I read about it in a Game Informer magazine.

Started with Fallout 1. Then went on to FO2 (and the spin offs)

Also got backed in to the Elder Scrolls series with Daggerfall and stuck with that series until oblivion.

When I heared Fallout 3 (Van Buren) got cancelled but Bethesda bought the rights a was happy
as a kid in a candy store.

So when it was released I bought it and now I can't stop playing. Dammit.

I saw the teaser trailer on the 360 Marketplace and I thought it was going to be [censored] and just wanted them to finish TES: V

watched more videos when they came to like it

then when it came out, I bought it

now Fallout 3 is my favorite game

then I have seen what Fallout 1/2 and what 3 was going to be when made by Interplay and I am VERY happy that Beth bought Fo3, because the other ones looked like crap

4th person turned base games always svck, I love 1st person RPG/Shooter/FPS games so Fo3 easily became my number one choice

I played FO2 on the PS1(?). The idea of a post-nuke rpg/fps hybrid intrigued me. I expected a helluva lot less than the game actually delivered though. looking forward to New Vegas....

I bouth it because ilive near D.C. so im like what the [censored] when i play it.

Well my husband bought it at best buy and i figured it was a shooter game like fallcry, but when i saw him playing i loved the post apocalyptic rpg game play, before you know it we are fighting over who's turn it is to play, i have probably played for hundreds of hours way more then my husband, i've been having fallout fever so i started playing it again as a good guy but its really hard, i bought the first fallout for my computer but i just can't get into the slowness of the game and controls, i have a ps3 so i'm waiting for september for the DLC's to come out, i'm dying here, waiting, i play oblivion but its definately not as interesting as the fallout storyline, and all the loading times drive me nuts, also the ps3 has a vampire glitch so i am permanently a vampire (i got bit and didn't know it!)

I missed out Fall Out in the 90's ... Might be I wasn't really intrested in that genre back than, before I started with playing Tabletop RPG's in the end of 90's I wasn't that intrested in CRPG's one way or another ... In the earlies of this century I did get Morrowind on a not all together legal way, I eventually did buy the game legal and it's expansions (I thougth it would fix the bugs but it didn't), I did get used to it and when I quited playing WoW I did start with Oblivion and started becoming a regulair on this forum and such I heard via this forum about Fall Out, the month the game was Released I brougth pc gameplay a Belgium (also populair in the Netherlands), and readed a review of them, I always trusted PC Gameplay and always liked there reviews ... But it wasn't till 3 weeks later that I started the game .. (I first needed a better graphic card) ...

So I voted Oblivion but Morrowind would have been a beter choice before Morrowind I never heard of Bethseda

I liked oblivion, saw the trailer with the bus and when the light flickered adn music played I thought "BIOSHOCK", saw the second trailer and that sealed it, shame the game wasnt as good as the trailers showed, music cut and not like bioshock where I had to fight to survive.

I'd seen a friend play Fallout once a long time ago, and didn't think about it because I didn't really know what was going on, but I bought F3 on impulse after seeing it on Steam when I was planning on buying Left 4 Dead. I still haven't gotten around to L4D.

I...Can't remember. I might of seen an advert online or something, dunno. Strange. I usually remember these sort of things.

This. I played a lot of Oblivion and when I read a user review on Amazon that described FO3 as "Oblivion with guns" I ordered it within five minutes.

Odd how I got into it actually. I heard that Fallout 1 and 2 were really great RPG games. At the time I was playing Oblivion and Morrowind more than a retarded child tries to put the square into the triangular hole.

Anyways, I heard that Bethesda was making Fallout 3 and the thought "Hey if Fallout 1 and 2 were good games maybe F3 will be just as good" triggered. Also the first previews pulled me in really fast. Though I ignored the people saying "OBWIVION WIF GUNZ HURF DURF" cause I knew they were just being whiny trolls.

But ye, how I got into Fallout 3.

I came to play this game, because of:

*I played Oblivion and Morrowind ALOT
*I noticed it at E3 2008 (I was only looking for the NXE.)

:)

Geat stuff, any more?

seriously i just tried it out after seeing its one of the top rated reviews in pc games.....i even thought it was a pure fps game...

i played alot of warfare/sci fi fps/3ps games, but this one is totally different...

i never played any game similar to fallout 3 (morrowind, ES, fallout 1 and 2) but i like f3 alot! :fallout:

Hapend because of Oblivion really, and heard about Fallout 3 and that it was Bethesda behind it, so i knew it was going to be something great. Not to forget the whole wasteland apocalypse thing it's just a wonderful setting. Wish there were games like that.

I'm still trying to get into the game.

My brother rented it... played it... And loved it.
First Fallout game Ive ever played.

Oh and I'm actually a BF2 fan also.... so totally different from that.

I've been playing RPGs for more than a decade now but I hadn't played any of the Fallout games, though they were on my 'to play' list.
Less than a year ago, I decided to buy a new laptop (I move around too much) so I went to a seller I could trust, and I specifically asked for a laptop that (among other things) should be capable of playing FO3 seamlessly... and now I just can't get into it...
Thankfully I'm not disappointed in the least because a) I wisely decided to play and finish FO1&2 before I got my hands on 3 - so I finally found the incentive to play 2 of the best games I've ever played & b)the laptop is absolutely excellent even without FO3 running on it

i saw it at e3

Someone bought it for my bro, but like all games he gets he never plays them and I take them.

Oh and @pk, can you change your pic pls? It creeps me out.

I'm F2 veteran, saw F3 on some site a month before it's release and thought "Finally." And bought it on release date. Done.

I've always loved RPGs because of their tendency to develop their stories and characters more than other gaming genres, particularly in the past. So I graduated from Pen & Paper RPGs to the old Might & Magic games in my Commodore 128 back when I was 10-11 years old. I've played RPGs constantly through the years (decades really) and got here.

For Fallout 3 specifically, I had no experience with Fallout before as I never really liked the post-apocalyptic scenarios so I let the originals pass me well by. Does Nintendo's Chrysalis count as post apocalyptic? It's setting was after a cataclysm destroyed the world but it was a fantasy world instead of realistic based, if it counts then that was about the extent of experience I had with the type of setting.

I was both an Oblivion and Morrowind player, as well as the old 1990 Terminator PC game, so I was familiar with Bethesda's games. While I wasn't originally interested in the setting, I saw plenty of vids and read many articles during F3's development cycle up until release and when the game finally came out I bought it.

I don't know if Fallout has changed my perspective of post-apocalyptic games much and don't know if I'll get into Borderworlds or Rage; however I did love Fallout 3 so much that I got the original Trilogy and have enjoyed that one immensely as well.

So I guess I got in through Obliivion??? :shrug:

Oh well :fallout:

I played Wasteland for a while but was really too young to fully appreciate what I was doing, by the time I was old enough to really "get " the game I had gone for the fast paced action of BadBlood. Then a friend showed me Fallout and it kind of reminded me of Wasteland, not sure why. I was on my 5th or 6th playthrough when I bought Fallout 2. When I heard that Fallout 3 had been officially anounced I took $50 out of my bank account and waited.