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Set in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war, Fallout will challenge you to survive in an unknown and dangerous world. You will take the role of a Vault-dweller, a person who has grown up in a secluded, underground survival Vault. Circumstances arise that force you to go Outside - to a strange world 80 years after the end of modern civilization. A world of mutants, radiation, gangs and violence.

Your immediate task is to find a replacement for the broken water purification controller chip. Without that chip, your fellow Vault dwellers are doomed to dehydration or will be forced to leave the safety of the Vault for the Outside.

The core of the game revolves around your character. Fallout uses a skill-based system to allow you to fine tune your character. As you gain experience (roughly half from combat, the other half from solving adventure seeds and non-combat events), your character will grow as you determine. Combat in Fallout is tactical turn-based. You can take as much time as you need to make decisions. Choose from different types of attacks, with a variety of weapons and attack skills.

J1M wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 00:44

@logincrash we are so back.

logincrash wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 00:47

J1M wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 00:44

@logincrash we are so back.

I have replayed Mass Effect 2 and it's not something I would wish upon my worst enemy.

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

Eyestabber wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:10

There's very little interest in this place for strategy games aka the genre that RPGs derived from, but a lot of interest in console action games. Basically the quintessential RPG for the HQ isn't Fallout or even Baldur's Gate, it's ******* Dork Souls.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:14

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

Eyestabber wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:10

There's very little interest in this place for strategy games aka the genre that RPGs derived from, but a lot of interest in console action games. Basically the quintessential RPG for the HQ isn't Fallout or even Baldur's Gate, it's ******* Dork Souls.

Fallout/Grimoire split the vote you dips

Eyestabber wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 00:50

Crazy to think fallout never won. Goddamn zoomers.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:14

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

Eyestabber wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:10

There's very little interest in this place for strategy games aka the genre that RPGs derived from, but a lot of interest in console action games. Basically the quintessential RPG for the HQ isn't Fallout or even Baldur's Gate, it's ******* Dork Souls.

Fallout/Grimoire split the vote you dips

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:30

One is a pseudo-retro

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

J1M wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:44

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

There's clearly an ebb and flow to what people are interested in based on the time of year and what has been selected previously. Fallout is a great game, but that doesn't mean everyone wants to play it again, today.

J1M wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:44

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

There's clearly an ebb and flow to what people are interested in based on the time of year and what has been selected previously. Fallout is a great game, but that doesn't mean everyone wants to play it again, today.

DecadeRiptide wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:25

Also I think every April you should add dustborn, concord, relooted, highguard, etc, to the list. They're really good games and it would be nice to assign a specific list of games like this to a month like April.

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 03:50

J1M wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:44

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 01:44

Fallout is losing to a ******* popamole lmao, the absolute state of zoomoid RPG "fans" today.

There's clearly an ebb and flow to what people are interested in based on the time of year and what has been selected previously. Fallout is a great game, but that doesn't mean everyone wants to play it again, today.

So you want to replay a literal popamole over the best CRPG ever, okay.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 03:53

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 03:50

J1M wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 02:44

There's clearly an ebb and flow to what people are interested in based on the time of year and what has been selected previously. Fallout is a great game, but that doesn't mean everyone wants to play it again, today.

So you want to replay a literal popamole over the best CRPG ever, okay.

Fallout is just ok, if a bit overrated. Arcanum was the better tim gayn game.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 03:53

Fallout is just ok, if a bit overrated. Arcanum was the better tim gayn game.

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 04:13

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 03:53

Fallout is just ok, if a bit overrated. Arcanum was the better tim gayn game.

Fallout has two glaring issues: Poor player character customization, and subpar combat.
There's very little to actually differentiate player characters unless you go out of your way to create someone who is gimped. Maybe it would have been helped if a third of the skills weren't near useless, but I don't know. The problem is that it's hard to allow niches to exist in games that don't have 'magic'(standard fantasy magic or otherwise). "Guy who shoots a gun and occasionally fixes broken machines" just isn't that different from "guy who also shoots a gun and talks to people well", at best you can be "guy who uses a big hammer" but it's really not that different, somewhat because it's just inherently simple. Underrail does much better here even without its cave magic.
Arcanum has strong character differentiation with three main archetypes("traditional"(melee or bow), magic, and tech) and various specializations inside of such(the many magic schools, etc.,)

The combat is… meh. It aged poorly, so it's not exactly a knock against it if evaluating it in context. The critical hit/failure tables were enjoyable for the time period and something fun. Arcanum does better here, but that was still hampered heavily by supporting two combat systems and never getting a balance pass.

Tinky Winky wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 04:54

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 04:13

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 29th, 2026, 03:53

Fallout is just ok, if a bit overrated. Arcanum was the better tim gayn game.

Fallout has two glaring issues: Poor player character customization, and subpar combat.
There's very little to actually differentiate player characters unless you go out of your way to create someone who is gimped. Maybe it would have been helped if a third of the skills weren't near useless, but I don't know. The problem is that it's hard to allow niches to exist in games that don't have 'magic'(standard fantasy magic or otherwise). "Guy who shoots a gun and occasionally fixes broken machines" just isn't that different from "guy who also shoots a gun and talks to people well", at best you can be "guy who uses a big hammer" but it's really not that different, somewhat because it's just inherently simple. Underrail does much better here even without its cave magic.
Arcanum has strong character differentiation with three main archetypes("traditional"(melee or bow), magic, and tech) and various specializations inside of such(the many magic schools, etc.,)

The combat is… meh. It aged poorly, so it's not exactly a knock against it if evaluating it in context. The critical hit/failure tables were enjoyable for the time period and something fun. Arcanum does better here, but that was still hampered heavily by supporting two combat systems and never getting a balance pass.

So does ATOM and that's your favorite game, unless you really enjoy talking to random irrelevant NPCs there's no reason to put ATOM over the og Fallout.