Comments on: The Fallout 2 Restoration Project

The Fallout 2 Restoration Project

aldurtregi — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:06:04 -0800

"The purpose of this mod is to add back into the game all the content that was originally planned by the Fallout 2 devs." Over the last 2 years an industrious chap has "gone through almost all the text files and scripts and compiled a list of what appears to have been pulled from the game," in order to restore it to it's originally intended glory and now his work is complete. Enjoy.

Direct download here. Previous discussion of the Fallout series. Also, an informative interview regarding the upcoming sequel, Fallout 3.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:42:04 -0800

Only took 10 years.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:53:11 -0800

Similar efforts exist for Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines (which is, IMO, one of the best games ever, being basically like a Vampire version of Deus Ex and seriously I can gush about this game for hours) and for the infamously rushed-out Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (website appears to be down).

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:54:44 -0800

That's kind of unbelievable that I never posted in the earlier thread. I've finished fallout 2 more times than I care to admit.

By: JeremiahBritt

JeremiahBritt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:02:35 -0800

I just started replaying it. Fantastic timing. Now someone just needs to make Kingdom o' Magic II.

By: ChrisR

ChrisR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:02:44 -0800

Now, I just want the mac patch to exist :) /me looks longingly at his Fallout 2 image file.

By: clockworkjoe

clockworkjoe — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:45:01 -0800

Is it stable? Has anyone played through to the end to make sure it won't bug out?

By: systematic

systematic — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:57:08 -0800

I'm pretty excited about this, but I'm not sure exactly how much content he added. Ah, who cares? Like juv3nal, I've played the Fallout games more times than I care to admit. I'll have to give this a whirl.

By: JaredSeth

JaredSeth — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:06:48 -0800

I just recently replayed Fallout, and was planning on starting in on the sequel soon. Sounds like there may still be some bugs in this, but I might have to give it a shot.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:18:08 -0800

Is this download the full game, or just a patch/mod to be applied to an already installed-version of Fallout 2?

By: aldurtregi

aldurtregi — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:33:26 -0800

COBRA!: It's just a patch.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:34:43 -0800

this is so badass. bully for this dude.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:22:06 -0800

Projects like this amaze me. First, someone's so dedicated to a game that he'd do it. Second, that he sticks with it for two years to release something other people can play. Third, that the game engine is flexible enough to allow this kind of manipulation and yet is transparent enough that third parties can figure it out. It's really impressive. I sure hope the KotOR 2 restoration project succeeds. It's been 2.5 years, but they're still making so progress. That game was so great, up until the parts which were brutally cut out of it to meet the absurdly rushed schedule. My impression was that the final fights were supposed to vary wildly depending on the choices you made; I can't imagine it'd be easy to add that back in. But at least they can restore some of the lost content.

By: illuminatus

illuminatus — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:17:00 -0800

This is awesome... now I get to play the director's cut!!!!! I think user-created content mods are going to be huge going forward... using released games as a framework for players to tell new stories and create new plots with mods and such... Thanks for posting this

By: Megafly

Megafly — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:39:31 -0800

It may be time to dig out the old CD! I always loved using pick pocket to plant Plastic explosives on people and then...sauntering away to watch them blow up.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:48:11 -0800

oh man oh man oh man oh man new fallout stuff AIEEEEEEE *collapses*

By: ersatz

ersatz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:47:24 -0800

What a good excuse.

By: sponge

sponge — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:15:01 -0800

vaguely related: a policenauts translation is almost completed. its an rpg by hideo kojima ( metal gear solid ) that was only released in japan originally. it has also taken 10+ years to come around

By: sponge

sponge — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:15:32 -0800

also supposedly one of the best rpg's ever, so i hear...