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I wish someone could port 1 and 2 into a good first person experience. Would really make it accessible to many more people born after that time.

kofejnik 10y ago
I wish someone would port 3&NV onto that old 2 engine, I liked it a lot better
- yoz-y 10y ago
  I would like a new fallout based on the Fallout: Tactics engine. I really liked the interactions and animations in it, but the game was a bit bland.
  - pluma 10y ago
    There were attempts. First of all, there's no way to port the graphics because FOT used a different perspective than FO1 and FO2. Secondly the engine itself is very limited so dialogue would have to boil down to singular yes-or-no questions (among other limitations). There's really no way to make a more atmospheric game with that engine than FOT itself.
- hvidgaard 10y ago
  The combat system, really needs an overhaul. It has not aged well, and games like Wasteland have shown that it can be a lot better.
pyrale 10y ago
Fallout 1 and 2 are about storytelling. Most of their value comes from great text and situations, so the interface should not really matter. If you want to give it a shot but get annoyed by the fighting system, try it as a social character, zero-fight gameplays are possible.
- gravypod 10y ago
  It's not that, it's the texturing. I'm color blind and most of the game looks like a blur. It's super hard for me to tell things apart without a 3d component. It's worse since the game is painted with the fallout-blend or gray, brown, and more gray. I can do play the game just fine but I end up missing a lot because I can't tell if from rocks.
  - g0ran 10y ago
    There is a tool that might help you, it's called Visolve (http://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/visolve.html http://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/visolve.html). I couldn't find anything similar for Linux distros, though.
    - gravypod 10y ago
      That would be fantastic if I could download something like this for my thinkpad. I know what spectrum i need help with from doing the enchroma test. I'm red green. Edit: thinking about it more, the easiest way to get something like this would be to just put an overlay on my monitor with the coating that the enchroma uses. This would pretty much solve my issues.
      - detaro 10y ago
        Maybe the color calibration features in the display stack could be used to apply something like this globally to a system. They should allow quite powerful color transformations.
  - mrob 10y ago
    You don't need a 3D component to solve that problem, only an optional bright outline around clickable objects like in Baldur's Gate 2. EDIT: It seems in this case it would have to go further than BG2, but I stand by the claim that BG2 style highlighting is a useful accessibility/convenience feature, and I personally did not find it immersion-breaking.

kofejnik 10y ago

I wish someone would port 3&NV onto that old 2 engine, I liked it a lot better

yoz-y 10y ago
I would like a new fallout based on the Fallout: Tactics engine. I really liked the interactions and animations in it, but the game was a bit bland.
- pluma 10y ago
  There were attempts. First of all, there's no way to port the graphics because FOT used a different perspective than FO1 and FO2. Secondly the engine itself is very limited so dialogue would have to boil down to singular yes-or-no questions (among other limitations). There's really no way to make a more atmospheric game with that engine than FOT itself.
hvidgaard 10y ago
The combat system, really needs an overhaul. It has not aged well, and games like Wasteland have shown that it can be a lot better.

pyrale 10y ago

Fallout 1 and 2 are about storytelling. Most of their value comes from great text and situations, so the interface should not really matter. If you want to give it a shot but get annoyed by the fighting system, try it as a social character, zero-fight gameplays are possible.

gravypod 10y ago
It's not that, it's the texturing. I'm color blind and most of the game looks like a blur. It's super hard for me to tell things apart without a 3d component. It's worse since the game is painted with the fallout-blend or gray, brown, and more gray. I can do play the game just fine but I end up missing a lot because I can't tell if from rocks.
- g0ran 10y ago
  There is a tool that might help you, it's called Visolve (http://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/visolve.html http://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/visolve.html). I couldn't find anything similar for Linux distros, though.
  - gravypod 10y ago
    That would be fantastic if I could download something like this for my thinkpad. I know what spectrum i need help with from doing the enchroma test. I'm red green. Edit: thinking about it more, the easiest way to get something like this would be to just put an overlay on my monitor with the coating that the enchroma uses. This would pretty much solve my issues.
    - detaro 10y ago
      Maybe the color calibration features in the display stack could be used to apply something like this globally to a system. They should allow quite powerful color transformations.
- mrob 10y ago
  You don't need a 3D component to solve that problem, only an optional bright outline around clickable objects like in Baldur's Gate 2. EDIT: It seems in this case it would have to go further than BG2, but I stand by the claim that BG2 style highlighting is a useful accessibility/convenience feature, and I personally did not find it immersion-breaking.