Well I can't hit "NO" on bloody Fallout 2 can I? It's a cult classic.

That said, I'm sure you've heard all the good stuff about it from everyone else. Maybe you remember playing it as a kid (and remember all the good stuff). All that good stuff is true. This game is awesome.

That said... there are some things that really grate on me...

Combats are painfully, hair-tearingly slow. Sometimes you have to wait minutes for some scorpions to crawl ahead a few hexes each, only to fire at one and find out that you missed. Again some minutes of crawly-crawly. Until they surround you and tear you to pieces within a single round.

Your weapons don't really improve all that much. Later in the game, around San Francisco, even though you can upgrade your arsenal, it feels like a downgrade with the ridiculously overpowered (and numerous) enemies.

Merchants run out of cash, and you run out of storage space. You'll end up lugging around dozens of extremely valuable guns you can't use, and can't barter in for an upgrade, because, say, the gun you'd want to buy costs 10000, each of the old guns cost 1000, but you can't carry 10 of them at the same time.

Party members are bloody idiots. They are a liability 50% of the time. They are very good at two things - getting themselves killed, or killing you and each other. If you give them powerful weapons, they will try to shoot a full cartridge into some enemy right through a party member standing inbetween. If you give them crappy weapons, or tell them to run away, you can't win most of the fights late in the game.

The NPC control dialog is incredibly hard to navigate.

Did I mention how slow combat is? On a computer maybe a 100 times more powerful than the one this game was written for.

Anyway... of course it's recommended. It's Fallout 2. But it will frustrate you to no end.

Well I can't hit "NO" on bloody Fallout 2 can I? It's a cult classic. That said, I'm sure you've heard all the good stuff about it from everyone else. Maybe you remember playing it as a kid (and remember all the good stuff). All that good stuff is true. This game is awesome. That said... there are some things that really grate on me... Combats are painfully, hair-tearingly slow. Sometimes you have to wait minutes for some scorpions to crawl ahead a few hexes each, only to fire at one and find out that you missed. Again some minutes of crawly-crawly. Until they surround you and tear you to pieces within a single round. Your weapons don't really improve all that much. Later in the game, around San Francisco, even though you can upgrade your arsenal, it feels like a downgrade with the ridiculously overpowered (and numerous) enemies. Merchants run out of cash, and you run out of storage space. You'll end up lugging around dozens of extremely valuable guns you can't use, and can't barter in for an upgrade, because, say, the gun you'd want to buy costs 10000, each of the old guns cost 1000, but you can't carry 10 of them at the same time. Party members are bloody idiots. They are a liability 50% of the time. They are very good at two things - getting themselves killed, or killing you and each other. If you give them powerful weapons, they will try to shoot a full cartridge into some enemy right through a party member standing inbetween. If you give them crappy weapons, or tell them to run away, you can't win most of the fights late in the game. The NPC control dialog is incredibly hard to navigate. Did I mention how slow combat is? On a computer maybe a 100 times more powerful than the one this game was written for. Anyway... of course it's recommended. It's Fallout 2. But it will frustrate you to no end.