<story><title>Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics</title><url>http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve bought these games several times before (at discount) for the various OSes and computers I&amp;#x27;ve had. I haven&amp;#x27;t played many modern RPGs (including Fallout 3+) but have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to &lt;i&gt;truly&lt;/i&gt; embody an actual path? Not only could you play through making good&amp;#x2F;evil moral choices, but you could actually win the first game, IIRC, without even firing a single shot (by talking your enemies to death), or you could play as a total moron whose complete dialogue tree consisted of &amp;quot;UGHR?&amp;quot; as the NPCs treated you like the adult-child you were. I think you could even succeed as some of the specialty skillsets, such as being a pure scientist or lockpicking thief.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, a fun game in terms of mechanics go, but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bernardom</author><text>Baldur&amp;#x27;s Gate 2. It&amp;#x27;s so good that a studio re-made it to work on modern computers- it just came out last month:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.baldursgateii.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.baldursgateii.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(I have no relation other than a happy customer)</text></comment>
<story><title>Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics</title><url>http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve bought these games several times before (at discount) for the various OSes and computers I&amp;#x27;ve had. I haven&amp;#x27;t played many modern RPGs (including Fallout 3+) but have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to &lt;i&gt;truly&lt;/i&gt; embody an actual path? Not only could you play through making good&amp;#x2F;evil moral choices, but you could actually win the first game, IIRC, without even firing a single shot (by talking your enemies to death), or you could play as a total moron whose complete dialogue tree consisted of &amp;quot;UGHR?&amp;quot; as the NPCs treated you like the adult-child you were. I think you could even succeed as some of the specialty skillsets, such as being a pure scientist or lockpicking thief.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, a fun game in terms of mechanics go, but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaryd</author><text>Might be interested in this project... &lt;a href=&quot;http://eternity.obsidian.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;eternity.obsidian.net&lt;/a&gt; (Pillars of Eternity)&lt;p&gt;EDIT: More info...&lt;p&gt;This game was kickstarted and is being developed by some of the same people that worked on Planescape: Torment. They recently did Fallout: New Vegas, and are currently also working on South Park: Stick of Truth. Here&amp;#x27;s a link to the gameplay promo for Pillars of Eternity: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKoDTzea79Y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=HKoDTzea79Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: My buddy works for this game studio</text></comment>