7 ms·
Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics
- benologist 13y agoGOG's site has been very slow all day but if you're persistent you can also gift these games to other people for $0.
- schwap 13y agoSeems like they've disabled gifting of free games for now.
- theandrewbailey 13y agoI was able to get these last night (~10PM EST) without issue. The download maxed my FiOS connection, too.
- jacquesc 13y agothese games ever come out on mobile? feels like a perfect game to be redone on tablets / phones
- epaga 13y agodon't know anything about fallout coming to mobile (though you'd think it'd just be a matter of time), but baldur's gate is already out on ipad and baldur's gate ii is coming soon.
- danso 13y agoI've bought these games several times before (at discount) for the various OSes and computers I've had. I haven't played many modern RPGs (including Fallout 3+) but have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to truly embody an actual path? Not only could you play through making good/evil moral choices, but you could actually win the first game, IIRC, without even firing a single shot (by talking your enemies to death), or you could play as a total moron whose complete dialogue tree consisted of "UGHR?" as the NPCs treated you like the adult-child you were. I think you could even succeed as some of the specialty skillsets, such as being a pure scientist or lockpicking thief. Anyway, a fun game in terms of mechanics go, but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing
- wnoise 13y ago> but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing I take it you haven't played _Planescape: Torment_ ?
- pavel_lishin 13y agoI actually tried playing this. When I left the room in which I woke up, some sort of giant angel thing basically insta-killed me. Considering that this was after 5 minutes of gameplay, I gave up. :/
- jamie_ca 13y agoWell, death and rebirth is a major theme of the game (what with your main character being immortal). They need to show the player that death isn't something to be feared like in most RPGs of the time. I can see how that would be off-putting though.
- andrewingram 13y agoIt was a little disappointing that the game only had one puzzle which required that you die in order to solve it.
- mercurial 13y agoOn the other hand, you got to have your guts probed without anesthesia. How fun is that?
- mcv 13y agoWell, try it again. It has by far the best writing of any CRPG. I love the Fallouts, but Torment is High Literature. It's the Shakespeare and the Firefly of computer gaming. Allt he great, special unique games, from Star Control 2 to Bioshock to Braid, Torment beats them. It's a game that makes you think far beyond the stuff that's in the game.
- sounds 13y agoWork fine under linux (using wine): Fallout: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=70 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application... Fallout 2: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=194 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application... Fallout Tactics: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=602 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...
- josu 13y ago>We're very sorry, but gifting free games has been disabled, temporarily. If you want your friends to get some free goodies from us right now, feel free to share a link to our site with them.
- aaronem 13y agoI seem to be getting 404s and 403s at random from the registration form's target URL -- perhaps they've gotten more interest in this offer than they expected.
- aaronem 13y agoAnd now I've just gotten an email purporting to describe my order, which I made through a freshly created account by virtue of never having used GOG.com before. The email lists seven games, only four of which I've previously heard of, and none of which is a Fallout game. What is going on over there?
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoSame for me - just went back to the fallout offer page (http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_promo_2013 http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_prom...) and redid the "checkout now" and it then added them to my just-opened account (I was logged in at the time).
- qznc 13y agoYou get a few free games upon account creation at GoG. This is unrelated to this Fallout special deal.
- xtirpation 13y agoI ran into this issue as well, as it turns out it's 'cause I already had Fallout from a previous giveaway. If you click the little 'x' beside the games you already have from the list shown when checking out, you can uncheck the box that says you're gifting the pack and proceed to check out as normal.
- thenomad 13y agoSeems like they may have slightly fallen over under demand. I'm seeing 403s when I try to log in.
- neumann 13y agoit seemed to work after logging in a few times. great deal - Fallout 1 (and 2) were amazingly well written and really sucked you into their marvelous world. I never got the same feeling with the rest of the series - something about the first person view broke the fantasy for me and I was always 'playing a game' rather than exploring a wasteland.
- shmerl 13y agoGOG is great, but their lack of Linux support is the only thing which makes them falling behind competition.
- bunderbunder 13y agoI suspect that if the only thing hurting them is not supporting ~1% of the desktop market, then that must mean they're actually not hurting at all. What with their revenue being 2nd only to Steam - who is way more focused on higher-ticket AAA titles than old games at a discount - I suppose that's fair. They really aren't hurting very much.
- shmerl 13y agoFirst of all 1% number is pretty useless even though it's tossed around alot. Global web counters are pointless not only for measuring OS adoption on the desktop (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Measuring_desktop_adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Measuring_deskt...), they are even less relevant for estimating potential GOG users (who are gamers). If you check out Humble Bundle sales numbers (http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/ http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/), that's not 1% at all - it's close to 6-12%. GOG probably can collect statistics of their own site visitors who use Linux - that would be most relevant for them, but I don't have those numbers. And even then, since they have no native Linux games yet, those numbers would give then only the lowest potential margin. Not supporting Linux hurts them because of their use base. Those who don't accept any DRM go to GOG first, since they are strictly DRM free. And many of those are Linux users. GOG aren't focused on old games specifically anymore (even though they keep working on digging up more of them). They are focused on Good DRM free games, be it AAA, indie or what not. The problem is that most big budget games are funded by legacy backward thinking publishers who are afflicted with DRM sickness. That's why Steam has way more of such games. But crowdfunding and independent studios are really growing lately, and more and more big budget DRM free games emerge.
- wsc981 13y agoIt can be annoying when they sell games without proper (your preferred platform) support, but many games can still be played using WINE. For example: GoG doesn't sell the Mac versions of the Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale series, but those games run with very, very few issues in a WINE wrapper. And for Mac OS X at least, there are some great sites where one can download premade wrappers, e.g. PaulTheTall[0] and PortingTeam[1]. --- [0]: http://paulthetall.com http://paulthetall.com [1]: http://portingteam.com http://portingteam.com
- smithzvk 13y agoJust goes to show you, if you wait long enough, that game you never had a chance to play but have been eying for a decade will be given out for free... so now it can sit on your hard drive where you still won't have time to play it!! Now I just need wait for the OddWorld games to start coming out for free... any decade now...
- yareally 13y agoIt's 3 dollars right now on gog during the sale, so it might as well be free. http://www.gog.com/game/oddworld_abes_oddysee http://www.gog.com/game/oddworld_abes_oddysee
- joshschreuder 13y agoNot in an age where people think twice about buying a 99c phone app.
- EpicEng 13y agoBecause 99% of $.99 phone apps are garbage and you know you'll download it, use it once, and never launch it again.
- yareally 13y agoExactly. How many 99 cent apps are going to be discussed as being classics here on HN in 10 years from now? That's the difference between a 99 cent app and a classic game that is on sale for 3 dollars. Unless something happens with the trend of mobile apps being mostly disposable "flavors of the month" no one is going to remember any sort of mobile game classics in 10 years. It also does not help that developers can pull and app and it vanishes (unless you're lucky and rooted your Android device or jailbroke your iPhone and pulled a copy of it) as well as the lack of backwards compatibility on mobile
- Natsu 13y agoPersonally, I like to watch people play it more. For example: http://tasvideos.org/2375M.html http://tasvideos.org/2375M.html There's a maximum casualties run as well.
- donniezazen 13y agoAre they saying I should download the copies of all the games asap?
- wsc981 13y agoNo, you can just add the games for free to your GoG account in de coming hours. From then on you can download the games anytime you want.
- donniezazen 13y agoThanks.
- mcv 13y agoYeah, better not download them while their servers are getting hammered like this. But it's nice to know you can always get them later.
- angersock 13y agoFor the curious, here's the postmortem of Fallout Tactics: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3088/postmortem_micro_forte_s_fallout_.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3088/postmortem_micro_... It was a solid tactics game, but there were some rough edges in bringing in the Fallout stuff.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- johnyzee 13y agoI loved the multiplayer team tactics of this game, possibly my favorite multiplayer game experience ever. It was limited to a few good maps, and, as far as I remember, only a few different weapon types, but worked very well. I never even bothered to play the larger single player game because multiplayer was so good (although I did play Fallout 1 and 2 to death).
- angersock 13y agoWow, I never actually played the multiplayer at all...the singleplayer, though, was quite good. Poor game. :(
- mercurial 13y agoI didn't manage to finish it, but I had a lot of fun with it. One mistake they made was to add vehicles, which was just awkward. Maybe one day we'll get a similar, turn-based post-apocalyptic tactics game, with light vehicles?
- mcv 13y agoI never played it, because it was all about combat and lacked the story of FO1 and 2. But now I might give it a try anyway.
- shin_lao 13y agoFor those who don't know, Fallout 2 is probably one of the best RPG for the computer ever. With the proper mods and fixes it's really playable and enjoyable on a recent computer (I really recommend the hi-res patch http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout2_High_Resolution_Patch http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout2_High_Resolution_P... for starters). Fallout 3 New Vegas came close to Fallout 2 in terms of ambiance and game play, but not close enough (mainly because of the combat system). I really envy those who will discover this game.
- mercurial 13y agoBoth Fallouts are very good, but don't reach the heights of Planescape Torment in terms of writing or character development. I didn't play Fallout 3, but Fallout New Vegas' combat was abysmal. I actually liked the idea of wandering around in the wastelands, as opposed to traveling via the map (that's what Bethesda has been doing all along: exploration games with bad combat and NPCs-as-banks of informations), but I wouldn't want to sacrifice combat to it. They also tried to incorporate some survival elements, but it's not enforced enough to play much of a role in practice. There was an interesting discussion on RPS about Pillars of Eternity, a Baldur's Gate spiritual successor, about how leaving isometric 3D behind was a step backward in terms of graphics, and I tend to agree. I'm glad to see it coming back.
- mcv 13y agoI'm currently playing Fallout: New Vegas, and the real-time FPS combat is remarkably playable (though I normally hate FPS games). The VATS is terrible, and not a good replacement for the combat systems of 1 and 2. After Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1 and 2 were probably among the best CRPGs ever. That was really the golden age of CRPGs. Only The Witcher really added some real value (unfortunately The Witcher 2 has the most horrible combat I've ever experienced in a CRPG). If you love the classic isometric games, also check out Shadowrun Returns. It's not quite up there with Torment and the Fallouts, but it's well worth playing.
- mercurial 13y ago
- adorton 13y agoAnybody interested in these games should snatch them up - Interplay is losing distribution rights to them at the end of December. Who knows how long it will be before they return. Once "purchased" you will still be able to download them from your games library, even after they are removed from GOG's catalog.