History YMMV / Fallout1

* UncannyValley: The animated cutscenes where characters talk can look strange looking for new players due to characters using clay models. A clearly deliberate extreme example though is [[spoiler:the Master]] who only looks vaguely human.

* GameBreaker: The Gifted trait. It gives you an extra point in each of your primary statistics in exchange for slower skill progress. The fact that there is normally no way to increase your primary statistics after character creation but you can still max out all important skills with relative ease means this trait gives you a huge advantage for almost no tradeoff, especially if your Intelligence is high.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:The Overseer banishing you despite all you had done was a horrible thing to do, but ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' shows that his predictions about the consequences of your actions for the vault proved essentially correct]].
* NightmareFuel: The Master. Every single thing about him is creepy and unnatural.

* TearJerker: For every animal lover, the first time Dogmeat dies. And the second time. And the fiftieth time...

* UncannyValley: The animated cutscenes where characters talk can look strange looking for new players due to characters using clay models. A clearly deliberate extreme example though is [[spoiler:the Master]] who only looks vaguely human.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dogmeat was so well-received that he returned as a SecretCharacter in VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}} and had an IdenticalGrandson in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The Overseer banishing you despite all you had done was a horrible thing to do, but ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' shows that his predictions about the consequences of your actions for the vault proved essentially correct]].

* TheScrappy: A lot of people ''loathe'' the Overseer for [[spoiler: exiling the Vault Dweller at the end of the game because, if he sticks around, the next generation will look up to him and eventually want to leave the vault.]] It's to the point that [[spoiler: The bad karma/Bloody Mess ending where the Vault Dweller gorily executes him as he's walking back to the vault]] is often seen as the most satisfying one. [[spoiler: And even if he's spared, the second game reveals that he was eventually tried and executed for some unknown crime.]]
* {{Tearjerker}}: For every animal lover, the first time Dogmeat dies. And the second time. And the fiftieth time...

* UncannyValley: The animated cutscenes where characters talk can look strange looking for new players due to characters using clay models. A clearly deliberate extreme example though is [[spoiler: The Master]] who only looks vaguely human.

* UncannyValley: The game's dated graphics can make the animated cutscenes where characters talk strange looking for newer players. A clearly deliberate extreme example though is [[spoiler: The Master]] who only looks vaguely human.

** Convincing [[spoiler:the Master]] to kill himself.

* TheScrappy: A lot of people ''loathe'' the Overseer for [[spoiler: exiling the Vault Dweller at the end of the game because, if he sticks around, the next generation will look up to him and eventually want to leave the vault.]] It's to the point that [[spoiler: The bad karma/Bloody Mess ending where the Vault Dweller gorily executes him as he's walking back to the vault]] is often seen as the most satisfying one.

* TheScrappy: A lot of people ''loathe'' the Overseer for [[spoiler: exiling the Vault Dweller at the end of the game because, if he sticks around, the next generation will look up to him and eventually want to leave the vault.]] It's to the point that [[spoiler: The bad karma/Bloody Mess ending where the Vault Dweller bloodily executes him as he's walking back to the vault]] is often seen as the most satisfying one.

** Convincing [[spoiler:the Master]] to kill himself.
* UncannyValley: The Master. Every single thing about him is creepy and unnatural.

** Convincing [[spoiler:the Master]] to kill himself.

** Convincing [[spoiler:the Master]] to kill himself.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Master. [[spoiler:He wants to replace humanity with what he genuinely views as being the best step forward. He reveals that he doesn't want to kill humanity so much as phase them out, and is absolutely heartbroken at everything he has done if you reveal how pointless it has been, and he is genuinely horrified and suicidal over all that he has done in the name of progress.]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The Overseer banishing you despite all you had done was a horrible thing to do, but ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' shows that his predictions about the consequences of your actions for the vault proved essentially correct]].

** With a Gambling skill over 50%, you can go to the casino in the Hub, go to the dealer by the roulette tables, hold down the 1 and 4 keys to continuously bet 50 caps, and win over 60,000 caps within 10 minutes. You can then spend it all on skill books from the library in the same area of town until you can't gain skill increases from them anymore, ending up with around a 90% level for each skill.

** With a Gambling skill over 50%, you can go to the casino in the Hub, go to the blackjack table, hold down the 1 and 4 keys to continuously bet 50 caps, and win over 60,000 caps within 10 minutes. You can then spend it all on skill books from the library in the same area of town until you can't gain skill increases from them anymore, ending up with around a 90% level for each skill.

* GameBreaker: The Gifted trait. It gives you an extra point in each of your primary statistics in exchange for slower skill progress. The fact that there is normally no way to increase your primary statistics after character creation but you can still max out all important skills with relative ease means this trait gives you a huge advantage for almost no tradeoff.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: The Master if you get him to kill himself, getting Tearjerker MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction from him when he finds that all his work for nothing.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dogmeat was so well-received that he returned as a SecretCharacter in {{Fallout 2}} and had an IdenticalGrandson in {{Fallout 3}}.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: The Overseer banishing you despite all you had done was a horrible thing to do, but ''{{Fallout 2}}'' shows that his predictions about the consequences of your actions for the vault proved essentially correct]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dogmeat was so well-received that he had a cameo in {{Fallout 2}} and an IdenticalGrandson in {{Fallout 3}}.
* GameBreaker: The Gifted trait makes character creation a no-brainer.
** Gifted is debatable. It makes creating a character and meeting perk requirements easier, but adding one to each attribute doesn't exactly make a huge effectiveness difference.
** There is an infinite supply of skill books for any skill you really ever need. Skill books don't let you max the skill out completely, but it gets it high enough that it doesn't matter.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Even after the retcon the Overseer's closing speech isn't invalidated by much: If Vault Dweller hadn't run into those who had left the Vault after him by chance, they would have likely died in the wastes due to having little to none skills to surviving in the wastes.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Master. [[spoiler:He wants to replace humanity with what he genuinely views as being the best step forward, and shows no pleasure in actually killing anyone. He reveals that he doesn't want to kill humanity so much as phase them out, and is absolutely heartbroken at everything he has done if you reveal how pointless it has been, and he is genuinely horrified and suicidal over all that he has done in the name of progress.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Master

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: even after the retcon the Overseer's closing speech isn't invalidated by much: If Vault Dweller hadn't run into those who had left the Vault after him by chance, they would have likely died in the wastes due to having little to none skills to surviving in the wastes.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dogmeat was so well-received that he had a cameo in {{Fallout 2}} and IdenticalGrandson in {{Fallout 3}}.

* TheWoobie / WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Master

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In the bad ending, the Vault Overseer goes down gunning hordes super mutants after Vault 13 is found and overrun.

** * TearJerker: Convincing [[spoiler:the Master]] to kill himself.

* {{Tearjerker}}: for every animal lover, the first time Dogmeat dies. And the second time. And the fiftieth time...

* GameBreaker: The Gifted trait makes character creation a no-brainer.