it would be cool if sulik had a animation for putting the helmet on like goris

Its already a masterpiece.

Yesss also how it shows that, even though the Fallout 1 cover shows a power armor in perfect conditions here many years have passed and the brotherhood has lost power so other civilizations take their things now, just like they did with the power armors before. Also other great detail is that it kinda has that image of "the enclave wants to rebuild the old world just like it was but it ain't working and maybe that's not a bad thing" vibe to it like building something new instead of rebuilding something that was broken since day one

​@@facuuu2809 While Fallout 2 was undeniably sillier than its predecessor, I think people give way too little credit to its thematic depth, and I think you described one of its great aspects. All throughout the cities and settlements we see in the game, we find people rebuilding civilization in their own way. Granted, some, maybe even most of them, are not what we'd think of as good, but they have moved on from the horror and devastation of the war, built something new. People are engaging with the challanges the new world offers, and sometimes successfully overcome them. The Enclave on the other hand, stubbornly refuses to engage with the world they created. They chase after the ghost of a long dead America, who will never come back, and they are willing to sacrifice the planet to preserve their delusion. If I could summarize what I think the thematic core of Fallout 2 is in one sentence, it would be: "The Old World must die for the New one to live".

@@dr.scrapjack2045 this fr ❤️ it's an awesome explanation of what the game shows and also its depth if we speak about the themes the game wants to show it may be silly in many aspects but imo it is the logical way things would develop after Fallout 1 and it makes so much sense

Finally someone who doesnt just say "fallout 2 is goofy lol!!!" amazing metaphors everywhere in this game

Well, for starters, the game draws heavily upon not only the 50's through 60's space age-esque futurism, it also draws heavily upon the 20's through the 40's, especially in architecture. The giant faces in structures such as the oil rig, or the carvings of Atlas carrying the world on every building corner, are all influences from the Art Deco architecture and design of the era. There are many examples of sculptures of faces and people in Art Deco buildings, these faces do not even have to be human. So, the Chrysler Building (1930) has its metallic gargoyles, the San Francisco Stock Exchange building (1930) has its sculpture group above its entrance depicting a muscular man along with two others in the background. Not only this but the Crown of the General Electric Building (1933) features a solemn face carved into the structure which observes the ground. Then, the Rockefeller Center (1931-1940) has a number of interesting Art Deco sculptures and statues, naming a few of them starting with the bronze statue of the Greek Titan Atlas carrying the celestial vault by Lee Lawrie (1937), then the cast bronze sculpture of the Greek Titan Prometheus by Paul Manship (1934), and finally, the nine-ton stainless steel bas-relief called "News" by Isamu Noguchi (1940) hangs over the entrance to the Associated Press building at Rockefeller Center, which is an energetic depiction of journalists at work, highlighting the importance of the extreme time pressures faced, and also suggesting that by them melding together, they serve a higher purpose. Additionally, these are only a few examples of not just faces carved into buildings, but also the statues and sculptures that are common with the style. There are many more examples showing the same thing. So the reason for Fallout 1-3 showing a lot of statues, carvings, and such with such prevalence, is due to the games taking a lot of inspiration from Art Deco as a style when it comes to design, and the Art Deco Era was fundamentally a 20-th century machine age where the architecture was characterised by a transmogrification of aerodynamic shapes and surfaces, be it from either cars of the era or even the aerodynamic shrouds of the S-1 locomotive, or even airplane fuselages and wing sections. Thus, Art Deco can be described as the design and architecture of the modernism of the age, the speed of it, the aerodynamics and also hydrodynamics of it, and the technological progress. Finally, as Art Deco not only fit the historical criteria, it definitely fitted the appropriate design criteria regarding Fallout as a retro-futuristic universe, what better architectural style to include than the one which was the very essence of progress at the time? Now, the real life counterpart did certainly not feature faces everywhere, but the devs did have a lot of creative liberty with the designs and simply built upon an "exaggerated" version of Art Deco. I highly recommend reading into the sculptures mentioned and also the style itself, as it is very interesting. tl;dr: The faces are an inspiration taken from the Art Deco design and architecture of the mid 20's through to the late 40's. Note: The faces for something like the Temple of Trials is most likely inspiration from the old South American civilisations that existed, If I recall correctly, they often carved big depictions of faces and incorporated it into buildings.

Well I still think Fallout 2 holds a great story and characters but it is disappointing that they removed this quest and this awesome music.

Restoration Patch from No Mutant's Allowed restores that quest and the Umbra Tribe. It also makes the game a tad bit harder but just enough to make it rewarding imo. You just need 41% speech to get Metzger to reveal where she's being kept

youre cool

This was actually a timed slideshow using an XML file and the audio playing separately. I think then-teenage me just recreated the thing by approximating the times in the file. But yes, it was always kind of choppy!

Greetings, future man.