#fallout 2

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Harold

Art asset for Fallout 2

Art by Scott Rodenhizer

[irradiatedpiratebooty]

re-upload of my fallout 2 edit, including a watermark since this video has been reposted without credit to me. its obnoxious but unfortunately this is what has to happen

[hangon-silvergirl]

fallout tv series + game dialogue, & a niggling suspicion that this bullshit is going to be my personality for a while

[gageisahomeboi]

Another one

[swedebeast]

[artbyblastweave]

There's a question which the west coast Fallout games are quietly litigating, which is that age-old gotcha about what you do with the remaining orcs once you've deposed Sauron. In the original Fallout, the Super Mutants are basically universally aligned against the quote-unquote "good guys," for whatever value of that term is applicable to the wasteland at large, but subsequent games make it clear that this was an ideological thing, and a product of the political moment of the mutants creation rather than an ontological quality that they have. The game is very aware that this is something that was done to them, and the tragedy of that; the first mutant you're likely to run into is dying scared and alone.

Fallout 2 presents super mutants who've broken in every direction ideologically in the aftermath of the Unity's collapse; the peacemakers under Marcus at Broken Hills, Gond as a member of the abolitionist NCR rangers, reactionary remnants of the original mutant army, genocidal self-hating fascists like Frank Horrigan. Fallout: New Vegas iterates on this beautifully. The mutants dovetail perfectly with the theme of how every faction in the wasteland is trying and oftentimes failing to reckon with the weight of history. Their utopian movement imploded outside of living memory, closer to the apocalypse than to the present day. The survivors- who can only dwindle in number due to their sterility- have been left to reckon with that in whatever way they can. And they have their backs to about a hundred and twenty years of that reckoning not going particularly well, of being the bugbear and boogeymen for bullies and ideologues whose grandparents weren't even alive to suffer from the Unity's actions. The lack of a collective future for mutantkind casts a pall over even the best ending for Jacobstown; humans are collectively resilient within this setting, but through violence, and accidents, dementia and senility, the day will inevitably come when there are no mutants left. And worse still will be the day before that, when there's only one mutant left. Finding some form of satisfaction or contentment within that dwindling window, with the world against you, is a task that falls to the individual mutant. (Take Mean Sonovabitch, for example. He seems to be doing alright for himself.)

Then we slide on over to the east coast games, where the mutants are.... morons. Cannibals. Marauders. And when you meet one who isn't, the game throws itself a ticker-tape parade for containing such an audacious twist. To go back to the orc thing, it's like if The Hobbit had contained a lengthy, empathetic subplot about the rich internality and fleshed-out-if-deeply-flawed ideology of the orcs, and then there was a pivot to treating them like a monolithic block of ontologically evil marauders in LOTR. While staring you straight in the eye the whole time, unblinking. Daring you to say something

[angrycheesegirl]

I think the biggest thing we lost when Fallout went 3D was the ability to target the groin in V.A.T.S. I cannot overstate the importance of being able to shoot someone in the dick in Fallout 1. There is nothing more personal, more gratifying, than landing a 95% to the groin. "We don't need that option anymore, we're not so juvenile" well I am. Give me the "Shoot Dick" option.

[kyl3dawolf]

fallout tactics, 2001

[proximera]

Your ride's over, mutie. Time to die. Never have half-hour sketches turned out so good btw.....

[tannnnblogs]

Madam Pres

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Lynette

Art asset for Fallout 2

Art by Scott Rodenhizer

[leona-florianova]

my good pal...my good chum..Goris..i havent drawn him in a while..

[chippyfella]

The yassification of ghouls in fallout needs to be studied

Set (Leader of Necropolis, seen in Fallout 1 and 2)

Gob/Gobtholemew (Slave/Bartender, seen in Fallout 3)

John Hancock (Mayor of Goodneighbor, seen in Fallout 4)

Cooper Howard/The Ghoul (Bounty hunter/U.S. Marine veteran, seen in the Fallout TV show)

[northern-punk-lad]

From the people who brought you “why is x-men woke” now comes “why is fallout anti capitalism now”