How did you discover Fallout ?

I got both games free in a PC mag (maybe that's why my versions are so crappy). I started out playing Fallout 2 first, but then realized that it would be wiser to play Fallout first. Been in love ever since.
 
Let's see... About 3 years ago now, I found the duel-jewel pack. Picked it up because it looked interesting, and put it back down because I didn't have any money.

About a year later, at an anime forum I visit, someone brought up the idea of a Trigun game. Another guy went babbling about how a game like Fallout would be best for it. Pretty much, he convinced me to go buy it, and I did. And damn, i'm glad I did. The best games I've ever played.

Definately worth the $10 I got it for.
 
Well I read about Fallout Tactics:BOS in a PC magazine but then I didn't have a PC...Later(when I bought one)one of my friends gave to me Fallout 2 and then I found BOS...And later on I started to play the pnp version.

Is there anyone who understands what im saying? :)
 
Back when I was in the army 5 years ago, I saw my sergeant reading the FO1 guide book in the mess. Borrowed and flipped it a bit and was immensely impressed by the detailed RPG elements and storyline. I didn't have to wait to flip till the end of the guide book to know this is one game I must buy.

So far, I've bought the entire FO series even the Xbox thingy.
 
I understand you Daron.

patricktoh, I think it might be wise to quiet down about POS or at least say 'that which will not be named' for your own safety.
 
Thanks to the Television! :D

I loved the Mad Max series, and with it me thinks
ny love for end time scenarios was born,
if born before it was raisen much. :D

With me thinks 16 years, the GameStar Games Magazine dor PC
was thrown on the market, and in the first one was a preview
of Fallout, and cause since my Commodore 64,
I love turn based games, even if the commo hadn't too much :lol: ,
and to mention: Wasteland, only true on the C-64! :D
I was waiting for THE ONE GAME that from the preview,
and the later demo, seemed, that it shall RULE THEM ALL!
:)
Think I played the stupid demo more often then
some games I bought in my life. 8)
 
Hi people! :D
I am new here and I will answer this question...
I was always into post apocalyptic/nuclear scenarios and movies like that,but ofcourse very few games succeded to bring us the full atmosphere of that time...
My first contact with Fallout was a pure question of luck,I didn't have any intention of getting this game...I went in a store to buy a horror adventure "Blackstone Chronicles"...that was in December of 1998,I still remember it right... :)
So I went out and bought Blackstone Chronicles...I came home and WTF...the game was not working,I reinstalled all drivers and stuff but I couldn't do nothing more to make it operational...
So I went back to a store that same day and asked could I have another game instead of this one...the seller was not very happy about it but after some time persuading him,I succeded to do it...
so I was looking and said,hey...I read some interview half month back...and there was some game...kinda cool...i think Fallout 2 - I was going to my memories.So I said to seller:"Ok,man...give me Fallout 2!".And so I got it and came home with it...
I got hooked from the same moment I passed "Temple Of Trials"..in Arroyo,beating those giant ants...now that was BOOOORING....
but soon the game opened to me with it's magnificent enlightment...so the rest is history... 8) I passed the game around 10 times,always on different ways...and I just can't get enough...I am addicted...A year or 2 after that I got Fallout 1 and I was hooked again for some time...
I know that I am coming to this forum a bit late in all of this,but then again...I need to share those wonderfull moments with you,people!
So that's about my story with Fallout!

Cheers! :wink:
 
I was reading the review of Fallout 2 in PC Gamer, and I was hooked with the words, "stealing from children and winos".
 
I had always been a console gamer. Had never even heard of Fallout. Last year, I finally picked up my first PC. A couple of months later, I decided it was time to try out some PC games.

I was on the general RPG board at gamefaqs, I've always enjoyed the RPG's more than any other genre, and put the question to the board. If you had to choose on PC RPG as the best of all time, which would it be. A resounding majority pointed me to Fallout 1&2.

Well, after reading a couple of reviews, I knew I had to try this game. I picked up the dual jewel pack cheap, and haven't been able to stop playing since.
 
Some summers ago, back when I was a young and impressionable 17-year old, I was working over the summer so afford all the drinking and partying that being 17 costs, and me and one of my colleagues were having one of many breaks and started talking about games and I was babbling about how great a game Diablo was (sorry, sorry I didn't know better) and he told me of these great games called Fallout and we agreed he should bring them someday so I could borrow them. He forgot about it, and so did I, but then someday I was hanging out at a record shop with some friends, and of all things they had started carrying video-games, and I saw the jewel-case with Fallout 1 & 2 in it for like 16$ (100 Danish Crowns).. and I bought it and went home, and I thought it was great. Later on I bought Fallout Tactics and I think it's a great game too (yes I'm prepared to die..), it's just not a RPG.

cheers all!
M-2-X

ps// my vote for greatest RPG ever goes to Planescape: Torment, actually that would get my vote for greatest game ever too, or greatest thing ever produced for a computer...
 
[Note: This is really too long -- sorry.]

I would, for a time, browse the review archive at gamespot. I was always a console gamer, so through this I'd learned of a lot of well-though of PC games such as the System Shocks, the Civilization games, and yes, Fallout.

The games sounded neat, so I bit. I purchased the sequel first, because the review claimed it to be improved over the first and it scored slightly higher. I bought it, but couldn't really get into things at all. A friend of mine came over and borrowed it. I finally got around to getting the game back a few months later, but first he showed me the progress he'd made. His Advanced Power Armor-wearing slaughtering machine was a far cry from my character, and I really couldn't belive I was seeing the same game (I don't believe I'd made it out of Arroyo at the time).

All right, so I take it home, and again, it's just not doing anything for me. For whatever reason, I went ahead and purchased the original. That's the sort of thing you do when you have your parents' money to spend. I actually found myself liking it quite a bit more. The locations had more life (..y'know.. for a wasteland), and I was drawn into things more. My friend came over, and I let him borrow it just like before, but he found he liked the sequel more. I wasn't going to argue, but I really seemed to prefer the first.

So, yeah, I beat the first and loved it to death. I finally got around to beating the sequel a half a year ago or so, but it felt pretty hollow in comparrison to me. I'm in the minority, though, it would seem. I was pretty pleased to find that a lot of people here seem to favor the original as well. Yay.
 
Right, I guess I'll relate my sordid little tale, even though it is a little late in the game to do so.

Well, I first saw the game at a friends house. He had just entered Necropolis, and let me play a little. After a while, still my first time playing, I visited The Hub. On the way there, I had a special encounter, the cow who says "Moo, moo I say." I knew I had to own the game at that point.

Well, two weeks later my friend has finished the game, and loaned it to me. I played his copy for two months, playing through multiple times. Eventually he wanted it back, but as I was returning it to him, some guy ran into me and cracked the CD (I had it in my pocket, he even broke the case, cut my leg).

So, I bought him a new copy, and bought myself a copy while I was at it.
 
One day as I walked through the glorious world of Wal-mart I noticed the Dual Jewel, I looked it over, it looked great ("pimping your spouse for a little chump change" sounded fun enough) and the price was right. Been playing non stop for a couple years now. Actually my computer's dead now because of it.
 
A friend was playing it on his slow-ass computer, but i was really impressed by the array of weapons, freedom, Myron, and turn based combat (which pretty much makes it the only real RPG and not a clickfest like DIablo).

i recently bought the twin pack, Love No 1 as well.

I still rate it as the greatest game ever!!!
with GTA:VC close behind.
 
My wife and I have been gamers for a long time; she wanted to try BG at some point, and FO came with it when I bought it for her.

BG sucked and we lost the CD's, but FO made it worth dumping cash on that POS just to be exposed to the game.
 
Discovered Fallout 1 back in 1997. I was staying at a local hotel for some meetings, family stuff, naturally, wasn't interested. Then, I spied this Chinese kid that went to my school playing this game on the computer. Man, I fell in love. Once I got him to lend it to me, I must have spent hours on my Dad's laptop playing it... Man, and I haven't gone back since.

Hell I was around during Vault 13net and I am here now!!!

I loved the dark atmosphere, I loved the violence. But most all, I loved that you could choose your destiny, and the SPECIAL system basically allowed you to make any character type.

Fallout 2 was great. I remembered I saved money to order it via the net. Man, once I got my hooks into it, I never looked back....
 
i got into fallout when i saw it @ best buy and i looked at the box and saw the word "Wasteland". being that i was a huge fan of WL and my brother hocked our copy at 2nd bytes store. I crapped my pants and bought the game. in that order
 
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