In the original Fallout, companions ultimately proved detrimental by the end of the game, since they didnвЂ™t level up with you (or if they did, it wasnвЂ™t very noticeable). One big improvement Fallout 2 makes in comparison to the original is the use of companions. I imagine that would be ludicrously hard, even by Fallout 2 standards, but I donвЂ™t doubt itвЂ™s possible. IвЂ™ve even heard stories of people just going to one of the main villain bases, stealing as much stuff as they can carry (including the second-best armour in the game) and then going to the final area. Seriously, thereвЂ™s no specific place you have to go to first. You will learn to despise this place very quickly.ДЄfter the excruciating tutorial, you get to leave the village (though thereвЂ™s some sidequests in the area that you should do first) and then you can do whatever you want. I think that punishing the players might have been a bad idea here, but IвЂ™m no game developer, so what do I know?

Apparently Black Isle was forced to put in a tutorial at the last minute by Interplay (the publisher), and decided to make it really hard as their revenge. YouвЂ™re also going to have to blow up a door (hope you know how explosives work!) and get into a fistfight with another tribal as the final test (though you can talk him out of it with high enough speech or just cheat and pull out your spear). Everyone knows that radiation makes insects grow abnormally large and vicious, right?). Chances are you will die against the radscorpions and giant ants (Of course there are giant ants. Having few points in their corresponding skills means that youвЂ™re going to miss. YouвЂ™ll already have created your character by this point, and chances are youвЂ™ll have tagged skills relating to guns instead of close combat, which will already bite you, since youвЂ™re going to have to fight your way through the trials with a spear and your fists. This set of trials serves as the tutorial of the game, and tells you what the rest of the game will be like: HARD. Before you can go off searching for him, you have to prove yourself as the Chosen One of your people by going through a temple of trials (which appears to actually be the ruins of a museum). The tribals also know that a trader named Vic, who lives in the town of Klamath, recently left a Vault 13 canteen behind in Arroyo, and may know where the vault actually is. Fallout 2 explains that there was a mixup in supply shipments to the Vaults before the war, and Vault 13 ended up with a GECK while another Vault got a ton of spare water chips.

Those of you who played the original game or read my previous post on Fallout know that Vault 13 is where you lived in the original game. All the tribals of Arroyo know is that there probably is a GECK in Vault 13. More specifically, you are the Vault DwellerвЂ™s grandchild, and the village elder (who is the Vault DwellerвЂ™s daughter) charges you with recovering a legendary device known as a GECK (Garden of Eden Creation Kit), which will help save the village from the famine and disease that is currently ravaging it. And would also have been less buggy.ДЄnyways, the game starts by explaining that you are a tribal from the village of Arroyo, which was founded by the Vault Dweller (the person you played as in the original Fallout). I just think that if Black Isle worked on it for another year or so, the game might have ended up looking better. CRPGs arenвЂ™t exactly played for their graphics itвЂ™s more about role-playing and experiencing the story, after all. There have been some slight changes in the game mechanics, and the game world is much bigger than before, but it otherwise looks more like an expansion pack than a sequel. As for me, while I agree itвЂ™s a great game, it definitely has some flaws, minor though they may be, and these serve to hold it back.ДЇallout 2 was released in 1998, just a year after the original game, and it shows, since they run on the exact same engine. Since IвЂ™ve found a bit of spare time to do some writing now, I figured I would talk about Fallout 2, which many perceive as the best in the series, and possibly one of the best video games ever made. A few days ago, I said that I would eventually get around to writing my opinion on the rest of the main Fallout games.

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