I don't like atom, and I'm not sure that is even indie. I just find myself replaying FO1 and FO2 periodically, because nothing scratches that itch like these 2 games.
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Underrail
Btw your taste is objectively shit
I've already finished underrail once (1). It was generic and soulless, not what I'm looking for.
Also, you are a shitter.
Yeah age of decadence, its literally a fallout clone. But there's a bunch of these like Planet Alcatraz and Krai Mai, they're just not very good because Fallout is not good and you should learn to enjoy other things.
I liked AoD, its world has a very uniquely heavy and brutal feel to it and it undercuts this much less with humor or non-sequiturs than, say, fallout. Very immersive to play through with different backgrounds.
Game-system wise it leans a bit too hard into build-optimization (kinda like underrail and such) and it's usually a requirement to hyper-specialize to make good progress (unless you metagame with prior knowledge and/or savescum).
As for the OP, I don't think there are really any games like FO1&2. Not really.
>Game-system wise it leans a bit too hard into build-optimization
No it doesn't, you just stack your skills into one area. Jack of all trades not being viable isn't build optimization and its okay if what your build produces is different from what the player wants, that's roleplaying.
>you just stack your skills into one area
>Jack of all trades not being viable
I guess it's not exactly "build optimization" if you want to get strictly semantical about it, but this is exactly what I mean.
You are punished harshly for not optimizing for the game's "meta" (focusing on few stats) and trying to make a more balanced all-rounder is punished (i.e. it's not optimal). This dynamic is unusually pronounced in games like AoD (and one could say underail does it too for example.
It's not a bad thing by itself when a game does this, but I think especially for new players it's something that's good to know to avoid needless frustration with a sub-optimal build that makes the game much less enjoyable.
I think AoD is a very unique game and I liked it a lot but it does have its problems.
>you should learn to enjoy other things
No. Playing these kind of games is how coped in my early teens and I will not accept anything that's different and I will grow ever more resentful and bitter the older I get.
AoD is not a game. It's a cool and unique setting, aesthetic and visual novel.
>inb4 AoD combat
no
It literally lacks nothing that could bar it from not being an rpg. There are better games than AoD that are not rpgs, but it's definitely an rpg if there ever was one.
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Miasma Chronicles
The Shadowrun trilogy from HBS is an extremely loose fit. I'd recommend giving Dragonfall a shot if you haven't already.
This but skip Returns because it's really bad.
No, it is not. The cover/armour system is less tedious, the Matrix parts are less tedious, and it has a more authentic feel of going on runs and hiring runners for that as opposed to a rigidly structured story. They are different.
>tfw no big spoon Eiger to hold me at night
It hurts bros
Dragonfall is bretty gud
The soundtrack is a real banger
SR games are nothing like FO what are you smocking
Honest question: what is it about Fallout that makes it special?
>Honest question: what is it about Fallout that makes it special?
It was cool when it was new and you were a teenager
The humor, the characters, the setting, the SFX and music, the dialog and choices, the combat, the sprite work, build diversity, the perks, and how everything comes together
My only real gripes with both games are:
>They are too short
>Inventory management sucks (but can be remedied with mods)
>the combat
>the build diversity
lol surely you jest
No.
Pity yourself.
>No.
Describe to me a mentally stimulating combat encounter in fallout 1.
any where Ian has loaded smg and you don't savescum
It has the perfect combination of autistically developed and detailed setting, open-ended problems, and variety of half-baked mechanics.
To me it's the graphics, the ui and the sound effects. The writing is passable, if someone made a game like fallout 1/2 with good writing it'd probably be like one of the best games ever or something.
I will plug in my own project here since the gameplay mechanics are heavily inspired by FO1 and FO2 (pic related)
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What about Fallout Tactics?
super linear, main story is serviceable, side-quests are very simplistic, combat and build variety are bad (even in comparison to F1 and F2), visuals and audio are decent, it gets the atmosphere right early on but then gets annoyingly woke from the "diversity is our strength" angle with Brotherhood starting to recruit Ghouls, Super Mutants, and Intelligent Deathclaws
The option to play in real time (without pause!) is neat novelty, and executing well orchestrated ambush feels good, but it's also kinda buggy so even best laid plans can be ruined (or worst laid plans saved) by AI spazzing out or game physics breaking.
>I just find myself replaying FO1 and FO2 periodically, because nothing scratches that itch like these 2 games.
I pity you.
Wasteland 2/3, and XCOM1/2/Chimera Squad if you actually like turn-based grid combat and not just called shots to the eyes.
Also, various Fallout 1/2 fan made campaigns,
https://olympus2207.com/
https://resurrection.cz/en/
http://fallout-nevada.ucoz.ru/
Thanks for hooking me up. I actually tried the fan made campaigns and progressed somewhat, but I couldn't handle the jank or bad translations
Fallout Resurrected, Fallout Nevada, Fallout Sonora. I have uninstalled ATOM too, its just not the same. Encased was medicore at best.
>Encased was medicore at best.
Did you play past Act 1?
Act 1 is great but Act 2 is dogshit and Act 3 wasn't even finished. The game ran out of ideas in the first 10 hours and ran out of effort in the next 10. The game is unfinished and it feels like a scam.
Average of great first arc, mediocre second arc, and bad last arc is an overall mediocre game.
The anger/disappointment I felt at the end far outweigh all those "that's neat" moments at the beginning.
I finished it. It was medicore and unfinished. Also had bug that stopped you from finishing game so you had to download something from their site
Wasteland 2 comes very close to Fallout. Just don´t play 3
3 is just like 2, but better.
Yeah a lot better is a better description. Wasteland 2 is pure dogshit.
2 and 3 are both pretty bad. I get the impression that a lot of the responses are not games like fallout, but instead games as dumb and easy as fallout.
Both 2 and 3 are not really like fo, but 3 it's a much better game overall
You have to be ultra contrarian to prefer 2
Codex cross poster?
I liked ATOM.
yeah it was refreshing too see the apocalypse from a slav setting
There's a ton of Fallout 2 total conversions, and most do a surprisingly good job of getting it right.
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thanks for this thread OP, I learned of a few games to try
Age of Decadence is the closest version I got to what you ask but the game is made by autistic people for autistic people, min-maxing is the only way to play without a guide and even then you may get a surprise stat check so the way to play is to hoard skillpoints which isn't fun
Playing it with cheating however is extremely satisfying, I loved the smartypants Legionnaire path that used Int and Cha which are usually dump stats for a warrior build
the only game I know of where you could pick the violence career and solve most of it without violence
Why did you shoot brahmin
I think it's the butchery, not the player killed it.
>I don't like atom
Did you play Trudograd? It's a lot better, and tones down the LE EPIC RUSSIAN IMAGEBOARD MEME XD-shit. The only reason to play the original ATOM is to get the lore, various stat boosts, using the oblivion ampule to reset Hexogen's stats, and importing your save into Trudograd.
>LE EPIC RUSSIAN IMAGEBOARD MEME XD-shit.
Not him but thank christ.
I enjoyed the gameplay of Atom but had a real hard time getting in to it as the game never seemed to take the setting seriously. I get it was basically a love letter to all the things the devs love but the jokes and references and 'humor' all became too much after a while.
it wasn't that bad for me, i don't mind humour at all and i'm not russian, so a lot of the references went right over my head except for stuff like the red letter media guys making snuff porn, which gave me a chuckle.
Oh OP, you will spend the rest of your life searching for the sewerfree chinese food in Beijing. I guess its time to go to gog or steam and sort by isometric rpgs.
Only Arcanum really
Marauder
Death Trash if you're ok with early access.
How's it coming along? Content wise does it focus on a small area with a lot of content or is there a large amount to explore with little to do? Somewhere in between?
It'll be a while before it's done. You might have fun for a few hours, but personally I'm waiting for it to be compelete. I bought World of Horror and BG3 when they were on EA, but didn't play them till they were officially released, and I'm planning to do the same with Death Trash.
Fallout 3
Have you tried Arcanum?
At first sight it should be nothing like fallout on paper
But it's by pretty much the same people on the same [heavily modified] engine
You'll feel right at home
Check out Olympus 2207. I was surprised at how good it was. Buggy, and can be really difficult even as a vet FO1/2 player, however.
there was an australian rpg that was directly inspired by fallout 1 but it was about UFOs in the 1950s. i have no clue whatever happened to it; early 2000s game.