Steamspy stats:
Fallout 1:
Owners: 755,971 ± 18,714
Players in the last 2 weeks: 13,415 ± 2,496 (1.77%)
Fallout 2:
Owners: 774,752 ± 18,945
Players in the last 2 weeks: 10,488 ± 2,207 (1.35%)
Now these are facts. So shut up with bullshit already.
(I don't think RPGWatch + RPGCodex have enough people to alone own and play these games so much)
Well, these are sad and nostalgia-driven days we are living now, so… Anyway, are those numbers so meaningful? I'm sure there are much more than 2500 video game geeks about my age who have no life, no other hobbies, no family, don't have to work too many hours, so they occupy the vacuum in their pathetic lives playing and replaying the same old, ugly, absurd (c'mon, MacGyver as a voice actor? Gimme' a break!), poorly written, strictly based on a conversion of pen & paper rules into computer game (thus, very mechanic, soulless and sterile).
And, as the same old (or not so old) geeks have always been very vocal on the Internet (vide any RPG forum, namely The RPGWatch) they convinced young nerdy hipsters who are always looking for trends from the past, that old games are the good games, and new games are rubbish (except if they were made to look like old games. In that case they are most probably good games too).
ALL THAT I STATED BEFORE IS MY OPINION, IT IS NOT BASED ON RELIABLE FACTS, ONLY MY OBSERVATION AND THE CONCLUSIONS THE OBSERVATION LED ME TO.
And now I'll shut up with my bullshit.
EDIT: Also, don't forget that Bethesda included the classic Fallout games in a special edition, so that might have led to more people playing those artifacts in the last weeks.
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