Oh you absolutely have to play through the first two Fallout games, with appropriate restoration/community patches in place, of course. They are milestones in

Oh you absolutely have to play through the first two Fallout games, with appropriate restoration/community patches in place, of course. They are milestones in CRPG storytelling, visual style, gameplay design and dark humor. And if you want another game that follows in the same footsteps, give Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura a try. It's set in a fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution, with all the friction between magic and tech that would result in. Like with FO1 and FO2, there are community patches to tweak the gameplay balance a bit (especially the one to boost firearms a bit, otherwise they're a bit weak compared to spells).