Grimbeard - Fallout 2 (PC) - Review
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- I revisit a divisive sequel, take the easy way out, take some calls and learn to count to two.
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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Opening
06:34 - Story
12:03 - Spoilers
20:08 - End of Spoilers
27:25 - Gameplay
33:38 - Sight/Sound
37:34 - Bitter Recompense
43:06 - Conclusion
47:12 - Credits 
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Correction: Fallout 1 dev team originally partnered with Steven Jackson to use GURPS, not the D&D ruleset. I got it right two years ago, but not this time. I play D&D and somehow goofed this.
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It was also dropped rather early on
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I came down to the comments to leave a "ERM ACTUALLY" sort of comment, but alas, there's no need
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You have the highest work-to-subscriber ratio i've ever seen. If i wasn't constantly at risk of losing my own tenancy I'd totally send you money xD
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I could always use help with my disabilities xD trying to work that out now so if I could make content to have some form of income i would
@@aaronmarko fun fact: commenting on videos also improves the chances that they will be found by others - not saying you should spam comments, but... keep up the good work!
Ohhh there's his problem. He's only attracting us poor people.
@@josephmatthews7698 im no longer poor and am actually on grims patreon list now xD
I lived in Redding, definitely full of Jet addicts.
For a moment I thought he was going to make a joke about Reading, Pennsylvania - which has the same pronunciation and post-apocalypse setting.
@@Kevinism I mean, PA is already a post-apocalyptic setting...
@@StarkeRealm I sometimes drive through the PA countryside and take in the scenery as a break from living in New Jersey and almost dying historic on the Fury Road Parkway every time I drive to work.
like the video of the guy who did the trip around fallout 1 and 2 locations (or close-enough equivalents eg the vaults) and concluded new reno and old reno were bascially the same place
@@StarkeRealmit was nice to see that Pittsburgh survived unscathed in fallout 3
I play your music at my record store job when I don’t want to talk to customers
I love Bitter Recompense because I love hearing from people who struggle with things I figured out when I was 12. Is that petty of me? Yes. Yes, it is.
I love it for the exact same reason
"...When I was 12."
Oh god, I feel old right now. It wasn't that long ago... *checks* ...oh shit.
ppl going nuts cus' they missed an attack, crazy stuff
It would have been me at 29 because I'm shit at video games
"Why doesn't this stat I've put no points into ever do anything?" -A whole bunch of illiterate morons apparently
Quick Constructive Feedback: I like how your spoiler warnings are basically 5 minute rants on the game industry with channel updates and games you look forward to.
I also like phone bits. BRING BACK THE HORROR W VAGUE PLOT. STAAAAAACCCYYYYYYY
No.
yeah I really missed those bits. made the videos super unique
@@jdamsel8212 me too
My man got over Stacy, don't kick the hornet's nest
Wondering what Paulette’s been up to. And that ghost of the civil war soldier that grim talked to once after getting hit in the head.
I'm a simple man. When I see a new Grimbeard video, the voices in my head tell me to light something on fire.
I tend ignore those and just watch the video.
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I got introduced to the Fallout franchise by random chance.
Way back when I was a snot-nosed kid, when the internet was still on its early wild west stages that I dared not dread, my sister got married to some fellow who turned out to be an awesome brother-in-law within weeks. Didn't take long for me to find out that the guy was really into games and gave me free crack in the form of games burned on CDs. Got all kinds of great gems from that massive box, one of them being Fallout 2.
I played the game without any patched back then, but got really invested in its setting and mood. After three or four replays, I got to visit the first game and while initally weirded out by the time limit, again enjoyed the hell out of it. Spent a few years going over the seven stages of grief when Fallout 3 was released and accepted that it was a flawed release that felt both unoriginal and lacking the spirit of the first two games.
I respect the hell out of Fallout 1, but even when Fallout 2 is a more exaggerated, goofier version of its predecesor, I love it to bits.
Also, I think Fallout Tactics:Brotherhood Of Steel was a solid 7.5 and stood relatively well on its own, albeit not holding up the originals either.
When you played the soundtrack, I was really on edge. Because there's a track where if you play the beginning of it, it'll get claimed by some random company and it takes like 2 months to make the claim go away.
I love the implication that Vault-Tec completed 12 vaults before they had the thought that they should have a control group for their experiments.
I don't remember where in game exactly, but it was said in one of the logs that the displacement of the water chips was intentional to force this "control group" to open the vault when their water chips breaks.
that's just what happens when you get crazy with experiments. you jump into it too quickly, fail a few times then realize why you even need a control group lol
Thank you for spoiling us with this much anticipated upload, Grim! You're the first and so far only youtuber ive donated to Patreon for, keep up the great work!
Words of wisdom to all the arrogant naysayers out there; if the game runs like crap and is infested with game breaking bugs, download the Fallout 2 restoration mod. It fixes everything and adds in the missing content the game was supposed to have at release. It makes it the definitive version of Fallout 2.
Good lord you need more subs, between you, mandaloregaming civvie and lgr, I am set. Keep killing it sir
can't forget a particular ugandan warlord as well
igr? Also have you seen Joseph Anderson?
Check out ThorHighHeels too
Check accursedfarms. Ross' videos remember a lot of Mandalore. He plays the most cursed of graphic adventures.
Who da fuck is igr
The Nicholas Cage-esque delivery you put into "This game leaves a bad taste in my mouth, like, crap taste." kills me every time.
Yes please! A lot of people have been sacrificed for this and it was worth it.
Sacrificed? They look like sacrifices to you?
Yes, thousands of orphans from sea to shining sea were sacrificed to create this video. The politicians in charge assassinated foreign dissidents and changed world events to stop this and it still didn’t stop anything. Can’t stop won’t stop Puff Daddy once in Big Poppa’s Ten Crack Commandments. You can’t find it though cause it’s in fine print
@@gamemast15r may your preferred deity bless you!
@@gamemast15r based.
d-do you mean the bothans?
silly, bothans arent *people*!
as a Redding expatriate, i commend you on your spot on assessment. really isnt much more to say about that place. the nature IS slightly less irradiated there than in-game. slightly.
One of the first mods I installed for Fallout 3 was killable children.
Kudos I guess
man of culture, i see
Your reckoning has come at last, MacReady. Lay down your arms or let loose your pups of war. Either way, there will be only one outcome. Ya smug little shit, >.>
Based
youre right about the modern reviews of old games. Big fan of your reviews my dude
This in my opinion is your best paced, tightest presentation, rare to see the analysis match the quality of the subject. Absolute stand out not just for your portfolio but amongst all.
Thank you for this GB I've been really depressed the last 2 days and seeing this pop up on my feed really brought me up for 54min. Means a lot
I hope you're doing better today 👍
Here for you mate
Today I've just finished it for the first time in my life so I can confirm that it's not only nostalgia that makes people like it. I don't mind even the most dated references overall it's just more content for a great game. First one was a game I loved while I played it but after finishing it, I will never come back to it again, meanwhile Fallout 2 I can already feel urge replay it. As well at the beginning, it gives me this sense of adventure. Though the final boss fight should just be Sergeant Dornan angry at you because you left your never ending guard at hangar instead of that dummy Horrigan.
Plenty of games I admit I think extra highly of due to nostalgia. But Fallout 2 is a legend and a game I've played many times since it was released. If you haven't played Planescape, you want to give that one a try also. Not the same as Fallout, but certainly has that classic Black Isle feel and the best story ever told in a video game.
There's nothing wrong with excessively valuing something because of nostalgia. Nostalgia is personal, a memory of something in your life that was positive and went some way into making you who you are.
Any good memory from your life is nostalgic, and your life will eventually be 99% memory.
Who cares if nostalgia means your memories are not 100% objectively true? You're a person, not a fucking hard-drive.
With this in mind...Carmaggeddon was the greatest game ever and Sarah Marks had the greatest boobs of any girl who ever had boobs.
Believing a lie someone else tells you is usually harmful. Believing one you tell yourself is usually what makes life worth living.
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I remember the good old days of playing this as a kid, when I didn't understand much English yet (it's not my first language). Due to this I liked the second game more, because I ran out of time in the first one and never understood what I'm supposed to do :-)
Always brightens my day to see an upload from you. Thank you!
Fallout 2 huh, I might have played this game a few dozen times in my life.
It's a good'n.
Grim Daddy read my name for the first time and didn't butcher it, I feel so blessed rn.
@2:52 At the risk of giving you something more to obsess about and feel in any way depressed over, it wasn't D&D rules, as Steve Jackson didn't own those. His system (they one they originally planned on using) was GURPS, which stood for Generic Universal Role-Playing System.
I'm surprised at how few comments there are about this, and happy that they're all so much nicer, than the "How dare you! Beckett is a Gangrel!" ones. I wonder if Grim would enjoy the story about Steve Jackson getting raided by the Secret Service for supposedly being an Illuminati front that was teaching gamers how to be hackers.
12:51 Okay that phone flip is really cool. I had to rewind a few times to see if I saw that right.
Finally got around to watching this in all of its glory.
Fantastic review as always - your OG Fallout video is a personal favourite, so it was damn nice to see you come back for round 2.
The ray romano joke was really good. 10/10.
Regarding Frank Horrigan initiating self destruct of the Enclave Oil Rig.
Doesn't the player sabotage the reactor, messing with the control computer (hack/speech/blow up), causing a melt down? That's what I did on all my playthroughs.
Exactly. You can't progress to the room with Frank without initiating the self-destruct sequence.
"It was okay when Fallout 1 did it but when Fallout 3 did it it was dumb" so perfectly encapsulates much of the sheer amount of thoughtless criticism of Fallout 3, I love that you did that bit early on.
Bro! I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see one of your videos pop up on my feed. I tell everyone who will listen to watch your stuff! Best gamer reviewer on youtube, hands down!
Played this while in Iraq. I highly recommend it for an immersive play through. Go find yourself a shitty desert war to be in and play the first Fallouts back to back. Thank me later.
lol
Why go to GameFAQs i could have just read your comment
I played fallout in preperation of warfare in a desert
It was just like the simulations
@@JanJansen985 and unlike Fallout 3, you could kill the children. Not recommended, but the option's there
Can I go to the Ukrainian front? Then I can play STALKER as well, I know it's not a desert but considering it's still a brutal conflict we can still explore a semi wasteland?
Just wanted to say I love your content and your sense of humour. You are incredibly talented and these videos are a delight to watch.
Love the reviews, keep 'em coming. You da best. I watch these constantly and have them on in the background for gaming and going to sleep. They're a comfort. Like Pee-wee's big adventure, skinny puppies first album, and the time I knocked my head and talked to a soldier from the civil waaaaar!
Dude I have laughed so much more than normal at 42:20
That ending of "you gonna piss?" almost sounded like you cut it from "you gonna piss ur pants?" and it made it even funnier. Have not had a statement such as this make me laugh for over a day in such a long time. Got a sub from me, and imma check out all other vids and maybe add some parmesan to that (pizza)sub.
Seriously man this is the best video I have watched in a while.
Got to say, for an emo, goth backseat gamer... Love the content mate.
Breath of fresh air getting genuine gaming channel and it's just a bag of d*cks that YT shower me with p*as until a solid recommendation pops up in the feed.
PS. I think you do your own music too. Some of the background music.... Perfect
Very well contructed and narrated digital projection. Thank you for uploading this. You´re a great youtuber, i appreciate you.
I've been playing these videos in the background whenever I can, even if I've seen them all, so you get thos minutes watcheeed, babeeey
Keep it up Grim, you the GOAT!
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VID FOR SO LONG THANK YOU
I played this game so much I actually reached the 13 years time limit. I was a kid spending *way* too much time playing video games xD
What did you do to reach the 13 years limit? There's not much to do after 1-2 years.
@@michamarkowski2204 I'd just wander a lot doing every conceivable quest, random encounter etc. I would also often just wait to heal instead of using meds, which took days.
@@michamarkowski2204 back then there weren't many good games and games were also expensive. so with games like this you'd easily play it all year just looping around the game world endlessly. sounds a little boring but with a child's mind games like this never got old.
Nice, pretty fun, pretty solid review.
1 thing aside: Frank Horrigan is pretty interesting main antagonist. While whether he or Master is better one is debatable and depends on stark different archetype they use and introduction. Personally I even prefer Frank as he is technically more anticipation driven. Both however are pretty much best bosses franchise had (+ Legate Lanius in solid 3rd). It's said that neither Fallout 3 nor 4 gave us anyone nearly as memorable or interesting. No. 3 gave us prick that's not any more relevant than Enclave Mr President and in Fallout 4 we were more than likely to treat 'Father' as some Master-like antagonist that down the development route became nothing similar... and nothing as fun, which is a shame as Synths were rather interesting addition (and daring one on many levels, considering all their generations and what those meant for story).
But yeah, Frank is cool, and 'can' be a challenge. Heck, I still hope someone alike will appear in A.T.O.M. Trudograd~ but that's just a wish
I'd have never known Fallout 2 had such a troubled and contentious development considering how great it turned out.
I always liked Fallout 2 more than the first game. Though I do admit the first game had a much thicker atmosphere.
I love your videos, keep on making them, each time they come out I feel happy. You might be not the most popular youtuber, but you are the one whos tastes in music and games are closest to mine which makes me feel less lonely in this world
I feel the same way. I got to a stage where I'm very ok with most of the world not understanding me. Still it is [very good] to know many kindred spirits exist out there.
Grimbeard: Tell me what you want me to do
Me: I want you to do what you wanna do
Grimbeard: No, I don't wanna do that
As an aside, even Grimbeard loves Sgt Dornan. Everyone loves him, he's great.
My comment is fake, engagement let's go!
Love seeing that desk and phone set up. You deserve it, Grim.
your my new fav when it comes to putting on a video to disassociate to, i love how long your videos are and that im not gonna be randomly insulted by the creator plus your funny thank you
Man it is getting harder and harder to listen to your reviews because the Background music is just getting better and better. Love what you are doing keep up the great work.
I love these, good work man!
Oh man.. Christmas coming earĺy this year! Many thanks and great work mr Grim!
You have the best intros, I love the music in the beginning
Up until now it was a really tough day. At least it'll have a really nice ending! One of my favourite youtubers talking about one of my favourite games, sweet.
I know what I'm watching on my lunch break now. Keep it up, man. Your shit's great
"Daddy Fallout" sounds like a name one would see scrawled under early concept art sketches for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Jesus, I loved the steam reviews bit. You need more subs, friend.
I love this review, especially Bitter Recompense. They all deserved that and more.
This reminds me, too, especially when you talk about how you know there's still content you haven't seen in the game. Up until a few years ago I never found the side of New Reno that has all the families in it, lol
I went NUUUUUUUTS when I discovered that
I'm a simple man. When I see a new Grimbeard video, I know it's time to write the ex's name all over every page of the notebook.
FO2 was infamous on release for its bugginess.
I don't understand the "time limit" complaint about FO1. It's not like it's not enough time or you have a laundry list of objectives. You literally just have to go to 1 location, grab the chip and make it back and it's DONE. And 90 days is enough to walk over the entire map 3 times. So I feel like this pressure you feel is imaginary or psychological.
I wish more games had a similar feel to early Fallout and Jagged Alliance 2. I miss the days where a squadmate i leveled up for hours could get their head blown off and die because I made the mistake of taking cover by a window. Permadeath for the win.
14:50 iconic line, made me lol
Still watching it a year later, the "ITSBEENAWHILE" is just gold dude. Love your videos old and new. Takin a nap to it now but still listening. I need to play 2 lol. Youre keeping the desire alive.
been watching your vids love your style keep up the good work
You have to understand how cool this game was when it came out.
The sound effects were amazing, the gore and splatter of body parts was beautiful. It reminded me of crusader no remorse, and all the swears. We loved that stuff, we loved all of it. We wanted to see all the various death sprites and animations, just like more renowned games like prince of persia, odd world Abe’s odyssey, heart of darkness. Remember a game called kingpin, it was a first person almost open world shooter, Cyprus hill made an appearance. It had like the most swears of any game of all time. My point is during this time, every game had to top the last.
Grim Beard, you are the master of reciews.
Bro I’m always ready for another one of your videos
One of my favorite games reviewed on one of my favorite channels. Thank you so much. By the way I made a donation via PayPal some time ago but I'm not you got it.
Keep up the good work, I am sure your channel will keep growing! It's just awesome.
Oh baby. Thanks for making Thursday a bit more chill.
In before 10 minutes pass.
Was waiting for this one for a very long time. Thanks a lot dude. Keep up the great work.
Woah. I honestly didnt know so many people had so much trouble with the game, especially the beginning.
i always thought the stat/skill system was pretty straight forward in these games. like if you want to be able to shit something with a pistol, then you put points into small guns. put a lot of points into small guns then you'll be able to hit everything with small guns.
Since BloodRayne 1 and 2 are getting enhanced versions I guess you might finally review Bloodrayne 2 and Hopefully not having as much issues as in bloodrayne 1 Gameplay and running into issues.
Oh please review bloodrayne 2.
I'm at the beginning of the video And i have no doubt that this video on fallout 2 will be good.
Oh right BloodRayne 2...I always forget that one exists.
Man that game made some questionable design changes.
Been looking forward to this!
IVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE ELSE DO THE, “it’s been a while!” Song quote joke other than me omg. Every time someone says It’s Been A While, I HAVE to quote that song in the singers twang.
Fallout and F2 were and still are my favourite games. Played them when they released, I still give one of them a spin each year just to remind myself that good games exist. New Fallouts are ok but they shouldn't be called Fallout. Well maybe New Vegas was Ok.
ah, i've been looking forward to this
(35) Fallout 2 might be my most played game ever, including Super Mario and probably the oldest game I still play. Fallout 1 is perfectly fine, but too small once you play it the first time. Edit: There is a random encounter in Fallout 1 where you first see the Wanamango's around a crashed space ship...Aliens.
Vault 11
"it's just a prank bro!"
Aww yeah! New vid. Love your stuff Grim! Love fallout 2 too.
I also have a vinyl shedding dumpster chair. Neat.
This video has really high production value, you need more subscribers
As someone formally diagnosed with stupid eyes I personally take offense to this videos “bitter recompense” section
I used to replay Fallout 1&2 again like once a year. They're both so good in their own ways. you covered the differences in how they feel pretty accurately
Loved calling the Enclave from the Gecko power plant- hillarious
I love Fallout and Fallout 2 but I do have to admit that New Vegas does have this gravitational pull to it that I can't escape. I don't think it's all that much more sophisticated, but there's something to it where I can play for five hours straight and be fully immersed but when I play Fallout or Fallout 2, I'm riding high until I fuck up and then I feel exhausted. That something is probably autosaves, but moment to moment gameplay is just much faster in New Vegas, I can end combat encounters fast and get back to talking, plus the factions of New Vegas are some of the most interesting I've seen in any media, and even the little things like how nobody knows how to pronounce Caesar just feel right.
Also fuck how long it takes to get small arms in this game I felt naked
Thanks Grim I was having a shitty day, this helps
love ya bud, hope it gets better
Dude your videos and jokes are so my style. I laugh out loud and get caught off guard every video 💣💥💖
Something that a native English speakers don't realize is that for every other language the game's pop culture references are barely able to be picked out (even more in the pre widespread internet times)
As a French kid I got some of few references, but since I could count them on my hands that makes F2 just depict a world that is just weird with crazy people that just might not make sense. And that in itself absolutely fits the post apocalyptic narrative.
That is also what I expect the young native English speaker of today and tomorrow to feel as they wouldn't get many of the now very dated references.
I think it depends what your cultural background is. The first time I played Fallout 2 (2000), I had no Internet connection and my English was poor (had to use a dictionary to understand, what I had to do in some quests). I understood some pop culture references. But it was because of the movies and tv series I've watched before Fallout 2. E.g. I didn't get Pulp Fiction references, because I didn't see Pulp Fiction. I didn't get Monty Python references, because that wasn't my kind of humor and I didn't watch it on TV. But I got Star Trek references, because I've seen Star Trek before (fun fact: "I'm not a XYZ, I'm a doctor" - I found that reference only after 30+ playthroughs).
Im really happy i stumbled on your channel RUclips recommendations usually blow but hit gold with you long form essay on obscure games im probably never going to play and comedy that doesn't suck really excited to binge watch your stuff till i hate it lol
My excitement for this video is unprecedented and completely unexpected.
This was greatly needed.
Actually been a long time Fallout fan. Keep up the good work!
If I were an overworked, exasperated Fallout 2 dev fulfilling my company-mandated levity quota, I would create an NPC in the Reno porno studio and name him ‘Mr. Plow.’ Then I would probably just sit motionless and stare blankly in front of me for a little while in an attempt to process the chain of events that brought me to this point in life.
The dark one has risen and bestowed a beautiful bounty. We love you Mr. Goth, best youtuber in the FRICKEN' game
finally i can feel validated in my feelings about fallout 2, like a true Gamer:tm:
Ahoy Captain
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"that man's name was Egg" Are we sure it wasn't Meg?
This channel is amazing! One of the best channels on youtube! :D
Hey, nice to come here and be saying nice things once again.
That music you got playing for the car bit, real nice. Sounds very Super SWIV.
I like it.
Oh baby, I'm keen for this. Thanks Grim
Grimbeard and a cup of joe are a good combination.
Hey, love the content, great vid as always. Cheers
i had a genuinely shitty day and seeing this new here makes it less bad