How did you discover Fallout ?

Actualy the company that made Arcanum, Troika games, DID NOT make fallout.

Interplay did.
However, the main people who made Fallout left Interplay in the begining of Fallout 2's production to form Troika.
 
jammie said:
sorry :oops: i just spelt it the way that i say it...
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So you're dyslexic as well? Jeez boy, you can't spell, you can't talk properly, and you know shit about Troika...

It must really suck to be jammie, methinks. :lol:

And before I forget: you double posted! :shock:

Petition to ban jammie! :twisted:
 
When fallout 1 was just out my parents bought a (for that time) decent computer for work purposes. It came with a few game demo CDs, apropriately named 'Shoot' 'Race' 'Fight' for shooter games, race games, fighter games.

Now the 'Shoot' CD had the fallout demo on it, you know, the 'scrapheap' one, shut off part of junktown, two gangs, SMGs, miniguns noone ever hit shit with but looked sooo cool... that's about it.

I didn't think much of the demo since I hardly spoke english at the time, and this annoying guard always shot me when I told him 'says who' when he said to put my gun away. I also thought stimpacks were a weapon, and never got why he didn't die when I used them on him. Then I lend the CD to a friend, who did like the demo, and eventually bought fallout 1.

Next time I visite there we played it, and I was hooked completely. Wow, you just blew 5 people up with that rocket! ahh, deathclaws hurt! combat armor, look at me, I'm wearing combat armor! Yay, books, I'll read them right here safe in this crater while I wait untill the radiation outside goes away!

Well not that last one, actually, but you get the idea. Bought fallout 2 which completely rocked, same friend got tactics, which sucked, and I got arcanum, which was ok.
 
about 3 years ago i was kicked out of home and moved to a hostel in a small town 2 1/2 hours drive from my home city. It sucked. Then we got our shitty old Pentium II's, 6 of em on a lan, and began our quest to find the best game to go on shit computers. With no CD Drives, Far too strict Anti-Bad-Stuff-From-The-Net-Filters and a broadband connection we soon cracked the annoying filter (i am still the only one i know of who can do it :twisted: ) and got KaZaA Lite going. Now since these computers were policed rather strictly we had to cover our tracks very well, so only the kids who knew what they were doing could play it. One of the first warez we downloaded was Fallout. I played it, clocked it, loved it, uninstalled everything to do with fallout and the warez and reinstalled the filter. No-one could do anything coz i wasnt there to crack it. Then i left that cruel and bitter place and now am starting my tertiary education. Down here in the poor isle nation of New Zealand, most retailers have never heard of fallout. All they sell is EA Sports for Playstation. I still have hope in my quest that i will find a copy of 1, 2 or tactics or all three in a bargain bin. I hereby apologise for my downloading of the fallout ware and vow never to do it again. Fallout has shown me the light. Until i find a copy of it i will have to continue playing the latest release over here, EA Soccer 2000. *sob sob*
 
I remember mine back whenever kazaa was out and popular(2002) I first played fallout 2 DLed it :oops: , I had just read about it in some old magazine. :idea:

About 2 days later I was so engrossed by the story that I bought the jewel case when I saw it at K-mart.

I went home played it, couldn't figure out how to install it on my comp. :x Then I found NMA and I played it its story was just as engrossing as fallout 2's.
 
It's funny, when Fallout was released I looked and thought, "I can't wait to play this game". Oddly, I put it back though. Thing is I never got it...Fallout 2 rolls by and I pick it up off the shelf, "Whoa, I need to get Fallout 1 AND 2 now." Again...put back on the shelf. When I finally came around to get them...OMFG....NOOOO...No copies to be found...I'd ask and get odd looks...That's game is old...it sucks. Here play these, they are better...Diablo...Baldur's Gate...Hmm, I played them (played Diablo at a friend's, got Baldur's Gate)...Still wondered about Fallout...Every game I liked was cool and was a great game.

Then, it was there...Fallout 1 and 2 bundle (when they first showed up that way)...$10 Bought it on the spot (like I should have in the first place). I figured, if it sucked I'm only short $10 right? Needless to say, it instantly became a favorite.

Fallout taught me several things.
- Buy it if you want it...NOW
- Store "associates" can kiss my arse.
- Their recommendations/reviews are wrong.

Now, if I could find that associate that said Fallout sucked...I need to show him something...
 
zetabobster said:
I remember mine back whenever kazaa was out and popular(2002) I first played fallout 2 DLed it :oops: , I had just read about it in some old magazine. :idea:

About 2 days later I was so engrossed by the story that I bought the jewel case when I saw it at K-mart.
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Good boy. Came back to the bright side of the force again, eh?

As for me. I think I found the demo on a game magazine's cover CD.
I also have the original jewel cased demo CD, so I don't know where I got the demo from originally, but either way I instantly fell in love with it.

I bought the game right away and when I noticed there's a sequel, I bought it too -- only to notice it wasn't half as good as the first part, which, I think, has a lot to do with the atmosphere lightening up (starting with the initial dungeon: in Fallout you are cast out of your vault and can't get back and there's a lot of hungry rats and miles of empty wasteland between you and whereever that other vault would end up being, in Fallout 2 you start in front of a stupid temple full of giant ants and baby radscorpions and are awaited by a whole village full of people who admire you once you pass it -- can you say "downhill"?).

I never could force myself through Fallout 2 (once I came to the puzzle room, I stopped playing and then I never ever came that far again because it got boring to play through the same couple of cities again and again -- which was not true for Fallout 1 though), but I have finished Fallout 1 more times than I can count.

Hell, Fallout was the first true RPG I ever played and it definitely spoiled my standards. Baldur's Gate felt like a joke and even Planescape: Torment seemed more like an Adventure game than anything else to me.
The only other "RPG" I ever enjoyed after that were Diablo (which I think I acquired before Fallout -- not sure there) and Diablo II. Both of these aren't RPGs, but they are still among the best hack-n-slash games with stats-based character improvement I've played, even though they can't bind me for long (I usually stop playing Diablo II around Act 3 and I never got myself into playing Diablo after D2 came out).

Considering I played it a bit this year again, I think I can consider Crusader 1 and 2 good hack'n'slash games too, story- and atmosphere wise way superior to the Diablos even. Actually, compared to these the Diablos were worthless.
 
My big brother got it a long time ago!
A few years later he got fallout 2!
Never stopped playing it!
 
Damn, damn, damn, my parents had to prevent me
from watching Mad Max in too early years, and then,
with 10 years, the Commodore 64, Bard's Tale,
greatest CRPG ever, after thus followed Wasteland,
and the first turn based simulations,
Stars like Dust, Mafia.
5 years after followed a computer, mighty for it's
time, a Pentium 166Mhz, 16Mb EDO-Ram, 8xCd-Rom, mighty 1200MB Harddisk.
My retrogression did continue with civilization,
colonization, x-com, jagged alliance,
turn-based turned out to be a drug without
chance to escape from anymore, and the meltdown
should follow there after, the new games mag
GameStar did grab for the throne in germany
in 10/97, there was a preview, and a demo...
FALLOUT 1...
To all hells of eternal damnation, I played this
demo more then many game I owned...
 
I'm an old RPG'er, found myself having schedule problems for table games. A few years back, a buddy told me about Diablo, said it was like "D&D Solitaire". I got ahold of the original Diablo, wasn't too impressed, but it took the edge off my gaming jones.

My buddy said "Get the new one, much better." So I found Diablo II with the LoD expansion. Much better...like methadone for the RPG monkey on my back.

Then about three months ago, the same buddy handed me the FO1 CD. "Tried to trade it in a the game shop, they wouldn't take it because there isn't a book to it and it's so old. Give it a try, it's kind of like Morrow Project Solitaire."

Got bored one night and decided to load it up...
Ahhhhhhh! Some pure stuff...

Now here I am...

Jay
 
I think it was like 5 years ago when my cousin camed to visit us in the summer holidays (he lives pretty far so he came to visit like 2 times a year) and he got this game whit him, fallout 2. I had'nt really played no RPG's before that. (hell, I think I did'nt even know what an RPG was then :) , I was like 11 years old and played games like Duke Nukem 3D and other shit like that) But that game I just loved, even that I didnt understand everything in it couz im finnish but still the feeling when I got in to my first big figth whit some higwaymen and got a pipe rifle from one of em and just shot some one... whoa those were the times. I of course borrowed it from him and we playd it hole summer with my brother. Then like year after I saw Fallout 1 to come free with some magazine, I bought it immidietly and loved the 1 one too. The couple of years later got tactics and as you know it wasent fallout 3 but It was still a good game. Last year bought the Fallout 2 from a local supermarket for like 5 euros, played it a couple times trough and "freshend the memories" or how you say that, anyway

That was my story
 
16th january 1998. is like my second birthday. That day I got my first PC. It wasn't a beast of that time but it was quite ok. I bought 2 or 3 games and played them till my eyes fell out. It was about middle of february and I didn't know what to buy next. I remembered I saw a game called Fallout at a local store. It was only a quick glimpse of character screen and Vault 15. I remembered funny drawings on the character screen so I said "Let's give it a chance!". It a friday afternoon, school was done and I installed the game. The opening cinematic was great and narrator's voice gave me goosebumps. :) After a character creation I listened the briefing and was instantly addicted to the game. Then game started I got killed by a second rat!!! :) Still don't know how. I finished the game in about 10-15h and emediately started it again. I don't know it has become the part of me. I finished F1 10 times and F2 17 times. I can't wait for F3 and I pray to God that it will have the same feeling as the original. There you go...
 
I got the demo of Fallout along with a gaming magazine, played it and fell in love - that simple. I persuaded my dad to let me use his VISA to preorder it from US(I live in Finland).. Time went on and on for a couple of aeons(at least it felt like so), and finally the packet arrived! That was one of the best days of my life.. so I played it and played it again. I guess I was 15-something then.

Then I heard they were making FO2 - damnit if I wasn´t going to preorder it too! So I did the same trick, and so began the long wait - and it lasted and lasted. I even got a letter from Interplay that said they were cincerely sorry for the delay, and would bundle a free FO2 t-shirt with the order. Oh, and I got a Fallout 2 -sticker with that letter!
And it came eventually, and I´ve been playing em both to this day every once and for while. FOT is good too, I enjoyed it.. Haven´t tried that console rape tho, and probably never will :)
 
I discovered it, browsing at the library, and decided to borrow it. That was about five years ago, and the first thing I did after playing it through, was to go buy a copy and play it again. (I already had the second one, which I got in a box with Baldurs Gate and Planescape, but for some reason, I never got around to trying, untill after I played the first one.)
 
i had read mentions of it in video game magazines off and on for a while, then about 3 years ago i was looking up stuff with Ron Perlman in it, i came across the game, said hmm, also has mcguyver (spelling sorry) along with tony shalhoub, dont forget the great Clancy Brown. So the search began, then bordom set in, no store had it, and i couldnt order things online as of yet. SIDENOTE at this time while searching blindly for Fallout, i passed up (without realizing what i did until the next week) Earthbound for the SNES with the Big Box, guide, and scratch and sniffs that some FOOL had sold to ebgames or gamestop, cant remember, i kicked my self for years...anyways, fallout, yes, fallout.

Then one day while loitering with a friend a Halfprice Books, i notice they have a software section, so, i peruse, and find, Fallout, in box, with instructions, IPLY propaganda and all. Then as luck would have it, as i was purchasing that, with quite a bit of unbridled enthusiasm, one of the workers said oh hey if your buying this you might want this, and pulled Fallout2 origional in box as well (neither sealed but hey im not picky). Price for each was 9.99 plus tax...and ive been wandering the wastes ever since...
 
It was late 1997, just turned 11, and I was visiting my eldest brother (who was in college at the time). He showed me a demo called "Fallout". I was hooked within a matter of minutes. Humor, gore, a dog, the demo had it all. I bought the game, loved it.

I didn't get Fallout 2 until a year afterwards.

These two games are at the top of my favorites list. People my brothers age grew up on consoles and such... me, I was weened on Fallout. Forget about Warcraft 2 (which is really high on my list anyway), (the) Ultima series, Crusader (if anyone remembers THAT game), and even StarCraft.
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I don't feel like starting a new topic for something so stupid but anyway:

Is there anyway to install Fallout on Windows 2000? I've searched for utilites and such, but nothing.

Thanks in advance.
 
Apparently, you didn't look hard enough. Note that there is a "Fallout RPG Gameplay & Tech Help" Forum, that would've been the best place to start looking. And there's a stickied thread saying "READ THIS BEFORE POSTING", which you should've read. And in that post we find a link:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=1593
Where you can find the information on how to install Fallout on Windows 2000.

That said, you did good at not starting another thread.
 
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