Fallout still being played

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:50 pm

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Vasikka has drawn our attention to a post made by l84wrk about <a href="http://freelimewire.info" target="_self">freelimeware.info</a>'s list of <a href="http://freelimewire.info/2007/what-was- ... -for-2006/" target="_self">top ten torrents of 2006,</a> where Fallout and Fallout 2 came in top of the list.

Fallout 2 is a critically-acclaimed computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. It was downloaded a whopping 1,165,564,987 time(s)! That is correct a game was the most popular torrent for 2006. It was downloaded more than 1 billion times! The bandwidth it consumed was a staggering 1,468,611,883 GB!

Thanks for the tip, l84wrk.

Brother None · Post by **Brother None** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:09 pm

Note that the validity of this is under heavy scrutiny.

1. How the hell do you measure all torrents everywhere over an entire year?
2. How the hell does the top torrent have a 100 times as many downloads as the next one?

Post by **King of Creation** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:09 pm

That's fucking ridiculous.

Well, at least this is a warning to Bethesda to not try and deviate too much from the old formula....because it still works today.

If 3rd person, top down view and turn based combat are passe, then why is this game being played so damn much?

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:31 pm

Finally, the dumb kids are learning to play the good shit. Not all of that is good, though.

"What's your idea of the next boss in the Fallout series?"

"deathclawns and aliens lol"

"FO2 > FO hahaha"

Insane-Lark · Post by **Insane-Lark** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:35 am

I think Herve is holdling someones family hostage to fudge the numbers, fool investors & sell his awesome MMORPG idea.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:47 am

worst news post '07

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:53 am

i replayed most of fallout over the holidays. please make a newspost about that.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:52 am

Kharn wrote:1. How the hell do you measure all torrents everywhere over an entire year?

You quit your job, for starters.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:26 am

I can't really believe that fallout would make a list like that, its just way too far fetched.

If that were true then there would be torrents all over with massive amounts of seeds and leeches, but after looking there's not a whole lot.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:25 pm

freelimewire.info wrote:It was downloaded a whopping 1,165,564,987 time(s)!

Maybe Fallout is huge in China.

Numbers aside, I believe Fallout could be a popular torrent; It's a classic game often mentioned in game mags, compatible with XP, nearly impossible to find on shelves and doesn't take too much HD space.

In any case, I'd rather see people playing Fallout than Oblivion to increase the awareness of what Bethesda is doing to the series.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:44 am

Right on.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:26 am

I downloaded FO1 and 2 last year! OMG IM A STATISTIC!!!11

jiujitsu · Post by **jiujitsu** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:10 am

Insane-Lark wrote:I think Herve is holdling someones family hostage to fudge the numbers, fool investors & sell his awesome MMORPG idea.

A likely explanation.

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:29 pm

come on guys, how many of us has still got those old discs? i've downloaded both games at least two times each. hasn't everyone?

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:41 pm

i have both discs and both boxes. I still have that shitty little fallout tactics book bag I got with my review copy too.

Post by **King of Creation** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:33 am

I've got both discs, boxes, packaging, manuals, and the Fallout 2 release party goodies

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:46 am

People even play FO in Iraq.

I actualy had a folder on my portable HD that contained copies of the FO and FO2 CDs

Many people got and enjoyed copies.

Brother None · Post by **Brother None** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:08 am

PsychoSniper wrote:People even play FO in Iraq.

That sounds like the tagline of a Stallone movie.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:15 am

how does real life Fallout (say Iraq) compare to Fallout? Does it have soil erosion?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:23 am

People tend to ignore the graphics, and look for the items that affect your HP.

As far as teh graphis ....... my sig was a screencap from FO:Iraq, my PC is the gunner int he middle.

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