Fallout 2 overrated

Why is this so acclaimed? I see Fallout 2 on almost every single essential or recommended chart, but the gameplay and writing pales in comparison to 1 and NV. NV is probably better because they had years to refine the ideas from Van Buren, instead of being rushed in less than a year like 2.

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Avellone's entire career is a story of rushed games and studio meddling, but the unfinished and unfocused writing in Fallout 2 should really become obvious when compared to Planescape, which has the best story in any video game to date.

i'm with you OP. fallout 2 is pretty weak compared to virtually any of the other good fallout titles, especially when you factor in the awful opening

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Because it's not 3.

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You're a fucking cancer. Delete this thread and comeback when you're not a knuckle dragging mouth-breather who can back up his words with anything other than "it's not as good" without any level of specification, you faggot.

It's fantastic for 3-4 playthroughs. The setting is bizzare and the dialogue is so comedic and full of farce, yet not vain or pointless. After beating it for the 5th time, the excitement will extremely wear off though, but it's fantastic while it lasts. Those who have played it too much will hate it, but those who recently found themselves immersed by it will love it.

Yeah, it's pretty much really flawed. It didn't improve upon anything from FO1 meaningfully, the game that was already flawed, it only added more substance. Literally quantity over quality, but it's somehow the most fun.

NV is worse. It missed the point of FO1 and 2 and turned it into some kinda 80's really cheesy b-movie scifi about faction warfare kind of thing, yet shamelessly still tries to be sophomoric. Probably the worst, most overrated entry in the Fallout series, IMO even worse than the Bethesda games and Tactics.

Sorry that one sentence didn't count as a master's thesis. The combat is tedious as fuck and only rewarding a few times in the entire game when you're blasting away people's guts without the turn-based combat getting in the way of taking 20 seconds just for some guy to walk up to you. The weapon variation is too far too great and some weapons are useless before you even find them. The GECK is supposed to be a MacGuffin but there's no real sense of weight like in 1 where there's the timer. The Enclave are barely part of the story and world, and would have been an interesting concept if it were more prevalent in the game. Frank Horrigan is a cool boss but you see him literally once in the entire game before you forget about his existence. The depth of character customization is lost in 2 due to long stretches of boring backtracking and battles that are too long to make any decisions really meaningful. The only major differences in gameplay your stats can influence are lowering your intelligence to speak like a retard, or maxing out speech to avoid combat sometimes, but it has little impact because there's still the main game to get through. The music is fantastic, Mark Morgan comes through in Planescape as well, but it's mostly recycled music from Fallout 1. The artstyle is pretty dull due to way too many different settings and setpieces, and lacks the grit from 1. The UI is slightly improved, and isn't as tedious as some people make it out to be. The writing in general is supposed to connect all the different locations together, but it's not well-executed enough, and each town becomes a blur. That's all I can think of for now. Seriously, though, the game really could have used more Enclave.

I really only like NV because of the replayability with the factions, but you have to project what you want onto the game due to all the rushed and cut content. It tried to be a middleground between darker Fallout 1 stuff with beheadings etc. and sillier Fallout 2 stuff with the Old World Blues stuff, which worked sometimes and was a little cringeworthy otherwise. On that note, the NV DLC is usually considered really good, I thought it was bad for the most part. Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road in particular are pretty bad.

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