Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (1997)

Article: Crawl Out Through The Fallout - by Brian Shea

At that point in 1994, programmer Tim Cain’s primary job at Interplay Productions, the development studio behind Wasteland and The Bard’s Tale, was making installers for some of the studio’s games. Outside of regular work duties, Cain had spent the last six months creating a new engine. He showed it to artist Leonard Boyarsky, who suggested they make a game out of it. Unfortunately, Cain was forbidden from recruiting additional workers, as everyone at Interplay was assigned to other projects.

Using the oldest trick in the book, an office pizza party, he began recruiting after work hours. “I sent emails saying, ‘I’ll be in that conference room with pizza if you want to come and talk to me about games we could make with this sprite-based isometric engine,’ and I really thought that tons of people were going to show up,” Cain recalls.

That was not the case, as only eight people showed up, including Boyarsky. “I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was self-selecting for go-getters,” Cain says.

It's Fallout day, children of the wastes! Favourite Fallout game? Favourite Fallout moment? I've played a modded a lot of F4 the past few years, but my favourite will always be F3. I love the music, the characters and quests, but most of all I love the dystopian themes in Fallout and the commentary on capitalism, class, and warfare.

Here's hoping we get a remaster or remake of the original games at some point. I would love to replay them all.

Fallout stream from Bethesda in a short moment if anyone's interested:

Finally gotten around to playing this. Huge fan of Fallout 3 and new vegas, and now I feel like I can really appreciate the game that laid the ground work!

The controls are... old, as expected. The combat and turn based style isn't my cup of tea, but it's fallout, so I'm embrassing it which has been a nice challenge!

So far I've had to reload my first save 10 times after dying to a cave of ants over and over on my way to the first vault. Realised I had done a terrible build putting all of my points into charisma - I thought charisma would be important but apparently not! Had to refer to a build guide in the end to help me get on my way, now im at my first location, shady sands!

I don't plan to use a guide or walkthrough unless I get stuck... again. Enjoying it so far though, just gotta get used to the concept of the turn based movement with the action points. And yes, I have set the display to 1920 x 1080 which is why the UI is so small. Thinking about maybe decreasing it back to an older display ration so that things aren't so small, but it looks pretty crisp when you're playing! If anyone knows if there are patches available to upscale everything? I'm currently using fallout 1 in 2 mod which transfers 1 into 2s engine. It's meant to include a high res patch, but that doesn't seem to have increased the scale?

EDIT:

Fixed the scaling issues. If you're using the Fallout 1 in 2 mod, you have to go into the f2_res.ini file and lower the resolution to something like 960 x 540, and i've heard disabling 2x scaling helps too.

...oh no. I think I already forgot what the heck I was doing last time I played. I know I save scummed the heck out of those awful radscorps for Razlo, but I'm not sure if I progressed further than that.

The good news is that it'll be easy to pick it up from the start if I have to, but with Tears of the Kingdom on the horizon, it'll...probably be a hot minute before I make another serious attempt at a personal complete playthrough of this one. Drat!