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Educate Yourself: Destructoid's Classic Game of the Month Club, Month 4
Cowzilla3 | 7:56 AM on 07.03.2008 20 comments




Sorry for this being incredibly late and super short but I have absolutely no time with planning stuff for E3 and an extra paper being put out in the coming weeks. I'm pretty much swamped beyond belief until after the ol's triple E. But that doesn't mean I shall fail you by not delivering a classic game to play this month. Last month we had an awesome time FNFing it up and plenty of people jumped on board and played some Castlevania even if not that many blogged about it. I apologize for not linking back to the blogs that did but but I kept shitty track this month and the blog search isn't turning them thanks to the numerous posts about Castlevania DS games and fighting games. Anyway, I hope some people popped in what turned out to be an amazing game that really shows what true quality level and game design are...and is impossibly hard. I still have no clue how Merry Ho got through the game so quickly. I bow to his skillz.

But enough of the past. Onwards and upwards!



I hear Fallout is pretty good. Got some sort of following or something. People rabid over the third game. Do you know why? I sure as hell don't because I'm not a computer gamer and never have been (except for Myst) so this one completely flew by me. But Post apocolyptic RPG sounds both original and fun as hell. Plus I am almost 100 percent positive that my POS laptop will be able to play this game thanks to the fact that it is old as old.

But age doesn't mean a lack of quality (I hope). Especially when the third in the series is coming out soon and going to be compeltley different or something. I for one want to know what those differences will be. Once again, knowing your roots is the main point of this and it seems to me that Fallout has some of the strongest roots around. Few games truly get what can be described as a cult following but this one definitely has it and I hope to find out why. Don't you want to know too?

The final reason I chose this game is because I'm told it's an RPG that can be beaten really quickly or painstakingly slowly depending on what you want to do. I want to play plenty of RPGs for Educate Yourself and we will but I also realize not many people have the time to kick through 40 hours of gameplay since there are so many other games distracting them. Thus Fallout is a great first RPG since it can be completed relatively quickly and once we do one we'll all know how to manage our time around it and then we can dive head first into things like Earthbound, Secret of Mana and whatever FF game I decide to play.

So get ready to do it like Mad Max and pop those ancient CDs into your CD-ROM drives. It's time to Educate Yourself.

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Remember if you see something cool in the game write something about it. Get a conversation going. Remind us all of your best Fallout memories. Get some writing done! This is as good a reason as any.

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I'm not sure how it's going to work this month but it should be on Friday the 25.



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Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 08:05
Kryptinite
Sadly, I have no means of playing this but I want it!
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 08:18
galagabug
fallout 3 looks really cool, but i can't play through rpgs. i tried recently with mass effect. just can't do it. something about the slow... pacing... and... lots... of... reading... (press a)



just... to... get... to... 10... minutes... of... (press a)






gameplay.
Merry Ho's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 08:21
Merry Ho
Good pick, I get cracking right away (by cracking i mean playing the game not obtaining an illegal copy and cracking it, of course)
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 08:53
king3vbo
Hot damn, good pick. I loves me some Fallout
Alasdair Duncan's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 08:54
Alasdair Duncan
I have to be honest, I tried Fallout last year after buying all three games for only $20AUS in a sale. Can't get into it, but that's mainly because of the turn based combat, which really puts me off games. I may try again but I'm more looking forward to Fallout 3.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 08:56
king3vbo
In comes king3vbo with an secret link
Spitfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 09:56
Spitfire
awesome awesome choice.
bbrigg1's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 10:30
bbrigg1
whoooaaaa king, I'm at work. TITTIES!!!!
Electro Lemon's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 10:52
Electro Lemon
I have the Mac versions of Fallout & Fallout 2, I might be in for this.
Sam Spectre's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 10:55
Sam Spectre
Awesome. I've been wanting to play this game. By the way, thanks King, you saved me some time.
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 11:38
Maurice Tan
I might give it a try if I can. Tried it a couple of times but it always ended in "where is my sound?" or "meh, I'll go back to X-Com: TFTD" :)
Pixel Blue's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 11:49
Pixel Blue
Hell.

Yes.

I'm moving. But I love this game and have never beat it and now is the time.

Between this and D2 it's going to be an all-isometric world for me for awhile.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 13:05
Darren Nakamura
I should probably check this out too, since I've never played a Fallout game either.
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 13:09
Teta
i started playing it, and I really have no clue what to do.
Where is my: Atack option, arrow pointing bad guy, waiting time? Where?
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 14:02
Brian Szabelski
I probably ought to check this out before I get Fallout 3, since I, too, have never played a Fallout game before.
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 14:52
Knivy
Yay king3vbo!!!

Wait, I think I already have it.
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/03/2008 15:54
Wexx
OOo awesome, I didn't try to download this a few months ago but couldn't not ever get it to work, I guess I'll have to try again this month :D
KamikazeTutor's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/04/2008 03:02
KamikazeTutor
Of all 10+ times I restarted the game, I only finished it once... And a rather incomplete ending it was.

But I love it, until I start mugging everyone in the game that is, and then having trouble with managing my party's inventory.
I have a problem...
bahss's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/05/2008 03:42
bahss
It would be awesome to play this, actually. If I had the means TO play it. :(
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