Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

**Captain Vegetable** · 20 Jan 2004, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by Mzo

REAL RPGs. I think it important to make the distinction.

And I would agree.

**Mzo** · 20 Jan 2004, 05:49 PM

Damn, now I have to get both Tactics and BoS.

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 20 Jan 2004, 05:51 PM

hmmm. Win XP friendly?if so, i may have to track 'em down.

**Diff-chan** · 20 Jan 2004, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Mzo

Damn, now I have to get both Tactics and BoS.

No, you dont have to get BoS. Just wait for Dark Alliance 2.

**Saint of Killers** · 20 Jan 2004, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by Kraftwerks

hmmm. Win XP friendly?if so, i may have to track 'em down.

I hear they tend to glitch out in XP.

**Eightbitbreaks** · 20 Jan 2004, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Kraftwerks

hmmm. Win XP friendly?if so, i may have to track 'em down.

I had no trouble running FO2 on XP. I haven't tried FO1 though. I should run through that game again. I love how you can do the whole game without killing anything. Well without directly killing anyone anyway.

You should be able to find it at the discount PC game bins at Target. I've seen FO1 and 2 bundled together for 10 bucks. Fantastic deal.

**Saint of Killers** · 20 Jan 2004, 08:48 PM

http://www.interplay-store.com/produ...sc=&IPPC=ipnav

**Captain Vegetable** · 21 Jan 2004, 11:55 AM

Alright, I aced the game yesterday (read: this morning at 1:30 am . . . boy, am I tired) and I was very satisfied. The ending is a tiny little clip of FMV, but the story resolves during play, so I didn't see it as all that important.

I did, in fact, unlock all three extra characters for beating the game on Normal, without having done anything super special. The characters are as follows:

Patty: The head of security in the vault at the end of the game.
Rhombus (sp?): A Brotherhood Paladin who ass you rescue from a ghoul cult in Los.

and, the best one yet;

"The Vaultdweller": It's the main character from the first game, but all old and rugged. I doubt it's supposed to fit into the actual time-line of the series, but it's still a really cool extra.

There are other extras that became available to me as well, like screenshots of "pinups" of all of the female characters, concept art, and a God awful music video by a suckass band called "Skin Lab," and the Apocolypse difficulty level. Also, you're given the ability to import your character from the previous game into a new game (which I will be doing for the Apocolypse setting), kind of like a new game plus.

I'd go through and beat it again if Baldur's Gate: DA 2 wasn't released today. It only took about 10 hours, but it was worth it the whole way through. As soon as I wrap up my first play-through of BG: DA2, I'm sure I'll be coming back to this one.

More on the length of the game!

The game will tell you it has three chapters, but considering the chapters each begin with your arrival at a new town, there are actually about 4 1/2 - 5. The third chapter is very long, and you change locations twice, which is why I say what I do.

Just, you know, I thought you might be interested.