History Videogame / Fallout2

--->'''Virgin of the Wastes''': [[YouNeedToGetLaid You really need to get out more]]. Your sexual exploits have been... well, [[ADateWithRosiePalms two dimensional]].

* EvilerThanThou: All four of the New Reno crime families are bad in their own right, yet the Mordinos are easily the worst of the bunch. While the Wright, Bishop, Salvatore families control the casinos, entertainment districts, and weapon distributions within the city, the Mordinos are proud of being responsible for the Jet epidemic that directly inhibits the local populace.

* EvilerThanThou: All four of the New Reno crime families are bad in their own right, yet the Mordinos are easily the worst of the bunch, being responsible for the Jet epidemic. Although it could be argued that this is just a result of them being the most successful.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The Salvatore's family footsoldiers are fear throughout New Reno because they are packing "lightbringers (read: [[EnergyWeapons laser pistols]]) [[spoiler:courtesy of the Enclave in exchange for chemical components]]. They're hyped to the point that Orville Wright says one Salvatore goon could wipe out his entire family. The Laser Pistols aren't ''that'' powerful in gameplay and it's not particularly difficult to clear out the bar with a mid-level party.

* EvilerThanThou: All four of the New Reno crime families are bad in their own right, yet the Mordinos are easily the worst of the bunch, exploiting slave labor and being responsible for the Jet epidemic.

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: In Modoc, there's a quest that revolves around two longtime friends who had a falling out when one of them thought that the other had stolen his gold watch. The player can find the watch by [[spoiler:blowing up an outhouse and exploring the mole rat tunnel underneath]] and, with the right words, can salvage the two men's friendship. This has the effect of [[spoiler:covering the entire town in feces]], but hey all's well that ends well.

* AKA47: ZigZaggingTrope. A lot of the guns use their real world names, but some are given generic handles.
** The "9mm Mauser" is based off the Mauser C96, the ".44 Magnum Revolver" is a Smith & Wesson Model 29, the "Desert Eagle .44" is n IMI/Magnum Research Desert Eagle Mark VII.
** The "Tommy Gun" is an Thompson M1928, the "H&K P90c" is an FN P90.

** The [=M3A1=] "Grease gun," H&K G11, FN FAL, Enfield [=XL70E3=], H&K CAWS, and Pancor Jackhammer all use their real names. The rest of the weapons are fictional.

** PlayedForLaughs with the Hint Book. It raises all your skills to the maximum level, but is only available after you beat the game. The description lampshades this.
--->"Well this would have been useful at the beginning of the goddamn game."

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Raiders, super mutants, [[ILoveNuclearPower giant rats]], mutated monsters, killer robots, [[spoiler:and the remnants of the US government.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf2I0bViNt4&feature=related NukaCola vending machines]].

** The "Navarro Run" SequenceBreak is famous for giving the second-best Power Armor in the game, but that's just the part most people call attention to -- it also rewards you several high-end weapons, an additional suit of Power Armor you can take for a compaion's usage, and a lot of experience, enough to get you to Level 8; and if you take the time to do some other quests around Navarro and San Francisco, you can get to Level 10, get the Cyberdog as a companion, and get more good loot. You just have to head straight to San Francisco at the start of the game and be lucky enough to avoid or survive [[BeefGate the end-game random encounters]].

** Also, the Chosen One himself (if male), because he uses the exact same sprites as the Vault Dweller.

** Also, the Chosen One himself, because he uses the exact same sprites as the Vault Dweller.

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* ShotgunWedding: Sleep with one of Grisham's children, and, unless you pass a Speech check, you will be forced to go through one of these if you don't want the whole town of Modoc trying to kill you on sight. Thankfully there is no penalty for causing your spouse harm, so feel free to get her/him killed, pimped out for spare change, sold to slavery or divorce her/him by paying Father Tully with an alcoholic beverage. For extra cruelty, you can tell your former father-in-law about the death of his child, which will give him a fatal heart attack.
** You can also [[spoiler:[[BrainInAJar suck your spouse's brains out.]] [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not like that.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Music/LouisArmstrong Give me... a kiss to build a dream on...]]'']]

** The "Navarro Run" SequenceBreak is famous for giving the second-best Power Armor in the game, but that's just the part most people call attention to -- it also rewards you several high-end weapons, an additional suit of Power Armor you can take for a compaion's usage, and a lot of experience, enough to get you to Level 8; and if you take the time to do some other quests around Navarro and San Francisco, you can get to Level 10, get the Cyberdog as a companion, and get more good loot. You just have to head straight to San Francisco at the start of the game and be lucky enough to avoid the end-game random encounters.

** Louisville Slugger is a just a baseball bat... that also happens to be second best melee weapon in the game. It can be accquired as soon as reaching New Reno.

* EarlyGameHell: You have no firearms until you get to Klamath, and finding anything beyond the Pipe Rifle, statistically the worst gun in the game, needs a trek into a dungeon. In the meantime, unless you have Unarmed or Melee Weapons tagged, prepare to spend considerable lengths of time whiffing two out of three attacks (hit-and-run helps you avoid damage, but hardly makes things any quicker) against melee enemies who probably have more health than you and will hit more often. And your choices for healing are the terrible Healing Powders, which lower your Perception so you'll miss even more attacks. The game becomes a lot easier once you scrap together the caps needed to recruit [[TheBigGuy Sulik]] in Klamath, and by the time you get into the Den quests you should be properly outfitted with a good gun and decent armor along with a cache of supplies.

** The "[[FanNickname Navarro Run]]" SequenceBreak is famous for giving the second-best Power Armor in the game, but that's just the part most people call attention to -- it also rewards you several high-end weapons, an additional suit of Power Armor you can take for a compaion's usage, and a lot of experience, enough to get you to Level 8; and if you take the time to do some other quests around Navarro and San Francisco, you can get to Level 10, get the Cyberdog as a companion, and get more good loot. You just have to head straight to San Francisco at the start of the game and be lucky enough to avoid the end-game random encounters.

* AfterTheEnd: The setting of this game is [[ApocalypseNot much more "civilized" than most post-apocalyptic settings]] out there, probably because it takes place [[ExtyYearsFromNow 80 years after]] ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'' and 164 years after the Great War blew everything to pieces.

* DefectorFromDecadence: The Talking Deathclaws who settled in [[spoiler:Vault 13]].

* LighterAndSofter: Zig-zagged. ''Fallout 2'' has a ton of humor, much more than ''Fallout 1'' does, and the mood is overall much more lighthearted. That said, ''Fallout 2'' dives head first into some very heavy adult themes that were only hinted at in the first game. Slavery, prostitution, drug addiction, cults and racism are only the tip of the iceberg.

* LighterAndSofter: ''Fallout 2'' has a ton of humor, much more than ''Fallout 1'' does, and the mood is overall much more lighthearted.

* WretchedHive: The Den ([[StarWars which is actually referred to as such]]) and New Reno. Depending on your actions, they can become ''much'' better places. New Reno in particular is notable in that it already ''was'' one even before the Great War. Unlike [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas what would become New Vegas]] however, no bombs fell in or around the city but the ensuing chaos plunged Reno into lawlessness, from which the local crime families quickly emerge as the dominant "law." And by the time ''New Vegas'' takes place, there are still shades of that seediness, if the comments of people from there, the song ''Streets of New Reno,'' and references to the powerful Bishop crime family under the Chosen One's bastard child are any indication.

** There is no a perfect ending for the Broken Hills. Even if the Chosen One uncovers the anti-mutant conspiracy and avert the racial tension between Super Mutants and humans, the town will be depleted of uranium, [[TerminallyDependentSociety its only reason to exist]], sooner or later and Broken Hills will be eventually fully abandoned (and ''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]'' establishes this as canon). But then again, the residents themselves had earned sizeable profits from the uranium in the "best" ending.

** There is no a perfect ending for the Broken Hills. Even if the Chosen One uncovers the anti-mutant conspiracy and avert the racial tension between Super Mutants and humans, the town will be depleted of uranium, [[TerminallyDependentSociety its only reason to exist]], sooner or later and Broken Hills will be eventually fully abandoned. But then again, the residents themselves had earned sizeable profits from the uranium in the "best" ending.

An important note when discussing ''Fallout 2'' is that its rushed development (releasing only a year after the first game) meant that a ''lot'' of intended content was cut or scaled down during development, some of which [[DummiedOut remained in the game files]]. There exists a fan-created mod known as the ''Fallout 2 Restoration Project'' (or ''[=F2RP=]''), which aims to re-create as much of this cut content as possible, basing its work on leaked design documents and WordOfGod. It also includes various bug fixes and compatibility patches that make the game run significantly better on modern machines. The mod can be downloaded from [[http://killap.net/ the creator's website]] or the mod's official [[http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?202265-Fallout-2-Restoration-Project-2-3-3-(Unofficial-Expansion) No Mutants Allowed thread]]. It should be noted the mod ''also'' includes a large amount of wholly-original writing, new game mechanics never conceived by the original devs, and gameplay rebalances based on the mod team's personal taste, so ''please'' refrain from treating it as the gospel-true version of the game.

* BonusDungeon: Part of the many bits of DummiedOut content (and restored in the Restoration Project mod) was the EPA building, which is completely self-contained and not part of any sidequests outside of it (the only way to get its location was from either a special encounter, or to get Myron to tell you the location by trying to drop him from your party.) Alongside a few self-contained sidequests and some equipment (including where the Solar Scorcher was originally going to be,) there were also three recruitable [=NPC=]s in cryogenic storage (though the player could only successfully revive one.) As far as difficulty goes, however, it's only hard in that it requires fairly high Speech and Repair skills and a ''very'' high Science skill to unlock everything (although there's also a gigantic nest of Wanamingos at the very bottom that the player can easily run afoul of.)

* ButtDialingMordor: There is a computer in the Gecko power plant that you can use to contact the Enclave, the game's BigBad organisation. You have an option of insulting the soldier you're talking to in a number of ways, and if you do, they will send a squadron of PowerArmor-wearing soldiers [[OhCrap after you]]... which never shows up, since that particular encounter was DummiedOut. The Restoration mod reenables it, and if your Speech skill isn't high enough to bullshit your way out, things will get [[ThisIsGonnaSuck messy]].

* DummiedOut: Because Creator/BlackIsleStudios ran short of development time, quite a few places and quests were only halfway implemented or completely left out of the game, which leaves a couple of plot threads, such as finding Sulik's sister and exposing the cattle rustlers in Klamath, [[LeftHanging hanging in the wind]]. Fan-made patches, such as the [[http://www.killap.net/fallout2/web/Downloads.html Restoration Project]], seek to restore them to a playable state. Still, there are many things even the Restoration Project has yet to explain, such as the "Brotherhood" area in the Oil Rig.

* RecurringBoss: The DummiedOut (and restored in the Restoration mod) Kaga is one. An exile from Arroyo who claims that ''he'' was supposed to be TheChosenOne, he was supposed to attack the player soon after they leave Arroyo, and then multiple times throughout the game with increasingly better weapons and party members. He has an obscene amount of HP, and always runs away after taking enough damage.

* {{Gonk}}: The "Married" reputation earned if marrying [[JokeCharacter Joke Characters]] Miria or Davin is represented by the Vault Boy about to be wed to a hideously obese, hairy warty, big-lipped, and smoking... thing in a wedding dress.