Fallout retrospective

[frogbeastegg]

Gametrailers have created a Fallout retrospective.

[Zenicetus]

Froggie, thanks for that link. It's neat to see the series evolution, for those of us who didn't play the original games.

Or maybe I did...

I'm almost sure I played a post-nuclear-world game on the PC that looked a lot like the original Fallout scenes in that retrospective. Isometric perspective, fairly low-res but not the blockiness and limited color palette of Wasteland. I don't remember much about it, because it didn't grab me, and I bailed out after getting only partway through the game. But I do remember walking alone through deserts with big mutated insects, radiation, etc. But nothing about a Vault.

Was there yet another post-nuclear apocalypse game on the PC during the early to mid 90's? Or was I playing Fallout and just don't remember the intro?

[Kekvit Irae]

The only problem I have with the retrospective is that Fallout Tactics IS canon. You briefly hear what went on in Chicago during conversations with the BoS in Fallout 3.

[TinCow]

The only problem I have with the retrospective is that Fallout Tactics IS canon. You briefly hear what went on in Chicago during conversations with the BoS in Fallout 3.

Depends on who you talk to. Some of the NMA people don't even include parts of FO2 in canon.

[Kekvit Irae]

NMA fans aren't developers.

[TinCow]

For the record, I thought FOT was pretty fun. I was sad they never made another one, since the engine worked really well. That engine could have been used to create a full scale party-based FO RPG in the style of the BG games, which I would have gladly welcomed.

[Kekvit Irae]

I enjoyed Tactics very much. I consider it a worth successor to Jagged Alliance in the Fallout universe.

[Fragony]

So I am not the only one, I really liked Fallout Tactics as well. I love squad-based TBS, I adore the Fallout setting, Fallout Tactics = win.

[Whacker]

I'll also chip in for the pro-FO:T crowd, it was a fun game. Perhaps a bit linear, but overall I enjoyed it and consider it a worthy part of the FO universe.

I never played BoS so I can't comment. FO3 on the other hand...

[frogbeastegg]

Fallouts 1 and 2 weren't available to me when they were current. Fallout Tactics was the first I could have got. I didn't. Why? Because everywhere I looked it was being panned as a travesty and the ruin of a great series. I came back to look at it again a couple of years later, and the same aura of doom put me off once more.

As for the console game, I think the nicest thing I saw anyone say about it was "The graphics are passable."

[Crandaeolon]

Also chiming in for Fo:T, quite a decent turn-based/hybrid realtime squad game. I thought it captured the Fallout spirit quite well from the perspective of an "organized" faction.

[Bob the Insane]

The universal panning was simply a result of "why isn't this Fallout 3!!?!?" syndrome...

Also the turn based strategy game was not exactly in vogue at the time, this was the time of Max Payne, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Black & White, Operation Flashpoint, AvP2, Independence War 2, etc...