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First of all, I am NOT affiliated with either Interplay or Black Isle Studios. This text is NOT endorsed by them in any way, so please don't hassle them with questions or suggestions about THIS text.
I'm just a player, and I happened to _massively_ enjoy the game. An intelligent and complex RPG like Fallout 2 is IMHO a most welcome surprise in this world of no-brainer "3D real-time" shoot-em-ups and "real-time strategies" with good graphics but brain-dead AI. I'd definitely like to see more games like Fallout, as opposed to the millions of Quake and C&C clones, which I vowed never to buy one again. Back to Fallout 2, I enjoyed it so much that I started doing it again and again, to see what I've missed. And at some point I've started writing this text to keep track of what I've done.
Second, yes, this is a walkthrough and it does contain spoilers. In fact, it's full of them. If you'd rather explore, don't read it. My advice is to explore, and fully enjoy this damn good game. But if you'd rather ruin your fun with a walkthrough, here it is.
Third, it's an adult game. It deals with drugs, violence, sex and foul language. Hence, the walkthrough deals with them, too. If you're easily offended, don't read this, and don't play the game.
Fourth, bear in mind that it's a complex game, and not all quests are available to everyone, or may not be done in the same way by everyone. A lot of them depend on your character's skills. E.g., you can't discuss medicine with the Vault City doctor, nor explore their medical database on the computer, unless you have good doctor skill. A lot of quests depend on speech skill, btw. Other quests depend on your gender. E.g., you can't date the nurse if you're a female, nor screw Metzger for half of Vic's price if you're male. Yet other stuff depend on what you've done before, like who you've joined and what's your reputation. Yet other stuff depend on stats. E.g., you can't arm-wrestle Francis the super-mutant, if you've got 6 strength. I.e., your mileage may vary.
For the same reason, there may well be a lot of quests that I have missed myself. I did play several male and a female characters, but my karma and most reps were (very) positive, and some of my skills were always under-par. E.g., I can only pray that there was no quest based on energy weapons, melee, thrown, gambling, or which needed a real high outdoorsman skill, because I severely lacked those most of the time. Other quests I just didn't want to do, because they looked too evil for my taste.
Fifth, most of this stuff you don't really need to do to finish the game. In fact, other than giving xp and/or money, most quests have nothing to do whatsoever with your ability to finish the game. At most, they'll make a difference on the endgame animation, but most won't even do that. At least in theory, I think you could just go south along the coast, do Navarro and San Francisco, and then the final Enclave battles. Of course, you wouldn't survive there with a novice character, but that's another story.
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