How did you discover Fallout ?

Cellmember said:
not blinded fallout 4 wasn't that great, good for what it is but definitely lacking RPG wise.
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3/4 are some of the worst sequels of all time. I can enjoy 3 as a game as poorly written as it is because it had like... actual quests. 4 is just 95% procedurally generated quests. That coupled with bethesda's awful writing and non characters and general defiling of lore and continuity has ruined any chance of me enjoying 4 on any level.

Sorry to shit on your love for 3/4 it's compulsive at this point. It's a real problem for me.
 
R.Graves said:
3/4 are some of the worst sequels of all time. I can enjoy 3 as a game as poorly written as it is because it had like... actual quests. 4 is just 95% procedurally generated quests. That coupled with bethesda's awful writing and non characters and general defiling of lore and continuity has ruined any chance of me enjoying 4 on any level.

Sorry to shit on your love for 3/4 it's compulsive at this point. It's a real problem for me.
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4 is my least favorite and I do agree. NV is my go to.
 
Fallout 3 was recommended to me by a friend who said it was Skyrim with guns(I was a bethesda fanboy back then) so I tried it and liked the lore and world. I eventually moved on to NV and liked the role-playing elements, when I heard of the first 2 games having better RP elements I decided to try them out. I was initially thrown away by the turn-based combat(the first cRPG I played was RTwP) but eventually I got accustomed to it and eventually ended up liking it more than 3/NV combat.
 
SquiglyContiello said:
I was initially thrown away by the turn-based combat(the first cRPG I played was RTwP) but eventually I got accustomed to it and eventually ended up liking it more than 3/NV combat.
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That's not unheard of... I remember that a Bethsoft member once returned to their forum after some time spent dormant, and apologized for previously heckling Fallout fans. He had been a staunch advocate of FO3... until he actually played Fallout 1 & 2. Citing that he now understood what they had been saying.
 
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Gizmojunk said:
That's not unheard of... I remember at a Bethsoft member once returned to their forum after some time spent dormant, and apologized for previously heckling Fallout fans. He had been a staunch advocate of FO3... until he actually played Fallout 1 & 2. Citing that he now understood what they had been saying.
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I guess most 1&2 haters never played them. I'm pretty sure MattyB ended up liking Fallout 2 more than 3/4 as well.
 
Fallout is my first RPG. When I was reading a PC Gamer magazine in 1997, I saw the character wielding a minigun in one of the screenshots in Fallout preview. It got my interest immediatly, because before Fallout I only knew RPGs in fantasy settings (not old enough knowing Wasteland) and I'm not fond of fantasy. After I tried the demo from the included CD, I rushed out to buy the game and official guide (translated). Since I didn't understand English well enough for all dialogs (was only a middle schooler), my playthrough was bascially shittons of trials and errors, like I tried about 20 times in dialog tree to finally convince The Master to suicide. :P
 
I don't recall how I discovered the franchise, but I clearly remember how I first got into it. I borrowed Fallout 1 from a high school classmate and neighbour of mine. I didn't play much back then but I clearly remember reaching the Brotherhood bunker shortly after emerging from the Vault and firing my first gun at Cabbot because I got upset because he wouldn't allow me in. Needless to say, that ended really bad for my character. Him being torn to pieces by Cabbot's minigun really left an impression on me lol.
 
My mom passed away in 2010 and that's when i bought Copeout 3 GOTY, then New Vegas and eventually the original fallout collection.
A game series very near and dear to my heart.
 
One day I bought Fallout 3 GOTY on sale because it's apparently AMAZING!!! Play it...meh don't see what the fuss is about. Years later play new vegas on PS3, Okay this is better, still plays like shit but at least it's written decently. play on PC, wow this is pretty good.
 
First game I ever played and got it as a birthday gift from my Dad. Took us months to beat the first one together. One of the fondest memories I have with my Dad was playing Fallout 1 & 2 together.
 
I think it was the year 2013. I was searching for a game with open world and a lot of different guns for collecting and test out which would fit the best. After a short search on the internet, I had found out about Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Because I liked the western atmosphere of the Mojave Wasteland more then D.C I decided to try NV. Then I decided to convince my father too buy the game for me at the electronic warehouse near our neighbourhood. (my country is really strict with the rating of videogames, you have to be 18 to buy fallout by your own.) After some time he said I could have the game if I would pay it with my own money. And I got a Ps3 version of the game.

At the afternoon I was allowed to have my first adventures at the wasteland. I remember my first fight when I defended Goodsprings and the appearance of the Mojave outposts statures if it was yesterday. I was playing the whole summer. I liked to explore new places, to collect stuff to make more caps and to gamble at the casinos. And at the end, even if I was a friend of the NCR, I decided to fight for my own independent Vegas.

After sometime I decided to play Fallout 3 too. It was different then New Vegas but I was not disappointed with it, even if I missed the opportunities from the other game. I often replayed New Vegas and Fallout 3. After my 18th birthday I decided to buy the Pc versions of both games with included dlcs because I wanted more adventures at the wastelands.

As I got my own version of Fallout 4 I was a little bit disappointed about the game, but I play it often because I like the gunplay and that there are many places to discover.

Before a couple of months, I wanted to play Fallout 1. After a short time I was able to get into it. It makes a lot of fun to try all the opportunities and to build a new character. When my addiction to part 1 fades away I will definitely buy Fallout 2.
 
Marketing, word of mouth and trailers got me to buy New Vegas in 2010. Loved it, played Fallout 3. Went back to New Vegas. Got super into the setting/lore, played Fallout 1/2 in 2013.

Been an NMA dankster ever since.
 
Like a lot of people, I started with 3 back when it first came out. Enjoyed it well enough to give it a second playthrough.

Played through New Vegas and despite the bugginess, I did like it well enough to finish it at least, but I didn't think too much of it afterwards.

Wasn't until about two years later I played New Vegas again. And I fell in love. Something about it just clicked with me that didn't occur the first time around. I ended up playing through the game at least seven times in a row just trying out all the different builds, companions, DLC, endings, ect.

After doing a bit of research and finding that some of the people who made New Vegas were actually people who made the original Fallout games, I decided to check them out as well.

They both took some getting used to, and overall I enjoyed them. But it really wasn't until a few years later that I really began to appreciate and even adore them.

Fallout 1 and New Vegas are neck and neck in being my favorites. I probably have to give the edge to 1 due to it having the tightest overall experience and it having the novelty (for lack of a better term) of being the first. Although New Vegas had great companions and I really enjoyed the story and conflict in that game.
 
Was at a friend's house in around 2010/11. He kept gushing on and on about how good Fallout 3 while he rushed through the main quest. Was pretty unimpressed by it at the time, got the chance to play it at a different friend's place. I liked shooting molerats I guess but beyond that there wasn't a whole lot of enjoyment in it.

Later bought the game myself and forced myself to finish it. i remember being pissed at Liberty prime stomping through the end and doing all the work, just to reinforce that I'm a useless little shit that pops his gun off at the meanie enclave like the volunteer mercenary Liam Neeson Jr is while everyone else does the important shit.
Thank fuck I picked up New Vegas a few years later out of curiosity. The game just clicked with me. I was baffled, how did Fallout go from a sub-par timewaster to something I could actually enjoy playing? I don't quite remember anything making sense in the last game, or morality being measured on a spectrum instead of either being The Lord Above or Curator of the Fiery Pit Below. The game was noticeably superior in every way to Fallout 3, but not in the usual way a sequel surpasses the game before. I done some research on the game a while after beating it and found out it was made by a different company. Which led me to the broader community for the games, and got me acquainted with 1 & 2, and now leading me here.
 
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