How did you discover Fallout ?

I can't remember specifically but I know the first two PC games I bought when I got my own PC were Half-Life and Baldur's Gate. BG led to me getting into all those Interplay RPGs. I think I bought F2 when it was pretty new, I remember being amazed with the huge manual and how it was mainly written from an in-universe perspective. I've replayed F2 many times since I first completed it but I don't think I actually completed it again. The earlier areas are incredibly familiar to me whereas areas like San Francisco and anything late in the game are really vague.

I didn't play F1 until recently - it's now been completed nearly twice - and I briefly tried to play F3 but found it incredibly charmless and flat. Sometime after getting F2 I played Fallout Tactics but didn't get too far with it. I actually only got back into Fallout recently because I won FNV off game.co.uk for writing the review of the week.
 
A friend lent me his jewel case of the first game a mere few years before FO3 came out, and I bought it on GOG last year. I only recently tried 2, but I didn't get too far into it (the last thing I remember is raiding some cave with Marcus and Cassidy), and honestly don't feel like giving it another go (the tutorial level really bugs me, for some reason).
 
I was taking a look at the pc games at target and saw what I knew had to be mine. The Fallout Classic Collection. I loaded up Fallout 2 (Wanted to play without a time limit breathing down my neck) and really enjoyed it. Then I played 1 and tactics. Then finally New Vegas.
 
Well, it's been a while, i have to thank my uncle for this, Im 15 now so it must have been like 10 or 11 years ago, never played it until i was like 10 though but i watched my uncle play fallout demo in a cd with other demos and right after that I asked Santa to bring me fallout 2 ( i was a little kid still believed in Santa..) and of course my dad bought it for me, and in my country, Argentina, it was very difficult to find fallout so i don't want to imagine the trouble my dad went through to get it ( thanks dad :clap:) well i gave it to my uncle so that I could watch him play and I been breathing fallout ever since, I think ive played every fallout made, proudly :D
 
I played Fallout 3 first (the bethesda one) and was blown away by it, in result to this I wanted to learn more about the Fallout universe I spent some times reading the wiki at school so much to be learned.

I then by luck happen across a "Fallout Collection pack" with Fallout 1/2 and tactics in it I played them all some time after this was 2 years ago (yes I wasn't one of those people who bought the games brand new.)

I began to not only love the Fallout games but the community as well some of the best stuff I have read came from Fallout related sites.
 
I got my hands over F2 around 99 by buying a pirated copy from Russia(I live in Finland and it used to be the best way to get your hands on games back then...). Started the game, got to temple of trials and forgot the whole game for a year or so. Then a buddy of mine was playing some latter stage of the game while i watched and after that Ive played F1&2 so much I cant find anything new even from restoration project. Played tactics, F3 and NV too, tactics was ok but worse than JA2 so quite forgettable, F3 sucked mainly because rediculous writing/setting, but NV is great despite the terrible engine with annoying mechanics, writing and somehow believable environs can do miracles...
 
Well it was the summer of 2008 and I was a young lad of fourteen pouring over an Xbox Magazine detailing Bethesda's new FPS/RPG 'Fallout 3' which would play like Oblivion. I decided that I must learn more about this incredible setting and asked my mom to purchase Fallout 2 immediately from Amazon.co.uk whilst I perused myself with knowledge on the Fallout universe from the Vault.

I love Fallout 2.
 
Well, first I played 3 at a friends, then proceeded to buy a copy for myself. While much tweaking was needed to get it to run well enough I got it going, and enjoyed the game thoroughly. Afterwards I got New Vegas for the Xbox so I wouldn't have to go through the hell of messing with my PC again just to get it to run choppy on there. After a few months of loving New Vegas I decided to get Fallout 2 on the suggestion of a friend. Now I appreciate the 3 that I have played, though 3 definitely ranks lowest on that scale.
 
I first discovered Fallout when I saw a friend play it, after obtaining the game from a cereal box. I did not think much of it and a few years passed until I got Fallout: New Vegas. Then, I played Fallout 3, then Fallout 2 and then finally, the original Fallout. For some reason, I managed to play the series backwards after seeing one of the original games. :shock:
 
Same thing actually i didn't even know what fallout 2. First time when i finished fallout 3 i started wonder what fallout first 2 games was like.(when i firs time played Fallout 2 it was love from first sight :oops:) I really enjoyed Fallout 3 then i played fallout 2/1/tactics then one and at last fallout new Vegas (disappointment I hate start (too fast progress in firs hour of game i have weapons and plenty of ammo(bad karma) and back story it didn't make me feel like hero but selfish mercenary even when i played whit good karma. fallout new Vegas was improved in many ways but it couldn't satisfy my addiction to rough an thought old school waste land where i shoot cockroach whit bb gun. from new fallout i expected slow hard game play whit rewarding story line and some caps to spend on whores and ammo(and shoot some kids they are f* annoying and hobos too :twisted: ) i wanted really hated fast action filed game play and too fast advancement in levels and skills (playing in hardcore mod is most rewarding) new Vegas was biggest disappointment of the fallout series (in game play not graphic :mrgreen: )
 
I actually got into Fallout 1 and 2 because of Fallout 3. At the time that 3 came out, I did not own a console, and my cpu was a laptop. So no way 3 would work, but the ads in magazines kept making my mouth water. So I googled Fallout, found out about the older games, downloaded them from Interplay, and now every year I play fallout 1 and 2 at least twice. Currently on my first run through of Fallout Tactics. Own 3 and Vegas, but I keep going back to the old ones, ha!
 
I got into Fallout because of Fallout 3 my brother got it when it came out so I did some research about fallout then I found out about Fallout 1 and 2 I got both of them illegal because I could't find them in stores but anyway I patched them both I today I must say those two games are the best games I played in my life :boy:
 
I first found out about it when my brother bought Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. I gave it a try not long after. Needless to say, I wasn't impressed. Then when i heard a "Fallout 3" was coming out and thought "How is this getting so popular before it even comes out?" My friend then told me that there were 3 games before BoS and let me have Fallout 1 & 2. I LOVED them so much that I got Fallout 3 the day it came out and eventually New Vegas and the rest is, well, history I guess? Best video game series ever (Excluding BoS, natually)
 
It was Installed on my Older Brother's computer when I got it way back in 2005.

Coincidentally it was the first game I played after a short bought of the two Prince Of Persia games on SNES in 1996.
 
Picked up Fallout 1 in a game shop in Liverpool at lunch time around the time it was released. Rushed out and got F2 on release day.

Moved around that time and lost all my PC games.....never completed F2....just bought them again from GoG...not the same with out the box and manual...but hey...I'm having fun again.
 
I'm new to the forums, but this seemed like a good place to start posting.

It was December 1997. My brother was in college with a gamer (my brother didn't play much past Doom) and he'd told me his friend had been playing an interesting game called Fallout. Being 12, I idolized my brother's every word, and gathered all the money I could (my birthday being November I still had money left) and raced to Electronics Boutique.

I was a little thrown off when he told me it was a turn-based game, having played a few and disliked them. I started out with making my own character, falling in love with the little Action Boy pictures for everything you clicked on. I tried to finagle something together that looked like a viable character, and started off.

"War... War never changes..." I turned up the only working speaker I had connected to the computer so I could hear every word. By this point I was already enthralled. It took some working to figure out action points and the whole turn based scene, but once I did, my outlook on games and media changed significantly. I wanted to watch every post-apocalypse movie, play all the games, listen to bands with a nuclear theme, anything close and I was there.

I know, I sound like Grandpa talking about the first time he met Grandma, but Fallout has been a big part of my life since I was 12. I'm 25 now, so over half of my life has been in wonder of Fallout. I'd love to be a part of the Fallout team making the games, but unfortunately I only have an associates degree and nobody is ever looking for someone to just provide creative ideas.

I've been reading the forums for a bit, and I think I'm gonna like it here.
 
'Walked into a PC game store and browsed the shelves

"Oh hello, what's this?"

I take a chance and buy Fallout 1, I go back home and put it in my PC, then comes the birth of my 24 hour sessions.
 
Mutagen said:
I'd love to be a part of the Fallout team making the games, but unfortunately I only have an associates degree and nobody is ever looking for someone to just provide creative ideas.
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Head over to the modding thread Mutagen...I was just like you, I had a desire to be apart of the Fallout magic, so I learned how to mod and started to get involved in the community. It's a great way of expanding your love of Fallout. :wink:

http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8
 
For my birthday, I got a PS3 and I logically chose to get Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition with it. I absolutely adored it, and poured at least 10- 20 hours into it in the first month (I was also in school at the time). In June of this year, I was my local Goodwill, and saw the original Fallout for three bucks, so I picked it up. I didn't like it too much at the time, as I was completely lost, but now I've been playing the dickens out of it, and realized the sheer opportunity to just do whatever I want in the game world wouldn't be possible if it held my hand, so I've really been enjoying it lately. However, I should also thank it for introducing me to '50s era music. I swear I could just sit and listen to GNR for hours. I also recently got the "Fallout Classic Collection" for twenty bucks, including Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics, but I won't move on from the first until I finish it.
 
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