Fallout Symposium

So, I just beat Fallout 3. I'm one dungeon away from beating Fallout 1 and more than halfway through Fallout 2. By the end of this week, I may be done with all three, and I can write about 'em.

So far...

Fallout 1-Mainly sets up the world of Fallout. FEV virus, super mutants, brotherhood of steel, raiders. It's really easy to increase stats quickly. I had a 95% hit on any enemy with energy weapons or small guns. Towns have few quests. There's not a lot of towns. Experience is hard to get.

Fallout 2-At this point, you know the basic idea of the world, but it gets kicked up a notch. Now there's a drug and prostitute culture, organized crime, friendly super mutants, friendly ghouls. The whole world of Fallout just gets more and more diverse, twisted, and funny. Fallout 2 is probably the most infamous of the series. It's really hard to manage stats since unlike Fallout 1, you can't really afford a gun until the second town, but later in the game the most useful combat skill is energy weapons. It's hard not to waste skill points. Fallout 2 is a much bigger version of Fallout 1 and probably my favorite game in the series.

Fallout 3-This game is a new direction. It has it's ups and downs. I prefer the gameplay of the other Fallouts because more strategy is involved in each fight, but Fallout 3 has a much bigger world than Fallout 2 and adds new dimensions to the world while building on past concepts. The story is very different from the other fallouts and by the end, it's much cheesier. I'm just gonna spoil it right here, so if you don't want it spoiled don't read any further. Your character fucking dies for no reason. You have to go into an irradiated area and activate a thingy but there were plenty of other non-bs-sacrificial ways to do it. It's a cheap ending where no definite end is needed. The thing you were doing is also kinda mysterious and I didn't understand quite why you needed the thingy to do the thingy. Fallout 3 is quite easy. I was playing it through on very hard with little problem (i had over 100 stimpacks). Because it calls on 1st person shooter skills more than strategy, your skills have very little to do with your performance, except when it comes to the V.A.T.S., which was incredibly useful.

Cool it out, cool it out, waiting for my lady got the special sauce that's why she's my baby my baby
My baby
And of course I'll do anything for her

Your Fallout's got sauce. Your Fallout aint sweet like mine.

People are putting Fallout and mgs4 as like the best ps3 games of the year...hmm...