What if Fallout, but Dieselpunk?
This is my review for Olympus 2207, a Fallout 2 total conversion mod that released an English translation not too long ago. This is the latest edition to my series analyzing as many major Fallout mods as I can before my ambition overcomes me and I decompose, locked away in a tomb by my loved ones, forever haunting those who don't give these criminally underlooked projects a chance. Here's the link to a playlist with the rest of those videos:
• Fallout Mod Reviews
Timestamps:
0:00-1:18 Intro
1:19-8:08 This ain't your Granddad's Fallout
8:09-14:51 Welcome to the Radius
14:52-18:30 Writing Evil Characters is Hard, I Guess
18:31-22:15 They're Putting Chemicals in the Water
22:16-26:38 Ascend, Ye Sinners
26:39-28:55 Conclusion + Patreon Plug
Link to Olympus 2207 here: olympus2207.com/en/o1-en/
Warlockracy's video on it: • Olympus 2207 (a Fallou...
Keyboard Gecko's video on it: • Fallout that never was...
The composer's Bandcamp: / the-glow-inc
My Patreon: / ramblelime
My Twitter: / ramblelime
My Discord: / discord
Thank you for watching!
#olympus2207 #fallout #falloutmods
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I don't believe you...prove it.
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i image translated the name @4:01 and had to run to the comments to see if i was the first one "I'm not missing"
I absolutely love how the devs attempted to recreate the original "clay-like CGI" of the old games. From the talking heads, to the cinematics and cutscenes. My jaw literally dropped the first time we saw the titular city
That’s not “clay-like” my guy, the talking heads are literally claymation put together by an artist for the game.
@@dantaylor8197the clay models were then scanned and turned into 3d models using the scans as reference it’s like a more advanced version of what ID did with Doom making sprites out of photographed clay models of the demons (of course they were traced over and heavily alteredg
"It's not 'clay-like.' It's claymation."@@dantaylor8197
fromwhat ive seen its only one dev
The way old Fallout cutscenes look makes me want an entire modern game that looks like that
The Desolate Hope: "Allow me to introduce myself"
"I wanted a thesis on postmodern philosophy from a professional criminal, but all I got was disappointment and hurt feelings." Amazing.
Fun fact : the mod author is the same guy behind the infamous Fallout : Oblivion Lost
ohhh what's that?
is that why the power armor looks like it's ripped from stalker?
@@antipsychotic451 The actual power armor what you can get in the mod is not ripped from stalker though, only the Tartarus guard sprite look like the exoskeleton from stalker.
Explains a LOT in terms of sexism no surprise actually, when he calls it the "weaker sex" lol
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This is hands down one of the videos you ever made
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Honestly I kinda like how the olympus tower is running, the tower administrator stopped caring about the tower, and in the absence of an over-arching controlling force to rein in the occupants, everything went to pot internally
It reminds me of Shinra from FF7
That random Warlockracy cameo lol
The way you descibe it, it sounds like a alternate/parallel universe more than anything else. I kow this sound dumb but hear me out, you know how the Undertale fandom has like 1000 different subcultures based around alternate universes and timelines that somehow flip the story of Undertale on its head? Olympus looks like what would happen if something similar to that existed for Fallout.
Hello Saul Goodman
Love hearing Warlockracy in this, absolutely adore little crossovers between KZheadrs I like
Just discovered this channel - these are great, and I'm excited to see your future takes on more mods!
Awesome video like always, bro. I’m so glad to see that you’re back.
I am currently doing my 1st playthrough and I absolutely love it. The amount of work they put in is simply stuning!
I can't believe I just found out this exists! I love the old isometric Fallout style, and this is right up my alley
Glad to see you back
I like how the power armor in the game is just ripped from the exosuits in stalker
the russians are notorious for stealing "Ukrainian" culture and lore and presenting to the world as "their own inventions".
Just the Tartarus guards, the other one is original.
It isn't exactly ripped, this mod was supposed to be fallout-stalker crossover but the idea was scrapped during development, thats why those particular armors were used in the mod
Glad to see you're channel is growing, my friend, but you still deserve way more subs imo! You're one of my favourite content creators and the only reason I haven't watched all of your videos is because i wanna stay spoiler free for some of the games and mods i haven't played yet :)
YAY! One of my favorite channels is back!
i love dieselpunk, and thanks for introducing it to me
I had an idea back in the day similar to the ongoing conflict between the US and Chinese Ghouls. My idea was a Chinese Submarine you could find hidden deep underwater (like an Easter egg, no marked quest to find it). The sub would have Chinese ghouls who think the war is still going on (this makes more sense than in this mod due to their isolation) After fixing their submarine you could either convince them that the war is over and they surface and depart on land or you can have launch a nuke on the target of your choice (you "have the updates US target coordinates"you tell them). Or kill them all from the get go of course and get a Chinese naval officer uniform.
This is pretty much a quest in FO4
This is pretty much a quest in FO4
Somehow the KZhead brought this onto my homepage and it just so happens this is exactly what I wanted
Very good video man
3:45 I scoured the whole channel looking for this gag, I love og fallout shit like that
criminally underrated channel
yooo i just sent this to a friend. only 72 views? ooooh man i realy hope ye keep doing more. you will 100% blow up eventaully xD good shiz doe man. you might need to put more Tags
we love u jackson
The link to the mod in the description no longer works but if you wait for the Olympus logo to load on the page & click it, it will take you to the main page where you can find download links.
I suspect the usage based skill system is a nod to Fallout's forebearer - Wasteland. Back in 87, when it came out, it was a very novel feature.
I like your content talky man
2:59 I'm dead, thanks, you got my laughing so hard, I woke up my cat.
I have to play this someday. Played Fallout 1.5 Resurrection and some other total conversion before and I really enjoyed both of them. Btw. to play these older titles with high resolution monitors, it could be good idea to use apps like Lossless Scaling (on Steam). It'll enable you to use lower res like 720p or 1080p internally and do a (higher quality than normal) scale up to 1440p or 4k. With lower internal res everything wouldn't be incredibly tiny.
I've got a few comments on my other videos about the zoomed-out view, and I find it's mostly a preference thing. I've found that the originally intended scaling is (for me) really claustrophobic. I like seeing everything. That's a good tip though, i'll try that and see if that changes my opinion. Thank you!
4:55 missed opportunity to say “goated with the sauce”
Some guy on NMA claimed that you can defeat the final boss non-violently if you have very high Speech, but I tried editing my save file and nothing seemed to work. Also I think some endings may be bugged - I did the quests fertilizer quests at the metro station, but I could only get the ending where everyone leaves eventually. My guess is it's dependent on the Karma, if that's the case then it's plain stupid.
olympus’ aesthetic is so good
mY BOI UPLOADED!!!!!!!
This Dystopian mod reminds me of OddsWorld in a way. I also like the Greek Mythology metaphors they use. Having the lowest level be Tarterous and the Higher levels be Olympus is kinda genious. Especially considering the Godlike status the people from the higher levels hold.
The thought that character stats/personality changes dialogue options and quest assignment is really cool, and it's a shame it wasn't taken as far as it could have been. Would have been a very cool system to build an RPG around. On a related note, you might want to check out Roadwarden 👀
I was wondering if you were going to address "borrowed" assets. It's not a deal breaker for me, but seeing the armor of guards from the beginning, which is exoskeleton armor from Stalker series was a bit odd. I also think they used skeleton from Oblivion at one point. I know creating new stuff is not easy, even so with limited or no budget, but for an ambitious project like this looks a bit wrong.
I'm not a big stalker guy, i had no idea! Thanks for letting me know though. Asset usage usually isn't a big issue for me in mods because the mod author makes no profit off of it. As long as the assets are taken from games and not other mods, i'm able to mostly overlook it
Considering this is a mod I don't see any issue with that at all. There are way worse things you could go after this mod author for, if you were so inclined.
Great content! You just don’t get to see people going over mods in this depth. I’d love to see you go over the original frontier mod for fallout new Vegas. It’s got some great aspects and some terrible aspects and a nice sprinkle of controversy. I felt so mixed after playing it but it’s full of potential.
If I remember correctly, he said that he does intend to cover it.
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When I started this mod, I was amazed by it's technical aspects. The soundtrack, oh my god, it's so soo good, the sprites, and the gerenal "G" from the RPG was simply mesmerizing. That said... Oh. My. God. How I HATED the writing. I left Tartarus and went to NWO first, since on my way to Metro Station, I was ambushed by Olympus guards, so I assumed I should head the opposite way, and it felt subpar for me there. After I left there and went to the raiders settlements, well, thats when I couldn't keep playing. It made me physically ill reading the dialog, and my biggest gripe with it was how they portrayed women in general. Every women npc I met were: fangirling about the PC; completely and utterly stupid; a prostitute; submissive to other man. This got old so fast to me, since Catty, when she said that my character always knew what was better for her, to Lucy, to the women in Rainbow, to the fucking Casanova skill refering to women as "the weaker sex". I don't know, it felt really forced for no reason, as if the creators trying to elevate the Y chomossome or something just because. Anyways, I just found out your channel, and I love your videos. Keep it up, man! Also, english is not my first language, so pardon the grammar mistakes. Or not.
Thank you!! All of your criticisms are spot on, and exactly what I was alluding to in the raider segment of this video. The way the game treats its black and female characters across the board is really gross
Actually it's a bit refreshing compared to most of the media nowadays. Women in the post-apocalyptic world wouldn't have it easy - and on the other hand, the male characters in this mod are not portrayed as examples to follow. The writing itself has its flaws, the background is badly fleshed out especially. Not sure how it is in the Russian original, and how much the clumsy English translation is to blame, but it sounds you're just overly sensitive.
@@EnclaveTrooper1 I have to agree. I wish I could remember the details, but there's a famous essay by a (maybe) Serbian who survived the conflict in the 90s. One thing he mentioned was that when his town was surrounded and barter became the only way to survive, women immediately abandoned any pretense of equality. When it came time for the men to form a party and negotiate with another group of men for supplies, not one single woman sign up for duty. And why would they? It was dangerous! Modern soyboys hate to admit it, but when the modern world ends, women go back to food preparers and child bearers IF they're lucky... or property if they're not lucky. If the irradiated wasteland of Fallout was real, you wouldn't see strong women handling guns and taking down raiders. You'd see armed groups of men fighting for turf and property, and yes, women would sadly be included among the property. This would also change their attitude toward men, making them more submissive, more eager to please strong men capable of protecting them from other men.
@Bluescore De'La'vie Big agree.
@@FiggsNeughton I mean, Israel conscripts both men and women. While it's not a post-apocalyptic location, it's not a safe place. Not to say women troops were deployed in substantial numbers by Russia during WW1/Civil War and later by USSR during WW2. D Some cultures also used women in military roles in the past (Dahomey amazons, Onna-musha, Female Sikh warriors). Bad times =/= women go to the kitchen.
In the game, all insults are good, and a little funny
I need to go ahead and play the first 2 games. I missed the pc games growing up and they’re on the list. I got quite a big 1 now
Olympus is awesome First glimpse of dieselpunk (middle-child of the punk family) Obsidian should contact broski and expand the lore. Good IP that expand on wasteland theme
I really like the Fallout soundtrack, but it's almost entirely lifted from Aphex Twin and the like. Aphex Twin's a hugely influential musician. There's really no shortage of people that emulate his style, including Mark Morgan.
It was a result of Interplay sending Mark Morgan music that they wanted him to emulate, he sent them demos, and they were like "actually, this is perfect, we'll use this." Either way, Fallout 2 I don't think follows that suit.
In fallout 1 there is an ultra rare encounter that if you are heavilly radiated it actually increases some of your special stats permenantley.
23:17 This is a S.T.A.L.KE.R. exoskeleton, taken from my favorite game. Sweet.
How i get the graphics / textures like yours? Hopefully it is not only for the olympus mod available.
sounds awesome! thx for your work, just stumbled over your channel today
YOOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO JACKSON UPLOAD CANADIAN KZhead MAN DID THE THING
25:57 The AI changed the code to that so you can access easily.
On sight
Anybody know where to install Olympus now? The link is invalid now.
Hey dude, do mind if I could suggest an idea on making a video on?
I'm always open to suggestions!!
4:03 kenshi ! XD
Damn vice city goin crazy
- My name is джуьушлкоа ... - Ты как это произнёс?
Are these kind of mod reviews still in production?
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23:17 that's a fucking duty member in an exosuit from stalker
SAFE AND LEGAL THRILLS
Stalker + fallout
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Всё правильно говорите. Начало (цитадель) хорошее но дальше игра так себе идёт.
I can't imagine myself playing Fallout 2 on a resolution higher than 800-600p. So much better looking on that resolution, like playing league of legends on higher resolution, yea would be unplayable.
The detail of based computer is cool because of course the ai would ignore the human nature that makes that system fail every time
poggers
Duh, all of it is used up battery, which only useful as currency.
Good luck at University, dude
about NWO, Everything was good until I entered the factory; something didn't feel right. The factory has a depressing atmosphere. Mayor is made to look like an ignorant and boring character. Player's involvement seems too forced. The cheif of security didn't represent the security force enough. For example, compare him to the leader of guards in metro station.
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Wait, is the supercomputer saying socialism will be the end result of democracy or is it being antisocialist or antidemocratic or... is it suggesting some tankie bullshit?
Think it's saying that the NWO would benefit from a Socialist economy in their area.
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I highly disagree with the batteries being a currency but not a consumable being bad. Sorry, it's a dumb idea that the thing people use to buy and sell goods can be destroyed. This is Metro players thinking that element of the game was ever good when it was just dumb at every level.
what's teh logic behind not being able to play as a woman? Oh, and 17:10 ? If this is Russian mod (looks like it is), you shouldn't be surprised ;)
The logic is pure sexism, it seems
Finally you reviewed this mod, and yeah from what i know most russian mods tends to have many sexism/racist things in them at least from the ones i know and played, which is a shame but theres not much you can do about it, btw will you review complete overhaul mods like DUST or obscurum pandemic, the latter of which im more interested in since not many people appear to go in depth about it
This game looks very good and is very interesting and I love its take on politics. Also are you and dad warlock fighting again?
Frontier isnt a bad mod. Its not great but it is clearly better then most mods on the nexus
No, it's not better than most other mods on nexus. "Clearly" Mediocre at best, aside from all controversial things.
@@trickytrack00 really can you name some other DLC sized mods with full voice acting multiple factions included with fantastic music and weapons not to mention entireworld space to explore? Besides someguy2000 mods ? all of the controversy is overblown and honestly for free product it's very high quality. The story is the definitely little bit cringe on the NCR side I will admit but again these are people doing it for fun not getting paid and not professional writers
@@daydreamer8877 Yes, "New California" aka Project Brazil. Much better, much stronger script, no crashes and etc. And also no controversy with someone fetishes
@@trickytrack00 Yes that ones a better mod thats also a self-contained story that is half the size. That's comparing apples to oranges and that is only one example their are tons of way worse mods out their Frontier is a good mod despite some very minor stuff which had been removed in updates. Another question have you even played the mod? Because if you have you realize the stuff is very minor and all this controversy revolves around like two or three minor details bandwagoners have blown out of proportion
@@trickytrack00 You forgot that the whole plot of New California was a convoluted fuck up of a mess between Enclaves, clones, X-man Superpowers, Master’s Super Mutant Remanent, and the PC being a special snowflake Wolverine rip-off who is also the Courier who survived Hopeville by Regenerating back from fucking bones and then losing their powers because, reasons. So it’s not any different.
Can really tell how young and inexperienced you are.
12:44 you must be either freakin kidding or post-meta-ironic. there is nothing more stupid than having your game over 5 hours before an actual game over screen.
It's harsh, but the are ways to treat your radiation poisoning in this mod.
Its for if you wanna roleplay dying of radiation
The tower residents sure are idiots. Or poorly written. But in their defense, the password "1234" only works once you changed it to that. My main issue with the crafting "system", apart from it turning out to be criminally under-developed: carry weight. Same as other classic fallout mods with crafting systems, you are constantly short on carry capacity, for lugging all that useless stuff around. That problem is made worse by quest items also having weight. Sometimes a lot of weight. And you never know when you might need one. This is the first time I picked a perk to increase carry capacity by 50, and not regretting it. All in all: exceptional world-building and atmosphere. But sub-par game mechanics and awful writing.
Fallout 4>
Russian native speaker here. In original... its get worse. When im playing i have a feeling that game writers 15 years old. F word(describing gay person) N word( dont need to elaborate). And even Jid. Thats translate like K word( Jewish person). The game are great. A lot of weapon choices, variety through the roof. But ffs... in russian its looks like gopnik Vasya throwing hate on humanity and cursed America. С любовью из Курчатова.
1000th like biatchhhhhhhh
Love and respect to the great mod communities of this planet. You're special people in a world filled with self absorbed lemmings and control freaks. True artists that bring joy to people for FREE using talent and hard work. That's worth praising. With that said... did you just go full pander over an incomplete mod story? Well get those charities ready for the west, because I can assure you other's won't be as kind when our own genocide hits a breaking point. hahaha
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oh noooo you can't play female, how horrible, my snowflake mind breaking down in tears, how could they not add a female option.
"Ermm this is Cut and Dry BAD Writing" -- YOU SOUND SO LAME!!!!
Why is playing as a wahmen need to be a requirement? It's their game to design like they want to. It's pure fantasy already to think a woman could tackle the wasteland. I don't mind it, but it shouldn't be expected. Let them make their own game. There's a reason that doesn't exist and it ain't "muh oppression".
It's a common option in Fallout, I don't see why it shouldn't be an option with how "fantastical" the rest of the games are. It's not even portrayed as a big deal in the video.
It's kinda expected of RPG to let you play as woman or man. But yeah, there's no big deal, especially if the story is more focused on the character. Like Witcher, for example.
The Frontier isn't BAD at all. I bet you haven't even downloaded just only influenced by the nonsense b*t read on the net
The NCR questline is just stolen assets and ideas. Objectively bad. The Legion questline is worse than the vanilla game. Wasted opportunity, mediocre at best. The Crusaders questline, which is the best, is literally what if the Brotherhood, which are already annoying af, were Mormons, meaning that they are twice as annoying. Mediocre at best, too. The best quest was literally an optional download because it was incomplete... Considering the amount of time it took and how much hype it raised? Yeah, it's somewhat bad.
@@diewott1337it wasn't incomplete, it's scripting was just too complicated and result in bugs.
Seeing that they are russians and steal the design of exoskeleton suit from STALKER, I just hope that GSC World Game sues the hell out of them.
It's a free product which they are not making a profit of, and a good bit of STALKER's assets are free to use.
are you insane? lmao