Is the Temple of Trials really that bad?

I’m on my second play through of Fallout 2, and the main thing I hear about the game is the start is horrible, it’s a great game but the Temple of Trials is unnecessarily difficult is what I hear the most.

I’ve never understood this, even on my first play through I didn’t have too much trouble, never even dying once. I did have some trouble but that’s just because I was getting used to the mechanics, so I didn’t know about how combat really worked and how to lock pick doors (had to google that and I felt so dumb lol). Don’t mean to bring people down who did have a lot of trouble, but idk I just don’t get the frustration with it

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u/cOwOle — 9 days ago

How was it experiencing Fallout 1 & 2 for the first time?

I’ve always been a fan of the world of Fallout, when I was younger I played a good amount of 3, a bit of new Vegas (but that’s because my interest in games were different when getting into it), and a bunch of 76 (with my friend). I love learning about mechanics and weapons from some games, watched a bunch of lore videos, and was always in love with the retro futuristic post apocalyptic aesthetic and setting (plus I love jazz so the OSTs always went crazy).

Ive always been fascinated as well by retro games, and that’s something I never saw vet brought up into discussion in regards to Fallout. Being around 5-15 when Bethesda was releasing some of these games, I never even knew what Fallout 1 & 2 looked like (didn’t even know Tactics existed). I used to think they were 1st person shooters like what we had today, it was the only genre that made sense to me at the time, I was very surprised to see they were pixelated top down turn based RPGs. I was admittedly a little disappointed to see this, I love retro games but this was something I had no interest in and way out of my comfort zone.

Fast forward to a year ago, my interests change and my love of Fallout and old games still strong, I decide to pick up Fallout 2 simply because I liked the story of the Chosen One and thought Frank Horrigan went crazy hard. While playing it was a little tough getting adjusted to it all, but after I while I got the hang of it and started to really enjoy myself! It’s a much different game compared to what we have now, I understand why many Fallout fans simply refuse to play these games and would rather look up dialogue and lore online. I still haven’t played Fallout 1, but it’s part of my Steam family so now I have no excuse lol. I’m currently starting a new run in 2, didn’t finish my first one and after not playing a game for a while I’d rather just restart than drop off somewhere I forgot.

After this long tangent, it got me thinking about how was it experiencing Fallout 1/2 for the first time for others? Be it people who played them day one, or people who played them for the first time last week.

u/cOwOle — 15 days ago

What was the audiences reaction to the classic Universal monster movies?

I’ve been thinking about this recently thanks to an obsession of these along with other black and white films. I find horror media through out history to be fascinating, fear is a natural human emotion and seeing what people at certain points in time would consider as scary intrigues me. Which is why I ask about the Universal monster movies specifically, their characters and movies stand the test of time (find me someone who doesn’t know about Frankenstein or how he’s made) and they pioneered many techniques that are used to today. I can’t truly imagine how it would have been seeing Frankenstein’s monster and his iconic look, the Invisible Man and masterful visual effects to make his invisibility truly believable. or Creature from the Black Lagoon underwater scenes with that incredible costume all for the first time! The first Frankenstein film even starts with a warning that what you see may be too disturbing.

\*\*I want to know what the audiences thoughts were on these iconic horror movies!\*\*

It’s hard to find information on this simply because it was so long ago and if people were asked on their thoughts not many people kept them for preservation sake. If anyone here can answer my silly question, that would be great.

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u/cOwOle — 1 month ago

What was the audiences reaction to the classic Universal monster movies?

I’ve been thinking about this recently thanks to an obsession of these along with other black and white films. I find horror media through out history to be fascinating, fear is a natural human emotion and seeing what people at certain points in time would consider as scary intrigues me. Which is why I ask about the Universal monster movies specifically, their characters and movies stand the test of time (find me someone who doesn’t know about Frankenstein or how he’s made) and they pioneered many techniques that are used to today. I can’t truly imagine how it would have been seeing Frankenstein’s monster and his iconic look, the Invisible Man and masterful visual effects to make his invisibility truly believable. or Creature from the Black Lagoon underwater scenes with that incredible costume all for the first time! The first Frankenstein film even starts with a warning that what you see may be too disturbing.

**I want to know what the audiences thoughts were on these iconic horror movies!**

It’s hard to find information on this simply because it was so long ago and if people were asked on their thoughts not many people kept them for preservation sake. If anyone here can answer my silly question, that would be great.

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u/cOwOle — 1 month ago
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For people who were there on release, how was experiencing Metroid Prime for the first time?

I’ve been getting into the franchise as of recent, started with Fusion and moved onto Zero Mission (I think I like Fusion more but both are great), I’ve thought about tackling Prime next. I knew very little of the game but after looking at it a bit after beating those two games, I never knew how immersive and such a step up this game was for the franchise at the time.

Wondering how it was to experience for the people that played on release or just played it around when it came out.

u/cOwOle — 2 months ago