The first time you met Super Mutants

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How did you react when you met your first super mutant in Fallout? I remember being scared the first time. They had big weapons that blast me in a single second and i felt helpless, at first,against them. They really were well introduced as a major threat and remained a threat until the end of the game,imo, even when you had the power armor.

Random encounters with them were scary,too.
 
Since Fallout 3 was the first "Fallout" (if you can even call it Fallout) game that I have played. When I first encountered Super Mutants, they reminded me so much of Orcs in the Elder Scrolls games. Playing the first two games, however, it was clear that they were not.
 
They scared the fuck out of me. Wasn't that old back in 1997 either, so the medium could suck me in much more. Especially when the face of Lou appeard on my screen - I remember this pretty good - even my hands were shaking and fuck, my heart was racing when I tried to decide about what dialogue option I should click on next. And Harry was so strong and the folks at the water pump could rip me apart so easily. It was awesome.
 
I was in Lexx's boat. I think I must have been about 12 or 13 when I saw my first mutant outside the watershed in Necropolis. That first one is pretty shabbily dressed and not weilding a weapon, so I think my reaction was mild awe and the thought that I could probably take her. Then I met Harry and his buddy with the flamer and quickly changed my assessment to respect bordering on terror. Much death and reloading ensued.
 
my first enco was when i tried to travel somewhere too far west in fo1 :D was crazy shit geting melted in an random enco , i decided to let the westside alone for a moment ^^
 
The first Fallout game i played was Fo2, and the first super-mutants you are likely to encounters are those from Broken Hills, who aren't hostiles.
They reminded me of Natuk, a game i played not so long before Fo2...
Other than that, I was blasted when i met The Lieutenant, and blasted again when i met the Master on my second Fo1 playthrough...
 
Sadly, I managed to spoil most of my game experience by reading Per Jorner's Fallout 2 guide alongside my first playthrough (Fallout 2 was my first Fallout game). I ran across them in Broken Hills, as expected, and thought they were nice and friendly. Marcus is by far my favorite NPC.

But I really wish I'd have played the damn game first and not found that guide until a few years later. I mean, it's a great guide, but it's taken the magic out of the game.
 
Mildly disappointed. I heard about these things called "super mutants" and had a very different idea of how they would look and behave. I was not impressed with their look, but was quickly impressed with their combat skills!
 
While my first Fallout game was Fallout 3, I never get far enough to get across a supermutant back then. My computer wasn't powerful enough, it overheated after the first half an hour of playing, the gameplay seemed rather slow for the "I WANT COOL THINGS" kid I was, so I never continued playing. My main interest in playing Fallout back then was to become a mutant (didn't read a lot about it, I just figured it was post-nuclear, there was radiated shit to eat, so it MUST allow me to become a mutant if I eat enough of it!).
Later, being a bit more mature and having passed the stage where there is nothing funnier than random killing of pedestrians in GTA, I played Fallout 2. I figured I had managed well enough with my tactics and my character creation and my quest solving to go and beat those nasty mutants in the Mariposa base! I was successful at killing the one eating rats in the first level, and the one at the entrance of NCR, so what could have gone wrong? A flamethrower, that's what could go wrong. I didn't even make it far enough to run for my life, I didn't last a turn. I still remember my PC running, set to flames, screaming for mercy. That was my first experience at how powerful supermutants can be.
 
I think mine was probably Neil in New Vegas. I was a little nervous when he came charging towards me, but I was a reasonably high-level character, and ignored his warnings that the road up to Black Mountain wasn't safe. Cue Nightkin uncloaking and bashing me to a bloody pulp before I could even draw my gun.
 
1950's style racism and class-ism done so well that you didn't even know it was there.


5545Trey said:
Since Fallout 3 was the first "Fallout" (if you can even call it Fallout) game that I have played. When I first encountered Super Mutants, they reminded me so much of Orcs in the Elder Scrolls games. Playing the first two games, however, it was clear that they were not.
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I am sorry your parents "The Corporate Exchange", filled your head with garbage. However, the joy of life is going backwards, not forwards it seems.
 
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i was like 7 or 8 years old, harry killed dogmeat so i reloaded and killed him and all his friends with a combat shotgun, i had already seen them from watching my brother/sister play the game so i wasnt surprised
 
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