People really are afraid of Fallout 1 & 2’s age, it seems. But they are still the best.
It’s less the age and more that they just plain don’t play well. They always feel like you’re supposed to be in control of a full party but you never are, even once you finally get companions they’re AI controlled (and it’s not even a good AI).
I never had this feeling. It’s an RPG, I can build and control only my character
100% I have copies of those games that consistently follow me on every computer I build and transition too. Always ready just to spin it up and take down those nasty slavers! The skill system worked just way better in a turn based game. Don’t get me wrong I love New Vegas ans 3, no so much 4, but 1 and 2 just had a different feel with the game and the skills.
If you’re a big fan of the isometric games in the series, are you familiar with the Wasteland series? Fallout 1 was, in a number of ways, based on the first game in that series, and Wasteland has had newer releases. If you want “more isometric Fallout”, that’s probably the closest thing you can get right now.
I really didn’t like one element in Fallout 1: the fact that it has a timer on the game.
Fallout 1 spoiler
You need to get the water chip before your Vault dies from lack of water. No other game in the series does this; it was a common source of complaint.
For an open-world game, it’s nice to have time to spend wandering around. I’m not saying that it’s not realistic, just that I didn’t like having to worry about that.
I got that free game from Epic a while back: Encased. It took the isometric gameplay/feel from the first 2.5 fallout games and modernized them pretty well. I haven’t finished it (my character is a psychic god. it’s fun, but I’ve kind of lost the thread of the story. I think I’m in act 3 or something) but a mod porting FO1 or FO2 to that engine would be sweet.