Well, to be blunt, yeah. I would say owning and playing the game is a crucial experience here. There are many people here who played Fallout 1 and 2 probably a thousand times, and yet, after years you learn something new about about Fallout. Simply because someone discovered something in his play, some small quirk that you never found out, and the next time you have to try it for your self. Those things don't come across very well from reading the story, watching lets plays - which is very dull with F1 and F2 anyway, they simply are games that have to be experienced, not watched they are not Counter Strike or Fallout 4. You're simply missing on the nuances, that is.
Mind you! I am not telling you that you're an idiot and I am not trying to judge you. So don't take it as offense when I call you a Fallout-tourist.
You know, it kind of reminds me to what a huntress explained to me once. Female hunters are relatively rare in Germany, so naturally those that want to get into it have to deal with some difficulties. She loves hunting, and people in the hunting community respect her. They are always rather strange at first to new hunters, because they are simply this kind of bunch. She told me when she meets other female hunters, there are generall two kinds of them. Those that want to get seriously in to hunting. And those that got in to it because of their boyfriend. Guess which one sticks around.
And that's the Fallout tourist. I mean you just told us that you're this huuuuge Fallout fan, yet you can't be bothered to give 10$ for the old games because they are to expensive and you're saving for a 150$ game? Well ... what are we supposed to make out of this?
oh boy, thanks for a new sig idea.