MacPlay Re-Releases Fallout

BrotherhoodOfSteel writes " Accelerate your Mac reports that MacPlay is re-releasing Fallout as part of their value series. This is the original (good) version and the new release will be Mac OS X-compatible. MacGamer has a preview. And since it's news, there must be a press release." Those who have played Fallout and Fallout 2 can vouch for the quality of narrative in this single-player RPG. Now if someone would port Fallout 2, life would be complete for Macintosh users. Update: 06/21 16:24 GMT by J : Here's Omnigroup's page on the Mac OS X port.

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Fallout again

[mmarlett]

I dusted off my copy of Fallout this winter and threw it on my 2X 800 MHz G4 and played it under OS X -- obviously in Classic mode. But I was shocked at the lack of bugs. There was a problem with the mouse pointer trailing, but the 1/2 hour it used to take to load saved games was gone. Most importantly, sawing a mutant in half with a mini gun was still just as satisfying.

I'll buy the OS X version just in case my trigger finger gets itchy.

Fallout Save Game Times (& Other Technicals)

[Thenomain]

Just For The Record, the reason for the ungodly load/save times is that the save system is too complete. (This, to me, is like beer being too free.) Every city/segment that the character enters is then saved, whether or not the character has interacted with a person or object. They're saved with the rest of the area. However, and this is the important part, even if you don't re-enter an area since the last save, it is still re-saved.

This is also why Fallout (and, later, Fallout 2 and Planescape) slows down so much when there are a lot of people and objects in an area: Even if you can't see it, it's still checking the script every "heartbeat", usually every two seconds. (Obviously, this doesn't happen in areas the character isn't in -- we don't all have a new 40 TFlop system.)

As Fallout "re-broke the mold" (Fallout is a wonderful revisioning of the ancient and Mac-Only game "Wasteland" -- goofy and fun), some technical issues is neither surprising nor a reason not to play the game.

The visionaries behind Fallout have formed a new company somewhat-recently. Troika's only released game is Arcanum, a Gaslight Fantasy. Yes, the graphics are lackluster and everyone looks like they're tall and anorexic, but the RPG engine is fun and it's about as well scripted as Fallout. It makes up for it in many ways that there are gobs of side-quests and different stats could give you an entirely different path along the plot-arc and three ways to "win".

I've strayed, but I liked the game. But then, I still like text adventures.