Hello everyone I'm new here, I've been watching this forum for perhaps two years now but have never seen a reason for joining as the current and previous discussions had been both stimulating and entertaining. However, the injustice of Fallout via the upcoming Bethesda Software abomination gave me just the incentive I needed. I've decided to contribute to the progressive debate and theory portion of Fallout, the meaning of Fallout and Fallout's unique contribution to the legacy that was started by the 1950s science fiction genre.
A little about me, my name is Dan Ainsworth, I am eighteen years old and reside in Ontario, Canada, I am in my fifth year of high school currently and look forward to my first year of university (college for all you southern folk) next fall, studying history and information processing as one day I hope to be an archivist, who knows? Maybe I'll make sure of it that you guys go down in history as the most fanatical Fallout fan-group in history?
My first experience with Fallout was a rather interesting one. My brother received Fallout 2 at his birthday in 1998 (he's older than me by one year) and played it sparingly, as my grandmother who knows very little about video games bought it for him, and therefore he wrote it off as a meager backwater company game at best, however, I began playing it as the only other option at that time was our Playstation and personally I found the games to be linear and lacking, however, Fallout 2 seemed to fill a niche that I had never known existed. Very soon, I found myself, quite frothing at the mouth to get Fallout 1, and enjoyed it more so as although it lacked the amount of items, places, quests, etc. (by 50%, I believe), it still represented to me the beginning of something great, that no other game that I had known of had done before. My colleagues and I who have played this game are still divided on what game we like better, Fallout or Fallout 2, with me preferring the former.
I was somewhat annoyed with Fallout Tactics, specifically the dialog system as although I expected a different game, I had still hoped that the dialog system would be the same, if not more sophisticated - in vain it seems. I was initially impressed with Van Buren but disdained after I learned it was shelved, and downright furious when I learned that Fallout 3 was to be merely a hijacked universe with a cheap Oblivion engine!
I hope you can all understand my position.
With greetings,
Dan
