before buying that game. So many playthroughts... Then came Fallout 2 followed by Tactics. And the editors Moto: Interplay: From players for players. Ring any bell? That was a good time then.

This game was a huge leap forward in RPGs when it came out. Fallout 2 did refine a lot of things but this was still a lot of fun. I believe even with returning the water chip you are still on a hidden timer until the Super Mutants find and destroy your vault but it’s a lot longer. On of my favorite parts is getting the car because then travel for a lot faster.

Part of the problem with many people trying to play this nowadays is that they don't realize that there's a mod that allows you to play Fallout 1 on the vastly superior Fallout 2 engine which fixes many problems.

Haha, the giant footprint it's a reference to the 1998 movie Godzilla. "Here's your sample, study it"...."where is it ? i don't see it" lol, he was standing on it.

The joy of fallout 1 and 2 is. Theres so much content you can play each game 40 hours. You can also beat the main boss of fallout 1 in 11 minutes, but because you dont know where to go and you have to search for answers it could take you 8 hours to beat him or 20 hours. Its all in how well you dig for information. Fallout 2 is the same way. My first playthrough only doing some side quests took around 35 hours. But theres towns you can skip if you know where to go

That same mutant was the one who killed Dogmeat in my first playthrough in a very similar way, Dogmeat just charged through the hallway and got obliterated. One of the most difficult things in this game is to keep your companions alive, the only way is to constantly savescum every time they get one shot by a gattling gun or flamer late game

Ty for not telling everything. Great video!

Wow, I played this game since 90s and I had no clue about Katja companion!!! Ionly knew about Ian, Tycho and Dogmeat.

10:04 if you run past them and dont initiate conversation youre usually good.

these 2 games (from Black Isle) have depth (skill-based choices, point&click style of interaction and plot non-linearity) the new ones could only dream of, not only bc Bethesda couldn't even comprehend it if they wanted to, but also bc Bethesda catered to "different players", the accessibility era ones, the console-brained ones.

Another aspect of replayability is changing your build. One hame you use hi tech or heavy weapons in another your hands are deadly weapons. Each build is viable.

Loved it back then, re visited fo1 a few months back...just couldn't, same with 2. Fond memories for sure but couldn't do it again

Fascinating voice actors in the game. Killian Darkwater is voice by Richard Dean Anderson for example.

4:08: Luck is NOT a dump stat! :p 5:27: Loool... Vault 15 is meant to be your first stop from Shady Sands before you head over to Junktown. It's basically a continuation of the tutorial before the training wheels go completely off. 6:15: You didn't get lucky, he always has that rope. 8:47: Like, say, the SMG that always spawns in Vault 15? :p Also at this point in the game you should have had the opportunity to get a hunting rifle or maybe even a better weapon. 10:00: Yes, you just bombed them because of your smoothie prejudice. In Fallout 2 there's distinction made between normal ghouls and aggressive "feral" ghouls.

Loved Fallout 1 and 2 back in the day. And somewhere on the Fallout 1 disk is a screensaver for windows, with pip boy graphics of falling bombs…

Rule number one in my wasteland book: never - *NEVER* - assume every ghoul is hostile xP Unless you're playing the newer games (Fallout 3 and onwards) in which case the difference between normal ghouls and ferals will be... pretty obvious.

Fallout is the only game that made me feel accomplished following a starting guide. Using the game mechanics so creatively to blow up the shopkeeper so you can rob him was so satisfying.

The ghouls up top are friendly too. You're a monster lol

I found this game in a yard sale in 1999. Hooked me for life.

Ahh yes. I Read about that game in gamepro or pc gamer magazine in the 90’s. I bought that game the day it came out. It’s really cool to see what its become since then.

Good video, about how my play-through went too lol.

fun fact. at the gun runners if you dont kill the deathclaw mother, then they respawn every time... on my last playthrough i was able to get 10-15k exp every day

Really, inventory management is the hardest thing about this game, and by that I mean the UI when selling to vendors.

The Casino: if you talk to people, they tell you the games are rigged so you always lose. I just played Fallout 1 for the first time this year, but I found that little tidbit before going in.

This takes me back to my first year of university. My "new" PC barely could handle quake 2 so I asked for a recommendation from the guy in the PC gaming store. He asked what sorts of games I liked (and my PC specs) and suggested this. I was a fan of the series ever since. By the way - part of the OG fallout experience was reading the physical manual and referring to it a lot so it would have been fine if you did it yourself.

Used to speed run wasteland then later on fallout. Good times back when I could have fun.

I get a kick that Killian Darkwater was played by Richard Dean "MacGuyver" "Col. O'Neill" Anderson.

I still play fallout 1, 2, tactics and have since the late 90’s. Fallout 4/76 can’t compare.

I used to love this game in school. I'd lie about doing research to get a pass to the computer lab to play this all the time

I was 17 when fallout 3 came out, I had already played 1 and 2 multiple times, and wanted to go completely blind on 3, never looked up any spoilers. I liked morrowind and oblivion, the same company was making fallout 3, what could be wrong? I hated it, somehow, the bethesda style of game didnt click for me on the fallout franchise. Tried new vegas when it came out, tried fallout 76. And I couldnt. 1 & 2 are my go to fallout games. I play at least one of those once a year.

0:04 protag from Fallout 4 commiting warcrimes.

The Overseer sending you back out to remove the mutant threat is actually very on brand considering he's a vault tec employee

Such a great game. I'm old enough to have played this when it came out...played everyone since with the exception of 76...but damn this was a good game.

I subscribed to you. I very much look forward to you doing a review like this for Fallout 2. Even if you provided a negative review, I like the fact that you gave the game a solid effort. With all the attention the Amazon show is bringing to the franchise, it is nice to see people picking up the origional games. I still feel that the Fallout franchise has not created a main villian as amazing as "The Master".

There's no in-game tutorial, because the tutorial was in a printed manual. Keep in mind, "cloud gaming" wasn't a thing back then. You had to buy a physical disc with the game on it. And it came with a user manual. Old school gaming might be a culture shock for younger people. Back then, games did a lot less hand-holding. And they weren't as forgiving. When you mess up, the game smacks you upside the head and says "Better luck next time!" And hopefully, you were vigilant with the game saves.

This is why Fallout the franchise exists. When you do something amazing, people notice.

This is a game I should’ve played when I was a teenager back in ‘97 when I had the time.

I played Fallout as new game back in '97 and it was blast...same with Fallout 2 next year...to this day two best games i ever played

Interesting concept. I'll just say that I played Fallout when it was new. It was awesome. It was unique, in setting, storyline, and everything else. But it was also really hard. It's a great example of typical RPG game design from that era of gaming. While the general arc of Where to go was fairly obvious, there was a lot of trial and error and no hand-holding by the devs, essentially telling you what to do. A far cry from a typical RPG today. Yes, it was a much slower paced game, but some of us liked that tactical style of play. Cheers.

Best in the series, no doubt... Just gold!

just finished my first playthrough absolutely love this game and it charm, from what i heard the second game is basically the same but twice as good. On a side note i like how gory this game is, using a plasma rifle and watching people literally melt is so cool

There is a reason this game is a classic. It is just fucking awesome. It is so much fun to discover and explore and build your character. It also respects your intelligence to a degree that is unthinkable in most AAA titles.