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MacPlay Re-Releases Fallout

Posted by chrisd on from the fallout-is-the-best-game-ever-written dept.

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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  1. Plasma Rifle to the eye and Save game times by benwaggoner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I started Fallout on a consulting trip to LEGO* in Billund, Denmark. I stayed in the mildly trippy Legoland hotel, but it was February and the park itself wasn't open, so there wasn't much else to do at night with jet-lag induced insomnia.

    On my then-beefy G3 300 PowerBook, Fallout had the most remarkable save and load times, like 2 whole minutes. It was so bad that I wouldn't save for hours, and when I died, I minded the load time from my previous save even more than the fact I had to redo so much stuff.

    The other thing I remember vividly about the game is when I was skilled enough to have 95% of hitting someone in the eye with the Plasma Rifle at a pretty long range. Plasma sniping!

    If they get the save times down to something reasonable, I'd love to check it out again.

    *(I was there desiging the video compression workflow for the original MindStorms CD-ROM cut scenes and tutorial videos. LEGO was an amazing place back then. One guy I knew told his boss he wanted to learn animation, and he had a dual-processor Octane with the full PowerAnimator a week later).

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  2. Fallout again by mmarlett · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.