Fallout 1: Retrospective Review

[@JoeSmith-mx1sr]

Pretty much my standard tag picks were Speech, Small Guns, and Lockpick. Those three tended to get you through most situations. First Aid and Science were skills I'd hit heavy on as well.

[@viniciuslisboa8864]

These are my standard picks too. But later in the game I change to Energy Weapons because of the Turbo Plasma Rifle.

[@lasakar8032]

Once upon a time... I played RPGs on the old C64 like "Bard's Tale" or "Ultima". And then "Wasteland" appeared. It was great! And Fallout was just the next step. Most important Fallout opened the door for post apocalyptic RPGs on digital platforms.

[@dreamareakoso3791]

i’m fairly certain Wasteland was made by the same people as Fallout 1, but i can’t remember

[@Classic_DM]

Although Fallout 2 directed, when we were working on Unreal Tournament, myself and a few of my fellow developers used a hexadecimal editor and made badass characters and murdered every single character in the game to see how it would respond to "Demon Spawn" which is -1000 Karma. The game would send bounty hunters after us constantly. It was a R I O T and FUN. Not much beats planting dynamite on kids :) The burst SFX at point blank range has never been duplicated.

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

I still prefer melee weapons for kids. Sledgehammer to the groin. Or the Slugger to the head in fallout 2.

[@bigego503]

I've always enjoyed playing early iterations of the game franchjses we laud so much today. Or sometimes just the inspirations that led to the modern versions of games we love so much. Here we see one of the industry luminaries at the beginning of his career. Brian Fargo started the ball rolling for so many developers, with this game in particular, and it's truly enjoyable to see that it ages as well as it has. Good vid

[@Webhead123]

The original Fallout (and Fallout 2) are some of the most impactful and lasting CRPGs of my life. For reasons that are generally too numerous and complex to go into, I was never able to get into the Fallout series once it went 3D. There was something lost in translation for me when I tried getting into Fallout 3 and New Vegas. While I can appreciate that they have propelled the series into the behemoth that it is today, I just can't keep myself invested in them. Yet, despite being over 25 years old, I can still pick up Fallout or Fallout 2 today and just start playing and enjoying myself. I've never gotten further than about 6 hours into Fallout 3 but I've beaten the original Fallout five or six times and am always happy to jump in for another go.

[@Idazmi7]

I feel almost the same. I had to mod New Vegas _heavily_ to make it feel enough like the classics to care.

[@110341]

I've been playing all my life, but only on consoles. It's just now, as I'm about to turn 40, that I've started playing PC. And I've really got an itch to go back and experience some true classics I've missed out on such as this. Great review, really got me interested in start playing the game, and it also got you a new subscriber!

[@Jburg15]

Wow same here. Almost 39 and just got into pc gaming

[@kharacon]

Came back here having only played through Fallout 3, and now watching the series. It is really neat to reflect on how the flexibility of the first permeated into such an iconic set of journeys through the years.

[@hauntedwhispersShorts]

Keep up the good work man. I really enjoy your reviews and think you have what it takes to make it on youtube.😉 A few pieces of adivice though: -Invest on your audio quality. Right now I think it's not on the same level as the rest of your content. - Try to use the gameplay to explain what you are talking about on the review a little more. That makes a huge difference to the viewer. -Use the chapter function on YT. It is a massive help for those trying to find specific details about a game, or skip spoilers and such. just keep pumping good videos and the algorithim is gonna notice you eventually, this channel has a massive potential.👍👍👍

[@bigwig8657]

"War, War never changes..." is the most iconic recurring opening in gaming.

[@michimatsch5862]

The slogan was come up with in the last minutes and does not really tie into the game.

[@GedCartwright]

Can't say I like it.

[@tpragile]

@@michimatsch5862 does it really matter?

[@GreenEyedDazzler]

@@tpragile yeah it kinda matters that it sucks

[@linxismenow5804]

It makes the mgs4 war changed so much better

[@adeternitamn2859]

This game did not go through a 4 year EA, nor did it ask ppl to pay it full price as it was being developed. This game cost a mere fraction of what modern games do and yet gave birth to a trend that spanned more than 2 decades and inspired ppl from different cultures to explore the Post apocalyptic realm of story telling. To this day Fallout1 is one of the best games ever made. No 3D or fancy graphics either. *Just a fascinating setting and a decent plotline* . Gem of a game.

[@megamike15]

fallout 1 is the game that created the template for what people think of a crpg. we had stuff before that like ultima 7 but those have not aged as well.

[@Mibit911]

That is true for the most part. Ultima 7 was An amazing crpg, and ultima underworld perfected the first person dungeon crawl rpg, right after eye of the beholder. Before ultima 7 you had ther ssi and games but nothing isometric like fallout. Once fallout hit, then baldurs gate, then fallout 2, planes cape, bg2, ice wind dale. Fallout 2, Planescape torment, and Baldurs gate 2 are the best of what gaming has to offer to this day. Baldursgate 2 is the best rpg ever made, fallout 2 is one of the most open rugs ever made besides baldurs gate 1, but even bg1 tells you where to go easily, fallout 2 you get no hints or clues that you don't find yourself, and planescape torment is the best dialogue driven game ever made, with one of the best stories ever put to game. Black isle and bioware, created and perfected the crpg in a few years and then disappeared. Although since then we've gotten New vegas from obsidian, Knights of the old republic from bioware and dragon age origins.

[@Mibit911]

I would say as far as games that allow you interactivity with everything ultima 7 still holds up today. I mean shit in 1992 you could do stuff people couldn't even do in oblivion. You could pickup flour and a bucket of water and mix it in a bucket and put it in the oven and make bread. Or go to lord birtish castle and pickup gunpowder and pour it in the cannons and then add a cannonball and fire it. The fact everything in the game was moveable, even the terrain was crazy. Move a bunch of rocks to discover a dungeon, or turn on the moveall cheat and turn the game into a sandbox

[@sebastianzaczek247]

Gem from the Silver Age of cRPGs. True classic. One of the best games to these days. It should be on every Top10 cRPG list imho.

[@freack3333]

I started with Fallout 2, still my favorite Fallout game till this day.

[@SpecShadow]

Got if for free on GOG when they did giveaway for the original, pre-Bethesda trilogy. FInished FO1 more than decade after playing sequel and like it more for more consistent content overall. People today don't like bloated (mostly open world) games while oldies also could have that issue...

[@kruk_7279]

heh, funny enough Bethesda are responsible for bloated open world games(daggerfall and so on)

[@pitchforker3304]

Fun fact, deathclaws weren't part of the original game design. Developers added them shortly before launch because they felt the game needed a big scary monster. Awesome, must-play game!

[@mitchellhorton9382]

I've been saying what has impressed me about Kingmaker and WotR is how they are spiritual successors to Fallout 1 Kingmaker is CHOCK FULL of Fallout 1 style ticking clocks, both known and hidden, and WotR executes the ending better in some ways than Fallout 1

[@Lazzarus7]

There are unofficial patches that fix all the troubles. For example for Fallout 2 the Killap Patch is a must have, it fixes everything and even adds back original cut content

[@Hrafnskald]

Great summary, definitely a worthwhile game. Re: Time changes, one game that does this great is Avernum 3, where you are trying to defeat various waves of monsters who are overrunning the surface world. The longer you take, the more towns get destroyed, people move, and even one of your major cities can have something...interesting happen to it. It's not a hard fail, more of a "get moving or you'll have a harder time winning". If you're interested, I would love to hear your take on the series. It's similar in many ways to Fallout: AP turned based isometric rpg with strong storytelling and atmosphere, interesting character creation. It originally came out as Exile 1-3 around the same time as Fallout, then got remade twice, so the Steam version has nicer graphics and fewer bugs.

[@Identitools]

You WILL join the unity and you WILL be happy.

[@WikiHL]

Join!~ Die! Join!~ Die!

[@BaeBunni]

To be fair for the review, the fallout 1 and 2 got a pretty recent update thanks to the microsoft acquisition of Bethesda, and they updated all the older bethesda games to function properly on the windows store, but had the nice benefit of steam versions also getting the update.

[@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842]

Try Fallout 1-in-2, if you want more quality of life features from the sequel.

[@Sterage1984]

Weirdly, while I can play older clunky games like baldurs gate and planescape quite happily, for some reason I just couldn't enjoy the old Fallouts. After being told how amazing they were and that they were made by the people who did baldurs gates I jumped in expecting to love it. However I honestly didn't like it and was very disappointed considering how so many of my friends at the time loved them. It was just so rough, I played through Fallout 2 too to see it if it was better (and it was quite a bit better) but I still felt like I had to force myself through it towards the end of the game. Everything from the combat to the menus, the map, inventory, saving, the 200% skills nonsense, just everything felt so unenjoyable to interact with. The story was pretty ok but straightforward, the characters were interesting but finnicky to manage like everything else. I just felt like it was so much lesser than what I had played elsewhere at the time.

[@aleatleticano]

Great review. Only game I've played from this series is Fallout 4 and I only played 4 hours of it. Didn't enjoy it. But after reading a bit of Fallout New Vegas lore I'm hyped to play the entire series and wanted to start with the classic. Now, thanks to your review, I've bought them all.

[@bobfunk5055]

So, did you play them all?

[@nyx8026]

Have you played of all of em?

[@sprc155]

Just play 1 and 2. Rest are elder scrolls with guns.

[@fb2467]

I don’t even know how many times I finished it back in the days :) thx for bringing this steam version to my attention, I m very tempted

[@billc.8569]

Great review. This game was awesome. Played this and Fallout 2 a lot back in the day. Never got to play Fallout Tactics but I did recently pick that up to mess with eventually.

[@Webhead123]

Tactics is a very different kind of game, obviously. I liked it for what it was because it still had most of that classic Fallout charm. But it's designed as an XCOM-like tactical game, so it delivers an experience that isn't at all like the first two.

[@qwerther44]

I never did this one back in the day, but I do remember the PC Gamer advertisement.. “explode them like meat puppets” or something like that. Played 3 and New Vegas. Wasteland 3 was fantastic.. now playing Wasteland 2 DC and surprisingly, it’s just as good… if not better.

[@royalrugby4869]

While I don't think all the Fallout games work together quite as well, I do think if you enjoy fallout 1, you might as well pick up fallout 2. Same engine with a few improvements, picks up where last one left off, and overall, I think improves on the world building of 1.

[@Xgamerdad]

This game was my life in 99-2000.

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Loving the longer format.

[@DanielLopez-zt4ig]

My first character was Max Stone and then I played with Albert because I thought older games made you first choose prebuilt ones and then after that you would start doing your own characters.

[@cloudtx]

A masterpiece! This is my favorite game of all time since the day I beat it for the first time to this day!

[@alexandruteodor3585]

6:06 - This reminds me of VTMB, saving both Jeanette and Therese at the end of Santa Monica hub 😀.

[@marcopolo2418]

Where are those people that have covered the story of this game? Cause I've been looking for a video like that

[@MortismalGaming]

Oxhorn has probably the most detailed story walkthroughs I'd say but just search Fallout 1 story and you'll get tons of videos on it

[@xGarrettThiefx]

Loved this game also was a big fan of FOBHOS tactics.

[@SweatiestDegree]

I know this is unrelated, but seeing how far tech as come from the days of fallout 1 it's insane that RPG's are getting more and more boxed in, I was playing morrowind recently, and even though I honestly can't handle the old GFX the game has, the amount of player choice in that game is insane, when did skillchecks and not being able to experience the whole game with the same character become the default, now maybe me being mostly a console gamer ( I mostly only play strategy games and FPS games on PC) maybe I'm missing out on PC exclusive stuff that fills that niche. but man I remember being a teenager during the Xbox and 360 days and the amount of RPG's was insane. Even after New Vegas getting the praise it does it didn't really impact the gaming ecosystem :(

[@dempa3]

Thanks for this video. I would have guessed that Fallout 1 would be more of a hassle, but now I'm considering trying it out! I played Baldur's Gate before the Enhanced Edition, and I found it actually not to clunky for me either. Speaking of clunky, have you ever tried Dwarf Fortress?

[@jeana8224]

Dwarf fortress is good idea, but difficult to play

[@Gregorovitch144]

Keen to get your take on AtomRPG after this review.

[@cvxmademedoit]

Thanks for the review you always seem to be playing my favourites on my soon to be favourites

[@kahntrast]

Didn't have any plans on subscribing, but I find myself coming back over and over again to see your CRPG videos so I finally hit the button.

[@Mibit911]

Fallout 1 crawled so fallout 2 could fly!

[@sprc155]

This is also a very scary game. Very mysterious and dark.

[@hardbody2072]

Great Vid as always Mortismal, played this bad boy back in the day when it came out, this along with Diablo were two undeniable reasons to game on PC , of course I had a console but when these came out the console gathered dust for quite some time, Fallout 2 was excellent as well but there was something more focused with the original

[@martixy2]

Funnily, the creator of Fallout pointed me to your channel...

[@paullavery8894]

Fallout 1 and 2 will ALWAYS be installed on any PC I own.

[@CZiNTrPT]

I always loved the combat and I'm a bit sad the vast system didn't caught on. Reason why I never really liked fallout 3 ff because they took away that kind of combat which felt limitless in comparison to "just another FPS, where you always can cheese around skills" of fallout 3

[@TimmacTR]

Nice. Just in time for me to start Fallout 1 xD

[@Dimvou83]

I'd like to hear your thoughts about neverwinter nights 2 someday. I think it's a very underrated game

[@Moltavis]

Man you pump out one high quality video after another, awesome !

[@tahnadana5435]

do jagged alliance 2 next please

[@rumcajs009]

If you love Fallout 1 & 2, go for Fallout 1.5 Resurection and Fallout Nevada. You won`t be disappointed.

[@al69420]

I just got a steam deck (couldn’t afford a gaming pc) and was wondering, will I need a Bluetooth micro keyboard to play this easier? I found one for only 30 bucks so I was gonna buy it if it’ll make this game easier to play

[@MsHojat]

How the heck did the game not have a decent/large budget? it had so much CGI, as well as good voiceover work as well as obviously a lot of 2D art assets.

[@MortismalGaming]

Well its 'low budget' was still like 3 million USD

[@tpragile]

Fallout and 2 has one big problem for who wants to play them: games don't care about that you should complete your quests

[@ded2thaworld963]

Played this game like it was crack back in the day.

[@hades4438]

You should review the community fixed version.

[@felixrondeau5029]

Such a great game! Love the review!

[@grimknight8872]

Funny that i just started playing it

[@al69420]

Great video. Subscribed.

[@kareemmasri3934]

Is the screen really that small? My vision isn’t that good and I’m worried if I decide to buy this game I won’t be able to figure out anything due to the small printing.

[@MortismalGaming]

You can adjust the resolution all over the place. I just like being zoomed out a good ways

[@Ben-Re]

Funny how he praise how well the game can be played on Steam, while everybody knows GoG is the way to go if you want to play old games.

[@megamike15]

pretty sure like arcanum the steam and gog versions are exactly the same.

[@nonkh89]

In the original game there was no combat saving possible - did they change that? ô;ó

[@Clarke73lol]

Is there any games that come close to this the second one or new vegas ?

[@ZeFourmis]

And after Fallout 1, you have Fallout 2 that is the same, but better =D

[@gamingandwatchingwithethan]

the first kill was so knarly

[@devastatheseeker9967]

The main thing I don't like about classic fallout is the early game. Early on you hit like a wet noodle for 50% chance compared to late game where you one shot everything with a 95% chance to hit eyes. Once you get past that it is amazing, but before that it's just a slog

[@d00mre4per7]

Really want this and 2 on wasteland 3 engine

[@DeVitar]

Fallout franchise: 1, 2 and New Vegas:)

[@erikskoog8415]

Good show sir!

[@josefd1997]

Is the GOG version the same as the Steam one? Great review btw

[@lynackhilou4865]

Yes I think so , they both come with the latest patch and hd textures ( although gog version comes with more goodies )

[@onatgz]

free. free comment.

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

2022 and no mention of FiXt

[@sprc155]

Goat

[@FabricioAragao-ym8bg]

Review brotherhood of steel

[@Aspi3Gam3r]

Fallout 2 was better in terms of just how much leeway it gave you in terms of roleplaying a character.

[@Davlavi]

needs update patches for sure

[@terrydavis1286]

Wasteland 2 reveiw