He says mutated scorpions are harassing his livestock. Gone is the mumbling simpleton and in his place is a verbose and articulate young man in need of aid. I know from previous playthroughs that Torr is a useless, inarticulate character that stands shirtless in the street and speaks only in broken sentences and-Įxcept he isn’t. Trying to find a new way into the quest, I direct Al to Torr. AI is that kind of stupid, and Fallout 2 knows it. Al tries to say something, to ask a question, but all that comes out is a grunt. The conversation is over before it’s begun and Al has been calmly but pityingly told to go ‘play outside with Torr’, Ardin’s idiot son. I try to talk to Ardin Buckner, so she’ll ask me to rescue Smiley, which will reward me with a free follower, but the option never materialises. The nearby town is the first stop everyone makes in Fallout 2 and I know it’s where I can learn the valuable Gecko Skinning skill and recruit my first follow- Except I can't.
Or so I thought.Ĭonfidently, I lead Al out of his village, ignoring the hurled insults by the useless NPCs and staying focused on my destination Klamath. Low Intelligence score isn’t going to hold me back for long. The one I know inside and out it's the one I play in my head when my boss is talking to me. It’s not like the Science skill is ever actually useful for anything and, even if it was, Fallout 2 is my game. I am, in other words, fairly confident that this lummox can handle Fallout 2’s wastelands even despite his skull-headed handicap. What Al lacks in smarts he compensates for in his capacity for violence, however - he’s bigger than a Radscorpion and his Perception rating is so far off the charts that they had to invent a new kind of telescope. Neck? Feck.Ĭhosen One? It’s a wonder his tribe didn’t kill him at birth. When he was told to quest for the GECK he probably didn’t stoically grit his teeth or ask every question in the conversation tree - as your typical post-apocalyptic typical heroes do - he more likely dribbled from tooth to toe and burbled a few rhymes. Not in the mean-spirited, pejorative sense, but in the literal 'there are dead fleas that make better conversation' sense. Which is a shame, because I imagine how my character, Al, would react to this news would be.
The intro, for example, where you’re told that you’re the Chosen One and must quest for the Macguffin of the Moment, focuses solely on the the half-blind village elder. And, goodness, has a game ever responded coherently to attributed stupidity?įallout 2 is old, so there’s only a handful of flickery cutscenes and none of these ever show you your hand-built character actually doing anything. Joe Martin decides to explore Fallout 2 from the perspective of a character with no stats in the brain department.
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