Fallout 2 is the greatest game of all time.

Definitely an steal

http://i.imgur.com/CeZtwg0.png

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how's FO2 compare to FO1? so far FO1 is the only game in the entire series I've played and the heavy reliance on randomization and the near-necessity of savescumming really put me off of it.

Nil... fallout one is SOO easy lol

I played through it on the highest difficulty... without a single death just about and put it on youtube to practice video making lol. But then I mainly play these sorts of games.

FO2 is actually a sequel that does a great job of following up fallout 1 - sometimes the narrative gets lost a bit, but still it's bigger than fallout 1 and you can do more stuff, and some of the skills were made a bit more useful, and there are also more useful perks.

I've also completed the game as a PC with 1 int - something everybody should try just for the 1-2 hilarious conversations - and the challenge since you basically can't do anything lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuBjeLiWhek (fallout 1 overseer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqotv_OpW6o (fallout 2 compilation)

1 int and only unarmed, rip Trogg

Edit found it, possibly one of the greatest LP's of all time : http://lparchive.org/Fallout-2/Update%201/

lol that's great tino

I didn't say it was hard, I said there was randomization and the mechanics promote savescumming. ex:

create a pickpocket.
have maxed out pickpocket skill
pickpocket a basic crony
oh no the roll turned out against your favor and he pulled out a gun and he and his friends killed you.
time to load a save because I got unlucky.

so then what're your options for future attempts?
1: savescum
2: only pickpocket guys you know you could take on in a gunfight, but then you might as well just shoot the dude and then what's the point of playing the thief in the first place?

This can be applied to any skill except, obviously, "shoot dudes", and I didn't go start up a top-down, turn-based RPG for stripped-down, "click on the guy then wait for his numbers to go all the way down" shooting dudes.

and that's why I asked if FO2 is better.

as long as you're sneaking, and pick pocket them from behind, you should be relatively OK with a decent pick pocket skill :(

You can even plant things on people - like ticking bombs - I always explode ticking bombs on iguana bob because that pleases me, usually doesn't require save scumming lol. The only part I end up having to save scum is if you try and kill the khans really early in the game and you get hit by a crit at some point.

I got fallout 2 a year ago, and since I've only been playing games for a couple of years, the nostalgia is missing and some stuff is really making me not enjoy it, the graphics, clunkiness and pace of the game :(((
I wish I could appreciate it more...

There are a lot of mods you can use to sex the game up or at least make the graphics operate as intended.

They're on the Steam forums (most of the better fixes anyways - some are kind of involved, but it's nothing super hard).