How did you discover Fallout ?

Started when i was eleven with new vegas. Went back to three then to the OG ones and now i play them all. My stepdad had new vegas and i decided to try it out. It was super unique from any other game i had played since then
 
One day a friend of mine recommended a game called Fallout 3 to me, so I played it and loved it, I couldn't get enough of it. I was like that for awhile and I never played New Vegas. One day I decided to play the classics and realized how flawed Fallout 3 was, I then went on to play New Vegas and love it, and that's it.
 
Wasteland Wanderer said:
Started when i was eleven with new vegas. Went back to three then to the OG ones and now i play them all. My stepdad had new vegas and i decided to try it out. It was super unique from any other game i had played since then
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Dami said:
One day a friend of mine recommended a game called Fallout 3 to me, so I played it and loved it, I couldn't get enough of it. I was like that for awhile and I never played New Vegas. One day I decided to play the classics and realized how flawed Fallout 3 was, I then went on to play New Vegas and love it, and that's it.
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If any of you are interested in playing Fallout 3 in your Fallout New Vegas (and own both english games and all DLCs on PC) and if you don't know about it, try the TTW (a Tale of Two Wastelands) project.
 
Risewild said:
If any of you are interested in playing Fallout 3 in your Fallout New Vegas (and own both english games and all DLCs on PC) and if you don't know about it, try the TTW (a Tale of Two Wastelands) project.
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I've heard of it and while it does seem cool I'd rather keep them separate. I feel that enhances the experience for me but thank you regardless
 
It does seem like very nice mod, but I no longer care to play through fallout 3, but thank you for the reccomendation.
 
I was ten years old when Fallout 3 came out, and I played it religiously on the 360 after having played Oblivion for a decent amount of time. I pre-ordered New Vegas on the 360 as well, discovered to superiority (subjectively speaking) of PC and got them both on there a couple years later along with a Steam sale that included 1, 2 and Tactics. Pre-ordered Fallout 4 (regressively for certain reasons) and put 300 hours in it the first two weeks after release. I still have yet to determine a favorite of the franchise however, as I have yet to finish Fallout 2 or start Tactics.
 
I discovered Fallout via a friend in high school back in 97 or so. He was going nuts over this game telling me how absolutely free he was to do anything he wanted. It was interesting to listen to him talk about it but at the time a PC was a luxury neither I nor my family could afford so it was in one ear and out the other.

Fast forward to 2001. I was 19, on my own and making a living. I stopped at the local gamestop to check out what was coming out for my newly acquired PS2. I was just generally looking around and found a hardcopy of Fallout on one of the racks and I remembered what my buddy from high school told me. Instead of picking up a new PS2 release I purchased the Fallout and played it on my new Dell. The rest is history.
 
My dad had New Vegas on his Steam account, so I played it fervently my sophomore year of high school, alongside Fallout 3 which I discovered later.
I was the Fallout nut in high school. I had the Vault-Tec lunchbox, the bobbleheads, and an NCR shirt.

Eventually I got my own Steam and bought both Fallout 3 GOTY and New Vegas: Ultimate Edition. When Fallout 4 was announced, I was excited but also impatient. I bought Fallout, Fallout 2, and Tactics as part of a Steam bundle and said "Holy shit!"
It was when I realized how mediocre Fallout 3 was compared to the OG Fallouts and New Vegas (although by itself, Fallout 3 is still incredible).
Fallout 4 came out, I briefly considered it my favorite Fallout since I had so much fun playing it with mods. Then I came to this site.
 
I was at a store with my parents, about ten years old, circa 1999-2000. I think it was Big Lots. They had a tiny little section of cheap computer games and the original Fallout was one - the box caught my eye. I flipped it around and saw Killian Darkwater on the back. Somehow convinced my parents to buy it for me, expecting a totally different game than what I got.

Mind = blown.
 
i think i played new vegas for the first time in 2011, and then fallout 3 that same year. sometime afterwards i was browsing the fallout forum on reddit and saw a bunch of pissed off elitists discussing how the classics were the best. i, wanting to be pissed off and elitist with them, saw that they favored new vegas (which i myself favored as well) to fallout 3. i learned that new vegas was much closer to the two original games and ended up getting both the originals and tactics off gog for free. played those soon after and i have been a big fan of old school isometric crpgs ever since.
 
Verlein said:
I was at a store with my parents, about ten years old, circa 1999-2000. I think it was Big Lots. They had a tiny little section of cheap computer games and the original Fallout was one - the box caught my eye. I flipped it around and saw Killian Darkwater on the back. Somehow convinced my parents to buy it for me, expecting a totally different game than what I got.

Mind = blown.
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I bought a couple of the original big-box Fallouts from Big-Lots, but the company name was MacFrugal's at the time.
 
AVCon in Adelaide, 2009. Dad took my sister and I since she was a big fan of manga and stuff, there was a Gametraders stall selling Fallout 3 for pretty cheap. I was 11 at the time, I remember the ghouls on the back cover scaring the hell out of me. Ended up as the most played game I had on Xbox 360, very good memories playing it although it's impossible to get back into it after playing better RPGs throughout the years.
 
I saw it sitting on my brother's shelf about 2000 or 2001.
I was actually playing with a Diablo 1 pirated version at the time. He had the Fallout 1 + 2 big box.
 
I picked up Fallout 3 about five years ago because I heard it was good. I liked it so much I decided to try new Vegas and fell in love it. I tried fallout 4 but lost interest quickly. I’m not much of a pc gamer, but I picked up fallout 1, 2, and tactics on my laptop and am currently picking away at the original. It’s a lot different from the FPS games, but I’m really enjoying it so far.
 
I bought FO and FO2 together with bunch of other games including JA2 back in 98 (or 99), pretty much randomly. All of the games I bought that day turned out to be good games. But, to tell you the truth, I had kept seeing Fallouts in the shop and the box cover looked cheesy to me, didn't think they would be any good, and then one day I thought "why the hell not?" and bought them all. :D
 
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i couldnt tell you exactly but i think this was around the google play days. i was in like 5th or 6th grade and TES3 came out recently, saw some video on one of the older games (i think it was two) and thought it looked really bad. funny now because 1 is probably one of my favorite games (of all time)
 
My dad, uncle and aunt played Fallout and Fallout 2 a lot. When I was old enough I finally got the discs for my personal use.
 
I may have mentioned it before, but a friend of mine (who was between residences at the time), had it shipped top my house; that's how I found out about it—along with Redneck Rampage (an FPS released the same year). I didn't play the games at the time... but sometime later I did.

I didn't get around to Fallout until after I'd finished Baldur's Gate; (which made it a rough and uncertain transition BTW).
 
I first discovered Fallout 3 back in 2009-10, just randomly came across a person playing it on the tube, decided to try it out my self, got hooked loved every bit of it, then when NV came out jumped on that which then led me to looking for more fallout which I then came across 1, 2 and Tatics and then 4 and now I await more fallout and am a massive Fallout fan, but not blinded fallout 4 wasn't that great, good for what it is but definitely lacking RPG wise.
 
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