So, starting off, you are dumped outside the vault with a pistol and a knife to battle Rats (an RPG staple, even in the Post Apocalypse) and Rad Roaches with turn-based violence. Yes, you could put points into Gambling, Repair, and Outdoorsman, but why would you when you could instead put points into Small Guns, Speech, and Lockpick (which are the three most useful skills in the game)? Speaking of Small Guns, that is the only weapon choice worth tagging, as you don't get Big Guns or Energy Weapons until fairly late in the game, and Melee skills and Throwing Weapons are completely worthless the entire way through.

However, the majority range from trivial to worthless. Speaking of skills, Fallout 1 has a mess of them. However, among said traits, the only ones worth using are Bloody Mess (which makes sure you get the most gory death every time) and a trait that increases all your stats by one at a slight penalty to your skills. Sounds Familiar? Well you can also give your character optional 'traits' which are usually a benefit along with a penalty. This of course leads to Character Creation, in which you allocate S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Of course after you get your vault its water chip the Super Mutants decide to look for your vault (in another time limit that was removed by the patch) and you have to destroy both the Super Mutant base, as well as the leader of said mutants: The Master. Your job is quite simple: Get the Water Chip for your vault before the time limit (that was removed in a patch) expires. However, unlike F3, Fallout 1 (and subsequently Fallout 2) takes place on the west coast of the US. Anyone who has played Fallout 3 or even just read about it knows the premise of a retro-futuristic United States that has been nuked. Fallout 1 was released in late 1997 by Black Isle (so a year before Baldur's Gate) and is considered one of the greatest RPGs of all time by the 'fine' folks at No Mutants Allowed. I am of course talking about Fallout (which is conveniently available on Steam for the curious), which I decided to take a look at because I liked Fallout 3. So instead I will talk about a game that is sure to draw some ire and perhaps hatred (much like my Daggerfall blog, in which a person signed up just to troll me for not liking the stupidly huge dungeons). Might and Magic, but that would kind of be like cheating since I did play those games when they were popular or important. I was originally going to do Heroes of A Post-Nuclear Role Playing Game eh? I played one of those once. Once again, it's time for my pseudo impressions/reviews of old games that I never played when they were popular or important, now with a new title, mostly due to the lack of actual offending.

Fallout 1 water chip time limit