I was at a friends house. At the time (like 2001), when I was like 11 or something, I was really into anything that involved destroying things, using guns to destroy them in any way, etc. So, me and my friend were Pokemon freaks for some reason. Then, I said,"Screw this, I saw this awesome game at Wal-Mart called Red Alert 2, I bought it, lets go play it".
I had bought Red Alert a while back, thought it was cool, then bought Red Alert 2, which was even coolier, and I introduced it to my friend.
So, we were both now really obsessed with destroying things. As I was in his room, watching him play someone online, I decided to look around his room, something I've never done, even after the 50 times I've been at his house. I looked in a shelf near his computer(forshadowing looting in Fallout? you decide XD), and to my suprise, I found this box. It looked really old and it was torn from a few places here and there, but I could see "Fallout" and "A post-apocolyptic role playing game" written on the box. I said "what's this game about?" My friend said "Oh, that game, my dad bought it for me, I never understood it." So I was like "give it a try!"
So, at first we didn't know what to do. The letters "AC" and "HP" and "PIP" and that "O" confused us, we didn't know what those lights turning green and dissapearing when we walked were for, etc. By common sense, we eventually figured out everything, then we were killing rats easily. We were both uninterested at first, but, once we got to the world map we were like "wtf?" Then, as I traveled due west(To the military base..) we encountered Mutants. We were both like "cool!", then we both became hooked, once we saw how awesome our little character died to a minigun blast from a mutant.
He lent me the CD, and I humoungous installed it. When he took the CD, I wanted to play it, so bad, that I tried playing it without the CD (just by double-clicking the icon in the desktop). It worked, I played it for like a month before passing it.
My friend passed it and was playing Fallout 2 already. At the time, one year later, I thought that killing the Master of All Mutants and destroying the Vats was the end of Fallout, but my friend said there was a 2. So, he lent it again, I played it, even longer than Fallout 1, and passed it. Me and my friend then spread it to a lot of friends, who eventually got obsessed.
Then, as I was looking around in some old computer magazines in my shelf, I found one that had a review for "Fallout: Tactics". I was like "WOAH! Theres a part 3?" The review was like an 8.5 or somewhere around there, and I couldn't stop reading the review. I told my friend if he ever heard of it, and he was like no, but he wanted to buy it.
We never found it, so we gave up. But, at the Mall, in the video game store, in the very back of the store where the older games are found (at the time, 2004, those 'small box' computer games were being introduced, so the 'big box' games were at the back), I saw "Fallout: Tactics" on one of the boxes. There was only one left, so I bought it the moment I saw it. I also fell in love with it, even though I've seen people bash it from time to time. I loaned it to my friend, and he was hooked. My other friend made a copy and we shared it around everywhere. We now wait for Fallout 3...
That's my story, preety long, but oh well ;D
I didn't expect much, but I was quite curious how it plays since the review in the only game magazine I occasionally read at that time was very positive. I don't remember if I liked the demo, but I definitely loved the game when I finally played it a year later.
)i was used to play fps or rts and didnt have a clue what to do with that confused little blue dude on my screen when rats were eating him alive. i put it away and completely forgot about it. stupid as i was, i almost hang my friend by his balls for getting me such a "stupid, boring and annoying game with deadly cave rats".
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