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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1284 Joined: 29 Jun 2008     | I can't find anything... |
On the Record  Posts: 5788 Joined: 9 Jul 2008     | Fallout 1 is free on Gametap. |
On the Record  Posts: 5491 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   |
Yeah, I think that's the only way you'll get your hands on them legally and free. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4362 Joined: 8 Jan 2009    |
Although I wouldn't call it free free. It's only free during the free trial |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4233 Joined: 27 Apr 2008  |
No, it's a free game, the first one that is, not Fallout 2 |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 380 Joined: 18 Sep 2008    | I havent been able to find two myself...yet. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1521 Joined: 5 Jul 2008     | Good Old Games has both Fallouts for 7 bucks and they've been tinkered to work with XP and Vista. It isn't free, but hell if isn't cheap. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1331 Joined: 22 Oct 2008   |
It's free if you have a gametap account. Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics are available on Interplay's site for $15, with no DRM. They're worth far more than that, so go and buy them. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 857 Joined: 24 Mar 2008 | This is actually a very silly question. There has never been a free version of a licensed game that wasn't free in its original distribution. No, not pacman, not pong, not frogger. There have been many imitations of those games that are free, but never the game's themselves. Getting into games like "Fallout", this is a question that clearly doesn't understand how the whole "game distribution" thing works. Maybe Seventy years after the death of all of Fallout 2's creators and its developer / publishing comp. it will fall into public domain, but that'll be like 100 years from now. And "free games" on gametap are not technically free because gametap plays for distribution rights that are funneled down to the player through membership / account fees. as has already been pointed out. What has also been pointed out is that they are dirt cheap quality titles so just suck it up and buy a copy. At a certain point trying to find free versions of stuff just come off as super lame (this would be a fine example) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2017 Joined: 24 Sep 2008  |
You could be really pedantic and say that ad-supported games aren't really "free" (or make the much more reasonable assertion that subscription-supported games aren't "free") but how exactly are games like the original Grand Theft Auto and GTA2 or Beneath a Steel Sky, which are now freeware, not "free games?" I mean, unless I'm misunderstanding your use of the word "licensed" (I think you mean "copyrighed?"), these are most certainly free versions of licensed games that weren't free in their original distribution, and there are many more similar examples. There are also games like OpenArena, which are 100% legal games created from the source code of old id software engines, which have been made public domain. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2230 Joined: 2 Aug 2006     | I think what the OP had in mind was Abandonware == Free. However, that's a popular mistake -- Abandonware isn't so much legal as it is rarely enforced because sufficiently old games are rarely worth anything to sell to the original companies. If anything, they might defend the copyright to strengthen their claim to the intellectual property to prevent other people from making games based on it. Sometimes a company will release an old game for free (e.g. GTA 1 & 2) but that's really rare. Interplay has been going in and out of business a lot lately. I think Bethesda currently owns the rights to Fallout 3, but Fallout 1 and 2 are probably still in the hands of Interplay. Considering Interplay's sketchy financial situation, they probably wouldn't be in a hurry to release their old cash cows for free. Hence, licensing them to GameTap. Come to think of it, Fallout 1 and 2 can be found for sale across a lot of online distributors. So, right there's a major reason it's not Abadonware yet: it's still being sold. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4233 Joined: 27 Apr 2008 |
It's free if you have a gametap account. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 114 Joined: 24 Dec 2008    | Im going to get banned for this.... Just torrent the fucker, its one of the few games out their that you are expected to have played to be called a gamer and im pretty sure no one will care if you download a 12 year old game. if anything i would think Interplay would be honored, I fucking would if a game I had developed had that much of an impact on an entire culture. Alternatively you could pay for it, its one the few games in the "budget" bin that are worth every pennie, if not more. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 397 Joined: 7 May 2008    |
key word. Legally lol |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 816 Joined: 19 Dec 2007 | If I were to walk into my local GAME or PC World, chances are the "Three for £10" and "Three for £20" sections would have everything I could ever want from gaming. Fallout was no exception, in fact. |
BANNED  Posts: 1336 Joined: 21 May 2008   | There's always the illegal option... *coughtorrentcough* I kid I kid... But honestly, if a game site offers an old game for free with adds, I would have no qualms about downloading it "illegally". Seriously, it's bad enough there are adds everywhere, so don't put it in our games. Also any game from EA with a DRM is acceptable to pirate... User was banned for: TIME Makes Everybody Lose "The Game". (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1331 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 | Don't pirate it. It's only $15 for three games that are more than worth it. It's without DRM, which is good, even if it's only a step towards free, and not truly free as all software should be. |
BANNED  Posts: 1891 Joined: 26 Mar 2008    | I saw Fallout 1 and 2 gold edition with extras for £3. Bargin. Just shop around in your local game stores. User was banned for: Poll: Round 4 - North: (1) Turbine vs (2) Valve. (Permanent) |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 28 Feb 2009 |
This was actually a very silly answer: plenty of games are now free that were one full price games.A large list of them is available from wikipedia: Please refrain from giving smug answers based on "your opinion" of how things work. Research them first. Not all freeware is open-source. It is perfectly possible for software to be both free, and copywritten. Many games are given away by companies as a promotion for a newer version of a game (Grand Theft Auto is a modern example). Some are only freeware for a limited amount of time and may not be re-distributed, most however can. Some are released to the public domain. What really comes of super-lame is giving a completely rude and uneducated answer to a legitimate question. Finding legal free games is smart. So to be clear: |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1180 Joined: 25 Jan 2008  |
Or just go to good old ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fallout-Collection-1-2-Tactics-New-Sealed_W0QQitemZ400033134915QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_PC_Video_Games_Video_Games_JS?hash=item400033134915&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 |
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I mean 2 in particular but any one of them is fine.