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Morbus

Morbus

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
With all the Fallout 3 previews and the hype surrounding its release, Game On decided to do something about their knowledge about Fallout. For the first time, chillzilla plays Fallout, and lives to tell the tale:<blockquote>On Sunday I watched the ending credits. I had beaten the game, but I had played it wrong. Maybe "wrong" is the wrong word. I didn't play it through the way I imagine it was intended on somebody's first play-through. Nope, "wrong" was the correct word.
To explain in detail my actions would be to spoil the game for others. I will do my best to leave details vague. The game is good, so I don't want to ruin the experience for would-be players, even if the game is 11 years old.
While the game is non-linear, there still is an order to things. It is possible to skip over missions, items & even whole towns (never did visit the Boneyard), but the game does nudge you to finish the main quest. I apparently decided to skip half the game.
There is a point where a leader of one group asks you to take out a gang of mutants that have been bothering them. As I approached my assigned targets, one of the mutants started to talk to me. My choices in dialog got me captured and taken to the mutants base. I started to notice that the game had gotten a lot harder then it had been, but yet my escape didn't seem unattainable. Through many save files and reloading I was able to make my escape and in the process I unknowingly finished a major story plot.</blockquote>Ah... To be young and in love. I mean, playing Fallout for the first time? Good memories, good memories.

Link: Fallout from Fallout 1 @ Game On
 
I can not describe in (english) words how I felt, while playing Fallout 1 years ago. <3
 
That gives me flashbacks of having thousands of radiation points after leaving the glow and not having a backup save file. You mean that "You recieve a serious dose of radiation" or whatever message actually does something?!?!?!
 
I remember playing the demo and thinking "THIS IS THE FUCKING COOLEST THING EVER!" Fallout got me hooked on RPGs.
 
There's nothing wrong with being captured and destroying the mutant base from within early on in the game.

It's propably one of my favouritve gaming moments of all time. At first I thought I should just reload, unfortunatly before I could do anything the mutant lieutenent already told me half the story. I realized that after reloading, my knowledge of the story would be far more than my actual progress in the game justified. So I decided to stick with it and flee the base, even blow it up with possible. With a level 5 character without any sneaking skills. Yeah!

Blowing that damn thing up and escaping after an hours long save and reload fest was one of the best feelings I ever had in gaming. I had lost all my equipment, but with the technology I captured in the base I made a big fortune and bought the best equipment that I could get for money as soon as I came back to the Hub.

AMAZING!
 
The first time when I was fighting The Master my hear was beating so fast I thought I'll pop out of my chest.
Nobel prize for someone who invents a machine that erases your memory of something.
I could erase my memory of Torment, Fallout and enjoy them once again, mwahhaha!
 
I basically picked Fallout 1 up from a budget bin as I did with many games during my collector days with no real intention to play it. "Its a hard RPG, I probably won't get into it".

Still I had read some elements of the game in several game magazines including a segment about Necropolis and the background story that something had gone wrong with a Vault there, resulting in the place being populated with zombies. (they could have told that the zombies were ghouls and everything except brain eaters).

One lazy Sunday when I had nothing else to do I decided to install Fallout just to check Necropolis, well the introduction movie really set the mood and I ran it several times before I started to play the game.

Before I knew it I was already visiting places such as Shandy Sands, Vault 15 and Necropolis.

Heh, because the manual was in Spanish (I think) I never found out how you could improve the skills of the character until much later in the game, it resulted in quite some reloads.

Like many others I also accidentally arrived on Mariposa after running into Harry and being brought to the Lou.
"Wow, what is this place? Some kind of Vault?"

I actually thought it was just a minor location and that it had nothing to do with the storyline, rather an element created to make the wasteland more interesting.
 
I remember the time I was captured and that eerie ambience from the intro started playing in background. It was perfect. It was something I never expected from a videogame.

And when I eventually got to visit Vault 13... wow, so it wasn't just an inaccessible "fairy tale setup" location, there it was, and I was walking around it !

... at 3am in the morning.
 
shihonage said:
I remember the time I was captured and that eerie ambience from the intro started playing in background. It was perfect. It was something I never expected from a videogame.

And when I eventually got to visit Vault 13... wow, so it wasn't just an inaccessible "fairy tale setup" location, there it was, and I was walking around it !

... at 3am in the morning.
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When i found fallout in my brothers junk box, after he went to college, i said awww this mask on the front is so cool i gotta play this! so i didnt know much about comouters so i did the Humongous installation hahaha so big, then that video changed my life (i also watched it 3 more times before i played)

then i was in the cave....so cool. I didnt loot fred or turn on running till half way thru the game. Never did go to vault 15 just because it didnt have the chip, Take that vault!!!!

i dont know how i got ian and katja and dogmeat, i didnt have a manual or online help. 2 years later i read more about it and found out about tycho Aww he was so cool and his discription too!!

I didnt fight the master the first time i just turned the key....booom

and i was a girl the second time and talked him into killing himself and harry liked me hahahaha THEY KILLED DOGMEAT!!!!! (that was the word i screamed when i shot a gun for the first time!) Thanks for helping me relive those moments!!!
 
There's a spellcheck function. Use it if you can't type your sentences properly.
 
I remember how I got into Fallout. It was.... I think in '99. I thought I knew what an RPG was.... don't even ask me what I saw as the standard.... when I was in a electronics store I used to go window shopping in. I was looking around at different games, seeing what games looked interesting, when I saw this robot-looking thing staring at me from one of those big boxes they used to put games in.

I've always liked post-nuclear apolcapyptic stories, so when I saw the box (and the price :wink: because this was a discount store AND it had been several years since Iplay released Fallout) I figured I HAD to get it.

The box came without a manual. Fortunately, I knew enough about cRPGs to know how to level up a character, and the SPECIAL system was explained to the point that I knew what each stat did. The problem was.... I didn't know how TB combat worked!

So I ended up getting stuck between the wall of the caves outside of Vault 13 and a rat, and restarted once or twice before I accidentally clicked the combat toggle on and figured out how to use APs. After that it was hours of fun. I didn't even mind the water chip timer.... I actually felt it gave the game some extra charm, and besides which gave me a goal.

I still play through the game. While I've pretty well memorized the NPC interactions, and can easily rush through the game in a matter of a few hours, I still prefer to take my time and figure out what I can do with my character's stats. Fallout forever!
 
shihonage said:
I remember the time I was captured and that eerie ambience from the intro started playing in background. It was perfect. It was something I never expected from a videogame.

And when I eventually got to visit Vault 13... wow, so it wasn't just an inaccessible "fairy tale setup" location, there it was, and I was walking around it !

... at 3am in the morning.
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Dude... We're talking Fallout 1 here...
 
Morbus said:
shihonage said:
I remember the time I was captured and that eerie ambience from the intro started playing in background. It was perfect. It was something I never expected from a videogame.

And when I eventually got to visit Vault 13... wow, so it wasn't just an inaccessible "fairy tale setup" location, there it was, and I was walking around it !

... at 3am in the morning.
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Dude... We're talking Fallout 1 here...
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As am I ?
 
Moving Target said:
Not unless you mean that you went to Vault 15. You come from Vault 13 in FO 1.
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But you don't actually see the inside of the Vault until after a while

Might be what he's talking about. Seeing the clean vault for the first time after making rounds through Shady Sands/Vault 15 can be pretty jarring
 
My first memory of fallout is watching the great intro, getting in combat-mode with rats... and dying, because I couldn't figure out how to kill them.

Restarted, figured out how the combat worked... and then went on to slaughter shady sands.

Good times!
 
My favorite was the ending, going through all of that work, and getting kicked out the door.

Ir-on-ee. (purposely mis-spelled, Mr. Woozy)
 
Pope Viper said:
My favorite was the ending, going through all of that work, and getting kicked out the door.

Ir-on-ee. (purposely mis-spelled, Mr. Woozy)
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heheheh he doesnt seem to notice your Ironnnic statement..heheh

So yeah power armor got me stuck to this game, and i see the new iron man movie as a crucial jumpstart to the powered armor tech tree!!!

soon well all be looking stylish in our MK2 advanced "flying" powered armor suits!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO cant wait And love fallout!!
 
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