How did you discover Fallout ?

I believe I had a share-ware (remember those) version and I remember playing it and being somewhat confused as I was a teen and at the time I only knew JRPGs and even wasn't too good at them. I loathed RPGs a lot at the time on account of a terrible D&D session with my friends abusive older brother. Anyways fast forward many years (like a decade) and I see a different friend playing F3 and was interested. I had played Deus Ex in the interim and when my friend was leveling up his character I noticed the skills were similar to Deus Ex (lock pick, stealth etc) So I watched him play and I was curious to play another FPS RPG type game. I played 3 then a different friend bought me 1,2, and Tactics for my birthday and I devoured them with little difficulty this time around and much enjoyment (the Fixt and Restoration mods are a godsend). Then Vegas came out and I feel in love with that game as well. Having played 1 and 2, Vegas felt much more like the real F3 to me. That is the abridged version of my discovery of Fallout.
 
In the hype for Fallout 3, I played the first Fallout. Enjoyed what little I'd played at the time, but then I got F3 and played just it for probably the next year. Over time, I went back to the original Fallout games and realized I enjoyed them immensely, as well. A bunch more time passed and here I am now, the Fallout über-fan that I am. :P
 
In 1996 I went to GenCon and found out at the Steve Jackson Games booth that there was finally going to be a cRPG using the GURPS engine called GURPS Fallout. Needless to say I was really excited being a fan of Wasteland on the C64.
In 1997 I bought a pirated copy in Hong Kong, and fell in love with the game and had to buy the legit one - I still have the game booklet that came with the game.

The first time I actually screamed "FUCK YEAH" at a video game was my third playthrough where I shot that fucking Overseer in the back after he kicked me out of the vault. I was hooked for life at that moment. :clap:

Here's someone's video of the ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbH-8QKZ1Vg
 
It must have been in 2002, I think?
I was at a friend's place and he showed me this strangely attractive game that his older cousin had installed on his laptop. He didn't understand English very well, so I sort of had to translate the dialogue for him, but we both liked what we saw. We loaded up an old save we found, and ran around for a bit. Then we encountered a gang of enemies, and one of them was wearing a blue pin-striped suit and wielding something like a tommy gun. I wanted to shoot him, but my buddy said "No, right click on the gun first, so it says burst.". I did. Then I shot him. And my jaw dropped.

Two years later I had my first internet connection, and downloaded Fallout 2 immediately. Been hooked ever since.
 
Fallout 1 was one of the first games I played growing up. Got into it at a friends house at about 98/99, where his older brother had gotten the game and a PC. Played it for ages.
Then moved onto Fallout 2, same story, loved it and played it for months. We were even so sucked into it we made up our own organizations in the Fallout universe.
We also played a good deal of Fallout Tactics multiplayer against each other, and had a great deal of fun.

When Fallout 3 dropped I hadn't played the games in a few years, then picked it up a while after it was released. Wasn't really that impressed. So when Fallout NV came out I was skeptical. Got it about a year after it was released, and fell in love with it.
Now I've got hundreds of hours in Fallout NV, and still replay it from time to time today. The same goes for the old games. :)
 
Magnus said:
I wanted to shoot him, but my buddy said "No, right click on the gun first, so it says burst.". I did. Then I shot him. And my jaw dropped.
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I hear you! When I've touched Fallout demo for the very first time, fresh and innocent, I ran across gatling and tried burst shot on poor brahmins. Repeatedly. That's when my inner demons have been awakened and Fallout got my soul! :twisted:
 
My memory is quite vague when I first got into Fallout 1&2, I don't even remember what year it was due to that evil school slavery. But from what I can remember I wanted to play an RPG that didn't involve high-fantasy magic-filled perpetual medieval dragon time bullshit and found Fallout 1&2. Those iconic images of power armor wearing dudes alone made me want to give those games a try.
At the time I was thrilled from the very idea of being able to wear a full suit of powered armor and pack a big gun in a post-apocalyptic environment and thinking about it now. Not much has changed,
I still like to wear a tank on me and properly minigun my foes to a bloody meat jerky pieces, so satisfying! Keeps my mental disorder, well.. in order (when I get pissed in real life I don't just get pissed, I wanna fucking break and yell at something with 10 times the effort. Not normal I know but that's how my brain is wired).

I'm glad that I got into the original Fallout games. Just recently I started playing Fallout 2 again with the latest Restoration Project due to "Fallout" 4 reveal and absolute disgust towards Bethesduh and especially their fanbase, ugh. Don't mind me. Anyway, to this day Fallout 2 managed to get me hooked again (Thanks to Killap of course!). It's both amazing and sad at the same time that an oldie of a game is better than 90 percent of the shit that's out nowadays.
 
Your experience of FoNV reminds me of my experience with Fo1.
At first, i missed a lot of contents and was quite disapointed compared with Fo2.
Then i replayed and enjoyed it much more, and consider the main plot and some other stuff as way better than Fo2.
Still, i don't think Fo2 sucks.
 
I bought Fallout 3 after i was done with TES 4: Oblivion. I was around 13-14 years old so i didn't notice the big mess that is Fallout 3's plot. I liked New Vegas better anyways when it came out. I even got into the classic Fallout games.
 
Many years ago, I believe I was 12, I went over to my friend Derek's house. Normally we would play catch or watch baseball while making ridiculous songs with his dad on the banjo. But THIS particular hang out was different. Derek's father had just got a computer. We of course had to mess around with it. I don't know how his father came across buying Fallouts 1 and 2 nor do I know how we convinced him that we should be allowed to play it (his parents would change the channel if there was blood or violence or anything that would be "bad" for kids to watch). But we were enthralled.

We spent most of our gaming time with 2 so that's the one I remember most. We didn't care that it wasn't 2 player or that there was math involved (we were both pretty smart kids anyways so that wasn't a problem). We only finished the game once and there was a lot of nervous nail-biting in that run through because whenever we disagreed on what to do next we flipped a coin to decide. After that we would create themed characters (a pacifist scientist, a depressed loner sniper, a madman HtH expert that would only finish his opponents with a kick to the groin, and of course a Mel Gibson Road Warrior) but would never finish the game. Years later I was stoked for Fallout 3 and still enjoyed it despite its failings and Fallout NV as well. With the recent announcement of Fallout 4 I started a game in each installment but find myself sticking more towards 2 for the nostalgia. Traveling the wasteland world as a ne'er-do-well tribal with the split mind of two 12 year olds in a dark basement surrounded by tools, dusty boxes and his old man's guns and reloading equipment.

One day when my son is old enough I'm going to show him those games and hope that he at least appreciates gaming like the caliber of Fallout. I've even started building a Fallout PnP using Fallout 3's world that I plan to perfect in time to get him to like it and enjoy it and the true possibilities of imagination and creativity.
 
born in a log cabin in 1896 -> Fallout 3 -> Fallout NV -> Skyrim -> realised F3 was shitty compared to NV and so was skyrim just generally -> caved and got F2 on Steam, left it for ages and then got addicted -> the here and now
 
I actually went into Fallout 3 with kind of a bad impression. I had played Oblivion and like the story and the game play was ok when it didn't glitch and die. I saw the trailer for Broken Steel that got me interested and away I went. Now I rank it as one of my top 5 favorite games.
 
I was searching for something to play as a teenager in 2000s, then found fallout. Got my fallout 1 a couple of years back. Didn't make it out of the cave for first time. Guess Vault 13 went dirt napping in that play through. i didn't want to give up on it, so I went ahead and survived the caves. Ever since I replay fallout games every 1 or 2 years.
 
It all began after I played Skyrim, I was looking up what other games Bethesda made. That was when I discovered Fallout, I've seen it before on other places and thought nothing of it. But I decided to look deeper into it this time, once I found out that its setting was a post-nuclear retro-futuristic role-playing game, I bought it instantly. My first was Fallout 3, but I was curious about the other games that came before, so I played those too. That was when I became hooked. The characters, writing, and setting were all perfect. It felt like it was a game series made just for me.
 
I barely played RPGs, preferring old strategy games, Civs, Age of Empires, that sort of thing. I played Morrowind and KOTOR2 being my ONLY RPGs. I loved Morrowind, it's world and setting and was hooked by RPGs. I decided to get a RPG to play during the holidays, going to EB games. I looked, there were so many! There was Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Diablo... so many others. Yet after careful looking I found a quaint little game, quite old called Falloiut: A Post Apocalyptic Role Playing Game. The title interested me, so I read the blurb. The whole thing about drawing stars made my laugh and I excitedly showed it to my brother. I didn't get it then but I locked it away in my mind. Later in the holiday I remembered it after sitting around doing nothing. I then bought it from GOG, only six bucks and promptly played it. I loved it, the combat, the dialogue, the world, the story, the characters... I was happily surprised when I met my first talking head and I loved travelling the wastes. It set me up for Fallout 2 and then Fallout 3. I hated 3, distraught at the step down. New Vegas was much better, but I only played it at my mates. I looked for a website for fellow Fallout fans and found the NMA!
 
I started with Fallout Tactics. Yeah I know, it's not universally loved like the first two, but I sure loved it. All that quirky shit. Then I found out about Fo 1 and 2. I assumed it would like Tactics, you know a big party to control. I was disappointed that it wasn't like that at first, but damn did those two games grow on me. I can't remember which I played first, 1 or 2, but I have played and beaten both.

My favorite parts of Tactics were the random encounters. I remember getting Riddick from Pitch Black as a team mate. And Vault Boy lol.

I was pretty young when I played them. Probably early 2000's? So I woulda been 12-13.
 
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