It actually took me far longer than most of you. I hadn't even played the original Fallouts until about a year before Fallout 4's announcement. So at the time I only really remembered how much fun I had playing Fallouts (by that time I hadn't played Fallout 3 recent enough to actually compare it...
I played Fallout 3 quite a few years ago and liked it a lot on Xbox 360. So maybe a year after that, my uncle gave me some old computer games and I got to play it on my laptop. Then I tried to get it on steam but it didn't work well. So I bought New Vegas and fell in love with it instead. Maybe...