First Time You Played Fallout...

It was several years ago I first played Fallout.
Eventually I obsessed over Fallout 2, I leveled one of my characters up to around 60 without using a trainer or cheating in any form.
 
I installed both Fallout 1 and 2 about 8 or 9 years ago when I was younger. I played through both several times, got hooked on it and then moved on to random FPS I would play online constantly, then occasionally go back to playing Fallout 2 for several days and use new mods.
 
A perfect topic! I just love remembering things.

Well, as for Fallout, that was cold and grey Fall 1998, when I was 18. I have previously seen that game in a game Magazine (GameNavigator, a Russian magazine, I still have it in my toliet room in my countryhouse, email me if want a scan :)), and then my friend told that he had enjoyed it.

I tried this out, but didn't get hooked first. Soon, FO2 appeared, I still bought this, and tried it again. That was fine, until I have hijacked Tubbi's shop in Klamath, got a pistol and a leather jerkin... and from that moment on I started to love Fallout. Unfortunately that evening I could not play much, because the same evening I fell ill (kind of flu or something), but later I have enjoyed it fully.

*sigh*

Those good ol' times!..
 
Another Fallout 3 originator here :roll:

Friend bought it when it was released, so i borrowed his DVD and installed it. Had all the problems oblivion does, but i enjoyed it. The vaults had me absolutely intrigued, i searched the wiki and looked at all of them. The whole setting to me was fairly unique and when i met Nova i was blown away by the harshness of the voice acting ("Im a whore, its not like i have standards ya'know?")

Anyway, logged onto WoW and was talking to my guild master about it, who in turn told me FO3 was a putrid defilement of the Fallout Series and FO2 was potentially the best game ever made. Got my hands on the original CD's as well as the Fallout collection and started playing through FO1.

Played through it, enjoying every minute of it and as i walked down the corridor to the master with my plasma rifle and power armor i realized just how purely immersive it really was. Talking to him with his multiple voices and listening to his disjointed voice sent a shiver down my spine. Despite the graphical power i have in my PC's case, this game made in the 90's was absolutely destroying every game i had ever played.

Replayed it. Loved it. Started raving. Earned some weird looks when i was taking the humongous install to college on a flash drive and playing it during my IT Classes. Every time i look back, the game shortcuts to everything else on my desktop lose their luster.

Currently working on Fallout 2 and loving every second as much as the original. Makes me wish i had been been born in the early 80's so i didn't miss masterpieces like that. They don't make them like they did anymore =( Can't think of a game i've seen made in modern years that was as visionary and good as the first two fallouts.

Gotta say, i agree with my GM. Despite the mods, FO3 is just a hollow bastardization of something far greater.
 
Started with a one boring day at home, looked through Fileplanet for some demos to play and happened across Fallout Tactics demo. Didn't know about the Fallout games, but enjoyed the demo thoroughly. Played it over and over again, watching as I disemboweled, burned, blew up, sliced in half my way through the missions and training. It was the first time I had experienced that type of gore and I loved every second of it.

Fast forward maybe a month and my sister takes me and my brother to Target, and we hang out at the game section. I see the dual case for Fallout 1&2 but I actually thought it was the Fallout Tactics game. Didn't remember the Tactics part so I was like....well...it says Fallout and it's post apocalyptic....so it must be it. Got home and I was like..... :shock: !!!!!!!!!!! This isn't the SAME GAME!!!! But since I already purchased it, and that's where my love of F1 and F2 started. I only got into Fallout because of a mistake on my part.
 
I've read about it in gaming magazines - it got extremely favourable reviews. I haven't bought it, though. It was very expensive - it costed 165PLN.
One day, I was browsing a cover CD from the Secret Service gaming magazine and I found the Fallout demo.
After a first few minutes of playing it, I knew that I had to buy the full version.
I've saved money for a few months and finally bought it.
It was heaven.

Anyway, one thing that irritates me about it is that these cheap bastards from CD Projekt have sold the game for full price with a manual that had 2/3rd of content cut out and had some really bad translation mistakes, like calling .223 ammo a "military shotgun ammo".
 
I saw previews of FO1 in, at that time, only Croatian gaming mag Hacker and thought it looks interesting. Not soon after that demo come out and I was hooked, man I cant believe how long it was.
 
I borrowed my friends fallout 3 and started owning on Very Hard, Until about a week late when i got bored with it(Xbox360)

Until the DLC packs came.
 
My friend once show me Fallout 1. He let me borrow it for a while. At first I didn't like it. Then I playe it again and now I can't get enough of it :D
 
ahhh i remember how it was, i bought fallout 2 from a gaming magazine because of the guy in power armor :P

my first playthrough i selected sex appeal and skilled :oops: as traits and tagged big guns, lockpicks and outdoorsman

i screwed up many quests without knowing, like madoc/slag quest, hubologists quests (in the end i had to wipe them out) and also pissed off bishop in new reno.

well when i finished the game and i saw those epic failure endings, i was like WTF!!!??? i have to replay this game, i probably created 4 more characters before i discovered Per's guide
 
How to get addicted to Fallout?
1. Borrow a CD from a good friend.
2. Play. Do really miserably for the 1st time, but get really hooked on the setting, lore, and the game generally.
3. Play it for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th..... n-time.

That's really it. Since i first saw it i just cant let it go. I come back to it once or twice a year - i mean Fallout 1. Thats one CD i would take with me if i had to choose from all that i have.
 
I had heard about the game before F3 and even saw it when it was still on store shelves when I was about 8 or 9. Wasn't able to buy F1 or 2 then and when I finally did get a hold of them it was only because they had been brought back into the spotlight by FO3 and were being sold in a Trilogy pack. Had to toggle settings because my processor speed made the enemy encounter too frequent but that was about it. They are good for decade old games, very good.

So actually Fallout 3 wasn't all that bad. It introduced MANY people to FO 1 and 2.
 
I remember seeing a screenshot of Fallout 1 in a review in a game magazine I used to read, similar to this one:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fallout/screenshots/gameShotId,12655/

It looked and sounded so intriguing that I had to buy the game. I must have been 14 I guess and this was the first real RPG I had ever played. Needless to say I totally sucked at it (e.g. what on earth was that 'Level' popup thing doing in the bottom of the screen?) and needed a walkthrough to finish the game the first time.

But it's still the best RPG I have ever played (PlaneScape Torment a close second), I simply love the post-apocalyptic setting and I have played through the Fallout 1 and 2 games once per year ever since.

Currently waiting for Killap's latest Restoration Project release before I will play through the games again ;)
 
my brother burnt a copy of FO2 from a friend or something, can't really remember. I had no idea what it was, but I fell in love right away. I had mostly played jrpg's on consoles (which was my favorite genre at the time) and was very impressed with the freedom and depth of the dialogues. and of course the violence and humor greatly impressed a young boy like me.

it wasn't until recent years (3-4 years ago maybe) I finally checked out FO1. I had only heard from a friend that it was pretty much exactly the same as FO2, only shorter and not as good. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the story was much more intriguing, but of course I found it to lack in side-quests and length. I really wish I had played them in the correct order, because I know I would have appreciated FO1 so much more.
 
Before Fallout I was never interested in RPGs (assuming that all "those games" revolved around elves, dragons and other fairytale crap) and always stuck with strategy and simulation games. But then I got the Fallout collection for my birthday in 2003 and decided to play it and I simply loved the games. The setting, atmosphere, dialogue appeared brilliant to me. Then I played Tactics, which I considered to be a mediocre Jagged Alliance clone, but I had some fun with it nonetheless. And then came FO3, which was the reason I joined the resistance on NMA...
 
2001, was browsing a local gamestore and found Fallout 1 sitting on a shelf. I glanced over the back of it and thought it might seem interesting, picked up a few other games and made my way out of the shop.

I never touched it again until perhaps 2003 -2004. Instantly hooked after completing Fallout 1 I went and bought the second. The rest is history.
 
Back in the old days I read a couple of previews and reviews of both games. I found the setting charming (I love sci-fi) but I never played an RPG before and didn't care to try to buy it. Then years later I found a cheap reprint of the first game and for that price I decided to give it a try. I loved the intro, so much that I let it run everytime I played the game. I don't remember what happened during my first playthrough, though. :?
Now I have one FO1, one FO1+2 and one FO1+2+T. :D And that other game.
 
I was introduced to Fallout 2 during the summer of 1999 by friend of mine. I remember that we traveled from The Den to New California Republic and shot probably over hundred bandits with the good old .233 Pistol. I didn't really understood the depth of the story at that time, probably didn't even know what fallout is. However, Fallout 2 introduced me to dystopian fiction and improved my English vocabulary.

Fallout and Fallout 2 are the only games that I have had installed on my computer constantly since then.
 
My introduction to Fallout was through Fallout 3 actually. I bought it on a whim. Played it and liked the whole concept of the game, while the actual game was alright, too much like Oblivion. So I got myself Fallout and I was hooked. After playing Fallout then Fallout 2, it left me wanting more, and I began to feel much disdain toward Fallout 3, because it could have been so much more if only it was in more capable hands.

Yeah, so I guess I am, or was, one of those Fallout 3 heathens. :)
 
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