What Fallout (1997) Could Teach Modern Open World Games

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game, developed and published by Interplay Productions and released in 1997, was a truly revolutionary game. Often credited with reviving the computer RPG genre after its decline in the mid-1990s, Fallout set the standard for all RPGs that would follow and gave birth to the AAA Fallout franchise that fans know today. However, despite its significance to the genre's history, Fallout featured a mechanic that never returned to the franchise, and which is only very rarely encountered in open world games of today — time limits.

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