Posted on 11/09/2015 6:32:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
For its time, what a fantastic game. I still have the 5.25 floppy disks and the 3.5 disk as well ...
OMG. These two chicks ruined Fallout 4 forever. Now I cannot buy it.
I remember a time, not that long ago really, when people like that (and I assure you, most of the male reviewers are WORSE) would be shunned by the nerd world, the jock world and the rest of the world.
Where HAVE all the good times gone?
I watched one, by accident but it was such a trainwreck I couldn’t stop, a while back on FNV. It was, get this, “From the gay man’s perspective”.
This male was ranting endlessly how homophobic Bethesda was in its games. For about 10 min. Without stopping. There is no part of life a liberal will not actively try to ruin.
Sentinel Worlds ... I had that on my first PC (Tandy 1000 XL if memory serves ... Got it used and dirt cheap at the time. Had dual floppies too ... No hard drive :-) ... I upgraded the memory to a “never gonna use that much” 1MB too (or was it 640k ... I’m getting old ... I hit 42 recently ... History is starting to bleed together :-) ).
Wasn’t there some other awesome rpg called “Starlight” that came out around that time?
My favorite copy protection was that wheel thing that told you how much fuel you had to load when you took flight in Cinemaware’s Rocket Ranger.
wish they’d come out with a new stalker series- haven’t tried fallout yet- looks ok I guess
Yep, *I* remember doing that as well, so we are not far apart as concerns our respective ages. Wasteland was one of the first computer games that engaged me enough to actually play to completion, back in the day. So I've always had a soft spot for its progeny, the various Fallout installments...
the infowarrior
(who is downloading Fallout 4 from Steam, as we speak...)
Downloading the game now. This is my new job, playing FallOut 4 for my boss. :)
wir freuen uns sehr, Fallout 4 endlich mit Ihnen teilen zu können. In den letzten vier Jahren, in denen wir das Spiel entwickelt, unzählige Stunden lang gespielt und optimiert haben, hat aber immer etwas gefehlt – Sie.Wir wissen nicht, was für einen Charakter Sie spielen, welche Entscheidungen Sie treffen oder was Sie alles bauen und finden werden. Aber genau das macht Videospiele für uns zu etwas ganz Besonderem. Wir lieben es, neue Welten voller Entdeckungsmöglichkeiten zu erschaffen, die Sie sich dann zu Eigen machen können. Wir haben im Vorfeld absichtlich nicht viel von dem gezeigt oder darüber gesprochen, was man alles im Spiel erleben kann. Das können Sie jetzt selbst entdecken (und es gibt wirklich viel zu sehen). Wir wollen, dass Sie sich genügend Zeit nehmen, das Spiel genießen und möglichst viele Abenteuer meistern.
Wir hoffen, dass Ihnen Fallout 4 ebenso viel Spaß beim Spielen bereitet wie wir bei seiner Entwicklung hatten. Vielen Dank für Ihre Zeit. Wir können es kaum erwarten, von Ihren Erlebnissen in der Welt von Fallout zu hören.
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Amazing isn't it, I swore I would never buy a game that wasn't physical media, now I haven't bought a box game in years, just fire up Steam or GOG and it's one digital download away. Heck some of the "box games" today contain nothing but a Steam code anyway.
I loved New Vegas; Fallout 3 not so much relatively speaking, but still miles ahead of most other games. It was a good game, but too many inconsistencies and lost the feel of the series’ earlier titles. Don’t know when I’ll have time to try this one, but I’m sure it will be better than 99% of titles released recently. The great thing is you can mod these games to take out design decisions you hate. I hate leveled lists, so I just write randomized loot/enemy tables right off the bat. No other games offer such a nice interface and flexibility to mod in an open game world. For that reason, Fallout has always been one of my top three franchises.
I still have my "Starlight" and "Starlight 2" boxes, along with floppies. Great games ...
I have a dedicated DOS laptop that I can still play my old .. old .. games on whenever I get the urge: Sentinel Worlds, Starlight, Dark Heart of Uukrul ... what memories ...
Does anyone speak English on this thread? What is a Fallout 4?
Up until quite recently, I hadn't been acquiring single player games from any source, as I had been more heavily invested into the MMO scene. That is changing, as I have become disenchanted of late with the directions being taken, among other things. Thus my return to the single player roots.
That said, I'm totally blown away by the fact that Fallout 4 actually runs on my machine, given my less than state of the art video card (an Nvidia GT 430)! True, I have to use the minimal settings, but I'm surprised that it actually worked at all...
the infowarrior
From a few years later, who remembers overclocking Celeron 300A procs to get Pentium 450 performance for a fraction of the cost? And playing Doom on the boxes at network parties?
LOL!! Fallout 4 is a newly released computer/gaming console game title, released today (as of midnight local time) by a major US computer game company (Bethesda Softworks). Like all the preceding titles in the series, it is set in a particular "game world", in the aftermath of a nuclear war, in various places in the USA. Fallout 4 takes place in Boston and the surrounding environs (previous titles were set in the American Southwest, and in the metro DC area, with side trips into Pittsburgh, Anchorage, and even an alien space ship above DC.)
the infowarrior
“I still have my “Starlight” and “Starlight 2” boxes, along with floppies. Great games ...”
I meant “StarFLIGHT” :-). The phone I was typing on at the time thought otherwise :-).
Some of my other favorites were M.U.L.E., Archon, Seven Cities of Gold, Pirates!, Tony LaRussa Baseball (most of those were from my Commodore 64 days).
First computer I ever had was a TRS80 CoCo. Many shun the machine (Trash-80 slur really torques me off), but it had a 6809 processor and was perfect for learning how to program be it BASIC or Assembly :-). I was an odd 8 year old.
I was out my mom’s the other day, saw it sitting there boxed up, and said “thank you for ruining my life buying me that thing” ... with a big smile on my face of course :-).
My current rig is all set for Fallout 4 and Star Citizen (though it might be outdated by the time Star Citizen is released) :-). Fallout 4 will be at my doorstep by the time I get home tonight. It’s been nice knowing all of you :-)! I promise I will at least take time off to vote in the PA primary should it matter as well as the POTUS election so long as it’s worth going out and voting for the Repub. nominee.
It’s good to see so many people on FR that are into the classics :-).
” with side trips into Pittsburgh “
I was kind of disappointed with “The Pitt”. They were lazy in that there was nothing to change in the Pittsburgh layout. It’d mostly devoid of life, abandoned, and rather run down looking as it is today (with the exception of the “culture” area for the symphony (good) and PBS building (smug, arrogant, elite-liberal hangout).
” even an alien space ship above DC”
I need to go back and play that mission on the PS3 ... there was one trophy I needed to get that I missed the first time through that mission.
Thank You
There are *two* things int the Fallout Universe that never changes. War never changes, and, apparently, Pittsburgh never changes either... LOL!!
the infowarrior
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