How did you discover Fallout ?

Sander said:
Apparently, you didn't look hard enough. Note that there is a "Fallout RPG Gameplay & Tech Help" Forum, that would've been the best place to start looking. And there's a stickied thread saying "READ THIS BEFORE POSTING", which you should've read. And in that post we find a link:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=1593
Where you can find the information on how to install Fallout on Windows 2000.

That said, you did good at not starting another thread.
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Thank you for your generosity. Kindness... questionable. :lol:

Actually I did read that "Read before posting", I just didn't locate that page.

Google doesn't help much, but why "argue" with a disgruntled mod?

Thanks anyway.
 
regarding the initial post, i still don't know who would bother to be intrested in where people got the game other than to say where he did, ahem-

i bought both of them in a deal, i needed an rpg fast i heard it was good but my expectations were low, after the first runs of the game i didn't enjoy it at all, but after like the 3rd time when i managed to get past level 5 (in fallout 2) i had such a blast, and since then i've been playing it every year.
 
Great thread idea once again!

In 1998 I had been an RPG fanatic for years, but wondered why there had never been any sci-fi RPG's. One day a friend of mine who liked PC games of all types told me he had this game that was so cool and so deep in how the story was presented, but he said it was too hard. So I go there and find out its an RPG. As I figure out how the character development system works I begin to think; "Wow this game looks like it was really well put together!" After showing my friend some pointers he started playing it...after an hour I was so immersed in the world I felt at home!

I bought it months later.

Ah the memories...,
The Vault Dweller
 
Thought to say hallo from Latvia where I'm from. There are quite a bunch of unwashed fallout lovers here.
I've been lurking in and out here as well as on duckandcover and rpgcodex to see what's new upfront for a year or so and finally decided to register here which I didn't erlier due to a lack of internet connection at home.
And please, be gentle. :)
Discovery of Fallout world was quite simple. As soon as I got pc at my house an aquitance of mine suggested me to try out a game called Fallout 2. I wasn't familiar with an RPG genre at all. Only had played some strategies and sports simulators and was sceptical about it.
Well, next thing I remember is myself trying to not fall from a chair after a 3rd sleeples night at my pc playing the game.
Had been hooked on F and RPG genre itself since than. Very unfortunately Fallout had to be a first RPG I ever played so it was quite a dissapointments when I optimisticaly jumped into BG2 hoping for similar experience.
My suggestion, never give your friend F1 or F2 as a first RPG to get him familiar to the genre. You'll get him spoiled. Better feed him some medicore game for starters so he could understand and enjoy the superiority of FALLOUT later.
 
I first discovered Fallout back in year 10 ... just after it came out. In Australia, it wasn't very well advertised, but I needed a new game (other than playing the hell out of Interstate 76) so I bought Fallout.

It was a new type of game to me ... I'd heard it was an RPG, so I was thinking it would be something like Zork ... but it turned out to be WICKED!!!

Now I'm an addict :twisted:
 
A long long time ago, in a place far far away .... no stop, wrong story :?

Pff, it has been quite a while since i bought it, must have been when it was just released.
Once i started playing, i was hooked.
The thing i liked most about it was the freedom, and of course the creation of the character (it was one of my first rpg's) plus development.
That's something i miss in games these days, it's all about the graphics, but most of the time, they tend to forget the gameplay :evil:
 
Got my first taste of Fallout from the demo on a PC Gamer CD... if I remember it correctly, there was a gang war in Junktown, one gang gave you leather armor if you joined them, the other gave you metal armor.

Then, I joined the dreaded Columbia House Software club, and as my first 3 items, I ordered Descent Freespace, Vitual Pool 2, and Fallout.
 
LazyGnome said:
Then, I joined the dreaded Columbia House Software club, and as my first 3 items, I ordered Descent Freespace, Vitual Pool 2, and Fallout.
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Strange. I played all those three games at once as well. Virtual Pool 2 is still the only sim I`ve ever even slightly enjoyed, Decent Freespace was a beautiful experience with a free simulated battle (think thay called it gauntlet) and Gardigans, "Gran Turismo" in the earphones and Fallout, well. Oehh...

I got it free with a finnish computer magazine, "K-Kompuutteri" or something. Well anyway, once I figured out the character system (it was my first RPG, hadn`t even played DandD before) and made my way through the radscorpoin caves with a lot of help from Ian (took me two days, actually...) half of the boys in my class were skipping school for MONTHS. It spread like a tumor! Via phone conversations were we discussed storyline and stuff. I remember when I was the first on to get the Power Armour... Oehh...

I would give away one of my toes to play Fallout1 for the first time again...
 
I discovered Fallout from a friend a few years ago, and I started playing Fallout, but I didn't like waterchip time limit. I really hate time limits, so I throw it somewhere.
And a few months ago I decided to play Fallout 1/2 again.
Im still playin Fallout 2... Its my 7th time :D
I like it more because there is no time limit ;)
 
It was 1999 when I borrowed a Pc game. It's name is Fallout 2. I didn't play any kind of RPG at that time. It was it, who dragged me into the realm. Since then, every time I ty a RPG I must insist it has the following element: character creation, free-form gameplay...

BTW, I've been playing 27 times of Aranum.
 
I remember playing the demo of Fallout when I was a kid. I played it on Windows 3.1. :lol: Man, that demo was probably the best demo of any game I have ever played. In the demo you started off in Junktown. You could not leave Junktown but you had pretty much everything you needed right there. I remember getting the minigun and kicking some ass. After a while of playing the demo I got the game for my birthday from my Dad. I was SO excited.

I got Fallout 2 for Christmas one year along with a new computer and I can remember not wanting to do anything but playing Fallout 2. I was not allowed to play it until we had gone out to dinner, visited with the family, etc. I came home after dinner and played Fallout 2 almost until the sun came up, or did the sun come up? I can not remember but I can tell you it was one of the most fun nights I have ever had.
 
Dixie_Rebel said:
I remember playing the demo of Fallout when I was a kid. I played it on Windows 3.1. :lol: Man, that demo was probably the best demo of any game I have ever played. In the demo you started off in Junktown. You could not leave Junktown but you had pretty much everything you needed right there. I remember getting the minigun and kicking some ass. After a while of playing the demo I got the game for my birthday from my Dad. I was SO excited.

I got Fallout 2 for Christmas one year along with a new computer and I can remember not wanting to do anything but playing Fallout 2. I was not allowed to play it until we had gone out to dinner, visited with the family, etc. I came home after dinner and played Fallout 2 almost until the sun came up, or did the sun come up? I can not remember but I can tell you it was one of the most fun nights I have ever had.
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They had the minigun in the demo???
 
I think it was winter of 98, as i distinctly remember going to Best Buy and my friend hit a snowbank and lost his front liscense plate... anyway, i remembered seeing fallout like a million times before because it had the different horizontal cardboard box and i always checked it out. Eventually, i said "fuck it" and bought it. Because i with my friend, and he was playing Red Alert or Diablo on his PC i was just sitting around reading the manual absorbing it's coolness.

Eventually i went home and installed it. It was great fun, right up untill the point where i couldn't outsmart a supermutant and got trapped inside the supermutant base. That pissed me off so i stopped playing it for a while. Then i created another character, and i didn't find the waterchip in time, so that pissed me off and i stopped playing for a while. I started playing it the third time, and this time i progressed a lot more but i think i got stuck trying to get into the supermutant base, and another game (probably Half-Life) started to take over my time. Eventually, i played it again and beat it all the way up to the supermutant, and after all that was over i was very impressed.

My only real exposure to a RPG that wasn't Final Fantasy or Phantasy Star was Ultima 6, but in that game i stuck because i killed an important butcher NPC during an altercation that i had apparently started because i killed his cow. This was the first time where i felt my actions with other NPC's actually ment something because i gotten myself stuck and didn't find the waterchip in time. I thought it was pretty cool stuff.

Gamespot did an article a few years later about the best game villans and the Master mutant was, IIRC, #1. This brought back some fond memories so i had to run out and buy FO2.
 
well, when i first discovered fallout i was a diablo II addict, i got given 2 old demo discs: one had fallout 1 demo and one had fallout tactics demo. i tried fallout tactics and wanted to get it, then i tried the original fallout demo and wasn't impressed. i tried for ages to get hold of FOT from warez sites but had no luck. then one day i found fallout: the ultimate collection which had all 3 in so i bought it and installed FOT at home. i eventually tried FO1 and ended up almost quitting DII and i stopped playing FOT because i was sucked in by FO1
 
Good to know that you bought the games, but just to let you know we don't support warez of any kind here.
 
I read a review of fallout, and thought wooow i have to play this game..... Anyways i finished tha review and fout out it was turnbased.

As i hated turnbased games those days i thought "fuck it"!

A year later i found a suprisingly cheap that seemed somewhat interesting, and it was named fallout....... wich sounded very familiar....

So i bought it as a birthday present for my friend. Watching him play a little bit made me realize the awesome coolness of the game. The day after i ran down to the store and bought my own copy.
 
JJXB said:
and ended up almost quitting DII
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:? Diablo 2 is the stupidest game ever.And now when I turn around and see all the Bulgarian idiots who play this game I get sick.And I say to them - play fallout!It has an interesting world and stuff.And they say?What?1997?!Are you crazy?! :x
 
Daron said:
JJXB said:
and ended up almost quitting DII
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:? Diablo 2 is the stupidest game ever.And now when I turn around and see all the Bulgarian idiots who play this game I get sick.And I say to them - play fallout!It has an interesting world and stuff.And they say?What?1997?!Are you crazy?! :x
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why do you think i rarely play it now? im on the verge of quitting right now as the game is full of n00bs and i got sick and tired of being asked n00bish questions like "where can i get hacks?" or "can you edit a closed character?". thats how low D2 has sunk since i started playing online.
 
My ex was playing FO1 one day when I visited and I got to take a look while he was doing something else, and lent me FO1 and FO2 to play for myself, and I was completely hooked :)
 
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