Fallen Earth is Fallout Ripoff?

[Gamerking233]

I've never actually played the game but I have seen a ♥♥♥♥ load of crap about it.... It seems to me that this game looks plays and sounds like fallout 3.

[GrimCW]

who's to say fallout 3 isn't a ripoff of something else? Mad Max comes to mind..

any post apocolyptic game/movie is gonna resemble others in some way, much like the whining about the Avatar moving ripping off Dances with Wolves.

nothing new there, originality is rare to come by because its all already been done, now its a matter of doing it again in an original style.

and FO3 stuck with 1940's or so theme where Fallen Earth looks more modern.

[DeadZombie]

Fallout itself is a rip off of Wasteland (Basically Fallout is a spiritual successor to Wasteland).

Wasteland is a huge nudge toward MadMax (Which is why Fallout 1/2 refer to those two as well).

So FE is a rip off of Fallout which is a rip off of Wasteland WHICH is a rip off of movies such as Madmax.

[casshern09]

Why are you even making a thread like this without even playing it?

[weez2mo]

I wouldn't call it a ripoff; easy to confuse it as one though considering the relative lack of games of this type in its genre.

[Warseth]

Rip off is the wrong word here. More like themed like fallout..which in turn is themed after the world after a nuke theme of movies and some anime out there.

Otherwise according this use of rip off....all the sword and board MMO's are Conan comic ripoffs =p

PS. Comparing FE to Fallout 3 is a insult to the Fallout 3 game!:p

[elixenie]

Fallout was intended as the spiritual successor to Wasteland, or even as a sequel. The genre goes back at least as far as A Canticle for Leibowitz and Farnham's Freehold. Probably farther.

Fallout is pretty unique stuff and no one has really copied the things that make it special, least of all Fallen Earth. There are shout-outs, however, among them a bit of clever musical quoting. The music is excellent and fairly original, but it does directly reference Fallout 3 a number of times.

To me, the MMO this game most resembles is The Lord of the Rings Online. The landscape and architecture are realistic, and you won't do much climbing or exploring, especially not underground. The distances require patience but provide a sense of grand scale. The quests feel more like mischief and pedestrian drama than anything important. There is very little humor, the crafting system involves lots of progress tracks and is sort of complicated. Both games are drab and somber in the extreme.

LotRO is a far better game, and it's got more variety plus some mirth. It's also got hobbits and taverns, so if you're looking here you probably weren't looking for that. In Fallen Earth you'll bend over backward to build yourself a little dune buggy, and you'll scavenge a whole lot of different chemicals and scrap metal. It's not a terribly fun game, but you'll be sorry if you miss it. I'm going to reup when my LotRO sub runs out.

[Tooslow]

Alas Babylon 1959 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_Babylon)

Earth Abides 1949 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides)

Alas Babylon is about a small community surviving after a limited nuclear war. Earth Abides is about the near complete devastation of mankind after a plague. Both excellent books BTW. Don't read too much about them on wikipedia or you'll see spoilers!

So who can find earlier post-apocalypse inspirations?

[Freyar]

This argument is still going on. Ah, I remember it during the beta.

[vanderown]

To OP: I have played both. Fallen earth does in fact not look, play or sound like Fallout 3 in any way.

[elixenie]

Earth Abides 1949 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides)

Oh you so did not just play the Earth Abides card.

FLAME ON

The Last Man 1826 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man)

Bring it!

[Kensington]

To OP: I have played both. Fallen earth does in fact not look, play or sound like Fallout 3 in any way.

Ill second that. Its like saying any game involving zombies is ripping off left 4 dead. Its a genre they both share. Post apocalypse isn't the setting for fallout alone. Both good games but Fallen earth plays very differently.

[Freyar]

Fallen Earth has a heavy emphasis on managing resources, where Fallout 3 certainly didn't.

[Kensington]

Fallen Earth has a heavy emphasis on managing resources, where Fallout 3 certainly didn't.

Definitely. Thats one thing I didn't like about fallout 3. For a wasteland ammo, medical supplies and gear seem very abundant!

[last_target]

inspired by the original FO (1+2), or 'proper fallout' as it should be known

its not ripped off the new one

[scorpio0666]

Oh I loved Wasteland!!! That's my 2 cents.

[centisteed]

And Wasteland ripped off Gammaworld. What's your point?

Everything is built off of everything else. I tried the
Fallen Earth Beta & it wasn't very appealing. But now it
looks like they've really polished it up & I can see myself
playing this game after I'm done with New Vegas. My only
wish is that they had a Console version and/or Steam Achievements
for the PC version.

[Draumeland]

they have 559 achivements on steam

[centisteed]

they have 559 achivements on steam

Awesome. Well they have a Steam sale today
so I just bought it for $10. I'll probably
play it for a couple months once I get
started playing. Not quite sure when I'll
start. Probably in late January I guess.

[JeffJeffJeff92]

It's a genre like any other.

[UncleDrax]

who's to say fallout 3 isn't a ripoff of something else? Mad Max comes to mind..


It is, 'Wasteland', actually. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_%28video_game%29 ).

That said, that might be saying there only 1 of each 'type' of game, and every other game 'ripped off' those original ones.
Sorta a silly argument actually anyway. Games evolve over time, people take what works, adds their own custom spin to it, and the next game does that to that game.. and so on.

[placebonation]

Fallout was intended as the spiritual successor to Wasteland, or even as a sequel. The genre goes back at least as far as A Canticle for Leibowitz and Farnham's Freehold. Probably farther.

Fallout is pretty unique stuff and no one has really copied the things that make it special, least of all Fallen Earth. There are shout-outs, however, among them a bit of clever musical quoting. The music is excellent and fairly original, but it does directly reference Fallout 3 a number of times.

To me, the MMO this game most resembles is The Lord of the Rings Online. The landscape and architecture are realistic, and you won't do much climbing or exploring, especially not underground. The distances require patience but provide a sense of grand scale. The quests feel more like mischief and pedestrian drama than anything important. There is very little humor, the crafting system involves lots of progress tracks and is sort of complicated. Both games are drab and somber in the extreme.

LotRO is a far better game, and it's got more variety plus some mirth. It's also got hobbits and taverns, so if you're looking here you probably weren't looking for that. In Fallen Earth you'll bend over backward to build yourself a little dune buggy, and you'll scavenge a whole lot of different chemicals and scrap metal. It's not a terribly fun game, but you'll be sorry if you miss it. I'm going to reup when my LotRO sub runs out.

Ya know. Some people actually like the things you label as negatives.