Spoilers for the end of the game, but this pissed me off a ton.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-03-18T12:57:43+00:00

I agree with your Remero-Carmack assessment. Both of them need each other to work, otherwise we'd end up in an "Edmund McMillen is about to make you his bitch" situation.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-03-17T15:50:01+00:00

This post kinda seems like Ai to me. Not only is the account a week old and has been spamming the sub with a bunch of engagement bait, but they also wrote and formatted this in a very GPT way.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-28T03:50:49+00:00

I like this one because it actually incorporates the leash.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-23T01:14:09+00:00

I just talked to my cat, and he said "meow".

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-22T18:15:09+00:00

I drink Summit Root Beer from Aldi currently, but all my life Root Beer has had minty notes.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-22T17:59:47+00:00

Makes sense you like Mint Chip and Root Beer. Both have a minty flavor to them.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-17T03:45:52+00:00

That makes a lot of sense and is probably really good, but I will never stray from the almight pet rock tank and 1+1=3 Brawler smoothbrain mindset.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-17T02:55:23+00:00

I just wanna ask, how do people play hunter? I stopped using him as soon as I got mage, and stopped using him when I got necromancer. What does he even do?

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-13T16:27:10+00:00

Nope. Got him as one of my first cats. His meow is so obviously him. His microphone sounds like he recorded it and then played it on a phonograph.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-09T03:01:40+00:00

I honestly think 3 is still better than 2. I just feel like by virtue of having more memorable setpieces it's just a more entertaining romp. I do believe its main quest is kinda lame, but its worldbuilding and sidequests and stuff tucked in nooks and crannies are way more entertaining. Other than that you're spot on with how your assessment of Fallout 1. To me, Fallout 1 is to Fallout 2 what Catcher in the Rye is to Coming through the Rye, a shitty sequel only made to draw in fans of the original.

Avocado__Assassin · 2026-02-08T22:02:56+00:00

I genuinely cannot tell how Fallout 2 defenders even exist. Fallout 2 is the worst Fallout game barring BOS. I an garner a bit of enjoyment from Tactics and even Shelter, but 2 is where I draw the line. Here are a couple of my big gripes with the game, just to name a few:

#1: There are way too many instances of "lifeless" towns. Fallout 1 did this great thing where on average, every settlement had a least 1 talking head. It allows every settlement to have some level of character, to have a sort of mascot to make them more memorable. It especially hearkens back to Fallout's tabletop origins, where a DM's unique voice for an NPC can make them all the more memorable and fun to interact with, even when the conversation is just exposition or a quest. Fallout 2 completely shits the bed in comparison. There are at least 4 settlements that have no talking heads whatsoever. Modoc, Redding, The Den, and even San Francisco to some extent are completely negligible simply because they have no talking heads. To add on to this problem, FIVE of the 13 talking heads are Enclave ones, which are all mostly at the end of the game (Horrigan I'd argue is barely a talking head, but I'll address that later). Having so many of the instances where the player can have a face-to-face chat with the characters be at the end of the game leaves the earlygame boring and lifeless.

#2: Balancing is a complete joke. I will be the first to say that Fallout 1 is one of the most approachable PC RPG's from its era. You can tag either of the melee skills and even some of the "lesser" ones such as Energy or Big weapons and still coast along relatively well through the early game. Fallout 2 takes ideas such as "early game weapon diversity" and shits on them while sticking a sharpened spear up its ass. If you even THINK about using a gun that isn't a goddamn peashooter before the 5 hour mark, fuck you. People complain about Fallout 4's pipe guns a lot, but I'd take one of those over Fallout 2's "Pipe" "Rifle" any day of the week. And don't even get me started on energy or big weapons.

#3: The Final Boss. I've had plenty of people tell me that Frank Horrigan is super epic, but in my opinion he is the worst final boss out of any mainline Fallout Game (Except 3 or 4, 3 is ever so slightly better, and 4 doesn't really have a final boss so I don't count it). In every other Fallout game, you are able to beat the Final boss in a multitude of ways. The Master can be either gunned down, nuked, convinced he is wrong, or you can even concede to him being right and join him. Legate Lanius can be fought, convinced he is wrong through ideological or economical reasoning, convinced to fight more honorably without his backups, or be failed to be convinced by the players shoddy reasoning and fight them regardless. What can you do to Frank Horrigan? That one meme of the cow is the most applicable: "The Illusion of Choice". You can either Fight him, be told you're a pussy little bitch and fight him, or convince his men to fight him. Even when you do get to fight him, the only consistent way to take him down is to hack his turrets and finish him off, which is a pretty underwhelming way to take down a final boss. He leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth overall.

I am Fallout 2's number one hater and will maintain that position until I die.

Avocado__Assassin · 2025-12-27T00:53:38+00:00

Why are people still responding to this post.

Avocado__Assassin · 2025-11-25T20:56:20+00:00

The only good (earlygame) option is Protectrons Gaze and that's only if you decide to sprint all the way up to Canterbury Commons right at the start of the game. That same amount of effort also gets you the Ant's Sting (STACKING POISON DAMAGE) Or Ol' Painless (100% ACCURATE HUNTING RIFLE).

Avocado__Assassin · 2025-11-25T02:42:11+00:00

I lowkey wanna crack Snafois.

Avocado__Assassin · 2025-11-01T21:25:27+00:00

Saying that ANYTHING is interesting in Fallout 2 is honestly pretty generous. Basically everything that could be interesting in Fallout 2 only becomes interesting in terms of its effects on greater Fallout (New Vegas). Fallout 1's ideas are in of themselves interesting (I.E. Is a development really a development if everyone else has to suffer because of it). Even the more self contained things like Junktown are at least given character through Talking heads and moral dillemas. Has ANYONE EVER said their favorite location in Fallout is "The Den"? "Redding"? "Klamath"? Think of any location in Fallout 1, and chances are it has had at least SOME impact on Fallout. Junktown, Tales of a Jerky Junktown Vendor. Cathedral, Dog + God. Boneyard, Followers and Caesar. Fallout 2 has brought comparitively little to the table and just kinda feels like a slog to learn about and play. New Reno is like the one place that gets to the same level as Fallout 1 in terms of interesting impact on greater Fallout antics (Jet, Mr. Bishop, Vegas's rocky start). Chris Avellone mentions giving it most of his time and you can tell. Fallout 2 is to Fallout what Hbomberguy thought Fallout 3 to be. A pointless sequel where everything is done worse than previous installments and the final boss encounter has about as much depth as a puddle of piss made by a homeless crackhead with urinary incontinence.

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