The characters I met were funny, interesting and the quests they gave me led me on some incredible little narrative journeys. The dialogue system had been awesome in the original game, aside from a few kinks, but most of those kinks were ironed out. The writing, which had been good (although sometimes less than great) in the original, was now so much better. The town was nothing visually special it was like every other post-apocalyptic town, but as I began speaking to the citizens, I started smiling.

The overview map was also pretty much unchanged from the original (just like everything else), and random encounters were also still intact, but then it happened: I reached the first town on my journey. The characters I met were funny, interesting and the quests they gave me led me on some incredible little narrative journeys Flashbacks to the first game appeared before my eyes and I knew that if things carried on going wrong then I would continue to hold that unpopular opinion of mine: Fallout 4 is better than the originals. The game was not leaving a very good first impression. They were rats, just rats, and my character kept missing them… with fists… and I was right in front of them. I hoped against hope that this was the case, and then proceeded to have trouble with the first enemies in the game. I built up my high intelligence/high charisma character, hoping that Fallout 2 had fixed the combat heavy issues of the original game. I wasn’t going to let Fallout 2 beat me like the original had.

Aside from adding a few extra perks to the character creation screen, there was literally nothing that differentiated the sequel from the original other than the environment (although it did use the same art assets as the original) and the story. The gameplay, graphics and character creation screen are exactly the same as its predecessor. I decided that the best thing to do would be to place myself mentally in 1998 the era that many would be playing Fallout 2 for the first time. But I still had Fallout 2 to play, and there had been grumblings from critics I tend to agree with, that called the sequel superior, and so I knew that this was my last chance to hold a popular opinion concerning this series.

Seemingly everyone on the internet considered the original Fallout to be superior to its 3D action RPG counterparts, and upon completing the game I was left with the opposite opinion.

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