History VideoGame / Fallout1

* KillEmAll: Including being able to do a pacifist run, it's possible to do a sort genocide run where you kill every living thing in the game, including the usually-unkillable Overseet.

* AssholeVictim: Decker may be an evil crime boss, but the people he wants you to remove aren't angels themselves. They include Darren Hightower, the leader of the Water Merchants whom singularly control the economy, and Jaina, a member of the [[ReligionOfEvil Unity]].

* [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then the Vault Dweller Was a Mutant]]: Occurs as part of a NonStandardGameOver if you reveal the location of the Vault to the Super Mutant leaders.

* LifeWillKillYou: If Gizmo takes over Junktown, he dies by chocking on an Iguana Stick in the ending.

[[RunningGag Vault 13 is an okay place to live]]. There's plenty of food, water and friends, and the Overseer keeps everything nice and tidy. Not that you have much choice: the Overseer says that the world outside is a big pile of radioactive ash and bleached bones, with the only life being horrifying mutant creatures that could kill you in seconds. The wasteland is simply inhospitable. Good thing there's no reason to leave, right?

* DroneJam: It can happen in tight spaces if you have a large party. There's no way out of it, so your only hope is that someone moves away.

The first game in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series: the most straightforward and unarguably true to the original vision.

* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Town]]: Shady Sands, the humble Starter Town with a few minor sidequests, goes on to become the New California Republic, a major faction in both ''2'' and ''New Vegas''.

---> [[PlayerCharacter The Vault Dweller's memoirs]], from the ''{{Fallout 2}}'' manual.

The first game in the ''{{Fallout}}'' series: the most straightforward and unarguably true to the original vision.

Think again. The [[MacGuffin water chip]], the source of all the water in the Vault, has broken and there's no way to fix it. The only way to get another one is to seek out another Vault and take theirs. But wait, that means [[TheHero someone]] has to go into the wasteland! Who would do something that crazy?! The Overseer decided that the most fair way to find out, was to gather all the inhabitants of the Vault and have them draw straws. And guess who drew the shortest? Oh yes... [[OhCrap it was you]].

---> [[PlayerCharacter The Vault Dweller's memoirs]], ''{{Fallout 2}}''

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Master]] is an honestly well-meaning person... mutant... thing. He truly believes that mutation is best for humanity, and you can't blame him for thinking HumansAreBastards, since they created the Wasteland. And he'll even give up if you prove to him his plan will fail.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The game has the Vault Dweller banished from Vault 13 because he's become "too different".]]
** [[spoiler:Also, Necropolis is canonically destroyed by the Master's armies, meaning a ton of innocent Ghouls died. On the plus side, [[AssholeVictim Set]] dies as well, and Lenny's existence in ''2'' suggests that at least ''some'' of the population managed to survive/get away in time.]]
** [[spoiler:According to the background information from the Fallout Bible, most of the surviving ghouls from Necropolis resettled in the area near the Glow, and form a thriving salvaging business. Eventually they joined the NCR as a key member state, and play a large role in creating equality between ghouls and humans in the republic.]]

* CombatPragmatist: The Vault Dweller can become this. Always aim for the eyes in [[strike:[[{{Fallout3}} V.A.T.S.]]]] targeted attacks! [[spoiler: You can also kill both the final bosses by blowing them up and bypassing the boss fights entirely, but if you don't get the Special Key from the Lieutenant's locker/have high enough skills (repair and science), you can't activate the Nuke under the cathedral. Also, the only way to beat the game is to leave both of their places of residence smoking craters.]]

* DownerEnding: If you side with [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Master]]]], you get treated to one of these. It is pure horror. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyqlMBeQFU See for yourself.]]
** You get the same ending if you [[spoiler:tell the mutant Lieutenant where the Vault is when he tortures you, should you be brought to him]].

* EnemySummoner: The Master.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Harold, a ghoul-esque mutant you can meet in The Hub, was five years old when the Great War began, and emerged from Vault 29 in 2090. The Vault Dweller encounters him in Oldtown in 2162. He'll tell you a little about his life in Vault 29 and what he remembers of the beginning of the war if you ask.
* EvilBrit: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9T8Z_Ayhw Lieutenant]], voiced by the delightful TonyJay.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: An intelligent enough character that has found the right piece of evidence can do this to the master.
* TimedMission: You have 150 in-game days to find the water chip. This can be postponed 100 days if you tell a group of water merchants were Vault 13 is. Next [[spoiler:you got 500 in-game days to stop the Master's Army from invading Vault 13. If you asked for help from the water merchants you only got 400 days]]. This leaves the player with relatively little time explore a pretty interesting world, something Black Isle probably realized, because the first patch removed the second limit, allowing you to TakeYourTime.
** Also, Necropolis gets destroyed by the Mutant Army if you don't defeat the Master fast enough. It seems that developers were originally planning that ''every'' city gets destroyed by Mutants if you aren't fast enough. Sadly keeps the game from being the WideOpenSandbox that the rest of the series does so well.
** Sometimes, Shady Sands does get wiped out by the Mutant Army.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:The Master wants to turn every human into Super Mutants as he believe that it is the only way to unify the wasteland]].
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Master speaks with four different voices at random intervals: a [[CreepyMonotone passive-aggressive tone]], [[LargeHam a more violent, shouting voice]], a heavily filtered monotone voice, and [[LarynxDissonance a similarly filtered female voice]]. Also, nearly all of them are JimCummings.
** Aka Aerie and Minsc have been turned to a horrifying freak of nature! [[BaldursGate2 IRENICUS!!!!]]

* ExpositionOfImmortality: Harold, a ghoul-esque mutant you can meet in The Hub, was five years old when the Great War began, and emerged from Vault 29 in 2090. The Vault Dweller encounters him in Oldtown in 2162.He'll tell you a little about his life in Vault 29 and what he remembers of the beginning of the war if you ask.

** The Junktown was visited by [[MadMax ''stranger with a shotgun, a dog and one-sleeved leather jacket'']].

* GuideDangIt: the ending has [[spoiler:the Overseer casting you out because you've become "too different", and you're supposed to just take it and walk away]]. What you're not told is that, if you hit the inventory or character keys right at the end of the dialog, you [[spoiler:pull out a gun and return the favor]].

* DownerEnding: If you side with [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Master]]]], you get treated to one of these. It is pure HighOctaneNightmareFuel. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyqlMBeQFU See for yourself.]]

** Aka Aerie and Minsc have been turned to a horrifying freak of nature! [[BaldursGate2 IRENICUS!!!!]]

Vault 13 is an okay place to live. There's plenty of food, water and friends, and the Overseer keeps everything nice and tidy. Not that you have much choice: the Overseer says that the world outside is a big pile of radioactive ash and bleached bones, with the only life being horrifying mutant creatures that could kill you in seconds. The wasteland is simply inhospitable. Good thing there's no reason to leave, right?