Only coming in on the hind end (FO3 and NV, not 4 yet), here goes:

- I like the big open worlds.

- I like the setting.

- Sometimes, guns are more fun than arrows/spells

- I like the drearyness of FO3

- I like most of the NPCs

- I like how VATS uses character skill over player skill

- I like the character building

I think will do for a start

As per the OPs qustion: "Why do you LOVE Fallout?"


I find it a little petty that some posters replied to this thread with complaints or they hate Fallout. Maybe they posted on this thread because their posts were deleted in other threads. Or maybe they are just trolls wanting to start arguments. I understand that it is their God given right to speak as they wish & I am not one to take away someone's opinion about a subject. But I do mind it not being in the correct location in forum comunities, one for which I belong to quite a few. With that being said, I can reply to the OPs question.


Ihave been hooked on the Fallout series since Interplay released it for PCs back in 1997 (Also I was a Interplay fan because of their Star Trek games for the PC, which used the original cast to voice the roles, which at that time was a HUGE thing (If you know anything about the ST castmates during this time were not on the "Friends List" with each other) somewhere I still have all the 3.5" dics for the games with expasions & 25th Anniversary). Fallout was the first type of game to offer this style of world (Yes I do know about a game called Wasteland, but it was both similar & different). You also haveto consider that this was still not to far removed of the Soveit Union becomng Russia again. The threat of "Mutually Assured Destruction" was still fresh on our minds. And being the child of the 70s (No, I was not born to hippie parents, thank God!) I grew up watching movies and shows that delt with WWII, Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis. Hell Veitnam was still a few years away from being over for the USA when I was born in '71. I was born to a father that was born in 1934 & a mother born in 1941. So I was immersed into that culture. And like the first Vault Dweller, I'm wandering right now.


Fallout hooked me with some of the Hollywood stars to voice in the first 2 games. Richard Dean Anderson was in Fallout & Tony Schalob was a voice in Fallout 2. I'm sure everyone knows that it was Ron Pearlman that always (Until FO4) the voice to say the famous words "War........War Never Changes".


Until FO3, I didn't play the other FO games that were released. If it didn't deal with a vault dweller, I didn't play it. FO3 was different for me in may ways. Going from looking top down, I was now behind the gun, walking around not using action points to move a few blocks when an enemy was near. And to actually use a in game PIP-Boy to do a ton of stuff. That kinda put me off. I mean, going from top down to behind a gun for a person that is used to top down games because of the Atari. Then before FO3, games released for the first Playstation were mainly a chase camera behind the protagonist. I still really dislike FPS. But because of FO3 I had to deal with it. But I still only deal with it for the Fallout games(That is until they can switch the camera angle to behind instead of upper right shoulder). Besides Command & Conquer, I was never really into the RPG type games. Fallout hooked me, but not enough to play other top down RPG games. I never had the money to buy a good gaming PC so my choice has been consoles. I gave up on Sony when Microsoft jumped into the console market. Been an XBox fan since. Listen, my first chance at home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99, my first game system was the Atari 2800. So I'm OOOOOOLD School.


I know I took the long road to answer the OPs question, so here is my answer


Why do I LOVE Fallout?



Because it's Fallout & War.........................War Never Changes!

Hm, I remember when I first heard of it was early 2000's on an abandonware site, classic trash. I read about the targeting system and I bought it on ebay. Nice combat, much more so in FO2 when the turn based system brought out the different characters. Myron doesn't have much option when he's wounded, but under the right circumstances he can still contribute. Turn based combat at its best and as addictive as diablo 2 when you think about the loot that you might get, or what you can buy in San Fransisco given enough stuff to flog off.

I guess I got that in FO3 when you start hoarding stuff to repair and sell off. More so in FONV. Its that continuous progression, one more combat, one more place to explore. Pity, I still probably haven't been to half the FO3 locations, though it would be fun to restart, I need to spend more than my 30 minutes on FO4.

And another aspect is how close combat is fun throughout the series, especially FO2 where I would stay unarmed for higher armour class, but close in and whip out my wakizashi. That was something fun I got from FO2. Oh, and the humour of FO2... they could barely touch on that in the later versions.

I love Deathclaw and Gecko Steak, Bottlecap Mines, and long walks on the over pass with my marksman rifle.

Sounds like you are filling out a Personal Ad in Publik Occurrences, lol. All that's missing is the time of day for those long walks.

I think the setting is interesting, the factions and the people in said setting etc. So i guess you could say that i love the lore, both East and West Coast.

I love Fallout cause the awesome open world exploration and good RPG mechanics (And yes they are still good... even better than before despite what the hipster teens think)

I love Fallouts 1, 2 and New Vegas because I dont have to experience Bethesda's cringe-worthy writing.

I love the smell of sour-graqes in the mornings . . . smells like . . . bankruptcy . . .

Fallout (the original) was a uniquely crafted whole quite unlike any other game since and before, where all the pieces played well together. Unique setting, well focused RPG gameplay that didn't really put any one aspect much above others, creative narrative structuring, especially fitting score, the ending... Every game has it's own set of downsides, but the first two Fallouts are the sort of RPG's that managed to do their thing in a way I've never seen or experienced other games do theirs. That's what keeps them with me.