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6 January 2025

Half-Life 2

Fallout 2

Exceeds Expectations
4.4 hours
no achievements

I tried to pick this up in order to reach Fallout Tactics later in the franchise for my A Journey Through Time challenge. However, Fallout 2 doesn’t run on my PC even though I tried all the fixes I could find online. The 4 hours of playtime was just me forgetting to exit the game client as I tried to find the solution. Instead, I watched a whole 40-video-long walkthrough by Oxhorn (which I highly recommend if anyone's interested), and well, I liked the first game's story better, although this one's still great. IMO the story and side content of the first game was just consistently good, while in Fallout 2 it's more of a rollercoaster, possibly due to the game having much more side content which was of varying quality (e.g., I couldn't care less about everything and everyone in New Reno and San Francisco). I'm in love with the game's world and its lore though, and looking forward to playing the rest of the franchise (which hopefully runs without a hitch on my PC going forward).

fernandopa

You’re on point that Fallout 2 is a bit all over the place. While it’s way more ambitious, that also means it’s less focused, and there’s so much side-content that’s easy to get lost. I had easily 3x the playtime vs the first game, which is just bonkers to me haha

SF definitely tends to be an area people tend to hate - I don’t know how I feel about it. I did not really enjoy NCR, and I love Vault City.

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I think the problem with SF is that it’s not very fleshed out & it’s also the last place to go to. With the story of the game getting progressively darker, who cares about Hubologists? Btw now that you’ve mentioned NCR, I realized that I barely remember what happened there. Other places are just much more memorable.

fernandopa

I also didn’t spend a lot of time in NCR, it just felt … a bit odd? Areas of the city cordoned off, which defeats a lot of your sense of freedom in a game like Fallout

Vasharal

Oh no! So this means I might not be able to play it either? O_o

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Well based on what I saw online, lots of people get the same error I got, however they say the fixes posted online work. Not for me though :/

Arbiter Libera

That’s certainly one way to go about it. Shame, though.