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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Explain this to me right fucking now

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Trish, Alexis de Tocqueville called America "The Great Experiment". What can we do, as citizens, to improve on that experiment?

Uh, well, uh, I think America is the land of the free, which is a wonderful thing, and also the brave, where people can live. And nobody can ever take that away from you, and it never gives up. But the high birthing rate of immigrants frightens me! No offense to anyone out there, but if it were up to me and my family, I would actually call it our-merica, and not their-merica! Thank you.

[raucous applause]

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Lot of Fallout "fans" never played the classics

Myself, I've played every single Fallout games

Even the ones that aren't good

Especially the ones that aren't good

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

I bought 1 and 2 when they were on sale. I tried 1 a couple of times. Never even bothered trying 2 after that.

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago

Especially the ones that aren't good

between Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics, which are you throwing in the heap of despair and which are you preserving?

[–] Lurkmore@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Is it worth learning the retro style of the earlier games?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say so

It's a little clunky and being directly inspired by Wasteland means it's deliberately antagonistic towards the player sometimes (don't pick Big Guns or Energy Weapons as a tag skill, put some points into them later)

But they're fondly remembered for a reason

They're good

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

First time I played 2 my tag skills were Energy Weapons, Science, and Repair

The Temple of Trials was not a good time

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

idk shit about fallout but that is almost exactly the list of weak skills in system shock 2 as well, what a weird coincidence

[–] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I played it recently using the mod Fallout Et Tu which is a nifty QOL mod which I can recommend even new players try, that virtually recreates the first game in the second games engine, which fixes a lot of the problems one might have with Fallout 1, like for instance without the mod if a companion or NPC box you into a corner you might just have to load a save if they don't move.

[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

yes, but i'd recommend following a walkthrough if you stop having fun

they are older games that came out exclusively on PC in the 90s, so most fans of the series haven't played them, even though they're arguably better than the more popular sequels, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, which released on home consoles.