Xavierblazer
Vault Senior Citizen
w00t! said:
Nay!!! Nay!!! Does not compute!!!
Likewise, Duder
How did you discover Fallout ?
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Vault Senior Citizen
I remember going to the store, Wal-mart as a matter of fact, one day in 1997 (I believe it was sometime late December) and seeing Fallout on the shelf. Being a gaming-addicted-teenager barely starting high school... the box really caught my attention. I had no idea what it was all about and for some reason I remember thinking it was a first person shooter... anyway to my surprise I ended up playing what would become one of two of my all-time-favorite role playing games...Fallout 2 being the other of course.
I played the demo because it came on a CD in a computer magazine I bought. I played the demo to death, trying out all the possibilities, and proceeded to buy the game shortly after.
In addition to loving the different paths you could take in the demo, there was one moment I remember very well: The first time I emptied a SMG into an adversarys chest, and blew off his head and arm, sending him screaming/gurgling to the ground with his ribcage exposed, I was sold.
In addition to loving the different paths you could take in the demo, there was one moment I remember very well: The first time I emptied a SMG into an adversarys chest, and blew off his head and arm, sending him screaming/gurgling to the ground with his ribcage exposed, I was sold.
Davy Crockett
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Dunno if I posted it already, but I was with Fallout since the day the first infos about it were released. I was intrigued and my instinct was correct:
Fallout is the best game ever made. Better than chess, tetris and all this other pseudo-intellectual nerd shit Birkenstock-wearing lentil-eaters are fancying.
Fallout is the best game ever made. Better than chess, tetris and all this other pseudo-intellectual nerd shit Birkenstock-wearing lentil-eaters are fancying.
LeMiserable
First time out of the vault
It happened in my high school days. I think end of 90s. A boy in my school recommended this game to me. That time I was working for the college exams and I had a private-teacher for that. Playing games in the computer was forbidden but I did it secretly (stealth-mode activated)
So on the first day I did understand nothing from the game. It was my first rpg experience on the computer. I couldnt understand much and shut it down (Mice attacking in the cave, pistol not firing, game freezes, damn I press the mouse button but can't hit the mouse, I thought it was real time) So that day I quit the game after a while and I think played a cheap FPS game.
After a couple of days. I launched the game again. This time I understood the combat system and could make it out of the cave to Vault 15 or maybe to Shady Sands, cant remember. But what I can exactly remember about that day is this : I made to Vault 15 and to the second level of this Vault. There in the locker after fighting some pig-rats I found the that beautiful black leather-jacket. After wearing the jacket and seeing that my AC and other modifiers changes this art-piece completely took me into its bizarre post-nuclear atmosphere. And what was next ? Finding of the SMG on the third-floor. And it was completed. This game charmed me just after this in its dark atmosphere in abandoned Vault 15. With my SMG in my hand and my leather jacket I felt myself more confident...
But bad news : That day my private teacher would come for mathemathics and physics ! We got a call which said that the teacher was sick. I can't imagine how happy I became then.
Damn, no game could achieve this on me. Wish I could forget everything about fallout and could play it again without any knowledge about it from the very beginning.
Absolutely my favourite game....
This is no game damn it is an art piece. Should be shown in Louvre. More people got to know abou this
So on the first day I did understand nothing from the game. It was my first rpg experience on the computer. I couldnt understand much and shut it down (Mice attacking in the cave, pistol not firing, game freezes, damn I press the mouse button but can't hit the mouse, I thought it was real time) So that day I quit the game after a while and I think played a cheap FPS game.
After a couple of days. I launched the game again. This time I understood the combat system and could make it out of the cave to Vault 15 or maybe to Shady Sands, cant remember. But what I can exactly remember about that day is this : I made to Vault 15 and to the second level of this Vault. There in the locker after fighting some pig-rats I found the that beautiful black leather-jacket. After wearing the jacket and seeing that my AC and other modifiers changes this art-piece completely took me into its bizarre post-nuclear atmosphere. And what was next ? Finding of the SMG on the third-floor. And it was completed. This game charmed me just after this in its dark atmosphere in abandoned Vault 15. With my SMG in my hand and my leather jacket I felt myself more confident...
But bad news : That day my private teacher would come for mathemathics and physics ! We got a call which said that the teacher was sick. I can't imagine how happy I became then.
Damn, no game could achieve this on me. Wish I could forget everything about fallout and could play it again without any knowledge about it from the very beginning.
Absolutely my favourite game....
This is no game damn it is an art piece. Should be shown in Louvre. More people got to know abou this
Whispering Death
First time out of the vault
11 years ago a friend in middle-school let me borrow fallout 1.
After the amazing gameplay experience I had I immediately bought Fallout 2 which was then just released.
No RPG has ever equalled, much less surpassed, the amazing experience of the Fallout games. And I say this as a guy that has tried ever-so-deesperately to re-capture the glory that was the first two Fallout games.
After the amazing gameplay experience I had I immediately bought Fallout 2 which was then just released.
No RPG has ever equalled, much less surpassed, the amazing experience of the Fallout games. And I say this as a guy that has tried ever-so-deesperately to re-capture the glory that was the first two Fallout games.
cocacolacowboy
First time out of the vault
well i used to sling rock,and this crackhead wanted an 8-ball but was broke,i let him go down on me but soon found out he gave lousy head,so i asked him "what else you got"..he left and came back 10 minutes later with a copy of fallout/fallout 2 dual case,i wasnt going to accept at first,but felt like being generous ,so i gave him the rock for the game and don't regret it
I have discovered the original Fallout after playing the demo on the CD of a friend.
Once I've started playing it the 1st ttime, I've spent about 3 hours to finish it. (I died a few times).
Then I was hooked and replayed it with other character stats perks and skills.
It didn't take long for me to buy the full game.
And once I had it, I've played it a half dozen of times over again to see the different outcomes at the end of the game!
Fallout has great replay value!
Once I've started playing it the 1st ttime, I've spent about 3 hours to finish it. (I died a few times).
Then I was hooked and replayed it with other character stats perks and skills.
It didn't take long for me to buy the full game.
And once I had it, I've played it a half dozen of times over again to see the different outcomes at the end of the game!
Fallout has great replay value!
radioactive_penguin
First time out of the vault
I first discovered fallout 2 in middle school one of my friends had a copy and lent it to me i took it home and installed it on my computer. I had originally thought it was some crazy fps (all i could see was the enclave power armor guy on the front of the case) i played it and having never played a game like it before was confused lost and annoyed. I played it about 10 minutes and ended up being killed by rad scorpions. Needless to say i hated it cause i didn't understand its greatness. Then a few years later my uncle mentioned the game to me and i said that i hated it he screamed "HERESY!!! HOW DARE YOU DENIGRATE FALLOUT!!!!". After being chastised i saw the game at Fry's and immediately bought it. this time i started with fallout 1. I started a character and stepped out of the vault. As soon as i blew up that first rat with the 10ml i was hooked since then i have played every fallout game even Fallout: POS after that i almost burned my Xbox to purge the evil from it. Fallout is the best RPG ever period.
dukem
First time out of the vault
I was reading game magazines and always had interest in computer rpg's (my first favorite games being dungeon master for atari ST and system shock part1.)
I did not know at first what to expect though, been a fan ever since.....
lived through fo2 1.0 with all the bugs it had, but happy because, having fo2 in that state was better than having no fo2 at all
I did not know at first what to expect though, been a fan ever since.....
lived through fo2 1.0 with all the bugs it had, but happy because, having fo2 in that state was better than having no fo2 at all
ZiggyMeister
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Some 10-11 years ago, I bought a magazine with the Fallout Demo, and I loved it.
Some months later I got a unauthorized copy of Fallout 2, and I really, really loved it.
Some time after this, I was able to buy a original copy of Fallout 2...
Some years later (maybe 2 years ago), I bought Fallout in a SoldOut Edition...
Meanwhile I've played Fallout Tactics, but never really liked it, and my PC wasn't updated to be able to play it, so I only played it on my sisters Laptop.
Some months later I got a unauthorized copy of Fallout 2, and I really, really loved it.
Some time after this, I was able to buy a original copy of Fallout 2...
Some years later (maybe 2 years ago), I bought Fallout in a SoldOut Edition...
Meanwhile I've played Fallout Tactics, but never really liked it, and my PC wasn't updated to be able to play it, so I only played it on my sisters Laptop.
Mutoes
Mildly Dipped
Yeah , iremember the day i got my first touch with fallout. It was when fallout2 was released. Couple of weeks from that maybe. My friend played alot of pc games, at the time and i didnt have much experience from rpgs at the time and i preferred to watch my friend play, i was fashinated from the feeling the game gave me and i was actually pretty new to the whole post apoc thing too.
I remember him playing thief character and the feeling when we found the first shotgun, it was something amazing, it felt like there was no stopping us now. Then we ran into some badass thugs that gave us the whoopin. For my bad luck we had to move to new city couple of days later and lot of stuff happened and i just left the experience behind.
Years passed and it was 2002 if i remember correctly and i was started to get intrest on pnp. I had played some jrpgs but no crpgs. I stated to my friend one night when we were playing pnp that how i hoped there were pnp like rpgs (as videogame) he said nothing and gave me his copy of original fallout1, memories came back flushing and rest was gaming history
I remember him playing thief character and the feeling when we found the first shotgun, it was something amazing, it felt like there was no stopping us now. Then we ran into some badass thugs that gave us the whoopin. For my bad luck we had to move to new city couple of days later and lot of stuff happened and i just left the experience behind.
Years passed and it was 2002 if i remember correctly and i was started to get intrest on pnp. I had played some jrpgs but no crpgs. I stated to my friend one night when we were playing pnp that how i hoped there were pnp like rpgs (as videogame) he said nothing and gave me his copy of original fallout1, memories came back flushing and rest was gaming history
ressurection666
First time out of the vault
i first got given fallout 2 off a friend of my mums actually about 9 years ago and i tried it out and loved it, i did not get fallout till about a year ago when i bought the fallout collection disk as i lost my original copy of FO2
My friend introduced it to me... (FO1 then 2)
But how my friend discovered it was intriguing...
He was looking for Fallout Tactics... He saw it featured in a magazine so went looking for it, and got Fallout1 by mistake... he started palying, then thought, hold on these graphics look worse than what was advertised in the magazine... but it was so good he didnt care and continued playing...
So i very nearly never discovered it (and same for him)! Life just isnt worth living without FO2!
But how my friend discovered it was intriguing...
He was looking for Fallout Tactics... He saw it featured in a magazine so went looking for it, and got Fallout1 by mistake... he started palying, then thought, hold on these graphics look worse than what was advertised in the magazine... but it was so good he didnt care and continued playing...
So i very nearly never discovered it (and same for him)! Life just isnt worth living without FO2!
barrythebaptist
First time out of the vault
When it first came out a mate of mine from school loaned me his cd so that i could full install. (didn't actually own it back then. Its ok though. I've bought it since)
Loved it ever since. My favourite experience ever related to that game was not in the game funnily enough. Recently I was wandering through our local shopping mall and guess what should be playing on the radio. the song from the intro movie to fallout 1. Brought back so many memories. Naturally I went straight home and re installed fallout 1.
Loved it ever since. My favourite experience ever related to that game was not in the game funnily enough. Recently I was wandering through our local shopping mall and guess what should be playing on the radio. the song from the intro movie to fallout 1. Brought back so many memories. Naturally I went straight home and re installed fallout 1.
I just read something from the internet and found this guy who had played it 18 hours, went to his bedroom and thought "Do I have enough action points to get to the bed?" And I thought that cinda game can't be bad. I bought it, and my life has never been the same after that .
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