How did you discover Fallout ?

Well, therein lies a tale (to quote Arseface)…
Back in 2010 I was a young lad of 14, still in middle school, when I saw a video on creepypastas. And in that video was the Fallout 3 "Numbers Stations" one. I didn't think much of it until years later, in my first year of high school back in 2012. By that time curiosity set in, not for the creepypasta (shit's fake), but for the game that spawned it. So using the money I got playing football (I played all throughout high school and family members paid me per injury I caused to other teams/person I knocked down; I was good at my job, despite being a somewhat small man), I waltzed into a Gamestop and purchased Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360.

And I make no apologies here; I fucking loved it. Loved everything about it. So when I discovered New Vegas a while later, I was even more blown away (to the point where New Vegas is still my favorite piece of mass media ever produced, along with Dan Jones' book The Plantagenets). I often joke that New Vegas was my only friend in high school, and when I literally played the disc to death I made a memorial for it, which I later hung on my college dorm room wall:
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So yeah. After that I played F2, loved it, and Fallout has been my favorite thing besides medieval history ever since.

EDIT: Sorry for the grey border, I had to take a screenshot in Paint because the original Jpeg from my phone was too big a file
 
Back in '98, my gaming life was in a rut due to a conflict with my siblings: I wanted a Sony Playstation to succeed our venerable SNES, while my siblings wanted an N64 'cuz Nintendo. My siblings out-voted me and we got an N64 for Xmas in '97. I was NOT IMPRESSED with the N64. (To this day I hold that early 3D graphics are undoubtedly inferior to late 2D graphics by a huge margin!) I was taking a computer programming class that year and a classmate showed me screenshots of StarCraft and I was blown the fuck away by the graphics! I had known about PC games, but my opinion of them had become out-dated from my preconceived notions of low-res DOS games with beeps & boops for sounds. That year, for my birthday, I got StarCraft. I left the N64 to my siblings and annihilated Zerglings in a bloody mess for months...

That same classmate was meanwhile showing me more PC game screenshots along the way, and some looked cool while others didn't. Until he showed me Fallout 2. I had to look up post apocalyptic to understand what I was seeing. Mad Max? In a game? WTF is this? It sounds depressing AF! How could anyone actually enjoy a game based on this type of conten- wait, MINIGUNS? OK, yeah, go to the next screenshot...

I got Fallout 2 for Xmas in '98. The best part? My parents only agreed to buy it for me because it was the ONLY THING I asked for that Xmas, but the content ratings had them spooked off of my siblings even seeing it. They all had to leave me alone whenever I played it. They whined, my parents said they had an N64 to play, and I teased them mercilessly! HAHAHAAA!
 
I remember being in highschool when one of my friends showed me Fallout 3 on his Xbox, which opened my eyes to just how unremarkable a setting can be. I remember being incredibly underwhelmed by Fallout 3 and finding it bleak and boring. It wasn't like I didn't put hours into it. I focused on lock picking and stealing everything with occasional mass murder, but it was never something that really caught my interest. To me it was the sort of entertainment that was addictive in the same way as farmville, where there isn't anything to be gained by playing it but small milestones can make you stay longer than you should. Anyway, I was quite certain I just didn't like fallout, so when New Vegas came out, I wasn't the least bit interested. I didn't revisit fallout until later when friends were talking about the story line, and I thought "There was a storyline? Maybe that's why I didn't like it. I didn't get to the storyline." I was right though, there was no storyline. I eventually played New Vegas after I had a lot of friends tell me about a fallout inspired story, and even though New Vegas did a lot to improve on Fallout 3, I still found that the world didn't suck me in and I was still very much against anything as clunky as the fallout 3 engine. There was a long period of time though where my friends were talking about a fallout inspired story where I didn't have access to a console or have money to buy games on steam, so I got Fallout 2 to see if I could stand the old ones, not really expecting much.

Holy Crap though Fallout 2. It takes a while to get into and figure out the systems but it is a game that makes you think, and I love it. It left me in stitches and gave me new perspectives on life. It was a game that resonated with me in so many ways. It was both funny and serious, and I had been craving it. I loved how it felt like a treasure trove of hidden secrets to explore if you only used your head, and the aspects of the world fit together so well. Fallout 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I didn't care about the Fallout franchise until I played this one. Before it was just another mediocre franchise, now I feel its a travesty that its been reduced to what it is now.
 
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Fallout 3. I then played New Vegas and Fallout 4. I personally liked them all, they're all fun to explore, mess around in, and the stories and quests I thought were actually good (especially quests like The Velvet Curtain in Point Lookout).
 
So I'm from Brazil. Bear with me because this is pertinent to the rest of the story.
When I was 13 or 14, me and some friends from school were really into """RPGs""" like Mu and Ragnarok. MMORPGS, but we were just poor kids who didn't know any better. This happened back when internet cafés (here we call them LAN houses) were booming and people like us came across this whole new universe called PC gaming. Before this gaming basically meant going to somebody's house to play pirated copies of PS1 games.
At some point one of them (called Silas, I haven't seen him in over 15 years now) comes to me one day during class and goes YO HEY MAN I GOT THIS CD HERE I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM BUT IT'S AN RPG YOU SHOULD PLAY IT and he hands me this burned disc with "falout" written on it and nothing else.
So I get home that day, boot up my old-ass PC and install Fallout 2.
Now, you have to understand, I could barely understand english by then.
I start the game and, since I'm familiar with MMORPGS and NOTHING else, I create a "warrior" character. That means I dump every SPECIAL point into ST, EN and AGI. CH, INT and LUCK 1.
I guess you can pretty much tell how my first playthrough went.
I was so puzzled with Fallout that I took to the internet (some years afterwards, when I got access to it in a reliable manner) to research it, and it was then that I discovered what an RPG actually is. Even after that, Fallout 2 had such a mystifying aura to me that I hesitated coming back to it.
Actually I only did it some weeks ago, after finishing New Vegas for the xth time and feeling like I could use something different.
The game is nowhere near as hard as I remember and I love it for what it actually is this time, but playing it still feels like embarking on this wild adventure that I truly know nothing about once again.
I guess that it being extremely funny and engaging also helps.
 
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PsychoSniper said:
Simple 'nuff, tell the story of how U got the best RPG out there.

I'll tell mine in a little while, I allready wrote it but the fourm ate my damn post.
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Ha! This thread was posted before I was born!!!! I found out about fallout when my dad gave me a turn playing fallout 3 when I was four. It was the first game I ever played on a console. He was a loyal fan of the fallout series since Wasteland.
 
My little brother had a copy of Fallout: New Vegas for his Xbox 360 that he'd play whenever he was visiting. I became sort of intrigued with the world and eventually got the PC version off of Steam.

As of this writing I have 1440 hours logged in the Steam version. Couldn't be happier with the game, just wish it had the ability to continue playing after the Hoover Dam battle. I've also got every released game in the series, and I tend to prefer FNV to pretty much all of them.
 
I was in high school when information for Fallout 3 slowly started leaking into magazines. I didn’t think anything of the behemoth they always showed, chocked it up to another monster game like Resident Evil. Wasn’t until I read the name of the series that I went “wait wha?”
 
AureliusofPhoenix said:
Well, therein lies a tale (to quote Arseface)…
Back in 2010 I was a young lad of 14, still in middle school, when I saw a video on creepypastas. And in that video was the Fallout 3 "Numbers Stations" one. I didn't think much of it until years later, in my first year of high school back in 2012. By that time curiosity set in, not for the creepypasta (shit's fake), but for the game that spawned it. So using the money I got playing football (I played all throughout high school and family members paid me per injury I caused to other teams/person I knocked down; I was good at my job, despite being a somewhat small man), I waltzed into a Gamestop and purchased Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360.

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Remind me to never play football...
 
I played a game called Morrowind and because I loved that I then played oblivion and new Vegas, since I adored fallout nv I played fallout 3 and liked it , but then I went and played fallout 1 and tactics and that's were my love for fallout came , but I do think 1 is the best .

Btw fallout 4 is only good when I have loads of mods in it , the modding community is wonderful.

Also , I already hate fallout 76,
 
Well i cant understand why i have never seen this thread before. Alright youngins be prepared for the storytelling of an old man who did not start with FO3.

So back in around 1991 or 1992ish era my uncle passed onto me his old computer, no hard drive, old 5 1/2" floppy boot disk and such. It came with this container of games, now most of these games were completely text based so to my 8-10 year old self they were not much interesting. But i came accross this game with graphics and some books to compliment the story. I gave it a try and started roaming through the wastes with my squad of rangers, i has found wasteland and played it right up until my parents gave that computer and everything with it to one of there friends as they replaced it with a lovely pentium 75 with windows 95. Imagine the glee as 12 year old me feel in love and my love of PC gaming was completed and has not died since.

With this love of gaming and it being the 90's i bought and read gaming magazines (on this stuff called paper youngin's). I came upon an article talking about this game coming out that was inspired by and was a spiritual successor to wasteland. So i kept checking the local computer store until i found it. I created my charecter and proceeded to leave a vault for the first time. Skin tight plastic looking vault suit, 10mm pistol, and a bunch of rats in a cave, heaven had been found, and i have been playing and replaying and replaying ever since. Fallout, then Fallout 2, then tactics and so on and so on......
 
At the time, a little. A month later, a much bigger disappointment. At first I was just happy to be playing a new Fallout, after a month I realized how much it was not a fallout game. So disappointed that so many have only ever enjoyed from 3 on and will defend them to the death.
 
I've discovered fallout back in 1998. Was only 12 years young at the time, so I didn't have access or even thought about fallout 1(fuck that shit, fallout 1 sucked monkey balls IMHO). I fell in love from the first moment. when I went from arroyo exploring my way to the Den, I've encountered a fight between a caravan and super mutants. nobody stayed alive so i could loot from my measly level 2 or 3, laser rifles and such... i went all *heart emogies* and till today, 20 years later, fallout 2 is the best game in history. the GOAT.
the way I got the game was through a school mate at the time, which almost had me sell my kidney for it, but i got it and since then i'm hooked. played the game over 50 times at the very least, and if Post Apocaliptic world should come and i'm one of those vault survivers, i'm ready. Officer of one of the best armies in the world for seven years, ranked captain. from brass knuckles, to AWM, i'm ready.
 
I started with Fallout 3 after my dad picked it up at Best Buy and said to me "This game is bad ass. You need to play it." Bought it for me, then bought me a PS3 to play it on. I didn't play it very far because I hate shooters on consoles, even before I played them on PC, but when I got a PC I bought it and was hooked. From beginning to end, I was intrigued and sucked into the world. I kept trying New Vegas but could never get into it. I bought the first Fallout game when my computer died and I was stuck with my mom's shitty laptop that couldn't even run Half-Life. I played Fallout 1 on there and was instantly allured and addicted, and played until about half-way through, dying over and over. I beat it a few years later, then played Fallout 4, felt it was okay, but it didn't feel like Fallout, even from the little I'd played. I played through New Vegas afterwards and it blew my fucking mind. I had beaten it before, but I quit at level 22 after playing past the ending using a mod, but I still hadn't liked it that much. I gave it a fresh chance though as a 17 year old boy (December of 2017) and roleplayed as the courier the whole way through, completely enveloped by the Mojave's dusty, desolate and harsh sands. I fucking loved every minute of it. It was like a flip had been switched, allowing me to finally see what everyone had been raving about. I 100%'ed my playthrough. I'm now a more intense fan than I ever was, and I really need to get through playing Fallout 2 as it seems to have more of what I want, but I can't seem to get into it, my same initial problem with New Vegas.

P.S. For those of you who are wondering; yes, I did mostly grow up with Fallout 3, and yes, I do like it. Is it Fallout? Not completely, but there are things about it I still like, even if a lot of you hate it. I have a lot of memories with it, and playing it now I still have fun exploring, but some of the magic is lost having seen what it could have been. I do realize though that it's not the same game as F:NV or the first two Fallouts; it's very much its' own thing. It revels in exploration and environmental storytelling, with tiny bits of clever writing few and far between. I may not agree that it's a great Fallout game, or even a great game, but I can see why people like it, and that's okay to me! I let them have their fun. F:NV and the first two Fallouts are not games about exploration, but of thinking. They're a thinking man's game, and force you to make difficult choices, showing the folly of man in its' full force. They tell intricate stories and plots. They're different than the Bethesda games because they're not about making a visual world to explore and plunder, and that's okay. I think if we had the world detail and exploration of Bethesda Fallouts, but the writing, gameplay, aesthetics and everything else of the OGs, we would have a game that perfectly shows what Fallout's always wanted to. As it is though, I find myself liking the OG Fallout and NV far, far more than the ones Bethesda has made.
 
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