Hey. I already have a few posts but I just now found this thread. I'm from the U.S.A. Specifically Alabama. Despite the fact I have spent every single second of my life in the deep south, I am not a 'redneck' by any means.
I got my start in the Fallout series with Fallout 3. I'm a big Call of Duty player, but the open world of Fallout 3 appealed to me. I played the game, and I loved it. I played over a hundred hours, way more time than I had spent on any other single-player game.
Although, I mainly just wandered around and killed shit on Fallout 3. I would also do some side quests here and there, but I never really payed too much attention to the main quest. In fact, I never even completed the main quest until my 7th character or so. (Which was about 2 years after I had got the game.) Fallout 3's main quest didn't appeal to me that much.
The essential NPC's were annoying. The BoS had no real personality to them, they just seemed dull and uninteresting. (And sometimes just goofy "To arms Brothers!). I hated the cramped Metros with the unending stream of fucking feral ghouls. I thought it was kind of stupid how every living creature in the wasteland wanted you dead. How do Bloatflies even survive as a species if they attack and get killed by fucking everything? I also thought that it was weird how small towns were. Nevertheless, I loved the game despite the aforementioned flaws and many other flaws.
This led me to start reading about the other Fallout games on the Fallout wiki. I found them intriguing. I had thought about playing them, but I never really got around to it.
Then, New Vegas came around. I didn't get it until about 2 or 3 months after it came out due to a lot of people saying that it wasn't as good as 3 or it was just an expansion pack, etc etc. I decided to get it anyways, because, hey, it's more Fallout. I started to play it, and I didn't like it at first. I played for a few hours, and I put it away for a week or two. I came back and finished my playthrough, and as I got deeper into the game, I liked it more and more. I loved how detailed the end was. I love playing games that let me see the results of my actions (one reason why I like Europa Universalis 3, I get to see my nation grow over time).
Needless to say, it was pretty much the best singleplayer game I have ever played. I started learning more and more about the first two games (which is where I started to like the BoS). Now, I've started playing the original Fallout (with a mod to increase weapon damage. I can't stand that having to shoot people 6 times to kill them BS. One reason why I play Call of Duty and not Halo). It's quite different. At first I didn't like it that much, and I never got passed the part where you have to go to the other vault right at the beginning of the game. But I came back to it 2 weeks later due to my desire to experience the early Fallout lore for myself, and so far, it's pretty enjoyable. I don't quite like it as much as New Vegas (as I'm mainly and FPS player and not an RPG player), but it's good, and I suspect I'll like it more as I go on, because with Fallout 3 and New Vegas I found that the beginning of the game is the most boring part (and in 1 I'm only in Necropolis. Haven't even found the BoS yet).
Sometimes I'll talk about stuff that happened in the first 2 games, which may seem weird since I haven't really played them too much, but I have read quite a bit of stuff on the Fallout Wiki and I've watched Let's Plays, so I have a decent amount of knowledge on the first two games.
Oh, and sorry for my grammatical errors. This novel is just way too long to edit properly.