First Time You Played Fallout...

A couple of kids at school had got the game and love the whole choice and consequences aspect. I lived down the road from one and went over and he had the Fallout 1 demo downloaded and after playing for a while I knew cRPG was the genre for me.

Ordered in Fallout 2 from a local store. One of those good independent stores. And that's how I got Fallout 2 and soon entered the Fallout community(something a few people might of wished never happend).
 
For me I found out about Fallout when my brother got Fallout 3, and because I wanted it (he wouldn't let me play his) and it was too expensive at that time, I bought Fallout Collection (F1, 2 and Tactics) and played through them, by the time I got Fallout 3 it didn't compare to the way the older ones played.

Glad I didn't turn out like one of them Fallout 3 fanboys who hates the old games. :vatted:
 
Reconite said:
Glad I didn't turn out like one of them Fallout 3 fanboys who hates the old games. :vatted:
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I don't like people who are like that. When I heard about Fallout 3 I was excited because I thought I now would have two originals to play, and a next-gen version to play. When I did play it though, I was severely disappointed, probably the most disappointed in a game since Doom 3.
 
I like Fallout 3, but like the older ones better. And I hate the guys who go around Youtube and stuff commenting on Fallout 1 and 2 vids saying stuff like:

"OMG FAILOUT 2 IS CR4P GRPHX FO3 IS B3TTA!"

and such... yeah atleast they get about 25 thumbs down on their comments.

P.S. I thought Doom 3 was ok, but I did like Doom 2 and Final Doom better. :|
 
First time I played Fallout was so long ago. I think it was the summer of 2008. The game didn't play well with Vista; the screen kept refreshing black every 10 seconds and only showed the proper graphics with a mouseover.

I dropped it and soon Fallout 3 came out and I played that like a gangsta...for two weeks. I never played again after getting Brotherhood armor.

I kept trying FO1 and FO2 ever so often, but the non-intuitive, click-like-mad controls (relative to modern day games where everything is hotkeyed) and the slow beginning (rats and man eating plants? Come the f*ck on) kept turning me off.

As of a new game I started about one week ago on my Windows 7 rig with patches galore to make it run, I am now an initiate of the Brotherhood. I am waiting to get home from work today so I can pick up my leet Power Armor to go with my Plasma Rifle from The Glow, which LITERALLY MELTS PEOPLE TO DEATH (180 criticals are amazing).

I plan to play this game multiple times through before trying out FO2. I'm especially a fan of the Brotherhood over the Enclave as well.
 
I was aware of Fallout when it first released, but it was one of those games I never got around to playing, and then it eventually slipped out of my mind.

Because of that, my first experience in the Fallout universe was with Fallout 3 on PS3. I loved it and couldn't get enough, and after being very impatient on news on whether or not the dlc was ever going to come to PS3, I decided to trade the game in for the 360 version. After completing my second full playthrough and finally getting to start utilizing the dlc, I got to the point where I just *had* to know what happened in the previous games.

I purchased the original Fallout last night, got it all installed, and started playing. So far, I'm loving it, and have a feeling that I'll be buying Fallout 2 by the end of the week. My only disappointment is that I didn't pick up and start playing this series back when it first released, as I've missed so many years of great gaming in the wastes. :P
 
My dad bought it when it first came out and i would watch him play it. Whenever he died and it showed the skeleton, i would get scared.

Then when i was about 11 or 12, i found Fallout lying under a bunch of junk, and played it to death.

Damn those were good times.
 
Playing fallouts (F1 F2 FT) for about 8 years now. Found about the first two from a friend who introduced the game to me and started explaining how the 2 has the "take all" option unlike the 1; then he proceeded to slaughter some rats and giant ants simultaneously with alt+tab to show me how the combat works and how the enemies die in an awesome way...and that's how I got infected :)
 
I didnt have a PC in the 90s. I didnt get one till 2002. Im 24 and had never played a Fallout game till 2003. That was when my ps2 started giving me DREs (Disc Read Errors). I had saw my friend playing Fallout 2 in 2001 and I scoffed at it. "it doesnt look very good" I said to him. He was enthralled with the game. Then n 2003 I went bumming arpund for some games I could play on my PC back in 2003 because of my PS2. My friend gave me copies of Diablo and Fallout 2. Yes I started with Fallout 2. I have been a fanboy ever since. I bought the dual jewel case Fallout 1 and 2 pack on ebay back in 2008. So I could play Fallout 1 for the first time and play Fallout 2 again. My copied copy of fallout 2 became defective in 2004. I was really pissed when that happened. Luckily I had a humongous install and didnt need a CD. But later on my HDD died. But now I have both on a working PC and I play them as much as time allows.
 
Also I remember seeing the Fallout 1 and 2 jewel case on sale in walmart for $10 back in 2002-2003 and I didnt buy it. I feel like I could kick myself. LOL
 
Reconite said:
I like Fallout 3, but like the older ones better. And I hate the guys who go around Youtube and stuff commenting on Fallout 1 and 2 vids saying stuff like:

"OMG FAILOUT 2 IS CR4P GRPHX FO3 IS B3TTA!"

and such... yeah atleast they get about 25 thumbs down on their comments.

P.S. I thought Doom 3 was ok, but I did like Doom 2 and Final Doom better. :|
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I go on Fallout 3 videos on youtube and remind them that Fallout 3 isnt even a real RPG. They hate that. Also that its not even a Fallout game.
 
When I played Fallout 2 the first time I must have been about 11, my father is a coder so I've always had computers. I probably borrowed it from a friend, can't remember. In retrospect I probably didn't really understand much of it being that I'm not a native English speaker but I do remember it so I must've enjoyed it.

Then I bought Fallout 1 when I was around 15 and actually understood it somehow, which was an awesome thing since I still suck at the action part of the game but understanding the dialogues kind of makes up for it.
 
You will LOL at me, but when I first saw Fallout 2, I thought that it is Diablo 2! It was due Temple of Trials atmosphere and you know, tribal and spear.

For the first time I played Fallout 2 in 2000, it was bonus on Level (Czech PC games magazine) CD. Even after long 9 years it's still best game ever for me.
 
Mapex said:
I kept trying FO1 and FO2 ever so often, but the non-intuitive, click-like-mad controls (relative to modern day games where everything is hotkeyed) and the slow beginning (rats and man eating plants? Come the f*ck on) kept turning me off.
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Yea and f*ckin walking crabs that look like fossils from prehistoric times are pretty real kinda reminds me of idk Mudcrabs.. plus like 95% of the other monsters and creatures are from Original Fallouts... Bethesda can't even come up with any original ideas..
 
About 1998, I played the demo for the first Fallout, I had "heard good things" the typical motivator for trying out brand spanking new cRPGs. I really liked the demo, and had images and scenarios from it stuck in my head whenever I'd venture near other isometric games for a good year before I actually picked up Fallout 1 and 2.

1999, there was a Computer Convention thingy around New Jersey and they had a crapton of cheap games, hardware, and whatnot.

The best thing they had however, was a gaming stall that had a ton of sealed older games for dirt cheap, Fallout was one of them, big box and everything. Fallout 2 also happened to be there, although I picked that one up at a different stall since it wasn't that old at that point yet (It came out at the end of 1998 and it was early 1999).

Obviously I bought them both, I also brought home Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a copy of Half-Life and Baldur's Gate (which I hadn't played yet).

This was obviously one the greatest hauls I ever had, and everything was fucking cheap, Fallout 1 was a measly $15, Fallout 2 was $30, Alpha Centauri only $10 (Holy shit, best deal ever) with Half-Life and Baldur's Gate being the most expensive at around $40 each. Great, great stuff.

Came home, first game I played was Baldur's Gate because it had immense hype and because I was more into RPGs than shooters (especially back then). I was satisfied by that, got up to Nashkel and played around thirty minutes a day, it took me around five months to beat the game with the amount of time I put into it, I never did consider it a "sit down and play for hours" kind of deal, although the sequel changed that.
I ran through the other games and eventually came to the original Fallout.

I beat that in two days, two god damn days of playing nothing but Fallout. This was my first time playing, so I hadn't been jaded by the bugs and issues that now plague me each time I play it as obvious detractors. Nah, back then it was shiny-new-game-syndrome and everything was freaking perfect.
Cue me going nuts about it and telling everyone at school, playing through it with practically every kind of character and doing so with the sequel in kind.

It was a great experience.

Although I think I'm understating the other games, I went the same way about Alpha Centauri and I still think that game is freaking beautiful.
 
My brother just played Fallout and Fallout 2 for the first time properly (once I played them for him, but he fortunately doesn't recall all that much from that).

It's amazing, I envy him. He is so immersed he plays for hours at a time.

Just yesterday he met Lynette.
 
I saw a review of Fallout on TV shortly after seeing the box in a store. Having played some pen and paper PA rpgs I got curious about the box and the short showing on TV got me really interested. The guy showing it on TV managed to promptly die during his demonstration, and I think that actually got me more interested because it seemed to be really unforgiving.

Unfortunately I never got a chance to play until Fallout 2 came out. I was at a friends house and he had played baldurs gate for a while and said he had a new game he hadn't tried yet, which was Fallout 2. We went through the temple of trials and cursed our character for missing the ants more than hitting them. Think we made it as far as Klamath, and then I had to get it for myself.
 
I myself was a big fan of Morrowind and Oblivion. I knew I'd be getting Fallout 3, so the summer before it came out I bought and played through the first two games twice. My favorite game series of all time is Baldur's Gate, and as a gamer my age who played those classics when they were new, I was ashamed that I'd somehow missed Fallout. I even played all other Black Isle games as well as Arcanum. How I've missed out. I still love Fallout 3, but the first two games are classics as well.
 
I got Fallout 3 because the game looked so damn interesting, and I'd never played the first 2 so I didn't know what to expect. I loved the game, but after playing the first 2 my love for 3 was lost. When I played the first Fallout, I was bored at first because I'm part of the generation that detests slow-paced gameplay; I grew used to it, and immersed myself into the story. My god. What ended up was finishing the title with pretty much every quest complete, a good ending for everything, and tears were loosed out of my eyes at the very end. It was beautiful.
 
fallout_fan said:
Also I remember seeing the Fallout 1 and 2 jewel case on sale in walmart for $10 back in 2002-2003 and I didnt buy it. I feel like I could kick myself. LOL
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Heh, that's exactly where I first got it. Was browsing the ps2 games at walmart probably around 2002(I was 13 is all I remember), wasn't much of a pc gamer because my computer only had a 300mghz processor and was old as dirt, but my attention turned to the pc game rack when I saw a couple older looking games. I forgot what exactly I boiled it down to, but between three games I chose fallout because apparently the text on the box had to be censored(something about pimping your spouse for chump change, iirc) and I was instantly hooked by the time I got home. So many sleepless nights... Hell, I could sometimes barely sleep at school at times due to thinking about the fallout world so much. Those were the glory days, hours of entertaining myself at school with thoughts of raiders and bottlecaps, hours and hours of not sleeping at night with my eyes glued to the screen. *sigh* My kingdom for a second chance at playing them for the first time.
 
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