How did you discover Fallout ?

I was just walking along the street when suddenly, I got hit in the head by something hard.

I picked it off the ground and it was a plastic CD-case with a CD in it. There was a picture of power armor on the CD and the letters "Fallout". Then a window opened in the nearby building and a person screamed out "THAT IS THE WORST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED! DEAR GOD!".

Anyway, I went home to see how "bad" this game really was, and from this day I still have that case and I still play Fallout.

Whatever reason that person had for throwing the game out, it was probably to hand the game to a person more intelligent.

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DarkLegacy
 
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I saw it in '98 originally, I was attracted to the armor. I looked over the box and thought "huh, cool" but then passed it up for Wacraft 2. (Gimmie a break I was 12)

Well flash forward a few years to highschool, where my friends were talking about this game. I was attracted to the conversation because of the words "Explosions, plazma rifles and power armor." The next day my friend gives me this burned cd, tells me to play it. I follow his instructions, and spend my last 2 months in school and summer playing Fallout 1.

I'm Looking for the duel jewl case so I can support the Fallout Franchise...
 
When I was like 6 or 7, my brother bought Fallout 2. Man, I loved it, even if I didn't understood all of the story and dialog. I played it from time to time, untill one day when I was like 9 or 10, I saw Fallout 1 in the store for like a 100 swedish (14-15 of todays dollar, 10 of that times dollar :roll: ) , and said why the hell not, I got some money to spare.

So I actually played the 2nd game first, although I didn't get very far as I didn't understood much english when I was that young. Took me 4-5 years of english study to break it. :wink:
 
DAMN! You learned english, so you could understand Fallout? Shit, I thought I was hardcore.
 
Way to ruin it, jeez, I thought you were one of the most hardcore Fallout fans. :(
 
Ok, since this here is my first post, I will try to remember how I made a contact with THE game. It goes way back, when I did not have a comp. yet and I was playing some crapy game at my friends house. We went one day to rent some game from a CD shop and we saw one of the workers was sitting there playing this ODD lookin' game. Hm, i've never seen anything like it before, i thought. And I decieded to give it a try.You're guesing what it was:) The rest is history... oh, yeah, I should also mention that shortly after that i managed to buy my own computer:) and play the game at my house finishing it soooooo many times.

Anyway, I'm glad I found this site/forum where we can impatiently wait the third part of this legendary game together. :D :D :D
 
Stupid friend (the same "Mimir" actually) recommended me to play Fallout 2. Fresh off of the amazing Planescape: Torment, I decided to give it a try. Of course, naturally I got annoyed at how stupid the main plot was (before the Enclave) and ended up getting pissed off more than anything else. Later on I gave Fallout a whirl and found it very likeable. Main plot was fun (though not as much so as Torment :P) and side quests were agreeable with me (a far cry from New Reno). I'll have to admit though, now that I played Fallout 2 again, I like it. Just, I still hate New Reno and still hate the GECK. Okay, enough ranting.
 
I remember playing the Fallout demo when it was brand new, I found it a bit entertaining in spite of not really knowing what I was doing. I was pretty young at the time, I had no idea what was actually going on in that unfinished Junktown, and I thought the Super Stimpak was some kind of mind-control device you could use on others. A few years later when Fallout 2 had just recently been released, I just picked it up for no particular reason, and needless to say it's one of the best deals in my life.
 
argh, same here as dmakatra, played fallout 2 first and then fallout 1
..i played fo2 at my uncle's house, where i used to spend some time...so he had a game there - fallout 2, and i fell in love from the first sight..so i finished it couple of times and umm..about 2 yrs later i bought fallout 1, dont know why not sooner.. then, after finishing fo1, i downloaded the fot demo, played it, and hated it because it seemed so much different from original fallout...but after a year or so..a friend suggested fot again, and i decided to give it a chance..now i see it is very similar to fallout1,2 at some points and i love it and i still play it :)
 
Remember trying the demo, with no clue about anything when I was about 13 years old or something........ The theme looked cool, but I eventualy forgot it untill I came bundeled with a Norwegian Gaming Magazine..... After the first install it have never left my HD..... ;)
When I learned there was a FO2 i actually used an entire day on bus into the nearest city to search for it.....
 
Long story or short? Heck might as well go for the long story.

Other than playing Wolfenstein 3D (shareware version) during my lunch hours, while on a computer course in 94 I hadn't touched a computer game since making Elite way back in 85 on my C64. After getting my own pc and getting bored of the few FPS games that came with it I started looking round for something along the lines of the text adventures that I had loved. A friend recommended Planescape, BG and Fallout. I bought the first two and forgot about Fallout because I wasn't really interested in a modern RPG with guns (I loved PS:T and hated BG by the way). Then I started playing the FOT demo from a magazine cover disc and was intrigued by the PA setting but disliked the game itself. I picked up Arcanum, which changed my mind about RPGs with guns, roughly around the same time I was down the shops saw FO2 mis-marked at £4.99 so I thought bargain I'll have that. I didn't really get on with FO2 at first but after quitting my job and not having much to do I gave it another go and grew to love it. So I started looking around for Fallout, I couldn't find it but saw FOT in the bargain bin and bought it hoping it would be better than the demo, but I still disliked it (until I started mucking around with the editors). Finally I found Fallout as part of the Radioactive box set and loved it from the start and other than messing around modding and playing mods for FOT, it's only Fallout that I still play regularly.
 
I first heard about it in gaming sites around 98 but I was too deep in Jagged Alliance 2 at the time so never looked for it.

It wasn't until Lex (who recently registered here) got a copy of Fallout 2 and brought it around my place that I finally got to play it; I was so hooked from that day I have hardly bothered to get any other recent games.

Another friend of mine played it for three days straight the first time he got it; needless to say he was a mess by the third day.
 
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