Fallout 1 - Free on GOG for the next 48 hours

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Just wait to give you guys a heads up on the deal going on at gog.com.

The classic Fallout is available for free for the next 48 hours.

I'm taking this opportunity to play a great classic game I missed out on. I've played a little of Fallout 3 and would like to see how this series started out.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

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Hmm I see why its free now.. might have been good back in the days where 8MB GPU was amazing, don't have patience for games like that now :)

Thanks for the heads up though

Your loss.

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Hmm I see why its free now.. might have been good back in the days where 8MB GPU was amazing, don't have patience for games like that now :)

Thanks for the heads up though

http://nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57362

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Pretty sure there was no gpu back then.

True, the first GPU was made in 1999, Fallout it's a 1997 game.

However I suspect he meant graphic cards. The first was made in 1994-1995.

Still, there's no reason to ignore these games. Many old games are a lot better than what we have today.

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True, the first GPU was made in 1999, Fallout it's a 1997 game.

However I suspect he meant graphic cards. The first was made in 1994-1995.

Still, there's no reason to ignore these games. Many old games are a lot better than what we have today.

Yea I didn't mean while the game was out, just that far back

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Hmm I see why its free now.. might have been good back in the days where 8MB GPU was amazing, don't have patience for games like that now :)

Agreed. It was cool back in the day. Great game no question. But then again, VCR's used to be cool. Doesn't mean I want to hook one up and use it again...

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GPU as a term appeared in 1999. I believe Matrox made first addon video card in 1978. *cough*

Th old graphics cards of the era don't qualify a gpus, some of the early workstation cards could, but that's something entirely different.

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Th old graphics cards of the era don't qualify a gpus, some of the early workstation cards could, but that's something entirely different.

Care to explain how so, please? :wacko:

On an unrelated note and more to the topic, perhaps, people these days play a lot of much bigger total fire-and-forget turds that just happen to be more flashy colored, but fail at every single good game design principle there is. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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Care to explain how so, please? :wacko:

On an unrelated note and more to the topic, perhaps, people these days play a lot of much bigger total fire-and-forget turds that just happen to be more flashy colored, but fail at every single good game design principle there is. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Gonna have to disagree with you on that one. I play 95% offline rpg and there are ALOT that I would take over a game made from back in the day.

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