How did you discover Fallout ?

Ben said:
paladin_lord said:
couple of years ago i was about to buy a game at one of the local store, i remember i asked for starcraft 1, but the game i received was f1 instead ... never regretted it
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How did that happen?
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many requests at the same time for the old store keeper to deal with (was Christmas) and there were old games among the new, some of them didn't had the original cd cover, mine included and since i didn't bothered to open and check it i only found out i had another cd when i got home .... I wonder if he didn't switched mine request with someone else ... well i hope he/she likes starcraft ...
 
I originally didn't like RPG's very much, but then I eventually discovered the series in a random way when searching the internet for good games, and it came up, so I tried it and loved it.
 
So trivial ,my friend show me what i missed in world of games. This was my first RPG and this RPG was Fallout, mean 1. I still remember the first moments of playing Fallout and maybe these moment drive me loving Fallout, mean first three Fallouts.
 
brandonhart61 said:
I originally didn't like RPG's very much, but then I eventually discovered the series in a random way when searching the internet for good games, and it came up, so I tried it and loved it.
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I remember I was all for action games and first person shooters in my childhood (Doom, Counter-Strike, Spiderman games, awesome), but then my taste developed and while FPS is enjoyable to me, I think RPGs can deliver a lot of fun.
 
I actually had the honor of playing the original as soon as it was released. Of course, I was a little kid and didn't know what the heck I was doing. I just remember being awed at the size of the manual and all the cute yet disturbing images of Vault boy. When my father wasn't looking, I sneaked on his computer and tried to play. I just knew that bigger numbers meant you where better at it, and I remember being blown away that you could actually talk to people instead of just killing everyone. I never made it passed Junktown of course, but the memory of my first time still sticks with me to this day.

Eventually when I was in middle school, I managed to borrow both 1 and 2 and I played them back to back. Ahh, the days of no internet. I remember those horrible load times in Fallout 2 that got longer and longer as you played. I also recall my mother being extremely pissed off at me for all the time I spent playing both of those games.

I find it so strange how people my age complain that 1 and 2 are so complicated and hard, yet I was able to easily grasp the concept as a kid and make more progress than they ever did. Even in middle school, I was in love with the challenge and experimentation of those games, and would constantly create new characters, just to see how they differed in certain spots of the game.
 
I was 8 or 9 years old. My dad raised me on gaming, such as Doom, ROTT, Hexen, Wolfenstein etc etc. I would go to his apartment on the weekends and always looked forward to playing on my computer he built for me. Anyways, we just got "Redneck Rampage" (does anyone remember that?) I remember messing around with the CD and I found demos for other Interplay games... there was a demo for Fallout 1. I played it over and over and over and over and over... There was barely anything to do on the demo but I loved it. (I haven't played the demo since then and I still remember it that's how much of an impact it had on me) Showed my dad, he liked it too, so bought the game and we were both hooked. Once Fallout 2 came out, we were there on its release date. Loved that game as well. Seems crazy I was only 8 or 9 to play such a complicated game. I really didnt understand ALL the dialogue. It was funny to play 5 or 6 years later and be like "Ohhhhhhhhhhh... that's what that meant..."

This game has been a huge part of my life. I'm now 23 and still love the crap out of it and Fallout 2. There will never be another game that I will ever love as much as Fallout.
 
conansmyhero said:
I was 8 or 9 years old. My dad raised me on gaming, such as Doom, ROTT, Hexen, Wolfenstein etc etc. I would go to his apartment on the weekends and always looked forward to playing on my computer he built for me. Anyways, we just got "Redneck Rampage" (does anyone remember that?) I remember messing around with the CD and I found demos for other Interplay games... there was a demo for Fallout 1. I played it over and over and over and over and over... There was barely anything to do on the demo but I loved it. (I haven't played the demo since then and I still remember it that's how much of an impact it had on me) Showed my dad, he liked it too, so bought the game and we were both hooked. Once Fallout 2 came out, we were there on its release date. Loved that game as well. Seems crazy I was only 8 or 9 to play such a complicated game. I really didnt understand ALL the dialogue. It was funny to play 5 or 6 years later and be like "Ohhhhhhhhhhh... that's what that meant..."

This game has been a huge part of my life. I'm now 23 and still love the crap out of it and Fallout 2. There will never be another game that I will ever love as much as Fallout.
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A lot of FPS's. I do remember Redneck Rampage, only it was the other way around, I had the demo. And as for the dialogue my case was probably worse, I didn't even spoke english back then, try finding the water chip being a 13 y/o in a universe where everyone speaks a foreign language. I think the need of learning english to play games is what made me learn the language so fast (there were very few fully translated games back then, not like today where everything is multilanguage) and Fallout had a very central role in that (you don't really need to speak a lot of english to play Doom)
 
I, myself, discovered Fallout by chance. My little brother made a friend who was a not-so-far neighbor who turned out to be a far cousing. They exchanged games as an habit, games not fitting my tastes.

One day he dropped by a Fallout 1 pocket edition. Very "weird" was my first impression. I decided to give it a shot. Installed it, created a character, heard the overseer speech...

Not very attractive at first, but man, that changed A LOT for good since I left the vault's cave.

What was my surprise when I commented a very friend of mine, game rider partner (those were about times) that I discovered a new game and HE ALREADY KNEW IT! In fact he was an addict to it as well. We shared very glorious moments. Helped me as well.


Regarding Fallout 2... I discovered it thanks to a 12-step recovery program for zombie warthogs. SORRY BUT OH YEAH!!! Otherwise, maybe I would never have discovered Fallout 2 existed.

By the time, I only had the UK version. I had a hard time trying to rescue Johnny, yeah XD

(Corrected obvious hole in your story. -Per)
 
Really sorry to do this but you seem like a nice bunch, i have just started up a new fallout themed gaming website and i would really appreciate it if some people just checked it out, even if it is just for a couple of minutes. even better still, you could join the forums!
 
I discovered fallout like 4-5 years ago i was around 14 at the time. And in those times i dint have internet so i couldn't search for anything but i sometimes bought cheap CDs at the shop it cost around 2Ls (4-5$) i was 14 so i didn't have much money yea but in pictures it looked interesting and i bough it it was fallout 2 the only minus was that it was in Russian language i remember how i asked my father to translate all the time yea but few years later when we got internet i found fallout again in English and than i got really in to it and then i played every fallout i could get haven't played only fallout BOS because couldn't get it to work on PC
 
I went to a huge shophouse called "Karstadt" when i was 15. Back in the days ( 1997 ^^ ) my parents just had a Pentium I with 75mhz and 16MB of RAM. Fallout was one of the few games that hit the requirements of my parents pc, although it requires 90mhz of cpuspeed ( which i felt playing ^^ ). So i bought it for 49,95 Deutsche Mark. I remember quit good that i had to discuss with the guy at the till. He accepted my argument, that somewhere there would have been one guy that let me buy this game :D A few years ago Karstadt went bankrupt ^^
 
I was in game with family and my mum said do you want a game as i only had my PS for 4 weeks i said yes and i brought fallout 3 for £22 then 2 weeks later trading it in for £12. 2 Yrs later got Fallout 3 and Fallout NV for Christmas. I still couldn't play them and 3 months later got the hang of it and a year on I'm on it all the time. :D :D
 
When I was a little kid, my older brother had burned a copy of Fallout 2 from one of his friends and I saw him playing it one day.

I remember he was really surprised that his 10-year old little sister was so interested in it and wanted to watch all the time. xD

I had a game file back then, but didn't really understand the content a whole lot. And then a while back I found the Fallout Collection PC game at Walmart and bought it - quite happily - for $19.99. :)

Fallout 2 is my favourite, I sometimes play my boyfriend's copy of Fallout 3 on the Xbox, but I like Fallout 1 and 2 better.
 
a friend of mine played it. i had very little gaming experience, being too poor for computers or consoles (violin music), i had however played adventure games before, where you collect items to use later.

from the moment i saw my friend open his inventory, and scroll through it.. i was sold :D
he let me play it a bit, insisting i dont go haywire w his character, something i knew how to take seriously :D and thus, my careful attitude in fallout gaming was set as well :D
 
I haven't played the original Fallout but if your asking how I got into the series:
I was at Gamestop and had some cash to spend and on a shelf I saw Fallout 3 for 8$. I decided to buy it because the Fallout Games were suppoused to be good and the price was cheap. I got hook and the next week I bought Fallout: New Vegas. It was only a while back actually....2-3 Weeks ago.
 
I had a buddy that was seriously into wasteland and somehow managed to always stay on top of gaming news at a time when the internet was barely recognizable to us today. I still don't know how the hell he did it.

Anyway, he kept me in the know about this awesome game that was coming out called Fallout. I bought it off the rack a few days after it came out and ceased to have a life outside of Fallout 1 for several months.

It was one of the last games that I played where the story and random events were interesting enough that I had friends hanging out watching me play, just as obsessed as I was.
 
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