Fallout Classic Collection & Wild Card Football are free on Epic

Monday, Lost in Random has a “sequel” in a different genre like it is the SteamWorld series, and Valve finally put out a page for that game you totally care about that is being made. Tuesday, Fairy Tail: Dungeons asks what if you combine classic JRPG art, Rogue-like gameplay, and throw in deckbuilding too. Meanwhile, Concord makes unlike the planes as it has crashed. Wednesday, there was another Nintendo Direct announced on short notice. Then finally on Thursday, the 90’s most famous babies return for NES-based nostalgia, and Croc: Legend of the Gobbos has a remaster coming.

Moving on to the Epic Games Store, where it is another double bill, or possibly a quadruple bill. We’ll start with something we’ve covered before individually but in a much more convenient way than before, I’m of course talking about the Fallout Classic Collection. A bundle of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. Thanks, when can we get Interplay’s last Fallout game or are we just not bothering to port that to PC? There isn’t much to say when it comes to the Classic Collection, it is called that for a reason.

Fallout 1 is what started it all, and though heavily dated in comparison now, not to Fallout 4 but to gaming in general, it can feel clunky and might require a few mods. The same could be said of 2, though it could be argued that 2 is where the series’ legacy was cemented. Meanwhile, Fallout Tactics is the one that certain people “glaze” over while many of us haven’t even touched it; partially because it got a tepid response at launch which led to Josh Sawyer’s first foray into Fallout being canned by Black Isle Studios alongside the 2002 game, Baldur’s Gate III. I’m glad they waited to give me my gay vampire.

With all that table-top nerdy stuff out of the way, we can all be real men… watching sweaty, over-paid men strapped up to hug each other very tight. That makes Wild Card Football sound very homoerotic, which probably would be the only other thing I’d do to make it more interesting. A cartoonish take on the NFL games we see from EA, Saber Interactive’s (oh no, please not again) Wild Card Football tries to bring a more arcade feel to the world of calling a prolate spheroid a ball in a game where 90% of the time you hold it but call it FOOTball.

Jokes and teasing aside, Wild Card Football just reminds me that I need to find my copy of FIFA Street 2 and EA needs to revive the EA BIG label. The only concern I have is that I was the psycho crazy enough to try out WWE 2K Battlegrounds, which was also developed by Saber and had a similar art style. I think I’d almost be more forgiving for an arcade NFL experience as we don’t typically have that, whereas we’ve seen better arcade wrestling games.

All this week you can pick up the Fallout Classic Collection, featuring Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics, as well as Wild Card Football on the Epic Games Store until the 5th of September. Moving on to next week and it is an odd one, to say the least: Spreadsheet Simulator– Sorry, I mean Football Manager 2024, which actually features a proper ball that you kick with your feet, and Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts. The latter is a reminder of a series I’ve purposefully long forgotten about.