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Sunday Comics: Dead Island The artist who drew the perk images for Fallout 2 recently revealed his deleted concept for the game’s “Childkiller” status. “Even the designer who requested it realised it was a bad idea,” he writes.
Last month, at a remote disused air-defense base outside of Leningrad, upwards of 300 Russian Fallout fans recreated post-apocalyptic California in a live-action role-playing game based on Fallout 2.
You can play Fallout games many ways: as a brute, as a marksman, as a pacifist, as a diplomat. Hipolito is a blogger who decided to play Fallout 2 as an idiot.
He started his character with an intelligence of 2 and is chronicling his playthrough on his blog. Funny? A bit. Frustrating? The blogger writes:
This might sound like a downer, but it’s a burden to be dumb (Intelligence < 4). It's like being evil; you might get a kick out of the dialogues, but there are much fewer quests and party members available to you. Even Sulik didn't join me! I thought I had read somewhere that the quests in Fallout 2 would play out completely differently for a dumb person, such that he could essentially Gump his way to victory. So far, though, many of the quests aren't playing out at all.
I played Fallout 3 last week in L.A. (in the same room as the legendary, long-lost Crecente). I didn’t do very well. Maybe my character’s intelligence was set to 2 as well.
Fallout 2 for Dummies: A Post Nukular AAR [Octopus Overlords blog]
Before you get excited, no, it doesn’t contain some magical pre-release copy of Fallout 3. The “triple” of the pack is Fallout: Tactics, and while not as tasty as the other games included – Fallout and Fallout 2 if you had yet to guess – it’s not a bad deal for $14.90.
According to the Atomic forum member who spotted the deal at EB at Bondi Junction, it’s part of the retailer’s half-yearly sale.
Fallout triple pack cheap @ EB [Atomic forums]
The diehard, almost fanatical fellows over at the post-apocalyptic fansite No Mutants Allowed have released an impressive and extensive mod for Interplay/Black Isle Studios’ RPG classic, Fallout 2. NMA considers it an expansion of sorts, as it fleshes out a lot of incomplete areas in the game and even adds entirely new places, such as a residential area in The Den.
I didn’t think it was possible for Fallout 2 to get any better. It’s like improving on perfect, or near perfection. The only thing more awesome would be melding dinosaurs with Transformers.
Oh wait, that’s a Dinobot, right?
Fallout 2 Restoration Project (Unofficial FO 2 Expansion) [No Mutants Allowed, via Blue's News]
