Great game, but missing several needed patches
I had heard a lot about Fallout from the guys on The House of Lords on Terra-Arcanum back when I was playing Arcanum. When I saw it on here, I just had to get it! Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed by what I downloaded because of the poor quality graphics--even taking into account that it has been a long time since those guys were telling me about it.
Naturally, being an old time gamer, I looked around to see if I could find any patches that would improve things. Sure enough, I found No Mutants Allowed and it has several very useful official and unofficial patches. Among them, there is a high resolution graphics patch that gives much better quality graphics. There are also several other patches that I strongly urge everyone who enjoys Fallout to visit this site and download for themselves. After adding those patches to Fallout, the game is much more fun to play and I did not include any of the cheat hacks they had there, just the official and unofficial patches that improved the game's playability on modern systems and fixed bugs. I did include the better quality sound files to enhance my playing pleasure.
However, I really feel rather strongly that GOG should make those patches available to anyone who buys Fallout or Fallout 2 because sites like No Mutants Allowed seem to be drying up and disappearing every day! The original game manufacturers often no longer even exist and the companies who bought them--especially Atari--just don't care about supporting old games that they are not making money on anymore! (After the way Atari has ruined all of the old Sierra games, I am not sure I will ever be able to force myself to buy anything from Atari because I will always be wondering just how soon they will shut down support for it.)
Please add offsite patches to the downloads included on all old games available at GOG! As M$ and the game makers stop supporting the old games that attract the community here, this will become more and more of a necessity. I really like GOG, but this would significantly improve the quality of the service here, in my opinion.
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