Fallout 3

[raketenjagdpanzer]

If you haven't played it, do give it a try. I find the "Atomic Age into the early 21st century" vibe more than a little distracting, but, whatever.

The real highlights, for me, are the "ghost" radio broadcasts and a single operational data terminal you can find with some typed reports, near the ruin of a police station in a DC suburb that date back to the days right after the war.

For me it's probably as close as we'll ever get to a Twilight 2000 video game outside of the old Paragon Software RPG from the early 1990s. I wish some of the goofier elements (again, the atomic age and 1950s vibe lasting over a hundred years, or the various 50's B-Movie robots) weren't present but whatever. It's a fine game nonetheless.

[simonmark6]

If you want a more TK2 vibe you can look up Fallout Tactics. It's a small group tactic game where you lead a unit you create and equip around the Wasteland shooting and looting. I loved it but I'm a major fallout Fanboy. Wasteland 2 looks similar.

[Raellus]

Fallout 3 is one of my all-time, top-10 (top-5, probably) video games of any genre or on any platform. I don't see too much T2K in it, though, aside from atomic ruins and lots of small unit tactics combat. Fallout New Vegas has a faction (the New California Republic) which calls to mind post-TDM military organization and equipment. Aside from that, Fallout seems more Mad Max than T2K to me. Bottom line, though, is that it's a super fun game.

[Draq]

Wastleland 2 is really good. Its basicly fallout and t2k mixed together

[Draq]

I'm am a huge fallout fan. Own them all. Now excellent games to supplement t2k are metro 2033/2034, the s.t.a.l.k.e.r series, and various aspects of metal gear phantom pain. Metro is set in Russia, stalker in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, and metal gear in both Afghanistan and Africa during the soviet invasion and mercenary wars, respectively. Now stalker and metro have mutants and environmental anomalies, but capture the gritty post apocalypse aesthetic. While metal gear is set in the late 80's and has an excellent period military setting. My favorite parts is researching and making/modding my guns.

[Targan]

I've played the hell out of all the Fallout 1st-person games. I bought Wasteland 2 but the moment I realised there was no stealth mechanic I shut it down and never played it again.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Raellus

I don't see too much T2K in it, though, aside from atomic ruins and lots of small unit tactics combat.

I do but, you know, differences of opinion and all that. Regardless it's a fine game. Between it and its add-on packs I should be quite busy before I start new Vegas (and its expansions) and then move on to FO4 (and its expansions).

After that I may go back and play FO1, 2, and tactics. I played Wasteland on my C64 about a million years ago it seems, I might try it again, then Wasteland 2.

There was a sequel to Wasteland but it was done by a completely different team and is thematically inconsistent with everything else - Fountain of Dreams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Dreams

[.45cultist]

Tale of Two Wastelands lets one play Fallout 3 using Fallout New Vegas' more modern programming and gear. With a mod that lets Honest Hearts' weapons in the Mojave, I'm stalking the Capitol Wasteland with game canon Colt .45 autos and .308 hunting rifles, the AR-15 style Service Rifles, Browning 9MMs.

[swaghauler]

My godson Kevin has Fallout 4 and says it's great. IDK about that game, but if the DEVs put as much into it as SkyRim, it must be pretty good.