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Pour moi, c'est le plus grand jeu d'action RPG de tout les temps
Les choses que tu peux faire dans ce jeu... les possibilités pratiquement inexorable offertes...
C'est ce jeu la, qui se rapproche le plus de l'idéal du Role Playing Game

Sandbox'ish nature, wider amount of content and improved mechanics are certainly appealing, but not in sacrifice of cohesive story, themes and world building of Fallout 1.

very good, in its own weird way. annoying reference humor, gameplay that drags on after like, 50 hours, and sometimes nonsensical worldbuilding. if fallout 3 was bethesda trying to make a fallout theme park game, fallout 2 was black isle making a whatever-the-fuck-they-wanted game.

despite all that, it's fun if you can stomach it, and it has a decent amount of good concepts. the enclave are my second fav antagonists in the series, despite their complete lack of any complexity. i also really like the tribal theme, and the designs and plot in general.

it's like a more sandbox-y version of 1 due to the lack of time limit, tho that could be seen as of hurting it in some ways. if you liked 1's gameplay (i know someone exists besides me who liked that shit) then it's good, if you're in the mood for it. this game is such a fucking undertaking tho so if you can't handle it just play 1, it's better imo, and much more compact.

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holy shit what a game. wayyy better than 1 lmao. but holy shit will it kick your ass.

i loved the VARIETY in everything. plus sex hahahah


Speedrunning towards New Reno to fuck Bishop's wife and daughter TAS any%

Made my character too stupid now I can't do anything....

I wish more people played the OG Fallout games, because this game is honestly second only to New Vegas more. And fittingly so, since New Vegas is a spiritual successor in many ways to this game.

Fallout 2's a bit of an acquired taste. It's janky, it's old, and hard to recommend in 2024 and beyond. But it embodies some of my favorite aspects about Fallout - the ridiculous wackiness mixed in with the gritty nature of the Wasteland. Fallout 2 is a hilarious game, and there are so many instances that make me smile just by merely thinking about them.

If you can stomach how dated Fallout 2 is, I'd definitely recommend, especially if you liked New Vegas.

Score: 93

Damn near perfect CRPG. The humor hasn't aged as well as New Vegas's, for every hilarious moment there's some real "wow the 90s was a different country, huh" moments, but this game swings for the fences in ways that stand out from just about everything else, and does things with the mechanics and environmental design later installments won't or can't accomplish. Most prominently is the presence of Jet in the game: it's not just a consumable buff potion you anachronistically run across in pre-War lockboxes, it's an incredibly destructive drug that's ravaging the population centers of the wasteland. My character took Jet once only for me to discover that addiction is both highly likely even with one dose and permanent, and much of the rest of the game was shaped by my character being gripped by this vice. In fact, withdrawal was so crippling that I found myself making some dark choices, culminating in my character sleeping with a fellow addict in a ratty casino suite just so he could suck the inhalant fumes out of her mouth. That sticks with you.

"The President of the United-fucking-States-of-America. Who’d you think I was talking about? Who the fu- Who is- Wha- I should kick your fucking ass, who is this?"

downgrade in mechanics from fallout 1

truly a great game, not as good as the first one, but it was and still is a great piece of media

Fuck Bethesda, this is a real mans game

I love fallout, and fallout 2 is almost a masterpiece, the game is very dated, in some aspects, combat is slow, the early is unforgiving,story is meh, and a rushed end.

but the mid to end game was such a great experience, with great side quests,towns, almost infinite replaybality, with infinite builds, multiples choices, and a lot off secrets.

fallout 2 is a great rpg, which is better than a lot of modern rpgs, but some flaws keep back from becoming one of the best in my eyes, still one of the bestt fallouts, ofc, new vegas being the best one.

My all time favorite RPG. True, Fallout 1 is a tighter experience and has better story, but there is just so much to do in Fallout 2, not just in the sense of the amount of locations, but also in the many ways you can interact with the world. Quests are more interesting and developed and almost every interaction has multiple outcomes, and I couldn't resist but keep reloading to see what the other options offer.

The comedic tone of the game seems to bother a lot of people, but personally I really enjoyed it, the game never takes itself too seriously, but yet manages to make a consistent world of interconnected cities with their own problems and interests. And the game is really hilarious, the voiced NPCs are extremely memorable in a very unapologetic 90s way. Bethesda attempts at humor are look like made by corporate suits compared to it. Also most pop culture references that everyone complains about did fly over my head (they felt like enigmatic dead ends), only San Fran really bothered me with that Scientologist stuff and not necessarily because is random, but more because it is boring. But that is only one area and very late in the game, in a huge game, that can be made even bigger with the restoration patch (as a fan of 90s pre-rendered graphics, I personally really like the cut submarine area, the extremely old and rusty submarine looks amazing).

Contemporary CRPGs are certainly more polished and robust today, but boy did this game set the bar for everything that came after it. The first Fallout was a good introduction to this new post-apocalyptic setting, and it established some fundamental aspects of the series... then Fallout 2 came along and improved on the experience immensely. It keeps what works, changes what doesn't, and provides a robust RPG experience that can vary from run to run. One of the strengths of the series is balancing fun gameplay with an interesting story and ideas, along with clever, dark humor. Fallout winks and nods to popular culture while also being a staple of popular culture today, and that could not have happened without Fallout 2 declaring itself as the best of its kind. Sure, the series thrived under Bethesda, but that only happens within the framework of Interplay's original concept, and it's no coincidence that the best modern Fallout game (New Vegas, don't @ me) draws heavily on the influence of this game.

Its like a whole different language that I have no patience to learn. Story's pretty cool though.

the tribal stuff is awful and the sense of humour stinks like greasy 90s posturing and rank self-congratulation. bombards you with unbearably unfunny pop culture references, plays sexual assault for laughs, and couches all its insipid beerbong edgelord shit in THATS THE WASTELAND BRO because it has no conviction or insight whatsoever that wasn't set up in advance by cain and boyarsky

avellone + friends' worst work by miles and miles. the only thing I like here is My Chrysalis Highwayman which mark morgan probably plagiarized like (allegedly) half the music. everything bad bethesda did to the series' integrity (and worse) started here. this is ground zero and the common (delusional) notion that FO3 was a bolt from the blue tells me the classic fanbase doesn't know shit. Bro??? it's all right here. it's been here since 1998, inside this gross, smelly software that you (allegedly) played. imagine clutching your pearls about a fridge ghoul when FO2 canonized talking deathclaws and tom cruise — even pete hines unwittingly had you boneheads pegged. who the fuck cares about the world building in the knowyourmeme ass family guy rpg?

"this is worse than the time I got beaten at chess by a freaking radscorpion"

lower gen x into the ground already

If we could join the Enclave, this was the greatest game of all time.

This game was the first western RPG I played and a favourite of the genre. That said, I was feeling the fatigue of playing this game for the fourth(?) time. It’s satisfying to shoot people in the eyes for 95% accuracy and critical them to death but big fights with a lot of different chess pieces take a lot of time with how everyone has to move around. Maybe that’s why I quit halfway through this playthrough, but even when I picked it back up I figured this would be the last time I played this game.

Unlike all the other times I played this game, I went for an evil character. Thing is, there’s a lot more things to do if you are trying to be the good guy and they’re usually more complex to. There are some cool things you can do if you go the evil route, but they are rare– even in this Restoration Patch that I installed. It’s also hard to keep a low karma rating when you come across so many evil gangs that will ambush you and you have to wipe them out to defend yourself.

There’s a lot of classic CRPG jank too like say you choose the wrong dialogue option and then a person turns hostile and then all their friends and neighbours turn hostile and suddenly you can’t talk to an NPC you need to thus locking you out of a quest. It’s the kind of game where you have you finger on the quicksave and quickload buttons a lot. If you drop important items, it’s possible to lose them forever. The mechanisms of Fallout 2 are very fragile. This is also a game where death is permanent including on your allies.

I’m complaining a lot about a game that I love quite a bit. Maybe I’m coming off Fallout 2 with a lot of frustration but it needs to be said that the game’s a vast RPG with lots of interest quests and rich mechanics. The character building is pretty good and the world is a joy to explore, even if a lot of the dialogue writing and humour doesn’t hold up well and would be outclassed by Fallout: New Vegas. If this playthrough was my last, I wish it would have been a more pleasant experience, but that can’t take away all the years of loving this game.

The whole world is in this game! At first, I only completed the main story; I went only through the main quests. It was good! But then I played the second time, paying attention to the side quests, and I realized that the first time I didn't see more than half of the game! 

dei e roubei todo mundo, fiquei rico e matei um cara sem querer

Good game!
Cool story, nice gameplay.

this game freakin' rules! even better than fallout

Less to say about this game than the first one, it has cool locations with new reno being one of the best in the series and vault city showing what could have been, but narratively it seems weaker overall.


if this game was a first person shooter it doesnt even need the gameplay of fallout 4, just the gameplay of new vegas and this game would be considered the greatest game of all time in every region of the multiverse

Is this game a masterpiece? It sure felt like it at the time.

Would give a higher rating if Myron wasn't in the game :)

The best Fallout game ever, we have never even come close since. While Fallout 1 is great as well, I can’t think of anything better than 2, one of the best RPGs ever made.