How did you discover Fallout ?

Well, my friend told me about this game once, i think 2002. And he told me that it was funny and sarcastic!!! So I gave it a try and I fell in love... whit the game ofcourse...perverts... :x
 
I start playing RPGs and bought FO 2.I didn't buy FO 1 because I think FO 2 is better than FO 1 and I was right.Later I bought FO 1.
 
hakkapeliitta said:
I start playing RPGs and bought FO 2.I didn't buy FO 1 because I think FO 2 is better than FO 1 and I was right.Later I bought FO 1.
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What ? FO 2 better than my beloved FO1 ?!
*goes into a state of catatonia*
 
They both have their own strengths and weaknesses. If someone is just discovering Fallout, I always reccomend they play them in order.
 
Just got to blurt out, so many scary people with such fierce Fallout dogma. Takes a set of brass balls just to post around here. At least I'm up to 2 now, and it's only taken me a year. As it is, Gamespot will be posting a preview of FO3 before I set foot on the board for it. I only post there in my nightmares.

Anyhow, I was bored one night long ago and found an archive of sorts. A website who's main purpose was to provide game demos. Most of them were for titles that had been long released, or maybe even abandonware. I read the description for a demo of something called Fallout, and was intruiged. So, I downloaded it.

I became obsessed. If I had a nickel for every time I must've played that demo, and explored that little map from one corner to the other, I could start my own company and fund the completion of VanBuren myself. (By the way, a happy pie to anyone who could point me to a working link to download that demo today.)

I had nothing but the demo for a few months. Especially compared to now, I was a fledging as a gamer (There was a time before when I wasn't one. If you think hard, you might remember a similar period in your own life). I think I was also starting high school or thereabouts (in college now), so driving 45 minutes to the nearest Electronics Boutique and hunting for it wasn't much of an option.

God bless the good people at Amazon.com. They were still newish in those days, and internet shopping was still being talked about like it was a recent development in the mainstream, if I remember right. What a nice day it was when my lovely FO/FO2 back to back jewel case set was delivered.

I kept the demo and played it for months, so of course I'm still getting loads of quality play time out of the real deals. I still don't think I have seen every possible thread there is to see, and I keep playing them on rotation. Playing through Tactics now (Tough Guy is the bane of my existence). Sure it's got its issues, both in general and in terms of fitting in with Fallout canon, but I still think it's worthy to be in the lineup, and have tons of fun with it. That's probably because Interplay was pretty much in its death throes by the time I learned anything more about them besides that they were the logo that popped up when I started another round of Fallout, so I missed out on the terrible, teeth-gnashing bitterness that so many have left from the episode between the release of FO2 and now.

Hell, it was a while before I found the forums and realized there was a legion of fans and that it wasn't just me. Thank goodness there is, cause misery loves company, and what tale is more woeful than a Fallout fanchild's? :P
 
I've always have heard about Fallout, but didn't entertain any ideas of buying it until several years ago. I walked into a EB store at the local mall and meandered over to the cheap software bin. What did I find but Fallout and Fallout 2 in there for an unbelievably cheap price ($10 or something). I figured I couldn't go wrong at that price and bought it. Best $10 bucks I ever spent. After a few PC meltdowns, upgrades, and various other crap that gets in the way of my gaming (life gets in the way of important stuff, like wasting time on the PC :wink: ), I might even complete them before this century ends :shock: . I'm glad and somewhat shocked to still see websites dedicated to this fantastic game.

:rockon:
 
I played Wasteland back around 1988 on my commodore 128 and LOVED it. I thought it was probably the best game ever, right up there with Seven Cities of Gold.

Around 1998 or so I was in a store and saw Fallout2 and read the box and though, "Holy crap, this is just like Wasteland!" Then I saw Fallout 1 and decided to play that first.
 
There was this article about the first Fallout on Nyt-magasine that said "I see myself in the mirror, and the image is not beatiful" and it basically got me exited about fallout and downloaded the game, 2 hours after I had gotten the game from net, I ran to the store to buy the game. It still is marvelous game.

Oh yeah, I got my cousin hooked on fallout too.

This was right after Fallout came out in finland in 1997-98.
 
I have always loved the post-apocalyptic setting wether it be MadMax or Night of the Comet.When I stumbled upon Fallout 2 I was hooked....I remember it like yesterday.......

I went to Texas to visit my family. It was boring listening to all the older people talk, so I went into the back room were I found a computer. My uncle told me about a game he had bought, but he didn't really dig it, so I put it in. Fallout 2's opening movie was outstanding. I loved the narration, the music, the story; everything!
I played the game for three days with little or no sleep. I played it ever since then, up until my computer broke. Now I have to get online at the library :( .
 
Found the demo on CD-Action's Cover CD. Loved it.

Read all reviews. Loved it even more.

When saw it in one colleagues open drawer went crazy and after some difficulties finally played it. LOVED EVERYTHING! (My first character - James, male, 26 yo, 1 CH&LK, 8 ST&AG, 6 PE, 7 IN, 4 EN [all are ca, I dont remember quite clearly], skilled + bloody mess, energy weapons, barter, science, finished with Turbo Plasma and Power Armor).

Next, I buyed the full version, published on CD-A's Cover CD.
Then, the translated version.

Got Fallout 2 from CDA's Cover CD. Forced my dad to give me it.
Played it, and got married with Fallout Universe.

Bought Fallout Tactics, and got F1 and F2 together with FT.

Played FT - as a stand alone game, it's the best turn based squad level simulator. As canon- well, now i'm working on the canon improvement for it. Check the thread in Mods announcements.

So, as of today, I have 1 Fallout demo, 1 FT, 2 Fallout 2, 3 Fallouts, including the polish version.

Oh, and regularly I curse interplay for executing Fallout 3.

It makes me SOOO mad!!..

-.,.Mungo, dont kill customerz! Uuuuhh, my war wound!!! (dies)

-And then this! happens! (impales himself on a fork)
 
pc gamer had it (fallout 2)in its top ten for ages i found it in the sales at hmv in its original box and that was that

i bought fallout 1 when it was rerealeased in the white label

i bought tactics as soon as it hit the shops (prsonaly i like tactics tho it has a very narow view of the fallout world)

never bought the playstation /xbox game i was warned by the cover
i eagaly wait fallout 3 ..
 
Hi all im ! this is my 1st post....

ok it all started way bak wen we got the first family computer...a few PC games were included in the package..total annihilation..redline racer etc..anyway one happened to be fallout...i played it for about 2 mins got killed by cave rats&decided this was the biggest piece of s**t id ever played. A while later i saw my lil sister playing the game.she actually made it out of the caves&showed me the freedom&true dark nature of fallout :twisted: !!...fair to say she never got the chance to play again cos i fell in love with fallout&to this day it has been the most enjoyable gaming experience in my life!!fallout 1&2 have probably been the biggest influences on me in my life!thats preeeetty sad but oh well!!wish i joined up here earlier.. :D
 
First played the FO demo when it was released (I think it was on a PCGamer demo CD) in Mexico. After playing it tons of times for a couple of weeks I finally decided to buy the game. The thing is I couldn't find it where I lived, but my mom was travelling to the USA at the same time, so I asked her to buy the game there. She came back with FO2, saying she hadn't found FO.

After finishing FO2 (and eventually moving to another city) I bought FO and a few months later FOBOS.
 
Got a new computer system in 1997. A "top of the line" PII - 333Mhz w/ 8 Meg Video Card from Dell :lol:

Went to the store to get a couple of games. Had to get Quake II just to test the limits of my machine. But my fav genre by far is CRPGs. So I see this game called Fallout. Loving Sci-Fi, I pick up the box and turn it over. "Remember Wasteland?" were the first two words I read. All my memories of that glorious game came rushing back to me and the rest is history. Needless to say I enjoyed Fallout 1000x more than I enjoyed Quake II.

I still kick myself for throwing away the boxes to Fallout I and II, since I still have both glorious instruction manuals.
 
Quaid said:
I still kick myself for throwing away the boxes to Fallout I and II, since I still have both glorious instruction manuals.
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I bet you do. Some people would even commit murder for those boxes, or at least I heard so :) Anyway, I can't remember in this very moment how I discovered Fallout but it is for sure that in a short period of time I became an addict.
 
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